The Architectural League announced its 30th annual Emerging Voices awards winners, including INABA (Jeffrey Inaba); SCAPE / Landscape Architecture (Kate Orff, ASLA, and Elena Brescia, ASLA); and SsD (Jinhee Park, AIA, and John Hong, AIA)…

The Queens Chamber of Commerce honored the winners of its 99th annual Building Awards. The Lifetime Achievement Award went to Jeffrey Levine, chairman of Douglaston Development, Levine Builders, and Clinton Management; the Building Awards Hall of Fame went to the Pistilli-Newtown Office Building (which also won in the new construction, office building category) and the Piano Factory Apartment Building (which also won in the rehab mixed-use category), both by Gerald Caliendo; he also won in the rehab commercial category for the Atlantic Diner, as well as the new construction category for the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel.

Other winners include: the East Elmhurst Community Library (rehab public building) by Integrated Design Group; 90-30 161st St. (rehab office building) by Graf + Lewent Architects; P.S. 280, 34-20 94th St. (rehab schools category) by AECOM; Connelly residence (rehab contextual category) by Arnold Montag-AM/PM Design & Consulting; 93-01 37th Ave. (new construction, mixed use) and 131 Fowler Ave. (new construction, industrial category), both by Lin & Associates; ClearNorth Plaza, 205-04 Northern Blvd.(new construction, commercial) by NF Architectural Designs; Queens Central Library & Children’s Library Discovery Center (new construction, public building) by 1100 Architect; and the living quarters of the Blas family at 96-07 133rd Ave. (interiors — a new category this year) by Christine Baumann Interiors…

The Wood Design & Building magazine announced award recipients for the 2011 North American Awards Program, including the Won Dharma Retreat by Hanrahan Meyers Architects (Honor Award)…

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) released its 2011 list of top 10 states for LEED-certified commercial and institutional green buildings per capita — New York was ranked #9 with 1.89 square feet of LEED-certified space per person…

Non-profit desigNYC announced the 2012 list of 16 “Recharging Communities” projects and teams (nonprofits paired with pro-bono design professionals): Bard Prison Initiative with PSnewyork; Clemente Soto Velez Center (CVS) with Kudos; Compost for Brooklyn (C4B) with Karen Greenberg; Food Systems Network (FSNYC) with Li’l Robin & Planet360; Lower East Side Ecology Center (LESEC) with Pure+Applied; NYDesigns with Remake Design; OpenPlans Transportation with Purpose; New Destiny Housing Corporation with EOA | Elmslie Osler Architect; PlayHarvest with Moorhead & Moorhead; and Rockaway Development & Revitalization Corporation with WE-design…

The Municipal Art Society of New York in collaboration with the Landmarks Preservation Commission has chosen Cook+Fox and Terrapin Bright Green to develop Greening New York City’s Landmarks: A Guide for Property Owner, a manual on making landmarked buildings more energy efficient:…

STV Inc. is celebrating its 100th anniversary. “Elwyn Seelye’s enduring vision for excellence and innovation continues to inspire us,” said Dominick M. Servedio, PE, executive chairman. The firm’s current projects in NYC include the Port Authority of NY & NJ’s PATH Transportation Hub; the Long Island Rail Road East Side Access project; and One World Trade Center, as the program manager and owner’s representative. “STV’s century of success is built upon the foundation of our core values,” noted Milo Riverso, Ph.D., PE, STV’s chief executive officer and president…

Interior Design Editor-in-Chief Cindy Allen has been named Chairman of the Board for Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA). For the first year of her term, she will co-chair with David Rockwell, AIA, who has been Chairman of New York-based DIFFA for the past 12 years…

Chris Ward, former executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, will become the executive vice president of international construction company Dragados…

Ted Moudis Associates has promoted Benjamin Chan to Chief Financial Officer; Jacqueline Barr, LEED AP, to Design Principal; Dean Ulloato Senior Associate, Information Technology; and Lucy Carter, Assoc. AIA, to Senior Associate, Director of Business Development…