The 2012 Jury of Fellows from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) elevated 105 AIA members to its prestigious College of Fellows, including AIANY members Timothy Allanbrook, FAIA; Kevin Bone, FAIA; Mary A. Burke, FAIA; Richard Cook, FAIA; Umberto Dindo, FAIA; Daniel J. Kaplan, FAIA; Joyce See-yin Lee, FAIA; Jonathan Jova Marvel, FAIA; and Marion Weiss, FAIA…

AIANYS has received two AIA Grassroots Component Excellence Awards, one for the Government Affairs Overall Program and another for the AIANYS Every Building Has an Architect Postcard, developed by the Public Advocacy Committee…

Winners of Contract magazine’s 33rd Annual Interiors Awards include the Battery Park City Branch of New York Public Library by 1100 Architect (Public Space); DiMenna Center for Classical Music by H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture (Adaptive Reuse); and the Omonia Bakery by Bluarch Architecture+Interiors+Lighting (Retail)…

The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA P.S.1 announced HWKN (Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner, AIA) as the winner of the annual Young Architects Program (YAP); their design, “Wendy,” will be installed at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City in late June…

The Waller Creek Conservancy released the list of nine international semifinalists who will vie for the chance to redesign the blighted Waller Creek in downtown Austin, TX, including: Civitas with BIG New York City; James Corner Field Operations with SHoP Architects; !melk with PageSoutherlandPage; Michael Van Valkenburgh with Thomas Phifer & Partners; and Workshop: Ken Smith Landscape Architect with Ten Eyck Landscape Architects and Rogers Marvel Architects. Finalists will be announced in April…

Parsons The New School for Design has appointed Andrew Bernheimer, AIA, as the director of the Master of Architecture program, and Susan Yelavich as the director for the Master of Arts in Design Studies program…The National Trust for Historic Preservation has announced that Henry Urbach will be taking over as director of The Philip Johnson Glass House…Frederick Harris, the former head of development at AvalonBay Communities in NYC, will become the executive vice president for development at the New York City Housing Authority…

The New York City Chapter of the International Facilities Management Association (IFMA) honored Ted Moudis, AIA, at its 30th Annual Awards of Excellence Dinner…Professor Ettore Maria Mazzola of The University of Notre Dame School of Architecture’s Rome Studies Program will be the recipient of the 2012 IMCL Conference International Urban Design Award…

Gretchen Bank, Assoc. AIA, who serves as AIANY Marketing & PR Committee Co-Chair, has been named Director of Business Development & Marketing for Cosentini Associates…The Office for Design and Architecture (ODA) announced the promotions of Ryoko Okada to Principal and Sunggu Lee, AIA, LEED AP, as Senior Associate…Cannon Design announced that Michael Algiere has joined the firm as Principal, and Carol Karasek, AIA, has joined as Associate Principal…