Contract magazine announced winners of the 29th Annual Interiors Awards. NY winners include: for Large Office, Gensler (Bartle Bogle Hegarty); Hotels, Jeffrey Beers International (The Cove Atlantis Resort); Restaurant, Bentel & Bentel Architects and Planners (Craftsteak New York); Education, Architecture Research Office (Susan P. & Richard A. Friedman Study Center, Brown University); Sports & Entertainment, Perkins+Will / Eva Maddox Branded Environments (George & Helen Smith Athletics Museum, University of Cincinnati, and Environmental: Haworth Showroom in Washington, D.C.)…

Dattner Architects won First Place for the Bronx Public Library Center in the Beyond Green2007 High Performance Building Awards Program… Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners won the City of the Future: A Design and Engineering Challenge for Washington, D.C…

This year’s recipient of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) Interior Design Department’s Lawrence J. Israel Prize is AvroKO… New York City Economic Development Corporation has chosen the Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) to redevelop Pier A…

Orlando T. Maione, AIA, has been elected 2008 President of American Institute of Architects New York State…

Tomas Alvarez, is now Principal at Swanke Hayden Connell Architects… Sydness Architects promoted George Chin, AIA, to Principal… Gensler announced the appointment of Brian Berry, AIA, CSI, LEED AP, and E.J. Lee as Principals in its New York office… Lisa Chamberlain has been named executive director at the Forum for Urban Design; and outgoing director, David Haskell, returned to journalism as deputy culture editor at New York magazine… 2007 AIA national president RK Stewart, FAIA, has left Gensler to join NY-based Perkins + Will as Associate Principal…