Winners of the World Architecture News (WAN) Interior Design Awards 2011 include Outsider Tart by David Lesniak and The Wright Restaurant at the Guggenheim Museum by Andre Kikoski Architect (both Shortlisted in the Restaurant & Bar category)…The New York School of Interior Design (NYSID) will present the Green Design Awards to Gensler for the Design of Interior Spaces; Lutron Electronics for Interior Products; The Related Companies Development for Development/Real Estate; and NYC Green Codes Task Force Advocacy for Advocacy/Community…

The 2012 SMPS-NY Industry Award winners include The Battery SeaGlass Carousel by WXY architecture + urban design; DiMenna Center for Classical Music by H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture; and Via Verde – The Green Way by Grimshaw Architects and Dattner Architects…The Dancing Water Theater at City of Dreams designed by Pei Partnership Architects won a 2011 Design for Asia Merit Recognition Award…

Winners of the American Council Engineering Companies of New York’s (ACEC New York) annual awards include WSP Cantor Seinuk for its structural systems design work on the World Trade Center Memorial and Museum, Empire Award; The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) for its rapid response to the damage caused by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, Council’s Award of Merit; Diamond Award winners are Hazen and Sawyer, Paerdegat Basin CSO Facility; and Malcolm Pirnie, the Water Division of ARCADIS, Co-Digestion and Combined Heat and Power Improvements (Water and Storm Water); Arup, Calais Land Port of Entry; HDR, Reconstruction of Roosevelt Island Bridge over the East River East Channel; HNTB Corporation, Rehabilitation of the Atlantic Avenue Viaduct Phase II; and Tectonic Engineering & Surveying Consultants, Phillipston Rte 2/2A Bridge Replacement and Rapid Build (Transportation)…

…Ecology and Environment Engineering, Golden Triangle Natural Gas Storage (Energy); Lizardos Engineering Associates, Expansion and Renovation of the New Katz Women’s Hospital at North Shore University Hospital, Joseph R. Loring & Associates, Hudson Valley Community College, TEC- SMART, and Syska Hennessy Group, UN Headquarters, North Lawn Conference Building (Building/Technology Systems); Arup, Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, DeSimone Consulting Engineers, HL 23, Hardesty & Hanover, Willis Avenue Bridge 2, Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers, Cofferdam for the Cannelton Hydroelectric Plant and WSP Cantor Seinuk, World Trade Center Memorial and Museum (Structural Systems)…

…AECOM, Yankee Stadium Redevelopment City Work; Cameron Engineering & Associates, Manorhaven Beach Park Pool Complex; C.T. Male Associates Engineering, Surveying, Architecture & Landscape Architecture, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Fab 8; and Parsons Brinckerhoff, Southern Expressway, Route 219, Section 5 (Special Projects); Thornton Tomasetti, Pennsylvania State University Millennium Science Complex (Industrial and Manufacturing Processes and Facilities);  H2M Group: Holzmacher, McLendon & Murrell, Treatment Online in Advance of Impending Plume; and URS/HAKS Joint Venture, New Croton Aqueduct Rehabilitation (Water Resources); KLD Engineering, Queensboro Bridge/Tramway MPT Modeling & Analysis; and Sam Schwartz Engineering, BQE Enhancement Study (Studies, Research and Consulting); Gannett Fleming Engineers and Architects, Searchable Property Environmental E-Database (SPEED) (Surveying and Mapping Technology); and Watts Architecture & Engineering, Richardson Olmsted Complex Stabilization (Environmental)…

The longlist for the WAN 21for21 Award 2012 includes nARCHITECTS, Andre Kikoski Architect, Terreform, and HL23 by Neil M. Denari Architects…The nominees for the 2012 James Beard Foundation Outstanding Restaurant Design include Design Bureaux for Boulud-on-the-Bowery DBGB Kitchen and Bar; Bentel & Bentel for Le Bernardin; and Glen & Company for Miguel Sanchez‘s Romera…

Richard Meier, FAIA, will be presented with the Ellis Island Family Heritage Award on April 19…John Belle, FAIA, of Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, will receive The New York Landmarks Conservancy Preservation Leadership Award on April 25…

Huntsman Architectural Group has hired Olaf E. Coerper, AIA, as Director of Architecture for the firm’s New York office…Lilker Associates Consulting Engineers announced that Steven Hammer, P.E., LEED AP, and David Tanenbaum, P.E., LEED AP, have been named senior vice presidents…