April 25, 2012
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The Architectural League announced the winners of No Precedent, the 31st annual Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers (formerly known as the Young Architects Forum), including NYC-based Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung Lim, STPMJ; and Michael Szivos, SOFTlab…The Architectural League also awarded its President’s Medal to Amanda Burden, Hon. AIANY, Chair of the New York City Planning Commission and Director of the Department of City Planning…

Winners of the New York Landmarks Conservancy’s Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards include John Belle, FAIA, RIBA, Hon. Ph.D., Preservation Leadership Award; The Honorable Brad Lander, New York City Council Member and The Honorable Stephen Levin, New York City Council Member, Public Leadership Award; and Project Awards went to 58 Hicks Street by Baxt Ingui Architects; Banner Building by Scott Henson Architect; Brown Memorial Baptist Church by Li/Saltzman Architects; Central Park Police Precinct by Fred Basch Architect; Hamilton Grange National Memorial by John G. Waite Associates Architects and SOM; New York City Center by Ennead Architects with Li/Saltzman Architects; The New-York Historical Society by Platt Byard Dovell White Architects; Newtown High School by Superstructures Engineering + Architecture; Edgar Allan Poe Cottage by Rogers Marvel Architects with Jan Hird Pokorny Associates; Rod Rodgers & Duo Multicultural Arts Center by Superstructures Engineering + Architecture; St. Patrick’s Cathedral Rectory by Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Architects and Thomas Phifer and Partners; and TWA Terminal by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners and the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

At the Annual Cocktail Benefit for the Salvadori Center on May 2, Elizabeth Diller will be presented with the 2012 Design Award, and AIANY Board Member David J. Burney, FAIA, with the Public Service Award…

Cornell University has selected Andrew Winters, founding director of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Office of Capital Project Development, to spearhead the technology campus it is planning for Roosevelt Island…

Metropolis magazine announced the appointment of John Gourlay as Executive Publisher…After 10 years, Jane Kolleeny is leaving GreenSource as Founding and Managing Editor, and Architectural Record, where she served as a senior editor; she is currently a consultant for the AIA’s Repositioning the Institute project…

AECOM has joined forces with David Rockwell/Rockwell Group to target the growing leisure, hospitality, and entertainment market in Asia…Cannon Design announced that Chan Byun, AIA, LEED AP, has joined the firm as Design Principal…

Ellen P. Ryan, AICP, has been appointed interim executive director of openhousenewyork (OHNY)…

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