Rafael Viñoly Architects, to support the firm’s growth and help shape its succession plan, has promoted five directors within the firm to partner: Charles Blomberg, AIA, NCARB; Jim Herr, AIA, NCARB; Andrea Lamberti, AIA, NCARB; Chan-Li Lin, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP; and David Rolland, AIA, JIA.

The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce’s Building Brooklyn Awards 2012 winners are: BLDG 92 by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners with workshop/apd (Civic/Institutional); Red Hook Initiative by SUPER-INTERESTING! (Community Development); Medgar Evers College Academic Building I by Ennead Architects (Education); Dumont Green by MHG Architects (National Grid Award for Energy Efficiency); Jane’s Carousel by Ateliers Jean Nouvel with Associate Architect Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners and Tim Dumbleton Architect (Recreational Facility); Restoration Plaza by Garrison Architects (Open Space); Dekalb Market by ORE Design and Technology (Retail); Atrium House by Mesh Architectures (Residential – Single Family); Liberty Apartments by SLCE Architects (Residential – Affordable); 97 Crooke Avenue by Dattner Architects (Residential – Supportive Housing); Third + Bond by Rogers Marvel Architects (Residential – Low Rise); and 220 Water Street by Perkins Eastman (Residential – Multi)…

The Preservation League of New York State has selected two projects in New York City to receive the Excellence in Historic Preservation Award: the TWA Flight Center at JFK International Airport by Eero Saarinen with renovations by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners and PANYNJ; and Hamilton Grange National Memorial by John McComb with preservation and restoration by John G. Waite Associates Architects with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill…

The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) will honor I.M. Pei, FAIA, with the fourth annual Leonore and Walter Annenberg Award for Diplomacy through the Arts…The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announced the winners of the 2012 National Design Awards, including Richard Saul Wurman, FAIA, for Lifetime Achievement…Pratt Institute was one of 10 colleges and universities nationally to be recognized with a Climate Leadership Award by Second Nature and the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) for its leadership role in creating the Partnership for Academic Leadership in Sustainability (PALS)…

Socrates Sculpture Park and the Architectural League of New York have selected Jerome Haferd and K. Brandt Knapp as the inaugural recipients of a new grant and residency for emerging architects and designers to produce and exhibit a full-scale project at the park…

Save A Sample! 2012 Winners are Nicole Moudis of Ted Moudis Associates; Eileen Ragsdale of TPG Architecture; Kim Farrah of Perkins+Will; Nickie Anderson (on behalf of Stephanie Ebeyer); Ruth Mellergaard of Grid/3 International; Amanda Langweil, AIA, of Goshow Architects, and Heidi Kippenhan (on behalf of Paulette Pascarella)…

Cerami & Associates has established Cerami Technology LLC, a technology strategy & consulting group, headed by Victoria J. Cerami, Chief Executive Officer, with Principals Peter A. Babigian, PE, RCDD, LEED AP, and Frank R. Schuck…

Carl Galioto, FAIA, managing principal of HOK’s New York office, has been elected to the architectural firm’s global Executive Committee…Guy Maxwell and Thomas Wong, AIA, have been named partners at Ennead Architects…Spector Group announced that Ginger Dolden has joined the firm as director of marketing in the New York City office…