06.26.12: AIANY President-elect Jill Lerner, FAIA makes a point with Governor Andrew Cuomo as AIANYS Board Member Mary Burke, FAIA concurs. Also representing the AIA at dinner with the Governor were AIANYS Past-presidents Terrence O’Neal, AIA and David Businelli, AIA, along with AIANYS Executive Director Ed Farrell and AIANY Policy Director Jay Bond.

06.23.12: Members of the Emerging New York Architects (ENYA) Committee, along with young landscape architects from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), installed a beautiful and useful garden in the backyard patio of the Center for Architecture’s new Breakthrough space. Plants were generously donated by Town and Gardens, Ltd.

06.07.12: The Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction hosted the Iron Designer Challenge on their roof deck. Based on the TV show “The Iron Chef,” the design/build competition consisted of teams of professionals partnered with students who built structures from simple materials in only three hours. Teams included professionals from Cerami & Associates, Ennead Architects, Gensler, Omni Architects, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Robert Silman Associates, Sam Schwartz Engineering, SOM, Thornton Tomasetti and Turner Construction.