by: Murrye Bernard Assoc. AIA LEED AP
The Municipal Art Society has announced the winners of the seventh annual MASterwork Awards in the categories of: Best New Building: New York Times Building, Renzo Piano Building Workshop in association with FXFOWLE and Gensler (Interior Architect); IAC Building, Gehry Partners with Adamson Associates (Executive Architect, Base Building) and STUDIOS Architecture (Interior Architect)… Best Historic Restoration: Diane von Furstenberg (DVF) Studio Headquarters, WORK Architecture Company; Museum at Eldridge Street, Walter Sedovic Architects… Neighborhood Catalyst: The Floating Pool, Jonathan Kirschenfeld Associates; and The New Museum, SANAA with Gensler (Executive Architect)…
Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announced the winners of the Ninth Annual National Design Awards, in the categories of Lifetime Achievement, Charles Harrison; 2008 Corporate Achievement Award, Google, Inc., finalists JetBlue and OXO International; Design Mind, Michael Bierut, finalists Bruce Nussbaum and Michael Sorkin; Architecture Design, Tom Kundig, FAIA, finalists LOT-EK and Weiss/Manfredi; Communications Design, Scott Stowell, finalists Stephen Doyle and Prologue Films; Fashion Design, Ralph Rucci, finalists Thom Browne and Zac Posen; Interior Design, Rockwell Group, finalists Deborah Berke & Partners and Diane Lewis; Landscape Design, Olin Partnership, finalists Gustafson Guthrie Nichol and Stoss Landscape Urbanism; Product Design, Antenna Design, finalists Boym Partners and Karim Rashid…
Reiser + Umemoto /Rur Architecture received the Presidential Citation from The Cooper Union at its 149th Commencement…On 06.05.08, Revelry by the River at Solar One will honor the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability with a Sustainability Achievement Award for PlaNYC 2030…
The Rockefeller Foundation announced the two recipients of the 2008 Jane Jacobs Medal: Peggy Shepard for Lifetime Leadership, and Alexie Torres-Fleming for New Ideas and Activism…
Marilyn Jordan Taylor, FAIA, a long-time partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, will be the new dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design… Prescott Scott Cohen will succeed Toshiko Mori, FAIA, as the department of architecture chair at Harvard University Graduate School of Design… The Board of Directors of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) announced the appointment of Rosten Woo as CUP’s Executive Director…
The National Trust for Historic Preservation named the 2008 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places®, including NYC’s Lower East Side (for more information, click here)…
In the last issue (05.13.08), we announced some of the Preservation League of New York State’s award recipients. Additional awards to NY-based firms include: Olhausen Dubois Architects; Anne Fahim Architectural Services; Murphy Burnham & Buttirck; Macrae-Gibson Architects; Charles Henkels Architects; Laura Heim Architect; and Zakorski & Notaro Architects…