by: Murrye Bernard Assoc. AIA LEED AP
The 141st AIANY Annual Meeting on June 3 presented the following honors and awards: Founders Award — Margaret Helfand, FAIA (posthumously), Rolf H. Ohlhausen, FAIA; Medal of Honor — Max Bond, FAIA; Award of Merit — Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan; Honorary Member: Commissioner Shaun Donovan; Andrew J. Thomas Award — Carlton Brown; Harry B. Rutkins Award: Kristen Richards; Public Architect Award — Joyce S. Lee, AIA; George S. Lewis Award — Richard Fitzgerald; Oculus Award — Fred Bernstein; Special Citations — Queens Botanical Garden; NYC Audubon Birdsafe Guidelines; Public Art Fund; Vice Presidential Citations — Public Outreach: AIANY Planning and Urban Design Committee, AIANY Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; Design Excellence: AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee… A special proclamation was awarded to Patricia Lancaster, FAIA, as the Commissioner of the NYC Department of Buildings for her six years of service to the architectural community and NYC citizens…
Five short-listed teams to create the Hudson Park and Boulevard and a streetscape plan for the Hudson Yards area on Manhattan’s West Side have been selected by the Hudson Yards Development Corporation, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, NYC Department of Design and Construction, NYC Department of Transportation, and NYC Department of City Planning: Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd. and Allied Works Architecture; Hargreaves Associates and TEN Arquitectos; Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and Toshiko Mori Architect; West 8 and Mathews Nielsen; and Work architecture company and Balmori Associates. The park and boulevard will be part of an approximately 20-acre open space system in the Hudson Yards district, including 12 acres to be created by the Related Companies on the MTA Rail Yards to the south of Hudson Park.
NYC Hall of Fame inducts Architecture category winner Frederic Schwartz, FAIA, for “changing the course of post-9/11 planning in NYC”…2007 AMD Open Architecture Challenge announced winners including New Yorkers Hee-Yun Kim, Mark Mangapora, and Jason Roberts, Honorable Mention… Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners’ Campus Plan at Princeton University won an Honor Award, SCUP/AIA-CAE Excellence in Planning for an Established Campus… Perkins Eastman was honored with an International Achievement Award at the fourth annual World Trade Week Awards Breakfast…
Van Alen Institute announced seven recipients of the 2008-2009 New York Prize including Maya Lin, New York Prize Senior Fellowship, and six New York Prize Resident Fellowships: Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder (NYC); Elisa Fuksas and Alexander Josephson; Nataly Gattegno and Jason K. Johnson; Denise Hoffman-Brandt (NYC); Alexander Levi and Amanda Schachter (NYC); Gabi Schillig; and honorable mentions: Annie Barrett; Eduardo Coutinho and Patricio da Silva; and Stephanie Davidson and Georg Rafailidis…
Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) 2008 Design Award winners include (Honor Award) The New York Times Building Façade by Pentagram Design; (Merit Awards) Chroma Streams: Tide and Traffic by Leni Schwendinger Light Projects Ltd.; Detroit Institute of Arts Interactive Exhibits and Glory Days: New York Baseball 1947-1957 by Pentagram Design; W.L. Gore Capabilities Center by Carbone Smolan Agency; Good Housekeeping Institute Exhibit by C&G Partners; InterActiveCorp Video Wall by Trollbäck + Company; Reinventing the Globe: A Shakespearean Theater for the 21st Century by The Rockwell Group; and Yale University Art Gallery Signage by Open; (Jury Award) 34th Street Parking Regulation Sign System by 34th Street Partnership…
Margaret Sullivan, AIA, of Holzman Moss Architecture has been appointed acting executive director of openhousenewyork as it gears up for the sixth annual weekend; OHNY is searching for a new Executive Director… Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has appointed David Helpern, FAIA, to Community Board 8, which covers the Upper East Side…
Flack + Kurtz, Inc. has promoted Patricia Leyden and Cheryl Ann Massie as vice presidents… William Fellows, AIA, is joining PKSB Architects as principal… Lucy Carter, Assoc. AIA, joins Ted Moudis Associates as Director of Marketing and Business Development…