The 2008 AIANYS Design Award Recipients include NYC-based firms in the following categories — Adaptive Reuse: New York Public Library, Mulberry Street Branch (Award of Excellence), Rogers Marvel Architects; Betances Community Center & Boxing Gym (Award of Merit), Stephen Yablon Architect; Bronx Lighthouse Charter School (Award of Merit), Gran Kriegel Associates…

Commercial/Industrial, Small Projects: Fendi Flagship (Citation for Design), Peter Marino Architect… Historic Preservation: Rodin Studios (Award of Merit), Zaskorski & Notaro Architects… International: Hong Kong International Airport, Terminal 2 and Skyplaza (Citation for Design), Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Architect, Aedas Limited, Executive Architect…

Commercial/Industrial, Large Projects: The New York Times Building (Award of Excellence), Renzo Piano Building Workshop in association with FXFOWLE Architects and Gensler, Interior Architect; Hamptons Country Club (Award of Merit), Hart Howerton; The Plaza at PPL Center, Office Development for Liberty Property Trust (Award of Merit), Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Design Architect, Kendall/Heaton Associates, Associate Architect; Theory World Headquarters & Retail Flagship (Award of Merit), Rogers Marvel Architects…

Institutional: The Queens Botanical Garden Visitor & Administration Center, (Award of Excellence), BKSK Architects; The Reece School (Award of Excellence), Platt Byard Dovell White Architects; Princeton School of Architecture (Award of Merit), Architecture Research Office; Bronx Library Center (Citation for Design), Dattner Architects; Flushing Meadows Corona Park Natatorium & Ice Rink (Citation for Design), Handel Architects in association with Kevin Hom & Andrew Goldman Architects; Glenstone Museum (Citation for Design), Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects; Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center, New York University School of Medicine (Citation for Design), Mitchell/Giurgola Architects…

Interiors: Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (Award of Excellence), Lyn Rice Architects with Astrid Lipka; 23 Beekman Place (Award of Merit), Della Valle Bernheimer; Ermenegildo Zegna Flagship (Award of Merit), Peter Marino Architect; Interior for a Writer’s Studio (Award of Merit), Wendy Evans Joseph Architecture; Louis Vuitton Flagship (Award of Merit), Peter Marino Architect, Architect, Denton Corker Marshall, Associate Architect; Apple Store West 14th Street (Citation for Design), Bohlin Cywinski Jackson; Historic Central Park West Residence (Citation for Design), Shelton Mindel & Associates; IAC Headquarters (Citation for Design), STUDIOS architecture, Architect, Gehry Partners, Base Building Architect; NoVo Foundation Offices (Citation for Design), Ryall Porter Architects; The Core Club (Citation for Design), SPaN…

Residential, Small Projects: Addition to House on the Gulf of Mexico (Award of Excellence), Toshiko Mori Architect; Studio for a Writer (Award of Excellence), Wendy Evans Joseph Architecture; Grand Street Residence & Gardens (Award of Merit), Andrew Berman Architect; Mesa’s Edge (Award of Merit), Bone/Levine Architects; Artist Studio (Citation for Design), Basil Walter Architects; Duane Street Live/Work Loft (Citation for Design), Marpillero Pollak Architects, Architect, John Furth Peachy Architect, Architect of Record…

Residential, Large Projects: 325 West Broadway Condominium (Award of Excellence), Beyhan Karahan & Associates, Architects; Private Residence (Award of Merit), Oliver Cope Architect; Upper West Side Townhouse (Citation for Design), Redtop Architects in association with Antonietta Schreiber; Watermill Houses (Citation for Design), 1100: Architect…

Unbuilt: Decatur Modern Home (Citation for Design), Kimberlae Saul Architect; Urban Planning/Design: Hudson River Promontory (Award of Merit), Weisz + Yoes Architecture; Philadelphia Navy Yard, Liberty Property Trust and Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (Citation for Design), Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Architect, EDAW and Synterra Ltd., Landscape Architecture/Planning/Design…

The Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) announced the 2008 recipients of the 31st Annual National Marketing Communications Awards (MCA), including Advertising, RAND Engineering & Architecture and Annual Report, Mancini Duffy…

The National Building Museum will present the 2008 Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology to Charles H. Thornton, Hon. AIA, Ph.D., P.E., co-founder of Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., and founder of the Architecture, Construction, and Engineering (ACE) Mentor Program of America…

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Board of Directors voted at its July meeting to merge with the Civil Engineering Forum for Innovation (CEFI)… The Board of HOK Group, Inc., and managers of HOK Sports Facilities have jointly agreed to transfer ownership of HOK Sport Venue Event to leaders of that practice, becoming and independent entity… Steven Rosenstein Associates (SRA) has merged into Perkins Eastman and Steven Rosenstein joins them as a Principal…

Kathryn Dean of Dean/Wolf has been appointed director of the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis… Magnusson Architecture and Planning announced the appointment of Fernando Villa, AIA, LEED AP, to senior associate…