Photographer Peter Aaron, Guy Nordenson, Metropolis, and DOCOMOMO US have been awarded 2009 Collaborative Achievement Awards by the AIA… The Department of Small Business Services announced this year’s Celebrating Successful Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) Awardees including MWBE of the Year, Everardo Agosto Jefferson, AIA, and Sara Elizabeth Caples, AIA, of Caples Jefferson Architects, and MWBE Rising Star Award winner Elizabeth Kennedy of Elizabeth Kennedy Landscape Architects…

The AD 100, a selection of the top architects and interior designers whose work has been featured in Architectural Digest over the past several years includes NY-based Penny Drue Baird; John Barman; Samuel Botero; Geoffrey Bradfield; Thomas Britt; Mario Buatta; Diane Burn; Robert Couturier; Elissa Cullman; Joanne de Guardiola; David Easton Mica Ertegun; Ferguson & Shamamian; William T. Georgis, AIA; Peter L. Gluck; Mariette Himes Gomez; Alexander Gorlin, FAIA; Michael Graves, FAIA; Victoria Hagan; Alexa Hampton; Thad Hayes; Ike Kligerman Barkley; Peter Marino, FAIA; Juan Pablo Molyneux; Juan Montoya; Sandra Nunnerley; Campion Platt; AIA; Jennifer Post; Jaquelin T. Robertson, FAIA; Harry Schnaper; Annabelle Selldorf, AIA; Roderick N. Shade; Stephen Shadley; Shelton; Mindel; Marjorie Shushan; Sills Huniford; Scott Snyder; Robert A. M. Stern, FAIA; Carleton Varney; Alan Wanzenberg, AIA; and Dennis Wedlick, AIA…

Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture announced that Abby Hamlin has been elected as Chair of the Van Alen Institute Board of Trustees… Jessica Lansdale, AIA, LEED AP, is now the manager of SBLM Architects’ new Healthcare & Wellness division…