June 9, 2009
by: Murrye Bernard Assoc. AIA LEED AP

The AIA National Associates Committee (NAC) selected four recipients to receive the 2009 Jason Pettigrew Memorial ARE Scholarship, including Venesa Alicea, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP

The 2009 winners of the Municipal Art Society’s MASterworks Awards are, in the following categories: Best New Building, The Standard Hotel by Polshek Partnership; Best Restoration, The Lion House at The Bronx Zoo by FXFOWLE Architects; Best Renovation/Adaptive Re-use, The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons, The New School for Design by Lyn Rice Architects; Best Neighborhood Catalyst, TKTS Booth by Perkins Eastman (based on a design by Choi Ropiha); Best Neighborhood Catalyst: Honorable Mention, Melrose Commons by Magnusson Architecture and Planning

Illustrations from McGraw-Hill Construction’s Architectural Record were recently honored in the American Illustration competition…

The Visionaire by Pelli Clarke Pelli (design architect) and SLCE (project architect), has received LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), marking it as the greenest residential condominium in the U.S. and the only LEED Platinum condominium on the east coast…

Finalists in the America’s Best Restroom VIII contest include Radio City Music Hall; through 07.31.09 the public can vote for the winner at http://www.bestrestroom.com

Adi Shamir will step down from her position as Executive Director of the Van Alen Institute in June 2009…

Callison acquired RYA Design Consultancy, a Dallas-based architecture and design firm with an office in NYC…

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