August 4, 2009
by: Murrye Bernard Assoc. AIA LEED AP

AIANYS announced the 2009 Design Award recipients including, in the category of Adaptive Reuse, Awards of Excellence: Museo Del Acero Horno3 by Grimshaw with Associate Architect Miguel Nieto and St. John’s Bread and Life Soup Kitchen by Rogers Marvel Architects; Awards of Merit: 401 West 14th Street by Cook + Fox Architects and The Lion House Reconstruction at the Bronx Zoo by FXFOWLE Architects

In the category of Commercial/Industrial, Large Projects, Award of Excellence: 39 East 13th Street by Philip Wu Architect, and Anthropologie Burlingame by EOA/Elmslie Osler Architect; Awards of Merit: Chanel Robertson Boulevard by Peter Marino Architect, and Marianne Boesky Gallery by Deborah Berke & Partners Architects

In the category of Commercial/Industrial, Small Projects, Awards of Excellence: Newspaper Café by Toshiko Mori Architect and TKTS Booth and Revitalization of Father Duffy Square by Perkins Eastman (Architect); Choi-Ropiha Architects (Concept Architect); PKSB Architects (Plaza Architect) and Bresnan Architects (preservation); Citation for Design: Irwin Union Bank, Creekview Branch by Deborah Berke & Partners Architects with Architect-of-Record Todd Williams & Associates

In the category of Historic Preservation, Awards of Excellence: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum by WASA/Studio A and Yale Arts Complex — Paul Rudolph Hall, Jeffrey H. Loria Center for the History of Art, and the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects; Award of Merit: The Restoration of the William C. Gatewood House by G. P. Schafer Architect

In the Institutional category, Awards of Excellence: Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center by Grimshaw with Associate Architect Davis Brody Bond Aedas, and Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Newhouse III by Polshek Partnership Architects; Awards of Merit: Alice Tully Hall by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with FXFOWLE Architects, and Stephen Gaynor School & Ballet Hispanico by Rogers Marvel Architects; Citations for Design: Public Farm 1 by WORK Architecture Company, and Staten Island Ferry Terminal by Frederic Schwartz Architects with Associated Architect TAMS/Earthtech

In the Interiors category, Awards of Excellence: Broadway Penthouse by Architect-of-Record Andrea Steele Architect in collaboration with Design Architect Joel Sanders Architect and New York Public Library, Fort Washington Branch Children’s Room by Sage and Coombe Architects; Awards of Merit: Moscot by Stephan Jaklitsch Architects, and The Town School Theater Renovation by Yoshihara McKee Architect; Citations for Design: DE Shaw 32nd Floor Supercomputer Lobby by Steven Holl Architects, and Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum by Polshek Partnership Architects

In the International category, Awards of Excellence: Center for Friends Without a Border by Cook + Fox Architects, and The New Acropolis Museum by Bernard Tschumi Architects with Associate Architect Michael Photiadis, ARSY Ltd.; Award of Merit: Shanghai World Financial Center by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates with Irie Miyake Architects & Engineers and Shanghai Modern Architecture Design Group

In the category of Residential, Large Projects, Award of Excellence: 101 Warren Street by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with Ismael Levya Architects; Awards of Merit: 11 Christopher Street by Cook + Fox Architects, and Apartment Building on G. Calinescu Street by Westfourth Architecture; Citation for Design: NIR Braufman Residence by Alexander Gorlin Architect

In the category of Residential, Small Projects, Award of Excellence: Grafted House by Stageberg Architecture; Award of Merit: Carriage House by Christoff:Finio Architecture; Citation for Design: Montauk House by Pentagram Architects

In the Unbuilt category, Award of Merit: Gowanus Canal Sponge Park by dlandstudio… In the Urban Planning/Design category, Awards of Excellence: The Battery Bosque: Kiosk, Fountain, Bench System & SeaGlass by WXY architecture + urban design, and Wandering Ecologies: Toronto Lower Don Lands Park by Weiss/Manfredi; Citation for Design: Historic Erie Canal & Broad Street Corridor Master Plan by Cooper Carry with Chait Studios

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the selection of 33 members for induction into its distinguished Council of Fellows, including New Yorkers Edmund D. Hollander, ASLA; Rick A. Parisi, ASLA; and Christian Zimmerman, FASLA

Eight teams were recognized as finalists in the Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom including the NYC office of Gensler… Pratt Institute will present Legends 2009 on 10.29.09, a scholarship benefit honoring, among others, David Rockwell, AIA… The Thornton Tomasetti Foundation awarded $10,000 in scholarships to Yasmina Khan and Sebastian Sztukowski, who are studying engineering and architecture at New York University…

The premier issue of eVolo, an architecture and design journal initially conceived in 2004 by a group of graduate students at Columbia University, launched in July… Katie Weeks is leaving her position as senior editor of Contract magazine and relocating to Washington, DC, to take the helm of Eco-structure Magazine as editor, effective 08.10.09…

The Boston Society of Architects (BSA) has named Boston civic leader Tom Keane as executive director… The Historic Districts Council has elected Leo Blackman, AIA, as the organization’s seventh president…

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