Seven finalists for Intersections: Grand Concourse Beyond 100 include Christina Belton, Taewook Cha, Brenda Curtis, Lia Kelerchian, Gentry Lock, Erika Matthias and Shachi Pandey of EDAW/AECOM (Agricultural Urbanism); Matthieu Laverge, Vincent Lavergne, Remi Mendes and Jeremy Nadau of Nadau Lavergne Architects (FROM SPEEDWAY TO MAIN STREET); Angus McCullough (Live Wired); Dongsei Kim and Jamieson Fajardo of Columbia University (p.U.M.p. [Purifying Urban Modular Parasite]); Christopher Ryan of Harvard University (Point by Point Development for the Grand Concourse); Alejandra Diaz, Megan Gibbons, Laura Keller, Emily Osgood, and Lisa Woodley of MISI Company with Itir Sonuparlak of Columbia University (Re-vision-ing the Bronx Grand Concourse: A Community-Centered Approach); and Jason Austin and Aleksandr Mergold, AIA (Austin+Mergold The Grand Resource). View all proposals online…

The Canadian Copper & Brass Development Association (CCBDA) announced the recipients of the 2009 North American Copper in Architecture Awards program, which includes the Hoboken Terminal by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners… The 2009/10 Fellows and Residents of the American Academy in Rome include Friends of the High Line co-founder Robert Hammond (Garden Club of America Rome Prize), and Calvin Tsao, FAIA, (William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence)…

Sarah Whiting, a principal of WW Architecture, will be leaving the Princeton University School of Architecture faculty to serve as dean of Rice University School of Architecture… Chrisine Cerqueira Gaspar, Assoc. AIA, has been appointed the new Executive Director of Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)…