by: Murrye Bernard Assoc. AIA LEED AP
The NY-based winners of the BSA/AIANY Urban Design Awards/2009 include, in the following categories: Award for Urban Regeneration, dlandstudio (Gowanus Canal Sponge Park); Award for Placemaking, Ken Smith Landscape Architect and Frederic Schwartz Architects (Santa Fe Railyard Park); Citation for Integrated Transportation and Open-Space Planning, Marpillero Pollack Architects with landscape architects Wallace Roberts and Todd (Queens Plaza Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvement Project)…
NY-based winners of the BSA/AIANY K-12 Educational Facilities Awards for Design Excellence/2009 include: The Gluck Architectural Collaborative (The East Harlem School); Gran Kriegel Associates Architects + Planners (Family Court Conversion); Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Architects (St. Hilda’s & St. Hugh’s School Science Department Renovation and Addition)…
The NY-based BSA/AIANY Sustainable Design Awards Program/2009 Winners include a Citation for Innovative Use of Solar Technology to Simone Giostra and Partners (GreenPix)…
The 2009 recipients of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Illumination Awards include the Museum of Islamic Arts with lighting design by Fisher Marantz Stone, Award of Excellence, and 43 Merit Award projects by NY-based firms (click here for the complete list)…
AIANYS received an award from AIA National for being the region with the most IDP Firms…
Christian Zimmerman, Vice President for Design & Construction at Prospect Park, will be inducted into the Council of Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)…
Parsons The New School for Design has appointed Miodrag Mitrasinovic, Assoc. AIA, as dean of the School of Design Strategies and Radhika Subramaniam as director and chief curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center… JCJ Architecture selected Peter Bachmann, AIA, as Studio Director for the NY office…
The Architectural League of New York has moved to 594 Broadway… Westlake Reed Leskosky, Cleveland’s largest architecture firm, is opening an office in NYC… Costas Kondylis and Partners has dissolved; former partners Alan Goldstein, AIA, Steven Hill, and David West, AIA, have created their own group, Goldstein, Hill and West Architects, while partner Costas Kondylis, AIA, opened his own firm, Kondylis Design…
Following the public voting portion of the “America’s Best Restroom” contest, the restrooms at Radio City Music Hall won third place…