Architect magazine’s 2009 R+D Award Winners include LED Streetlight by Office for Visual Interaction and Werner Sobek, with Thomas Phifer and Partners; Dynamic Descent by Dean/Wolf Architects; and TKTS Booth by Perkins Eastman with Choi-Ropiha Architects and William Fellows, AIA/Perkins+Will…

2009 Open Architecture Challenge award winners include Blurred Classroom by Gensler… H Associates was awarded First Prize in the International Competition for the National Pavilion of Expo 2012 in Yeosu, South Korea, for “The 3rd Nature: Metaphorical Archipelago” in collaboration with Haeahn Architecture and Danu Architects & Engineers…

Pratt Institute will award four alumni Pratt Alumni Achievement Awards, including Young Woo, founder and principal of Young Woo & Associates and Pratt Trustee… Metropolismag.com was chosen as “best” website it its field by officeinsight…

The Museum of the City of New York unveiled its first annual list, “The New York City 400,” which includes architectural figures Gordon Bunshaft; James Marston Fitch; Cass Gilbert; Richard Morris Hunt; Ada Louise Huxtable, Hon. AIA; Margot Gayle; Phillip Johnson, FAIA; Maya Lin; Joseph François Mangin; Charles Follen McKim; Frederick Law Olmsted; I.M. Pei, FAIA; Saul Steinberg; Robert A. M. Stern, FAIA; I.N. (Isaac Newton) Phelps Stokes; William Van Alen; Calvert Vaux; and Stanford White…

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Google invite the public to vote for its favorite design among the Top 10 People’s Prize finalists for the Design It: Shelter Competition through 10.10.09. Click here to vote…

UMass Amherst and Hancock Shaker Village have announced a partnership that will create a new two-year master’s degree program that combines architecture and public history with on-site training and courses utilizing the Village’s National Historic Landmark site…

Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation has named Vishaan Chakrabarti, AIA, as the first full-time director of its real estate development program… Pratt Institute has named Assistant Chair of Undergraduate Architecture and Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture Lonn Combs as acting chair of its undergraduate architecture program, replacing Evan Douglis, who stepped down to become Dean of the School of Architecture at Rennselear Polytechnic Institute…

The Real Estate Board of New York has selected Mary Ann Tighe as its chair, the first woman to hold this position in its 113-year history… Ruth Reed has been elected the next President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)…

Einhorn Yaffee Prescott welcomes laboratory planning expert Robert DeGenova as a new Senior Laboratory Planner and William Van Horn, AIA, as a new Senior Project Director… Cannon Design announces that Eric Jaffe, AIA, has joined the firm as a principal…

RMJM is partnering with the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust to raise funds during the New York City Marathon, in which actor Ed Norton is running to benefit the Trust…