by: Murrye Bernard Assoc. AIA LEED AP
Amanda M. Burden, FAICP, Hon. AIA, chair of the NYC Planning Commission and Director of the NYC Department of Planning, has been chosen as the 2009 laureate of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development… The San Francisco Botanical Garden Gondwana Circle Design Competition winners include NYC-based Michael Overby and Emma Fuller, First Prize; Jeeyong An, AIA, Sang Hwa Lee, and Younjin Park of Ginseng Chicken Architecture, Award of Distinction…
Recipients of the 2009 Rockefeller Foundation NYC Cultural Innovation Fund Awards include Alliance for Downtown New York, for a creative arts district prototype that supports permanent artists’ workspaces and commercial growth; the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island, to redesign and repurpose the North Shore waterfront as a creative sector incubator; Institute for Urban Design, to launch Urban Design Week, an open-air festival celebrating the year’s innovations in architecture and urban design; New York City Ballet, for a convergence of architecture and dance through commissioning new ballets for a set designed by architect Santiago Calatrava; The New School, for a design and public policy partnership to research, promote, and amplify community-based solutions for sustainability; Polytechnic Institute of NYU, for community access to Betaville, an online platform showing proposed urban design and public art projects in 3-D on real streets; and Queens Council on the Arts, to design an interactive cell phone cultural map to transform the #7 train into an art express…
Mancini Duffy, head-quartered in NYC, has merged with two Washington, DC-based architecture practices, Michael Winstanley Architects Planners and Still & Svitchan Associates, which will join Mancini Duffy’s D.C. office…
AECOM has announced that Thomas Fridstein, FAIA, RIBA, LEED AP, has joined the firm as executive vice president and head of global architecture… Stephen McDaniel will serve as the new Science + Technology market sector leader at Perkins+Will… The Switzer Group has named Lloyd G. Ware as president of its newly formed Healthcare Division…
Terence Riley, AIA, has resigned as director of the Miami Art Museum to resume his role as partner at NY-based Keenen/Riley Architects…