AIANY announced the winners of the 2010 Design Awards, in the category of Architecture, Honor Award Winners: Knut Hamsun Center and Vanke Center / Horizontal Skyscraper by Steven Holl Architects; East Harlem School by Peter Gluck and Partners; Toni Stabile Student Center by Marble Fairbanks; Fishers Island House by Thomas Phifer and Partners; 41 Cooper Square by Morphosis Architects with Gruzen Samton; and The Eleanor and Wilson Greatbatch Pavilion by Toshiko Mori Architect; Architecture Merit Award Winners: 200 Fifth Avenue by STUDIOS Architecture; New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion by Handel Architects (Architect-of-Record) and UNStudio (Design Architect); Salim Publishing House by SAA/Stan Allen Architect; 39 East 13th Street by Phillip Wu Architect; Koby by Garrison Architects; and Carrasco International Airport New Terminal by Rafael Viñoly Architects…

Interiors category, Honor Award Winners: Chanel Robertson Blvd. by Peter Marino Architect and Trinity School – Johnson Chapel by Butler Rogers Baskett; Interiors Merit Award Winners: The New School Welcome Center by Lyn Rice Architects ; Slocum Hall by Garrison Architects; Dow Jones Offices by STUDIOS Architecture and Manhattan Rooftop Duplex by Shelton, Mindel & Associates…

Un-Built work, Merit Award Winners: R-House by Della Valle Bernheimer and Architecture Research Office; Open Paradox by Ginseng Chicken Architecture; Lux Nova by EASTON+COMBS; Korean Cultural Center New York and The Great Hall at Grace Farms by OBRA Architects; Transbay Transit Center by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects; Chungnam Government Complex by H Associatesand Haeahn Architecture; Urban Aeration by konyk; Tianjin Hang Lung Plaza by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates; On the Water: Palisade Bay by Guy Nordenson and Associates with Catherine Seavitt Studio and Architecture Research Office and Medeu Sports Center by Audrey Matlock Architect…

Urban Design, Honor Award Winner: The High Line by James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Merit Award Winners: Five Principles for Greenwich South by Architecture Research Office; MTA Flood Mitigation Streetscape Design by Rogers Marvel Architects (Design Architect) and di Domenico + Partners (Architect-of-Record) and BQE Trench: Reconnection Strategies for Brooklyn by dlandstudio…

The winning entry for the Newark Visitor Center International Design Contest is by Di Domenico & Partners; PLT Design placed second, Arquitectura, inc placed third and superinteresting! placed fourth…

N.E.E.D., the winner of AIANY Emerging New York Architecture Committee’s third biennial ideas competition, has been awarded the Second Place Prize in the International Urban Ideas Competition for the Sustainable Development of Gadeokdo, Busan in the Republic of Korea, with Group Han Associates…

Midwest Construction Magazine’s Best of 2009 include Trump International Hotel & Tower by Skidmore Owings & Merrill with PMG Architects in the categories of Project of the Year, Overall & Project of the Year, and Multifamily Residential, and Ted Moudis Associates’ projects for Société Générale and Cottingham & Butler both won Awards of Merit… Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs, a book co-authored by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson, an associate professor of urban design at the Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York (CCNY), has received a 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence from the American Association of Publishers (AAP)…

The Illuminating Engineering Society, NYC Section (IESNYC) announced the winners of the 2010 NYC Student Lighting Competition: First Place — EDGE: PROBLEMS AND PROMISE by J. Parkman Carter, Parsons The New School for Design; Second Place — CUSP by Suerrisa Blecher, New York School of Interior Design; Third Place — LIMINALLY ENLIGHTENED by Megan Pfeffer, Parsons The New School for Design; Honorable Mention for Craftmanship — MAGIC by Brett Banakis & Bradley King, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Honorable Mention for Use of Materials – SUBLIMINATION by Gabriela Grullan, Parsons The New School for Design…

Santiago Calatrava, FAIA is a recipient of the 2010 Travel + Leisure Design Award for his Liege-Guillemins TGV Railway Station in Belgium….

Leslie E. Robertson Associates has opened a Mumbai office… Magnusson Architecture and Planning has launched MAP Green, a division specializing in green consulting services for building design, green retrofit/rehabilitation, and sustainable neighborhood planning…

Erleen Hatfield PE, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, is a new partner at Buro Happold… Cannon Design announced that Antonio Borgese, AIA, LEED AP, has been named Vice President… Melissa Marsh, Assoc. AIA, has joined Mancini Duffy as Principal and Director of Workplace Strategy… Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects promoted Qian Li and Mathew Snethe to Senior Associates… Barbara Zieve, IIDA, and Erik Hodgetts, AIA, LEED AP, have joined IA Interior Architects as Design Director and Director of Legal Services, respectively… Janice Barnes, PhD, LEED AP BD+C, Global Discipline Leader for Planning + Strategies at Perkins+Will, is relocating to the New York Office… David Thurm, formerly with the New York Times, was appointed as the Art Institute of Chicago’s new Chief Operating Officer…