Winners of the Design Commission’s 28th Annual Awards for Excellence in Design include: the construction of a municipal recycling facility at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal by Selldorf Architects; rehabilitation of the Bronx River Art Center by Sage and Coombe Architects and Tattfoo Studio; reconstruction of Pier 35 by SHoP Architects with Workshop: Ken Smith Landscape Architect and Tillotson Design Associates; restoration of the Prospect Park Lakeshore from the Summerhouse to the Concert Grove and Music Island by the Prospect Park Alliance; renovation and Expansion of the Kew Gardens Hills Branch Library by WORKac; construction of the Ocean Breeze Park Track and Field House by Sage and Coombe Architects; construction of the East 111th Street and West 181st Street Pedestrian Bridges by Guy Nordenson and Associates, HNTB Corporation, and Catherine Seavitt Studio; BRIC Arts | Media House and UrbanGlass Projects in the former Strand Theater by Leeser Architecture; master plan for Shoelace Park and Fort Knox Park by Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects; construction of the Marine Company 9 Firehouse by Sage and Coombe Architects; renovation of HELP 1 Family Residence by Slade Architecture; construction of the New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion by UNStudio and Handel Architects; and a Special Recognition Award for the Conservation and Relocation of Abstraction (1939) by Byron Browne to the first floor Jury Assembly Room, Staten Island Courthouse by Ennead Architects (formerly Polshek Partnership Architects)…

The Brick Industry Association (BIA) announced the recipients of its 2010 Brick in Architecture Awards, including the Westchester Reform Temple by Rogers Marvel Architects…The Emirates Glass LEAF Awards shortlist includes Linked Hybrid and Herning Museum of Contemporary Art by Steven Holl Architects, and Beijing CBD Eastern Expansion Plan and Burj Khalifa Tower by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill…

The winners of the National Park Service’s Designing the Parks competition include: in the category of Master Planning, the Brooklyn Bridge Park by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Honor Award; Parklands of Floyds Fork by Wallace Roberts & Todd, Merit Award; Flight 93 National Memorial by Paul Murdoch Architects and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, Merit Award; in the category of Site Design, Teardrop Park by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Honor Award; Concrete Plant Park, Bronx River Greenway by the City of New York, Merit Award; Santa Fe Railyard Park by Frederic Schwartz Architects, Ken Smith Landscape Architects, and Mary Miss, Artist, Merit Award; Hudson River Park, Tribeca Section by Mathews Nielsen, Merit Award; and in the category of Historic Preservation Design, Blue Ball Barn, Alapocas Run State Park by Wallace Roberts & Todd…

The Rockefeller Foundation has named Friends of the High Line Co-Founders Joshua David and Robert Hammond, and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, founding President of the Central Park Conservancy and current President of the Foundation for Landscape Studies, as the recipients of the 2010 Jane Jacobs Medals… New York Construction magazine has named Skanska the Contractor of the Year…

David Turnbull and Jane Harrison of Atopia Research, with funding from the Annenberg Foundation, have developed PITCH: AFRICA, a soccer field that captures, filters, and stores rainwater…

Jane Felsen Gertler has joined Helpern Architects as an associate and director of marketing… Stephen M. Sudak has joined WASA/Studio A as a senior architect (Preservation)…