The NYC Housing Development Corporation will award the 2010 Landmarks Lion Award to Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA… The American Planning Association’s (APA) New York Metro Chapter has awarded Pratt Institute’s Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE) the 2010 Meritorious Achievement and Service Award…

Winners of the 2010 International Architecture Awards from The Chicago Athenaeum include the Leicester Performing Arts Centre “Curve,” the Cleveland Museum of Art Phase One, Carrasco International Airport New Terminal, and the University of Pennsylvania Health System Ruth and Raymond Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine by Rafael Viñoly Architects; Pool Pavilion and Urban Townhouse by Peter Gluck and Partners; The Herning Museum of Contemporary Art and Knut Hamsun Center by Steven Holl Architects; Wandering Ecologies: Toronto Lower Don Lands Park by Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbansim; 41 Cooper Square by Morphosis/Gruzen Samton; Nordhaven: City Regenerative and SAP North America by FXFOWLE Architects; Art Cave by Bade Stageberg Cox; and Burj Khalifa by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill…

The Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) honored Capelin Communications with a First Place Marketing Communications Award for social media for the “Sound Advice with Joan Capelin” podcast series…

The North American Copper in Architecture award winners include: Benning Neighborhood Library by Davis Brody Bond Aedas, and a Private Residence in Edwards, CO, by Selldorf Architects…

The International Hotel, Motel + Restaurant Show (IHMRS) has named finalists for the 30th annual Gold Key Awards for Excellence in Hospitality Design including: the Park Hyatt Macka Palas by GKV Architects; Hotel Indigo Athens by Ellen Hanson Designs & Rialto Property Partners; Bar Seven Five by Rockwell Group; and The Wright by Andre Kikoski Architect…

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has been awarded an $800,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation for its RE:DESIGN renovation project…

The transfer of Governors Island from the State of New York to the City of New York is complete. Leslie Koch, former president of the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation, is now the president of The Trust for Governors Island…

David Kepron, AIA, LEED AP, and Kenneth Lill, AIA, have joined Callison as Directors in the New York office… Christine Albright, LEED AP, was promoted to Principal in Perkins Eastman’s New York office…