The Museum of Modern Art announced the P.S.1 Young Architects Program finalists to design an installation in the courtyard at P.S.1 for the 2011 summer season: FormlessFinder (Brooklyn); Interboro Partners (Brooklyn); Matter Architecture Practice (Brooklyn); MASS Design Group (Boston); and IJP Corporation Architects (London). The winner will be announced in February.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has awarded a total of $60,000 to eight NYC projects that are of historic and cultural significance. Grant winners for the Robert and Elizabeth Jeffe Preservation Fund for New York City include: the Bartow-Pell Landmark Fund in the Bronx, which will host a workshop on historic landscape restoration of the formal gardens designed by Delano & Aldrich; Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation to support the Fitch Forum on preservation law and policy; Free Synagogue of Flushing, Queens, to lay the groundwork for future restorations of the complex’s late 19th-century mansion and a neo-Georgian style synagogue designed by Maurice Courland in 1927; Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts to produce an architectural and cultural guide featuring historic districts and landmarks; Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens to fund a historic structures report; New York Landmarks Conservancy for funding a conditions assessment of Erasmus Academy building, constructed in 1787; Two Bridges Neighborhood Council to prepare State and National Register nominations for the Bowery; and World Monuments Fund to support the development of a model preservation program at Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design.

The winners of the 18th Annual 2010 CANstruction New York competition include: “The BabushCAN,” by Thornton Tomasetti, Juror’s Favorite; “FEASTer Island,” by LERA, Best Structural Ingenuity; “Paint the Town ‘Fed,'” by Dattner Architects, Best Meal; “I Think I ‘Can,'” by MTA New York City Transit, Best Use of Labels. “Cups Can Only Spill,” by GilSanz Murray Steficek, and “Tomato Tornado,” by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, won Honorable Mentions. “ShenaniCANs Care!” by Shen Milsom & Wilke, won the Cheri Award in honor of Cheri Melillo, Hon. AIA, the founder of CANstruction…

The Switzer Group is hosting the first-annual “Architects for Animals” event on 12.07.10. Participating design firms include: Gruzen Samton; Cannon Design; IA Interior Architects; Kohn Pedersen Fox; Davis Brody Bond Aedas; Zimmerman Workshop Architecture and Design; Tietz Baccon; Ryall Porter Sheridan Architects; and Larry Friedberg, AIA. Firms will build and donate outdoor winter shelters to provide NYC’s homeless cats with refuge from the weather…

Terence Riley, AIA, had been appointed Chief Curator for the 2011 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture…

Friends of the High Line announced that Google, Inc. has donated $1 million to the Campaign for the High Line, which will support construction and an endowment for future park maintenance and operations…

Magnusson Architecture and Planning has been designated an Enterprise Green Communities Technical Assistance Provider under Enterprise Communities Partners…

Mark D. Harbick, AIA, IIDA, LEED AP, has joined Mancini Duffy as Design Principal in the NY Corporate Interiors Group… J. David Hoglund, FAIA, LEED AP, has been appointed President of Perkins Eastman…