The AIA selected five recipients for the 2011 Institute Honors for Collaborative Achievement, including the Active Design Guidelines, an effort of AIANY, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), Department of Design+Construction (DDC), Department of Transportation (DOT), and Department of City Planning (DCP), the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), along with several civic organizations and professional societies…

David Burney, FAIA, NYC Design+Construction Commissioner received the AIA’s Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture. Amanda Burden, Hon. AIANY, FAICP, NYC City Planning Chair, received the American Architectural Foundation’s Keystone Award….

Winners of the AIA Long Island Archi Awards include the United Cerebral Palsy Health Center by Perkins Eastman Architects; Wallace K. Harrison Estate by Schappacher White Ltd.; and Dune Road Residence by Stelle Architects with developer David J. Wine’s Oliver’s Realty Group…

The 2010 GSA Design Awards winners include the U.S. Land Port of Entry in Massena by Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects, Architecture and Art Citations; U.S. Land Port of Entry, Calais, Maine by Robert Siegel Architects, Architecture Citation; Historic District of Columbia Courthouse by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, Preservation Citation; The Peter W. Rodino Federal Building High Performance Renovation by Dattner Architects with Richard McElhiney Architects, On-the-Boards Engineering Citation; Federal Parking Garage, San Juan, Puerto Rico by Gruzen Samton Architects, On-the-Boards Architecture Citation; and U.S. Courthouse, San Diego by Richard Meier & Partners Architects, On-the-Boards Urbanism Citation…
Eight firms have been selected to receive the Architectural League’s annual Emerging Voices award, including NY-based Interboro Partners, WXY architecture + urban design, Ruy Klein, and Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design…

desigNYC, which connects NYC non-profits with pro bono designers, announced its 2011 list of design and non-profit collaborations: Educating Tomorrow with Language Dept. and Rubenstein Technology Group; Greenhouse Project: NY Sun Works & Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation with Abruzzo-Bodziak Architects; Green Map System with Otto NY; Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation with Fogelson-Lubliner; Ioby with Publicis Design; Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project with Rodrigo Corral; Nostrand Park with Vamos Architects; PortSide NewYork with architects 590BC and Studio L’Image; and Public Allies + Bronx Community Pride Center with Fink & Platt Architects…

The Diabetes Research Institute Foundation (DRIF) — Real Estate Division honored Ted Moudis, AIA, with the Camillo Ricordi Humanitarian Award…

Rafael Cestero, Commissioner of the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, will be leaving his post at the end of March to join L+M Development Partners as a Managing Director…