AIA New England awarded a Merit Award as part of the 2007 Design Awards to Polshek Partnership Architects for the renovation of the Yale University Art Gallery, Louis I. Kahn Building… The AIA New Jersey chapter announced the winners of its 2007 Annual Design Conference. Dattner Architects won a Merit Award for the Klein Campus Center @ The Dwight Englewood School…

Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA, was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences… The Preservation League of New York State awarded its most prestigious award, The Pillar of New York, to David Beer, FAIA, and his firm BBG-BBGM; and Phyllis Lambert, Hon. FAIA, and the film Citizen Lambert: Joan of Architecture, documenting her life as an architect, preservationist, and advocate…

Crain‘s list of 100 Most Influential Women in NYC business includes Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Katherine Farley of Tishman Speyer; Suri Kasirer of Kasirer Consulting; MaryAnne Gilmartin of Forest City Ratner; Judith Rodin of The Rockefeller Foundation; Veronica Hackett of The Clarett Group; Marilyn Jordan Taylor, FAIA, of Skidmore Owings & Merrill; and Kathryn Wylde of Partnership for New York City…

Perkins + Will recently announced their acquisition of Guenther 5 Architects… David Haskell has stepped down as Executive Director of the Forum For Urban Design to accept the position of Deputy Culture Editor at New York magazine…The National Endowment for the Arts announced that Maurice Cox has been appointed the NEA’s Director of Design…