by: Camila Schaulson Frenz
The National Building Museum named the co-founders of Friends of the High Line, Joshua David and Robert Hammond, as laureates of the 15th Vincent Scully Prize… The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies announced the 60 winners of the 2013 International Architecture Awards, including projects by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects (The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Addition and Alteration – Cornell Univeristy); Louise Braveman, Architect (Master plan for a Sustainable Kigutu, Burundi); WEISS/MANFREDI (Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitors Center, Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology); Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Greenland Group Suzhou Center, Chongqing River Tower, Great Lakes Vision Plan); Macrae-Gibson Architects (PS 234 Walkway); GLUCK+ (Tower House) and GAD Architecture (GDKP)…
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations has shortlisted three design teams for the new U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, for Stage 3 evaluation, including the New York-based firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro…
World Architecture News announced that Guy F.X. Geier II, FAIA, FIIDA, LEED AP, Managing Partner, FXFOWLE, and AIANY 2013 Director for Publications, will be one of jurors for the 2013 WAN Effectiveness Award…
Maria Aiolova, Assoc. AIA, Co-founder of Terreform ONE and Chair of the ONE Lab New York School for Design and Science, has been appointed Academic Director for Global Architecture and Design of CIEE…
Matthew Wambua, Commissioner of the City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, has left City Hall for mortgage lender RHR Funding…Former reporter for Crain’s New York Business Matt Chaban has joined New York Daily News as the Real Estate Editor…
Bennet Dunkley, AIA, RIBA, LEED AP, has joined Helpern Architects as Vice President…Amy Mays, IIDA, LEED AP, EDAC, has joined HDR Architecture’s New York City Design Studio as Interior Design Principal…Gina A. Bedoya, FSMPS, CPSM, has joined Pei Partnership Architects as Director of Business Development and Marketing…Meredith Lovejoy has joined Shen, Milsom & Wilke as Global Director of Marketing…Megumi Tamanaha, AIA, has been promoted to Studio Director at Architecture Research Office/ARO…Edward Shim has been promoted to Principal at HLW’s New York office, and Elizabeth Burow, Lee Devore, RA, and Jaclyn Whitaker, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, were promoted to Senior Associates…James Butterfield, RA, has been appointed to Principal and Mohammed Attia, Paul Carr, AIA, Alan Ho, Angie Lee, RA, IIDA, David Levo, Yu Duk So, and Joanne Violanti, AIA, LEED AP, have been promoted to Associate Principals at Perkins Eastman’s New York office.