by: Camila Schaulson Frenz
The NYC Economic Development Corporation’s Hire + Expand in Lower Manhattan: Take the H.E.L.M. competition awarded a grant of $50,000 to Hollwich Kushner/Architizer …The five finalists of MoMA P.S.1’s 2014 Young Architects Program include: Collective-LOK (Jon Lott of PARA-Project, William O’Brien Jr. of WOJR, and Michael Kubo of over,under); Fake Industries Architectural Agonism (Cristina Goberna and Urtzi Grau); and The Living (David Benjamin)…Magnusson Architecture and Planning (MAP) received citations for 22 Tarrytown Road workforce housing and Spring Valley Senior Housing and Family Apartments at the 2013 AIA Westchester + Hudson Valley Awards.
The Rockefeller Foundation has awarded Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, Principal, Catherine Seavitt Studio, and Assoc. Professor at the City College of New York’s Spitzer School of Architecture, a $250,000 grant to design strategies to improve coastal resiliency in Jamaica Bay…
Visual lighting expert Leni Schwendinger has joined Arup as an Associate Principal to lead the firm’s urban lighting design network…John Schuyler, AIA, LEED AP, has been promoted to Partner at FXFOWLE…Tilman Globig, AIA, LEED AP BD+C has joined di Domenico + Partners as a Senior Associate…Magnusson Architecture and Planning (MAP) has promoted Fernando Villa, AIA, LEED AP BD+C to Associate Principal and Christoph Stump, AIA, LEED AP BD+C to Senior Associate.