by: Camila Schaulson Frenz
The AIA New York Chapter and Center for Architecture have named David Burney, FAIA, Interim Executive Director.
The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) 2015 MASterworks Honorees include: Fulton Center by Grimshaw Architects (Best New Building); 1000 Dean Street and Berg’n by Selldorf Architects (Best Neighborhood Catalyst); NYC Emergency Housing Prototype by Garrison Architects (Best New Infrastructure); Hudson Square Standard by Matthews Nielsen Landscape Architects (Best New Urban Amenity); Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners in collaboration with Gluckman Mayner Architects (Best Restoration); and the Engineering Quadrangle by Bruce Newman & the Pratt Design Team (Best Urban Landscape).
The winners of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2015 Architecture Awards are Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey, Partners, O’Donnell + Tuomey; Yolande Daniels and Sunil Bald, Founding Partners, Studio SUMO; Kate Orff, ASLA, Founder and Partner, SCAPE / Landscape Architecture; Kurt W. Forster, Emeritus Visiting Professor, Yale School of Architecture; and Rosalie Genevro, Executive Director, The Architectural League of New York…The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) 2015 National Award recognizes Sonya Dufner, FASID, Principal at Gensler…The American Planning Association’s 2015 National Planning Excellence Awards honor The BIG U (now The Dryline) by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group with One Architecture, Starr Whitehouse, James Lima Planning + Development, Project Projects, Green Shield Ecology, AEA Consulting, Level Agency for Infrastructure, Arcadis, and Parsons School of Constructed Environments; and Living Breakwaters by SCAPE / Landscape Architecture with Parsons Brinckerhoff, Dr. Philip Orton / Stevens Institute of Technology, Ocean & Coastal Consultants, SeArc Ecological Consulting, LOT-EK, MTWTF; The Harbor School, and Paul Greenberg.
The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) Interior Design Department has named Tony Chi, Founder of tonychi and associates, the 2015 recipient of the Lawrence Israel Prize.
The Museum of Arts and Design has appointed Shannon Stratton as New Chief Curator…
CetraRuddy has promoted Branko Potocnik to Senior Associate…Demetrios Plessias, PE, has been promoted to Vice President at WSP…Jorge Mastropietro Architects Atelier (JMA) has hired Patricia Ramallo, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, as Senior Architect and Project Director and Bernard (Aldo) Campaniolo as Vice President, Construction.