The 2011 Society of American Registered Architects (SARA) New York Council 2011 Design Award winners include One Madison Park by Cetra Ruddy Architects, Project of the Year Award; Dream Downtown Hotel by Handel Architects, Architectural Transformation Award; and 200 11th Avenue by Selldorf Architects with Steven Kratchman Architect (Architect-of-Record), Architectural Innovation Award…

SARA/NY 2011 Awards of Excellence: The Schermerhorn, Commmon Ground Community and NYC Fire Department, Rescue Company 3 by Ennead Architects; Lakeside Retreat by Peter Gluck & Partners; Kean University, New Jersey Center for Science, Technology & Mathematics Education (CSTME) by Cannon Design; Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University Academic Building #2 by Perkins + Will; Main House by Cooper Joseph Studio; Berlin Cold War Media & Information Center by Minsu Kim from Cornell University; and Anthropologie Huntsville by EOA/Elmslie Osler Architect…

SARA/NY 2011 Awards of Honor: Spring Street Loft by EOA/Elmslie Osler Architect; Rouge Tomate and Craft Atlanta by Bentel & Bentel Architects; Barysnikov Arts Center by WASA/Studio A; 101 Ludlow by Rawlings Architects; Leicester House by SPG Architects; 406 Lorimer Street by Scarano Architects; 31 Chambers Street by Swanke Hayden Connell Architects; Outdoor Classroom by Cooper Joseph Studio; 230 Park Avenue by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners; The Cottekill Dwelling by Miles Paloympis from Pratt Institute; Highline Crystal House by Viktoria Yarats from NYC College of Technology; Interactive Living by Wajeha Qureshi from Cornell University; Gravity Table by Richard Jolta from Cornell University; SeaSky by Ramon Bido from NYC College of Technology; What If the Kitchen was Alive? by Fabian Fan-Ting Zhang from The National University of Singapore; and Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport Addition by Carlos Honorio Jr. from New York City College of Technology…

Four skyscrapers were named as regional “Best Tall Buildings” for 2011 by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, including Gehry Partners’ Eight Spruce Street/ New York by Gehry… Steven Holl Architects has been awarded the 2011 Byggeskikkprisen for the Knut Hamsun Center in Hamarøy, Norway… Winners of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s (GVSHP) 2011 Village Awards include the Restoration of the Nave of the Church of the Ascension by Leo J. Blackman Architects, receiving the Regina Kellerman Award…

At the 43rd Annual Lumen Awards, the Illuminating Engineering Society New York Section (IESNYC) presented Awards of Excellence to Focus Lighting, Lumen Architecture, and Renfro Design Group; Awards of Merit went to Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design, One Luxe Studio, and Tillotson Design Associates; Lumen Citations were awarded to Cooley Monato Studio, Fisher Marantz Stone, Lighting Workshop, Renfro Design Group, and RS Lighting Design…

The winning design for this year’s SUPERFRONT PUBLIC SUMMER is “Weightless Pull,” by Architecture CO…

Davis Brody Bond Aedas has been re-branded as Aedas…