The National Art Club honored Steven Holl, AIA, with the 2008 Gold Medal for Achievements in Architecture…

Studio Daniel Libeskind and Foster + Partners are leading the competition among five short-listed bids to build a major maritime extension to the Mediterranean state of Monaco (the winner will be announced later this year)…

The NYC Grand Prize Winners of the 2008 Green Building Competition are the Battery Park City Conservancy’s maintenance facility by Dattner Architects and The Visionaire by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects; Winners are The Bowery Hotel by FLANK Architects and the West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc.’s (WE ACT) Environmental Justice Center by AQC Architects; Honorable Mentions are 1347 Bristow St. in the Bronx by the Community Environmental Center (CEC) and Hearst Tower by Foster + Partners…

Presented by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, the 2008 International Architecture Award winners include NY-based firms Kohn Pederson Fox (Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Headquarters; Ruth Deech Building at St. Anne’s College; and Unilever London Headquarters); Steven Holl Architects (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and School of Art & Art History); Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects (New York Aquarium); RMJM Hillier (Becton, Dickinson and Company Campus Center); Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Alexandria Egypt Master Plan; Infinity Tower; Tyrol Tower; The New Beijing Poly Plaza; Transbay Transit Center Terminal And Tower; Al Hamra Firdous Tower; City Santa Fe Four Seasons and Residences; Hong Kong International Airport Terminal 2 and Skyplaza; Beijing Finance Street; Harvard University Northwest Science Building; and Hudson Railyards Towers); Handel Architects (Georgetown Incinerator); Thomas Phifer & Partners (Salt Point House); BKSK Architects (Queens Botanical Garden Visitor and Administration Building); Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects (Overture Center and Carnival Center for the Performing Arts); Platt Byard Dovell White Architects (Reece School); Weiss/Manfredi Architects (Olympic Sculpture Park); Asymptote Architecture (World Business Center Busan); Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects (Glenstone Museum); and Zimmer Gunsul Frasca (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8 Headquarters)…

Eric C. Y. Fang, AIA, LEED AP, has rejoined Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects as associate principal… Nancy Cheung is Perkins Eastman’s new marketing manager… Gale La Cave is the new director of marketing, Neill Coleman will spearhead U.S. public relations, and Mitch Green, and Rich Kahn, AIA, LEED AP, were promoted to associate principals at RMJM Hillier…