The AIA Long Island Chapter’s 44th Annual Archi Award winners include, in the following categories: Un-Built, 245 Tenth Avenue by Goshow Architects; Commendation, Bucharest Medical Center & Hotel Campus and Interior Architecture Commendation, Mason Capitol Management and Commercial/ Mercantile Commendation, Long Island Headquarters, all by Spector Group; Private Residence and Small Projects (Under $200,000) Archi, Private Bathroom by Murdock Young Architects; Archi, Hofstra Performing Arts Center by Wank Adams Slavin Associates (WASA); Sustainable Design Commendation, Ossining Public Library by Beatty, Harvey & Associates Architects; and Commendation, Plumm Shoppes by Allen & Killcoyne Architects…

Syracuse University unveiled the winners of its design competition, “From the Ground Up: Innovative Green Homes,” including NY-based ARO/Della Valle Bernheimer and Cook + Fox… The Forum for Urban Design selected H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, teamed with Eng-Wong, Taub & Associates, as one of six finalists culled from over 250 international entrants for its Red Hook Bicycle Competition… The winner of the 2009 MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program is MOS; finalists included Bade Stageberg Cox, L.E.F.T. architects, and PARA-project…

The 2009 P/A Award winners include Stan Allen and Carlos Arnaiz of Stan Allen Architect for the Taipei Waterfront; Charles Renfro, AIA, Ricardo Scofidio, AIA, and Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro for Alice Tully Hall; Sylvia Smith, FAIA, of FXFOWLE Architects, also for Alice Tully Hall; James Vira, AIA, and Jason Cadorette of Viraline for the Rapidly Depolyable Inflatable Container disaster housing; and Stephen Apking, FAIA, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for Inland Steel Building Restoration… The National Association of Home Builders 2009 Pillars of the Industry Award Finalists include Handel Architects, which won two awards: Best Mid-Rise Condominium Community, 505 Greenwich, and Best High-Rise Condominium Community, Millennium Tower Residences…

Steven Holl, FAIA, has been awarded the first BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Arts Category… Matthew Bremer, AIA, of Architecture In Formation, is one the eight recipients of the 2009 AIA Young Architects Award…

The Center for Civil and Human Rights has selected five firms to compete to design a new $125 million center in downtown Atlanta, including NY-based firms Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Huff + Gooden Architects; and Polshek Partnership Architects… The Smithsonian has announced the selection of six firms who will participate in a two-month design competition that will determine which firm will submit a formal proposal for the new National Museum of African American History and Culture, including Devrouax & Purnell Architects/Planners and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects (joint venture); and Diller Scofidio + Renfro in association with KlingStubbins…

RMJM announced the formation of a Global Health Studio (GHS)… openhousenewyork has appointed Renée Schacht executive director… The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance announced Cortney Worrall as the new Director of Programs… Cannon Design named Dale Greenwald Associate Principal… Gensler announces the appointment of Leslie Jabs, AIA, as Principal…