Nine firms were selected out of 40 to be a part of the 2009 Center for Architecture Exhibition Design Shortlist — Open Call: Architecture in Formation, Evidence Design, G TECTS, Incorporated Architecture + Design, Leven Betts, Lyn Rice Architects, MATTER, Moorhead & Moorhead, and nARCHITECTS…

The Interior Design Department at FIT announced that Gaetano Pesce is the 2009 Lawrence Israel Prize honoree…

NY-based winners of the 2008 International Design Awards competition Professional First Place Awards include, in the following categories: Landscape, WXY Architecture + Urban Design for The Battery Bosque & Carousel; Urban Design, Rogers Marvel Architects for Battery Park City Streetscapes; Renovation, Jonathan Kirschenfeld Associates for Floating Pool; Renovation, Taryn Christoff, Martin Finio, AIA, Jeff Hong, Chris Mechaley, Mac Patoulas, John Szot, and Vicky Yuan for The Heckscher Foundation… Mancini Duffy also won an award in the Annual Reports category for “Mancini Duffy’s Year in Review”…

The Alliance for Downtown New York has selected Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners and FXFOWLE Architects to study street-level conditions, and implement a planning and design study of Water Street… The Illuminating Engineering Society of NYC will announce the results of their Ninth Annual NYC Student Lighting Competition and mark the opening of the Audible Light Exhibition on 03.04.09 with a keynote address by Linnaea Tillett, PhD…

George Melas, AIA, LEED AP, has been named a Senior Vice President at Syska Hennessy Group, Inc… Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel Architects (GKV) appointed Benita Welch, AIA, and Joseph Barbagallo, AIA, as Principals… Poulin + Morris has named Brian Brindisi a Principal of the firm… BBG-BBGM named Roderick A. Petschauer and Ronda McCrea Principals.