June 23, 2009
by: Murrye Bernard Assoc. AIA LEED AP

06.16-17.09: AIANY manned a table at Green BuildingsNY at the Jacob K. Javits Center.

Suzanne Mecs, AIANY Director of Membership (left), with Judith Chavez-Webster, International Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, a member of the AIA Long Island Chapter.

Courtesy AIANY

05.20.09: A ceremony took place at BellTel Lofts, 365 Bridge Street, Downtown Brooklyn, to mark its designation as a City Landmark by the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission.

05.28.09: Award-winning kites from FlyNY were auctioned off during a cocktail party and exhibition at the Knoll showroom in Chelsea. Proceeds will be donated Architecture for Humanity New York.

First Prize-Winning Kite on Display: Heinrich Hohmann’s “City of Glass” (German version of Japanese edo kite).

Courtesy Aurelie Paradiso, Creative Director and Co-Founder, FlyNY

05.28.09: openhousenewyork (OHNY) held the first of a series of benefits, called private spaces/private access parties, at the Flag Art Foundation.

Pictured: Scott Lauer, founder of OHNY, and Richard Gluckman, FAIA, partner, Gluckman Mayner.

Odette Veneziano

06.11.09: The second private spaces/private access party to benefit OHNY at an 1830s Federal-style townhouse restored and renovated by AND Architects and developed by Blesso Properties.

Pictured (l-r): Andrea Steele, AIA, of AND Architects; Scott Lauer, founder of OHNY; Matthew Blesso, Blesso Properties; and Renee Schacht, OHNY executive director.

Ari Burling Photography

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