The 2009 Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Global Awards for Excellence winners included: the new campus for the American University in Cairo, for which Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer & Associates designed the library; and the West Chelsea/High Line Rezoning Plan, including the High Line Park, designed by James Corner Field Operations with Diller Scofidio + Renfro… The Urban Land Institute’s 2009 Jack Kemp Workforce Housing Models Of Excellence Award winners include the Kalahari Condominium Project, by Fred Schwartz Architects with GF55 as executive architect and Jack Travis, FAIA, as cultural design consultant…

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) named Steven Holl Architects’ recently completed Linked Hybrid complex in Beijing the “CTBUH 2009 Best Tall Building Overall”… Winners of the BusinessWeek/ Architectural Record Awards 2009 include the Barbie Shangai Store by Slade Architecture, and a Citation for East Harlem School by Peter L. Gluck and Partners…

The Waterfront Center’s 23rd annual Excellence on the Waterfront Awards include, in the category of Mixed Use/Commercial, Project Honor Award Honor Award for The Port Authority Ferry Terminal at the World Financial Center by PANYNJ Engineering Department/Donald Fram, AIA, and Robert Davidson, FAIA; in the category of Park/Walkway/Recreational Project Honor Award for West Harlem Piers Park, W Architecture & Landscape Architecture; and Honor Awards for Comprehensive Waterfront Plans include the Waterfront Zoning Text Amendment, NYC Department of City Planning, and the Brooklyn Bridge Park 2005 Master Plan: A Framework for Design by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates…

Urban A&O and Thinc Design have received the 2009 China’s Most Successful Design Award for the Johnson & Johnson Olympic Pavilion at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing… Greensburg, KS, Chain of Eco-Homes Competition winner is Meadowlark House by Steven Learner Studio… The Australian Institute of Architects’ Jorn Utzon Award for International Architecture was presented to the TKTS Booth and Environs in Times Square by Sydney-based Choi Ropiha with Perkins Eastman and PKSB Architects…

The Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Design Trust for Public Space named Dongsei Kim and Jamieson Fajardo, students at Columbia University, winners of Intersections: The Grand Concourse Beyond 100, an international ideas competition for the future of the Grand Concourse…

Starting in January, Peter Eisenman, FAIA, will be the first Charles Gwathmey Professor of Architecture at Yale University; Ralph Lauren endowed a permanent professorship in honor of the late architect… The National Trust for Historic Preservation has presented the Louise du Pont Crowninshield Award, its highest accolade, to Yale professor Vincent J. Scully…

Richard Moe, Hon. AIA, announced that he will retire next year as president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation… The Municipal Art Society is moving to the Steinway Hall Building…

In the Spring 2010 semester, the City College of New York (CCNY) will offer a new, interdisciplinary graduate program, Sustainability in the Urban Environment, which will incorporate architecture, engineering and science, awarding graduates a Master of Science degree in Sustainability…

Westlake Reed Leskosky is opening a NYC studio and appointing Thomas Gallagher, AIA, as principal and director… Granary Associates, a Philadelphia- and NY-based firm specializing in project management, planning, architecture, and interior design for healthcare facilities, is expected to join with Stantec…