The Rockefeller Foundation announced two recipients of the inaugural Jane Jacobs Medal: Barry Benepe, FAIA, received the Lifetime Leadership award, and Omar Freilla received the New Ideas and Activism award…

Living Steel announced 18 shortlisted firms for the 2nd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing, including NY-based firms Perkins + Will and nARCHITECTS…

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced on June 19 that it will commit $1 million to green building research. Funds will be targeted at increasing research in areas such as energy and water security, global climate change prevention, indoor environmental quality, and passive survivability in the face of natural and man-made disasters…

The Society of American Registered Architects/New York Council (SAAR/NY) 2007 Design Awards winners include: Medallion of Honor: Frank J. Sciame, Hon. AIANY; Firm of the Year: HOK Sport Venue Event; Project of the Year: Renzo Piano Building Workshop (Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum — with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners).

Award of Excellence: A+I Design (Interior Design: CSTV); Bentel & Bentel Architects (Interior Design: Craftsteak); The Stephen B. Jacobs Group (Housing: 325 Fifth Avenue); Swanke Hayden Connell Architects (Rehabilitation: Office of Emergency Management); Butler Rogers Baskett (Educational: Hamilton College); Students: Craig Maniscalco and Felix Baez.

Award of Merit: Rietveld Architects (International: Eisenhower Residence); Swanke Hayden Connell Architects (Design: Astana – Scheme 2); Cannon Design (Design: BSC Group Buffalo); Mancini-Duffy (Interior Design: Latham & Watkins); Scarano Architects (Housing: Manhattan Park); A.L. Maldonado, Architect (Housing: Mazzei Woodland Retreat); Amiaga Photography and Oculus Consulting (Non-Buildings/Arts); Students: Paul Foenka and Ayesha Tarar.

Award of Honor: Bentel & Bentel Architects (Interior Design: Café 2/MOMA); Scarano Architects (Design: 2626 Jackson Avenue); Edwards & Kelcey (Non-Buildings/Planning Design: College Station Cemetery and Aggie Field of Honor).
Silver Anniversary Award/25-Year Projects: Spector Group (Somerset V and Long Island Savings Bank).

Special Recognition Award: MSA Collaborative (Design: Marble Court); Papadatos Partnership (Design: Chapel for St John the Devine)…

The Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) annual Design Award winners include, in the category of Honor Awards: Arizona Cardinals Stadium, designed by Pentagram Design (NY) with Entro Communications (Toronto) and with design architect consultants Eisenman Architects (NY); and National World War I Museum, Ralph Appelbaum Associates (NY).

Merit Awards include: The High Style of Dorothy Draper at the Museum of the City of New York, designed by Pure+Applied (NY); Sarah Lawrence College Heimbold Visual Arts Center, Poulin + Morris Inc. (NY) (clients: Sarah Lawrence College/Polshek Partnership Architects); Children’s Museum of the East End, Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership; Absolut® Flavor Suite, The Rockwell Group; The Hearst Building Sign Program, C&G Partners (architect: Foster + Partners; architect-of-record: Adamson Associates, interior architecture: Gensler); Newport Tower Marketing Center, Gensler; 7 World Trade Center, Pentagram Design (architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, media installation: Jenny Holzer); and The Museum of the Portuguese Language, Ralph Appelbaum Associates… The winner of the Lot with a Little Award is 365: AIGA Annual Design Exhibition 27, Design360; and the Jury Award winner is the Griffith Observatory Exhibits, C&G Partners…