AIA NY State announced the 2007 AIANYS Design Award recipients. NYC firms to win Awards of Excellence include: Deborah Berke & Partners Architects (21C Museum Hotel); Parsons Design Workshop and ShoP Architects (39571 InfoWash); Moed de Armas & Shannon and Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners (Apple Store Fifth Avenue); Voorsanger & Associates Architects (Blue Ridge Residence); Peter Marino Architect (Fendi Rome); Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Institute of Contemporary Art; School of American Ballet); Peter L. Gluck & Partners (Inverted Guesthouse); Roger Hirsch Architect (IS/Industries Stationery Store and Design Studios); Weiss/Manfredi (Olympic Sculpture Park); Mitchell/Giurgola Architects (Rehabilitation of Bailey Hall); and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (United States Census Bureau Headquarters)…

Award of Merit recipients: Rothzeid Kaiserman Thomson & Bee, Ahuja Priya Architects, and George Cooper Rudolph III Architects (AirTrain Terminal at Jamaica Station); Perkins + Will (Al-Birr Foundation Headquarters); STUDIOS Architecture (Bloomberg LP Headquarters Expansion); Polshek Partnership Architects (The Mercersburg Academy, Burgin Center for the Arts; Yale University Art Gallery, Louis Kahn Building); Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Condé Nast Cafeteria; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Zuckerman Research Center); Bernard Tschumi Architects (Limoges Concert Hall); Desai/Chia Architecture (Madison Square); RMJM Hillier (Rohm & Haas China Research & Development Center); Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects (Steel Loft); Gluckman Mayner Architects (Syracuse University, The Warehouse); Rafael Viñoly Architects (Wageningen University and Research Center, Atlas Building); David Jay Weiner, Architect (Weekend House); Voorsanger & Associates Architects (Wildcat Ridge Residence); Michael Fieldman Architect (Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care); and Cooper, Robertson & Partners (Zuccotti Park)…

Citation for Design recipients: Rogers Marvel Architects and DeLaCour & Ferrara Architects (14 Townhouses); Croxton Collaborative Architects (Bay Educational Center); Architecture Research Office (Central Park West Apartment); Timothy Bryant Architect (Cory House); Swanke Hayden Connell Architects (Harlem Park Office Tower); Rafael Viñoly Architects (Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Janelia Farm Research Campus; Bard College, The Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation); Macrae-Gibson Architects (Ibero Loft); Weiss/Manfredi (International Retreat); Deborah Berke & Partners Architects (James Hotel Chicago); McCrum Architects (Larchmont Addition); Shelton, Mindel & Associates (North Sea Residence); ABS Architects (Pascal Court); Tobin + Parnes Design Enterprises (R. Sole); Studio A at WASA and Ohlhausen Dubois Architects (Restoration and Adaptive Reuse of the 135th Street Gatehouse as Harlem Stage); Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (United States Census Bureau Headquarters); Cooper, Robertson & Partners Architect (Val d’Europe); Davis Brody Bond Aedas (Valeo Security Systems); and Wendy Evans Joseph Architecture (Wykagyl Shopping Center, Tractor Shed; North American Butterfly Association International Butterfly Park)…

NY-based WORK AC won the Western Turkish cultural area of the New Silk Road international ideas competition, and THINK (Frederic Schwartz, FAIA, Michael Arad, AIA, Julie Bargmann, Jack Travis, FAIA), received honorable mention for the Hebraic area…

AIANY elected Anthony P. Schirripa, AIA, Chairman and CEO of Mancini Duffy, to the position of Vice President for Public Outreach for 2008… The NYC Chapter of the US Green Building Council elected Craig Norsted, AIA, LEED AP, of Perkins Eastman to be the Chapter representative for USGBC’s national Green Schools Campaign… V.J. Associates, Cost Consultants, appointed Stephen C. Smith as Director of Marketing & Business Development for the firm and all its branches…