by: Camila Schaulson Frenz
The AIA New York State 2014 Design Awards honored NYC-based WASA/Studio, IBI Group – Gruzen Samton, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, Grimshaw Architects, Ammann and Whitney, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, LLT Architects, WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, Caples Jefferson Architects, Steven Holl Architects, WORK Architecture Company (WORKac), Perkins Eastman, Ryan Porter Sheridan Architects, Davis Brody Bond, Gabellini Sheppard Associates, ABA Studio/Andrew Bartle Architects, Voorsanger Architects, Louise Braverman, Architect, Bernard Tschumi Architects, Handel Architects, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, SLCE Architects, Marvel Architects, William Reue Architect, Nicole Migeon Architect, Gans Studio Architecture, Rice+Lipka Architects, Bade Stageberg Cox, Thomas Balsley Associates, and FXFOWLE Architects…
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Design Commission President Signe Nielsen, RLA, FASLA, announced public works projects across the five boroughs honored at the 32nd Annual Awards for Excellence and Design, including: Conference House Park Pavilion by Sage and Coombe Architects and MKW & Associates; the New York Botanical Garden East Gate Entrance, Edible Academy, and Family Garden by Cooper, Robertson & Partners, Towers Golden Landscape Architects, Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, and Edward Stanley Engineers; Cornell Tech’s First Academic Building by Morphosis Architects and James Corner Field Operations; Four Directions from Hunters Point by Julianne Schwartz; Sunset Park Playground Reconstruction, an in-house design by the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation; Peace Clock by Lina Viste Grønli; Alley Pond Environmental Center by Leroy Street Studio and dlandstudio architecture + landscape architecture; Joseph A. Verdino Jr. Grandstand by Gray Organschi Architecture; LeFrak Center at Lakeside by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects; and Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park by Louis I. Kahn…
The 2014 Brick in Architecture Awards honored Millenium Place by Handel Architects (Residential – Multi-Family Best in Class); Chelsea Park by GF55 Partners (Residential – Multi-Family Silver); and 61 Fifth Avenue by Alta Indelman (Residential – Multi-Family Bronze)…Steven Holl, FAIA, was awarded the 2014 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award by the Japan Art Association, which brings with it a prize of $150,000…
The Architectural League of New York and Center for an Urban Future announced five teams selected to participate in the Re-envisioning Branch Libraries design study: Andrew Berman Architect with Library Development Solutions, Neil Donnelly, AEA Consulting, and Auerbach Pollock Friedlander; Marble Fairbanks with James Lima Planning + Development and Special Project Office; MASS Design Group with Sadie Nash Leadership Project, Flatiron School faculty member Phoebe Espirutu, and real estate developer Daniel Herandez; SITU Studio with Urban Librarians Unite, Jessica Blaustein, director of The New School’s Urban Media Labs, Rachel Meltzer, assistant professor of urban policy The New School, and GSAPP Center for Urban Real Estate research director Jesse Keenan; and UNION, comprised of Adriel Mesznik, senior architect and urban designer at WXY; Harvard GSD librarian Ann Whiteside; Annie Barrett of Annie Barrett Studio; Bryan Boyer, principal at Dash Marshall, Ceren Bingol, senior architect at OMA, architect and filmmaker Helen Han, Jane Lea, project architect at Architecture Research Office, and Landon Brown of VisionArc…
Rebecca Dorris Steiger, Senior Interior Designer and Associate at Gensler, is the new IIDA NY Chapter President …The Museum of Modern Art has appointed Martino Stierli as the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design…
Cleveland Adams, AIA, has been made Architectural Partner at WASA/Studio A.…Stephen McHale, RIBA, LEED AP, and Kevin Storm, AIA, AICP, LEED AP, have been promoted to Associate Partners at Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners…Mancini Duffy has hired Morgan Gorospe as Business Development Leader, Kristen Valente as Marketing Director, and Stephen Gertz, who will co-share leadership of the law firm practice with Dina Frank… Interior designer Ann Hoffman, NCIDQ, LEED AP, has been named Director of Interior Design Services, Corporate Interiors, at Francis Cauffman.