Monday, January 21st, 2013
Board Member Toni Griffin and Fellow Denise Hoffman Brandt led a team of students from City College’s Landscape Architecture program on their winning entry in the Van Alen / National Parks Service competition Parks for the People. Their site is the 4-acre Nicodemus National Historic Site, in Nicodemus, Kansas, the only remaining western town established by African Americans during the Reconstruction Period following the Civil War. Celebrate the CCNY team’s success and see the project up close at the opening of “Finding Common Ground,” which will be up at the J. Bond Center on Design and the Just City at the City College School of Architecture, 141 Convent Avenue. The opening is from 6:30 – 8:30, and the show will be up through March 1.
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Friday, July 27th, 2012
The National Academy Museum and School (above) elected Patron Steven Holl and Gregg Pasquarelli as Academicians; ASLA elevated Henry White to its Council of Fellows; the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, founded by Beverly Willis and currently led by Wanda Bubriski, received an NEA Art Works grant to support their “Making A Place for Women in 20th-Century American Architecture” project.
Tags: ASLA, Beverly Willis, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Gregg Pasquarelli, Henry White, National Academy Museum and School, NEA, Steven Holl, wanda bubriski
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Friday, July 13th, 2012
Richard Dattner’s firm won an Innovative Architecture and Design Award for its tennis center at Princeton University (pictured at left); the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat awarded its lifetime achievement honor to Helmut Jahn; “The Passage: A Moving Memorial” by Mary Miss won a Design Excellence Award from the City of New York; Ted Shelton was honored with an AIA National Small Projects award for his restoration and creation of the Ghost Houses in Knoxville, TN; Peter Walker won the 2012 ASLA Design Medal; Walker’s firm was also shortlisted to design the grounds for one of the world’s largest research facilities, to be built in Sweden.
Tags: AIA, ASLA, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Dattner Architects, Helmut Jahn, Innovative Architecture and Design Awards, Knoxville, mary miss, New York, Peter Walker, Princton University, Richard Dattner, Sweden, Ted Shelton
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Monday, June 25th, 2012
As Pratt Institute looks back and celebrates its 125th anniversary, the Institute named Theo. David as one of its ‘Most Admired’ alumni; a Sasaki Associates team led by Dennis Pieprz won a 2012 AIA National Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design for its Dead Sea Development Zone Master Plan in Jordan (pictured above); Pieprz also co-led a team that won a Society for College and University Planning award for its master planning of Universidad del Istmo in Guatemala; Board Member Claire Weisz is in the running for an Urban Land Institute Urban Open Space Award for WXY Studio’s renovation of Pier 25 at the Tribeca section of Hudson River Park.
Tags: 2012 AIA National Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design, Claire Weisz, Dead Sea Development Zone Master Plan, Dennis Pieprz, Guatemala, Hudson River Park, Jordan, Most Admired, Pier 25, Pratt Institute, Sasaki Associates, Society for College and University Planning, Theo David, Tribeca, Universidad del Istmo, Urban Land Institute, Urban Open Space Award, WXY Studio
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Monday, June 11th, 2012
At the AIA National Convention, Susan Chin was elected to the national AIA Vice Presidency, Patron Steven Holl won the AIA Gold Medal, and the firms of Board Member Thom Mayne and Robert Rogers won Honor Awards; the New York chapter of ASLA announced their Design Awards, with Thomas Balsley’s firm taking home four awards, and the firms of Michael Manfredi, Barbara Wilks, and Henry White each receiving one; the Graham Foundation announced their 2012 Grants to Individuals, with Nina Rappaport and June Williamson both receiving awards to support their respective publications about photographer Ezra Stoller and designing suburban futures; Phil Enquist will be honored with Openlands’ 2012 Conservation Leadership Award at a luncheon in October; Matthew Berman’s workshop/apd won a Building Brooklyn award for their BLDG 92 at the Navy Yard (pictured at left); the Society for Marketing Professional Services awarded Board Member Claire Weisz’s studio with an Industry Award for their Battery SeaGlass Carousel.
Tags: AIA, AIA National Convention, ASLA NY, ASLA NY Design Awards, Barbara Wilks, Battery SeaGlass Carousel, BLDG at the Navy Yard, City College of New York, Claire Weisz, Ezra Stoller, Henry White, HM White, June Williamson, matthew berman, Michael Manfredi, Morphosis, Nina Rappaport, Openlands, Phil Enquist, Robert Rogers, Society for Marketing Professional Services, SOM, Steven Holl, Steven Holl Architects, Susan Chin, the Graham Foundation, Thom Mayne, Thomas Balsley, Thomas Balsley Associates, W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Weiss/Manfredi, WXY
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
The firms of Deborah Berke, John di Domenico, Lyn Rice and Ronnette Riley all received awards from the Society of American Registered Architects’ New York Council; the AIA Chicago will present this year’s lifetime achievement award to Helmut Jahn (pictured below in Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago).
Tags: AIA Chicago, Deborah Berke, Helmut Jahn, John di Domenico, Lyn Rice, Mansueto Library, Murphy Jahn, Rice + Lipka, Ronnette Riley, Society of American Registered Architects, University of Chicago
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
Society of Marketing Professional Services honored Richard Dattner’s firm and Andrew Whalley’s Grimshaw Architects for their green, affordable Via Verde; Craig Dykers’ Snøhetta won an Honor Award from the Toledo chapter of the AIA for the Wolfe Center for the Arts at Bowling Green State University (pictured at left); tomorrow (5/3), Beverly Willis will be named a Leader for the 21st Century at the Women’s eNews gala in New York.
Tags: AIA, Andrew Whalley, Beverly Willis, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Bowling Green State University, Craig Dykers, Dattner Architects, Grimshaw Architects, Honor Award, Leader for the 21st Century, Richard Dattner, Snohetta, Society of Marketing Professional Services, Toledo, Via Verde, Wolfe Center for the Arts, Women's eNews
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
This week, the Open Space Alliance of Northern Brooklyn’s OSA Presents announces winning proposals for the construction of a temporary concert venue and recreation area, decided by a jury that includes Winka Dubbeldam; Enrique Norten headed a panel that determined the winners of the Global Holcim Awards last week (Gold award winner pictured at left – secondary school in Burkina Faso); Michael Sorkin will be one of the judges for the new Design Writing and Commentary category of the Core77 Design Awards.
Tags: Burkina Faso, Core77, Core77 Design Awards, Design Writing and Commentary, Enrique Norten, Global Holcim Awards, Michael Sorkin, Open Space Alliance of Northern Brooklyn, OSA Presents, Winka Dubbeldam
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
As the Congress for the New Urbanism announced its Charter Awards, David Dixon’s firm, Goody Clancy received an honorable mention for a project in Dublin, Ohio; William Fain won the Distinguished Alumni Award from UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design; Kenneth Fisher was appointed to the Grand Central Terminal Centennial Committee; the Second Annual Zocalo Book Prize went to Richard Sennett’s new Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (pictured at left); Women’s eNews has named Beverly Willis one of their ’21 Leaders for the 21st Century’ and will honor her at a gala in May.
Tags: 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, Beverly Willis, Charter Awards, College of Environmental Design, Congress for New Urbanism, David Dixon, Distinguished Alumni Award, dublin, Goody Clancy, Grand Central, Grand Central Terminal Centennial Committee, Kenneth Fisher, Ohio, Richard Sennett, Together: The Rituals Pleasures and Politics of Collaboration, UC Berkeley, William Fain, Women's eNews, Zocalo Book Prize
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Monday, March 19th, 2012
The AIA New York Design Awards 2012 were announced last week, and we’re pleased to report that five of our fellows are among the winners: Michael Arad and Peter Walker received the Architecture Honor Award for the National September 11 Memorial; Andrew Bernheimer was awarded an Un-Built Work Merit prize; Mary Miss won an Urban Design Honor Award for work in Santa Fe; and Bill Ryall’s firm received an Interior Merit Award for a Greenwich Village townhouse redesign. In other awards news, the firms of Patron Steven Holl and Craig Dykers both won ArchDaily’s Building of the Year Awards 2011 for their respective Museum of Ocean and Surf, and Tverrfjellhytta projects (pictured at left); and David Grahame Shane’s recent book, Urban Design Since 1945: A Global Perspective, was shortlisted for a Publishers Award by the UK-based Urban Design Group.
Tags: AIA New York Design Awards 2012, AIA NY, Andrew Bernheimer, ArchDaily, Bill Ryall, Building of the Year Awards 2011, Craig Dykers, David Graham Shane, Greenwich Village, mary miss, michael arad, Museum of Ocean and Surt, National September 11 Memorial, New Mexico, Peter Walker, Santa Fe, Snohetta, Steven Holl, Tverrfjellhytta, Urban Design Group, Urban Design Since 1945
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Board Members-as-Jurors
Thursday, April 12th, 2012Tags: Burkina Faso, Core77, Core77 Design Awards, Design Writing and Commentary, Enrique Norten, Global Holcim Awards, Michael Sorkin, Open Space Alliance of Northern Brooklyn, OSA Presents, Winka Dubbeldam
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