Monday, June 6th, 2011
Civic watchdog Tom Angotti reviews the latest changes to the Bloomberg administration’s PlaNYC 2030 in the Gotham Gazette; Greg Baldwin sat on the jury for the Urban Land Institute’s 2011 Amanda Burden Urban Open Space Award; DesignShuffle visited a “whimsical” Nantucket home designed by Matt Berman; you can watch Ken Fisher interview Junior Achievement of New York director Joseph Peri on the latest episode of CUNY-TV’s Citywide; Anthony Flint argued for a re-write of Massachusetts’ state zoning law on Boston.com; the initial reviews of Ken Greenberg’s book Walking Home could generally be described as “glowing,” with the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and Treehugger all sounding off; the Tribune’s Blair Kamin reviews Helmut Jahn’s just-opened Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago (pictured at left); NYC’s Village Alliance, led by Fellow William Kelley, is undertaking a detailed survey of local residents and merchants to revive West 8th Street; Daniel Libeskind just finished an addition to his first completed project, the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Austria; and Michael Stepner spoke to the Voice of San Diego about the streamlining of that city’s charter.
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Friday, February 18th, 2011
Engineering firm WSP Flack + Kurtz, led by Fellow David Cooper, was recently received the Best Overall Sustainable Design Award for 2010 Best Practices. Cooper’s firm is being recognized (along with project partners Ratcliff Architects) by the Energy Efficiency Partnership Program for Higher Education Buildings for the design for the California-based De Anza College Mediated Learning Center (pictured at left). Congratulations from the IfUD community to David and everyone at WSP Flack + Kurtz!
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
At the New York Women’s Agenda’s recent 2010 Star Breakfast, Fellow Patricia Lancaster, president and CEO of the Lancaster Group and the first woman to ever serve as the commissioner of New York City’s Department of Buildings, was presented with an award honoring her leadership. Congratulations, Patricia!
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
Fellow Herbert Newman’s firm Newman Architects was recently presented with two 2010 Design Awards by the AIA Connecticut. In the Built Design Category, Newman was honored for the renovation and expansion of the North Branford Intermediate School, and the comprehensive renovation of John Edwards College on the Yale Unviersity campus (pictured at left) was honored in the Preservation Category. Contratulations to Herbert and everyone at Newman Architects who worked on these projects!
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
Congratulations to Institute fellow Steven Handel who was awarded the National Honor Award for Research for a series of studies exploring ecological restoration processes to enhance urban landscape design from the American Society for Landscape Architects and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.
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