Out of nearly 10,000 submissions, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) won the 2008 People’s Voice Webby Award for the America’s Favorite Architecture (AFA) website…

Co-editors Donald Albrecht and Eeva Liisa Pelkonen accepted the Society of Architectural Historians Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award for Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future…

R.M.Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects‘ renovation and restoration of the historic U.S. Post Office and Courthouse on Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn, with associate architect/historic consultant Wank Adams Slavin Associates has won two awards: The New York Landmarks Conservancy Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award and the Preservation League of New York State Excellence in Historic Preservation Award… Other Preservation League Award Winners include: Eldridge Street Synagogue, project architect Walter Sedovic Architects and architects Wiss Janney Elstner Associates; Model Development Block in New Rochelle by Susan Doban Architect; and a special citation honoring Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks (Routledge 2007) by Anthony C. Wood…

NY-based Thomas Kosbau and Tyson Gillard were runners up in the 2008 Metropolis Next Generation Design Prize…

Ron McCoy, FAIA, has been selected as the new Princeton University architect; he succeeds Jon Hlafter, FAIA, who retired after 40 years at the post…