Category: In The News

Steven Holl, FAIA, Steven Holl Architects, will be honored at the 2017 BOMB Magazine Gala… The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation will honor Gregory A. Kelly, PE, President and CEO, US and Latin America, WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff (Foundation Award); Raymond P. Daddazio, President, Thornton Tomasetti (Keystone Award); Marilyn Jordan Taylor, FAIA, Professor of Architecture & Urban Design and Former Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Design (Pillar Award); Dolores Hayden, Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and American Studios, Yale University (Oculus Award); Cathleen McGuigan, Editor-in-Chief, Architectural Record (Scroll Award); and Rosa Sheng, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Senior Associate, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Architects, and President, AIA San Francisco (Tribune Award). Continue reading “Names in the News”

The Grand Louvre – Phase I by I.M. Pei, FAIA, and his firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, has been selected for the 2017 AIA Twenty-Five Year Award, conferred on a building project that has stood the test of time by embodying architectural excellence for 25 to 35 years.

AIA and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture named Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA, of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, the winner of the 2017 AIA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architecture Education, the highest honor given to educators in architecture. Continue reading “Names in the News”

The Public Design Commission honored 10 projects with Awards for Excellence in Design: the 40th Police Precinct by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and Starr Whitehouse; Waterfront Nature Walk by George Trakas and Quennell Rothschild & Partners; Van Name Van Pelt Plaza/Richmond Terrace Wetlands and Parks Without Borders by the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation In-House Design Team; Luminescence by Nobuho Nagasawa, Thomas Balsley Associates, and WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism; Dock 72 by S9 Architecture and MPFP (M. Paul Friedberg & Partners); the High Line Park Passage and Spur by James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Piet Oudolf; Snug Harbor Cultural Center Music Hall Addition by Studio Joseph and SCAPE/Landscape Architecture; Soho Square by Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects; Anti-Idling Ambulance Pedestals by Ignacio Ciocchini and MOVE Systems; LinkNYC by CityBridge (Antenna Design, Intersection, Qualcomm, and CIVIQ Smartscapes); and the Community Parks Initiative, which includes work by dlandstudio architecture and landscape architecture, Hargreaves Associates, Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, MKW Landscape Architecture, Nancy Owens Studio, Prospect Park Alliance, Quennell Rothschild & Partners, and Sage and Coombe Architects. Continue reading “Names in the News”