FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press contact: Camila Schaulsohn 212-358-6114 cschaulsohn@aiany.org The Brooklyn Greenway, 2018 Best in Competition Award recipient Photo by Max Touhey ANNOUNCING THE 2018 AIANY + ASLA-NY TRANSPORTATION + INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARDS The Brooklyn Greenway recognized with Best in Competition Award. NEW YORK CITY, October 9, 2018 On Monday, October 8, 2018, AIA New York and ASLA- NY announced the recipients of the 2018 the AIANY + ASLA-NY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards at the Center for Architecture. The 12 selected projects represent exceptional transportation and infrastructure work designed by AIA and ASLA members in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. Each project was evaluated based on their commitment to sustainability, community engagement, and civic architecture. Winning entries were awarded in five categories: Open Space, Planning, Projects, Structures, and Student Work. Of the 65 completed submissions, jurors selected the The Brooklyn Greenway (design team: edesign Dynamics; Horticultural Society of New York; Larry Weaner Landscape Associates; Marvel Architects; Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects; WE Design Landscape Architecture) as the Best in Competition. 7 of the 12 winning projects are located in New York City.
2018 JURORS Donald Fram, FAIA, Principal Consultant, Donald Fram Architecture & Planning Doug Hocking, AIA, Principal, KPF Marilyn Jordan Taylor, FAIA, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, University of Pennsylvania David van der Leer, Executive Director, Van Alen Institute Donna Walcavage, FASLA, LEED AP, Principal, Stantec AWARD RECIPIENTS BEST IN COMPETITION The Brooklyn Greenway Brooklyn, NY Design: Marvel Architects; Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects; WE Design Landscape Architecture; edesign Dynamics; Horticultural Society of New York; Larry Weaner Landscape Associates Client: Brooklyn Greenaway Initiative With: Brooklyn Greenway Initiative; Dewberry; NYC Department of Design and Construction; NYC Department of Transportation; Regional Plan Association OPEN SPACE HONOR Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park Queens, NY Park Designers: SWA/Balsley and Weiss/Manfredi Prime Consultant and Infrastructure Designer: Arup Client: New York City Economic Development Corporation With: Arup MERIT Roberto Clemente State Park Esplanade Bronx, NY Landscape Architect: NV5 with Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects Client: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation With: AKRF; CH2M Hill CITATION Spring Garden Street Connector
Philadelphia, PA Landscape Architect: NV5 Client: Delaware River Waterfront Corporation With: Cloud Gehshan; The Lighting Practice PLANNING MERITS The QueensWay Queens, NY Architect: DLANDstudio Architecture and Landscape Architecture and WXY Architecture + Urban Design Client: The Trust for Public Land Nexus/EWR Newark, NJ Architect: Gensler Client: Regional Plan Association With: Ahasic Aviation Advisors; Arup; Landrum & Brown PROJECTS MERIT The Triboro Corridor The Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, NY Architect: One Architecture & Urbanism (ONE) and Only If Client: Regional Plan Association STRUCTURES HONOR Fulton Center New York, NY Design Architect: Grimshaw Architect of Record: Page Ayres Cowley Architects Client: NYC Metropolitan Transit Authority With: Arup; HDR Daniel Frankfurt, James Carpenter Design Associates MERITS Number 7 Subway Line Extension & 34th Street-Hudson Yards Station New York, NY Architect: Dattner Architects Engineer of Record: WSP
Client: MTA Capital Construction With: HLH7 a joint venture of Hill International, HDR and LiRo; Ostergaard Acoustical Associates; STV Mississauga Transitway Ontario, Canada Architect: IBI Group Client: City of Mississauga, Transportation & Works Department With: DesignABLE Environments; Dufferin Construction; Entro Communications; HH Angus; WSP Denver Union Station Denver, CO Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) Landscape Architect: Hargreaves Associates Client: Denver Union Station Project Authority (DUSPA) With: AECOM; Clanton & Associates; Kiewit Western; Tamara Kudrycki Design; Union Station Neighborhood Company STUDENT Turnpike Metabolism: Reconstituting National Infrastructure Through Landscape Student: Ernest Haines Academic Institution: MLA 2018, Harvard Graduate School of Design About AIA New York AIA New York is the oldest and largest chapter of the American Institute of Architects with more than 5,500 architect, allied professional, student, and public members. AIANY is dedicated to three goals: design excellence, public outreach and professional development. www.aiany.org About ASLA-NY ASLA-NY is the New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the national professional association representing landscape architects. ASLA-NY was founded in 1914 (the second chapter of the national organization) to advocate for and serve members studying and practicing landscape architecture in the New York Metropolitan-Long Island region. The territory of the Chapter encompasses the five boroughs of New York City, Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, and Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland counties. The Chapter is comprised of over 500 members who engage in public, private and academic practices that participate in the careful stewardship, wise
planning and artful design of our cultural and natural environments. New York State has two chapters; New York Upstate represents the communities north of Westchester.