Design Commission - Twelfth Annual Design Awards

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Twelfth Annual Awards for Excellence in Design, December 14, 1993

Installation of First Symphony of the Sea by Toshio Sasaki
New York Aquarium, Boardwalk and
West 8th Street, Brooklyn
A Project of the Department of General Services and the Department of Cultural Affairs'
Percent for Art Program
Toshio Sasaki, Artist
Installation of Ten Kilometer Radius by Fred Tomaselli
New York Hall of Science, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
A Project of the Department of General Services and the Department of Cultural Affairs'
Percent for Art Program
Fred Tomaselli, Artist
Installation of a Hippopotamus Fountain
Hippo Playground, Riverside Park at
West 91st Street, Manhattan
A Project of the Department of Parks & Recreation
Robert Cassilly, Artist
Conservation of The Development of Medicine (1938) by William Palmer
Queens Hospital Center, 82-68 164th Street, Queens
A Project of the Health and Hospitals Corporation
Alan M. Farancz Painting Conservation Studio
Construction of the Inwood Hill Urban Ecology Center
Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan
A Project of the Department of Parks & Recreation
Scott Mahaffey Architect
Renovation of Buildings "A" and "B," including the Construction of a Daycare Facility
Brooklyn Army Terminal, First Avenue and 58th Street, Brooklyn
A Project of the Economic Development Corporation
Architrope
Beyer Blinder Belle, Architects and Planners
Arthur L. Spaet & Associates
Restoration of the Public School 20 Annex
160 Heberton Avenue between New Street and Vreeland Street, Staten Island
A Project of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development
Diffendale & Kubec
Rehabilitation of the Morrisania Branch of the New York Public Library
610 East 169th Street, Bronx
A Project of the Department of General Services and the New York Public Library
DCI International
Renovation and Expansion of the Dance Theatre of Harlem School
466 West 152nd Street, Manhattan
A Project of the Department of General Services and the Department of Cultural Affairs
Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates
Reconstruction of Brizzi Playground
42nd Street, 43rd Street, Tenth Avenue and Utrecht Avenue, Brooklyn
A Project of the Department of Parks & Recreation
Samuel Karneal Thomas, Department of
Parks & Recreation
Rehabilitation of St. Nicholas Park, including Streetscape Improvements
West 135th Street from Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard to St. Nicholas Terrace, Manhattan
A Project of the Economic Development Corporation, the Department of Parks & Recreation and the Department of Transportation
Johansson and Walcavage Landscape Architects
Daniel Frankfurt

Special Recognition Awards

Phyllis S. Cohen, Municipal Art Society, for distinguished service on behalf of the Adopt-A-Monument and Adopt-A-Mural programs
Benjamin Thompson & Associates; Patsy Norvell and Frances Halsband, R. M. Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects; and James Garretson Architects & The Williams Group Architects for the advancement of newsstand designs