Design Commission - Twenty-Second Annual Design Awards

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Twenty-Second Annual Awards for Excellence in Design, July 12, 2004

In 2004, in addition to honoring the 22nd Annual Awards for Excellence in Design winners, the Mayor and the Art Commission announced the Design and Construction Excellence Initiative, created to encourage City agencies to strive for the same level of excellence in design for all public works—large and small—that is recognized annually by the Art Commission's awards.

Award Recipients

Construction of the Queens Community District 14 Garage and Salt Shed
Almeda Avenue and Beach 51st Street, Queens
A Project of the Department of Sanitation
Mike Friedlander & Staff, Department of Sanitation
Judd Designs/DaSilva Black Calcagni Chesser, Architects

Redesign of the Gardens of Remembrance
Upper Promenade, Battery Park, Manhattan
A Project of the Battery Conservancy and the Department of Parks & Recreation
Piet Oudolf, Garden Designer

Installation of an Entrance Canopy, Light Sculpture and a Distinctive Sidewalk at the Skyscraper Museum
39 Battery Place, Manhattan
A Project of the Skyscraper Museum and the Department of Transportation
James Turrell, Artist
Roger Duffy, SOM

Reconstruction of the Northern Portion of the Columbus Park Landscape
South of Bayard Street between Baxter Street and Mulberry Street, Manhattan
A Project of the Department of Parks & Recreation
Hui Mei Grove, Department of Parks & Recreation

Construction of Shaft 21 over Water Tunnel No. 1
285 South Street at Clinton Street, Manhattan
A Project of the Department of Environmental Protection
Robert D. Cuevas & Staff, Department of Environmental Protection

Design of the West 8th Street/New York Aquarium Station South Façade
Surf Avenue and West 8th Street, Brooklyn
A Project of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for Transit/New York City Transit
Vito Acconci, Acconci Studio
James McConnell, Daniel Frankfurt

Reconstruction of the Ground Floor and Plaza of El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street, Manhattan
A Project of the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department of Design and Construction
Jordan L. Gruzen, Gruzen Samton

Special Recognition Award

Construction of the Front Entrance and Plaza of the Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
A Project of the Department of Cultural Affairs, the Department of Design and Construction and the Brooklyn Museum
James S. Polshek and Duncan R. Hazard, Polshek Partnership Architects