Design Commission - Twenty-Fourth Annual Design Awards

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Twenty-Fourth Annual Awards for Excellence in Design, July 18, 2006

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Art Commission President Joyce Menschel honored eight public projects for excellence in design at the 24th Annual Art Commission Awards. The ceremony, held at The Morgan Library & Museum, also included a special recognition award for the Horticultural Society of New York's GreenBranches Program. The winning projects were selected from hundreds of submissions that the Art Commission reviewed in 2005 and exemplify the highest design standards.

Award Recipients

Construction of the Weeksville Heritage Center and Adjacent Landscape, including the Installation of Sugar in My Bowl II by Chakaia Booker
Buffalo Avenue between Bergen Street and Saint Mark's Avenue, Brooklyn
A Project of the Department of Design and Construction, the Department of Cultural Affairs, the Percent for Art Program and the Weeksville Heritage Center
Sara Caples and Everardo Agosto Jefferson, Caples Jefferson Architects
Elizabeth Kennedy, Elizabeth Kennedy Landscape Architects
Chakaia Booker, Artist

Construction of Ronald McNair Park
Lexington Avenue, Third Avenue, East 122nd Street and East 123rd Street, Manhattan
A Project of the Department of Parks & Recreation
Nancy Prince, Department of Parks & Recreation

Installation of the Flight 587 Memorial by Freddy Rodríguez and Adjacent Landscape
Beach 116th Street and the Boardwalk, Queens
A Project of the Department of Parks & Recreation, the Department of Cultural Affairs' Percent for Art Program, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Design and Construction
Freddy Rodríguez, Artist
Rachel Kramer and Kevin Quinn,
Department of Parks & Recreation
Kaitsen Woo and Bharaat Patel, Kaitsen Woo Architect
Tricia Martin, Signe Nielsen Landscape Architect
Martin Hartmann, STV Incorporated
Situ Studio, Preliminary and Schematic Design Consultant to the Artist

Construction of a Step Street
Tillotson Avenue between Wickham Avenue and 222nd Street, Bronx
A Project of the Department of Design and Construction and the Department of Transportation
Molly Bourne, Mathews Nielsen
Landscape Architects

Construction of Five Street End Parks
West 202nd Street, 203rd Street, 204th Street, 205th Street and 206th Street, between Ninth Avenue and the Harlem River, Manhattan
A Project of the Department of Parks & Recreation and the Department of Transportation
Claire Dudley and Natasha Andjelic,
Department of Parks & Recreation

Construction of the Center for Global Conservation
Bronx Zoo, 2320 Southern Boulevard, Bronx
A Project of the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Wildlife Conservation Society
Sylvia J. Smith, FXFOWLE Architects
Susan A. Chin, Wildlife Conservation Society

Construction of Plant Upgrades and New Facilities
Tallman Island Water Pollution Control Plant, 127th Street and Powell's Cove Boulevard, Queens
A Project of the Department of Environmental Protection
George Shelden and Peter Campanella, Earth Tech
Vatche Minassian, Blasland, Bouck and Lee

Historic Inventory and Replacement of Seven Robert Moses-Era Vehicular Bridges and Adjacent Landscape
Shore (Belt) Parkway, Brooklyn
A Project of the Department of Transportation with the Department of Parks & Recreation and the Landmarks Preservation Commission
Marion Pressley, Pressley Associates
Paul McGinley, McGinley Kalsow & Associates
Semyon Burshteyn, URS

Special Recognition Award

The GreenBranches Program
Design, installation and maintenance of beautiful gardens used for children and adult programs and workshops at branch libraries throughout the five boroughs
A Project of the Horticultural Society of New York with the Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library and Queens Library