Design Commission - Twenty-Fifth Annual Design Awards

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Twenty-Fifth Annual Awards for Excellence in Design, July 17, 2007

First Deputy Mayor and former Art Commission Executive Director Patricia E. Harris and Art Commission President James P. Stuckey honored 10 public projects for excellence in design at the 25th Annual Art Commission Awards. The ceremony, held at the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History, also included a special recognition award for Mike Friedlander, the Department of Sanitation's Director of Special Projects. The winning projects were selected from hundreds of submissions that the Art Commission reviewed in 2006.

Award Recipients

Reconstruction of Father Duffy Square, including the Replacement of the TKTS Booth
46th Street to 47th Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue, Manhattan
A Project of the Department of Parks & Recreation, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Times Square Alliance with the Theatre Development Fund and the Coalition for Father Duffy
John Choi and Tai Ropiha, Choi Ropiha
Nicholas Leahy, Perkins Eastman
William Fellows, William Fellows Architects

Construction of the Glen Oaks Branch of the Queens Library
256-04 Union Turnpike, Queens
A Project of the Department of Design and Construction and the Queens Library
Scott Marble and Karen Fairbanks, Marble Fairbanks Architects

Construction of a Visitor Center
Poe Park, Grand Concourse between Kingsbridge Road and East 192nd Street, Bronx
A Project of the Department of Parks & Recreation
Toshiko Mori, Toshiko Mori Architect

Installation of Timecast by Nobuho Nagasawa and the Installation of Streetscape Improvements
Columbia Waterfront District, Van Brunt Street, DeGraw Street and Columbia Street, Brooklyn
A Project of the Department of Design and Construction, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Cultural Affairs' Percent for Art Program
Nobuho Nagasawa, Artist
Jennifer Cooper, Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects

Construction of Rescue Company 3
1655 Washington Avenue, Bronx
A Project of the Department of Design and Construction and the Fire Department
Todd H. Schliemann and Timothy P. Hartung, Polshek Partnership Architects

Construction of CaVaLa Park, including the Installation of a Sculptural Fountain by Elyn Zimmerman
Canal Street, Varick Street and Laight Street, Manhattan
A Project of the Department of Parks & Recreation, the Department of Transportation and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Gail Wittwer-Laird, Department of Parks & Recreation
Elyn Zimmerman, Artist

Construction of EMS Station 50
Queens Hospital Center, Goethals Avenue and Parsons Boulevard, Queens
A Project of the Department of Design and Construction and the Fire Department
Kathryn Dean and Charles Wolf, Dean/Wolf Architects

Construction of a Playground
Seaside Nature Park, Cleveland Avenue, Nelson Avenue, Tennyson Drive and the Shoreline, Staten Island
A Project of the Department of Parks & Recreation
Gustavo Frindt, Department of Parks & Recreation

Construction of the DHS Family Center
151 East 151st Street, Bronx
A Project of the Department of Design and Construction and the Department of Homeless Services
Todd H. Schliemann and Timothy P. Hartung, Polshek Partnership Architects

Designs for Prototypical Street Furniture for Installation Citywide
A Project of the Department of Transportation, the Department of Consumer Affairs and Cemusa
Duncan Jackson, GRIMSHAW Architects

Special Recognition Award

Mike Friedlander for the quality of design that he consistently brings to the Department of Sanitation's capital projects