This year's winners include the founders of former RECORD Vanguard firms WORKac and de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop.  

An existing library in Queens was expanded through the New York City Department of Design and Construction’s Design Excellence Program.

An urban farm at Public School 7 in Harlem aims to transform the kids’ eating habits by integrating gardening and kitchen classes into the school day.

At a fund-raiser held recently at the Diane von Furstenberg Studio Headquarters in New York City, a guest, Hugh Hardy, FAIA, ebulliantly broke out into a Gershwin tune, “I’ll build a stairway to paradise, with a new step every day.”