2008 MASterwork Awards Honor Six
May 22, 2008 |
The environmentally innovative New York Times Building and the brilliant design of the IAC Building took MASterwork Awards for Best New Building at last week's award ceremony. The restoration of the magnificent Eldridge Street Synagogue into the Museum at Eldridge Street and the skillful conversion of two late 19th century buildings in the Meatpacking District into Diane Von Furstenburg (DVF) Studio Headquarters took honors for the Best Historic Restoration. The Floating Pool and the New Museum of Contemporary Art received awards for Best Neighborhood Catalyst. Click here to view images of the event and the winning buildings.
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MAS Announces Winners of 2008 Awards
July 10, 2008 |
MAS announced the winners of its Annual Awards honoring individuals and groups that help define what makes New York City great at the MAS annual meeting on Wednesday, July 9. Held at TheTimesCenter, the 2008 MAS Annual Award-winners are: the City’s 311 Customer Service Center; José the Beaver, the first seen in New York since colonial days and a clear symbol of New York city's improving urban environment; the Long Island City Cultural Alliance; American Ballroom Theater’s Dancing Classrooms; and Solar One Environmental Center.
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2008 Yolanda Garcia Community Planner Award Winner is Announced
July 02, 2008 |
Jeanne DuPont, Executive Director of the Rockaway Waterfront Alliance (RWA) is the 2008 Yolanda Garcia Community Planning Award recipient. This award, which recognizes the often-unsung leaders of grassroots community-based planning, was awarded to Jeanne for her work promoting public waterfront access in the Rockaways.
2008 Yolanda Garcia Community Planner Award Call for Nominations
May 05, 2008
The MAS is now accepting nominations for the 2008 Yolanda Garcia Community Planner (YGCP) Award. This $2,500 award was created to commemorate the work of Ms. Yolanda Garcia, a community activist in the South Bronx. Each year the MAS presents the YGCP award to a community planner who has demonstrated his or her ability to overcome the many obstacles to grassroots, community-based planning and has succeeded in bringing neighborhood need and vision into New York City’s planning process.
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2008 Brendan Gill Prize: Call for Nominations
February 01, 2008
We invite MAS members to submit nominations for the 2008 Brendan Gill Prize. The prize is awarded annually to the creator of a specific work -- a book, essay, musical composition, play, painting, sculpture, architectural design, film or choreographic work -- completed in the previous year that best captures the spirit and energy of New York City.
Endowed to permit a cash award, the 2008 prize will honor a single work completed in 2007. The award is not intended to honor an individual's lifetime achievements.
Deadline for entries is Friday, April 18. To submit your nomination, you can either download the nomination form and mail it to the address below, or e-mail it to pcohen@mas.org.
Brendan Gill Prize c/o Phyllis Samitz Cohen The Municipal Art Society of New York 457 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022
Call 212-935-3960 for more information.
The Municipal Art Society's Annual Awards 2008: Call for Nominations
January 03, 2008
From its inception in 1893, the MAS has actively encouraged citizen participation in shaping the growth of the city. Every year, we ask our members to nominate candidates to receive awards, which are given to those groups, individuals, structures, and events we believe have most contributed to making New York a more livable city. To see a list of last year’s winners, click here.
An awards committee, made up of MAS board members and others will consider these nominations and make a final selection. The awards will be presented at this year’s annual meeting.
If you would like to nominate a candidate, click here to download the nomination form and e-mail it to gsherman@mas.org, or send it by mail to:
The Municipal Art Society
Annual Awards Committee
457 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Nominations are due by February 29, 2008.
MAS Honors Wade Thompson and Elihu Rose at Annual Benefit
December 14, 2007 |
On December 10, 2007, the Municipal Art Society awarded its highest honor - the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal - to Wade F.B. Thompson and Elihu Rose in recognition of their outstanding efforts in saving and restoring the historic Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue.
Today, the organization they formed in 1993, the Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy, is restoring and revitalizing the armory to allow full public access to one of the most important collections of 19th century interiors in the city.
To watch a slideshow of the event, click here.
Brendan Gill Prize Celebrates Diversity
December 11, 2007
The 2007 Brendan Gill Prize was awarded on Monday evening, December 3, to actor, playwright and poet Sarah Jones, for her Tony-award winning one-woman show "Bridge & Tunnel." The newly built Diker Pavilion in the National Museum of the American Indian, a transformed landmark -- formerly the U.S. Custom House built by the legendary Beaux-Arts architect Cass Gilbert -- on Bowling Green, was the stage for the presentation.
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Municipal Art Society Annual Dinner and Presentation of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal
September 04, 2007
Monday, December 10, 7:00 p.m., at the 7th Regiment Armory MAP Black Tie
This year, the Municipal Art Society of New York will hold it's annual dinner at the 7th Regiment Armory and present Elihu Rose and Wade F. B. Thompson with the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis medal in recognition of their outstanding leadership of the campaign to restore the armory. The campaign began 12 years ago as a special project of the MAS, and the 7th Regiment Armory Conservancy was formed shortly afterward. Now, due to their tireless dedication, the restoration program is underway, after the conservancy secured the lease for the landmark building in late 2006.
The dinner chairs will be Janet and Arthur Ross. Co-chairs will be Candice Bergen and Marshall Rose, Coco and Arie Kopelman, and Deborah and Kim Fennebresque.
Benefit tickets are $5,000, $2,500 and $1,200. Tables of ten: $50,000, $25,000 and $12,000. For more information, call Bradley Events on 914-834-2868 or fax 914-833-9179.
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Continue reading...MAS Celebrates 114th Anniversary; Annual Report Released
June 26, 2007
With award presentations, project updates and friendly libations, the Municipal Art Society observed its 114th birthday on Tuesday evening, June 26. More than 500 members and friends attended the annual meeting, held this year on the 52nd floor of 7 World Trade Center.
The Greenmarkets program, Take the Field partnership, Strand Book Store and Carlton Brown, CEO of Full Spectrum Development, were recognized with awards for helping to define the character of New York City. The annual report is now available online.
Among MASterwork Winners, Adaptive Reuse is Common Theme
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The bold, new Hearst Tower and the GM Building’s superbly redesigned Fifth Avenue Plaza, both in Midtown, have won 2007 MASterwork Awards. The skillful restoration of the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan and Red Hook’s new Fairway Market also took top honors. The awards were presented on May 9 at the GM Building’s plaza. Continue reading...
MAS Annual Awards
The MAS annual meeting in June provides the setting for recognizing individuals, groups and events that have made New York a more livable city. MAS members submit nominations for review by an awards committee. The committee's selections are approved by the MAS Board of Directors, and the winners are presented with a Certificate of Merit.
Past Award Recipients
2007
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The Strand Bookstore
Carlton Brown of Full Spectrum Development
Take the Field
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal Honors Janet and Arthur Ross
October 27, 2006
In honor of their outstanding contributions to New York City's natural and built environment, the board of directors of the MAS has presented the 2006 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal to philanthropists and civic leaders Janet and Arthur Ross. The award ceremony took place at the MAS Annual Dinner on Tuesday, October 24 in the magnificent Art Deco lobby of Eleven Madison Avenue. Continue reading...
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Honored
October 27, 2006
The 2006 Brendan Gill Prize has honored Christo and Jeanne-Claude for The Gates &mdash the first grand scale public art project of the 21st century, a one-time exhibition that inspired New Yorkers and the rest of the world to exultation and goodwill. For sixteen shining days, February 12-28, 2005, the billowing saffron of The Gates metamorphosed Central Park into a museum without walls.
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The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal
Designed by Daniel Chester French, the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal is presented to an individual who, by his or her work and deeds, has made an outstanding contribution to New York City. The medal bears Mrs. Onassis' name in recognition of her tireless efforts to preserve and protect New York's great architecture. It is the MAS's highest honor. Continue reading...2006 Blashfield Award Presented
Majora Carter, the founder of Sustainable South Bronx and a 2005 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, has been awarded the 2006 Evangeline Blashfield Award. The award was presented on August 1 at the Evangeline Blashfield Fountain in the Bridgemarket Plaza at 59th Street and First Avenue.
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Yoshio Taniguchi Accepts 2005 Brendan Gill Prize
In recognition of his masterful redesign of the Museum of Modern Art, architect Yoshio Taniguchi was awarded the 2005 Brendan Gill Prize at a luncheon at the Urban Center on November 17. Presenting Mr. Taniguchi with the award, MoMA President Emerita Agnes Gund described his work as having made "MoMA part of New York and [woven] New York into the fabric of MoMA."
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