Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK), Inc. has earned the "Designing a Sustainable and Secure World" award from Global Green USA, the U.S. affiliate of Green Cross International, Mikhail Gorbachev's worldwide environmental organization. The former Russian president joined Global Green USA in honoring HOK at the third annual New York Gala. The firm's NIDUS Center for Scientific Enterprise in St. Louis recently was selected as one of the top 10 green projects of 2001 by the AIA's Committee on the Environment.

Dominick Tringali Associates Architects and Planners, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., was named one of Metropolitan Detroit's "101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For." The award was presented by the Detroit Regional Chamber, Linwick and Associates, LLC, and Wayne State University's School of Business Administration. The program selects companies according to employee attraction, retention, and satisfaction.

American School & University honored Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, Architecture & Engineering, P.C., for its design of renovations and additions to Cohoes Middle School, Cohoes, N.Y.

AIA South Carolina recently elected the following members to its Board of Directors: Suzanne R. Childs, AIA; Yuji Kishimoto, AIA; D. Wayne Rogers, AIA; R. Christian Schmitt, FAIA; and Edward T. Ziegler Jr., AIA.

For 35 years of leadership and service to the organization and the planning profession, Lee J. Brockway, AIA, principal emeritus of Fanning/Howey Associates, Inc., Michigan City, Ind., received the first Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Midwest/Great Lakes Regional Chapter of the Council of Educational Facility Planners, International. Brockway has planned and designed more than 200 schools, many of which have earned national awards. He is past president of the Indiana Society of Architects, a member of the national AIA Research Council, and past chair of the national AIA Committee on Architecture for Education.

R. Randall Vosbeck, FAIA, received the 2001 Alumni Achievement Award from the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota.

JPI Design, an Ontario, Calif.-based company specializing in entertainment architecture and theme design, was selected to design a new Adventure World in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It is being touted as the most advanced theme park in the Middle East. The park will feature a "highly themed" experience punctuated by and tied together through an entranceway designed as a mirage, JPI's press release stated.

Alabang Town Center, Alabang, Philippines, designed by Architecure International, Ltd., was an International Council of Shopping Centers Merit Award Winner at this year's convention and 25th International Design and Development Awards.

Jacobs/Wyper, Architects, celebrated the 20th anniversary of its firm at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania, which was one of the first major institutional projects by founders Jamie Wypers, AIA, and Terry Jacobs, AIA. The program chronicled Jacobs/Wyper's history, from its work on solar buildings through its expansion to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, high-tech headquarters, and projects for colleges and universities.

Moody/Nolan Ltd., Inc. and Fanning/Howey Associates, Inc., recently completed a two-day interactive architectural design session for an elementary school in the Columbus Public Schools system. During the charrette, students, parents, teachers, and administrators had the opportunity to offer ideas and concerns about the design of the new $7.5 million facility. Public planning sessions are not unusual in the preliminary phases of school design.

The CPS charrette is unique because the architects generated design schemes during the forums, allowing the community to view the schemes and offer suggestions and modifications on the spot. Three computerized designs included detailed floor plans and 3-D models illustrating the shapes of the buildings.

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