PEOPLE AND PLACES

Cannon Design in Chicago, Illinois — gkkwords and Syska Hennessy Group Construction in Irvine, California — Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Allentown, Pennsylvania — SB Architects in Mill Valley, California — Meltzer/Mandl Architects in The Bronx, New York — Mark Cavagnero Associates in Oakland, California — Fletcher Priest Architects in Riga, Latvia — Brach Design Architecture in Millcreek Township, Utah — Lord, Aeck & Sargent in Decatur, Georgia...

AIA TOP GREEN BUILDINGS 2010

A boxy new house stands on stilts in the Katrina-ravaged Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Its form may be distinctly contemporary, but the home has ties to its place: filigree railings recall the ornamental ironwork of the French Quarter, and a linear plan evokes some sense of the regional shotgun house vernacular.

2010 BREEAM AWARDS

When leaders in Milton Keynes, England, sought a new recreation center in the Central Bletchley district, they had many goals: an iconic presence on the outside, countless fitness and sports facilities on the inside, and a building that could catalyze an overall regeneration of the town. But the overriding goal — one that tied together all these disparate parts — was to make the new Bletchley Leisure Center a state-of-the-art sustainable building.

PRITZKER PRIZE GOES TO SANAA

The Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2010 goes to Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners in the Tokyo-based firm SANAA. The jury lauded the pair's work as "delicate and powerful, precise and fluid, ingenious but not overly or overtly clever... creating a sense of fullness and experiential richness." SANAA has several significant built works in Japan, with noteworthy projects in Europe and the United States as well.

NEW YORK AIA AWARDS 2010

Thirty feet above street level, a narrow new park winds through a former industrial area on the West Side of Manhattan, near the Hudson River. This unexpected urban oasis is the High Line, a series of grasses and shrubs, walkways and benches, created atop a defunct elevated freight railway.

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