Swanke Hayden Connell Wins Three Awards

The Society of American Registered Architects has named Swanke Hayden Connell Architects the recipient of three awards as part of its 2003 Professional Design Awards program.

The firm was recognized at the recent SARA annual convention in New York, N.Y. with the National Firm Award as well as two additional awards for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Randall's Island Fire Training Academy projects.

Anatomy Lab Renovation Completed

The SoHo architectural firm of Stonehill & Taylor has completed work on a high-tech gross anatomy laboratory for the Weill Medical College at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.

The $1.35 million project involved renovating 5,000 sq. ft. of lab and classroom space at the medical school's campus at 1300 York Ave. and outfitting it with the latest in audio-visual equipment.

N.J. Project Designed by Schoor DePalma

Schoor DePalma has been contracted by Waters & Bugbee, Inc., a utility construction contractor, for the design of site layout plans of an equipment yard and 15,000-sq.-ft. building in Hamilton, N.J.

The firm's site design work will provide Waters & Bugbee with the dimensional layout of proposed and existing site facilities including building locations, roadways, parking areas, driveway design, landscaping features, access design, street signage and pavement markings.

PB to Consult Airport Projects

Parsons Brinckerhoff was hired by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey to provide professional consulting services for projects at John F. Kennedy International, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty International airports.

Among services will be providing conceptual designs, feasibility studies, pre-design and post-design professional work, scheduling and cost estimating, reviewing plans, specifications and technical reports and master planning.