Celebrate Active Design: The Center for Active Design Excellence Awards Cocktail
Monday, May 19, 201411:55 PMEDT
| 173 Lafayette Street New York, NY
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Join the Center for Active Design at its first annual awards reception on May 19th to recognize innovative design that promotes health! Following AIA NY’s Fit City 9 conference, “CELEBRATE ACTIVE DESIGN”, unites interest from city agencies, architects, planners, real estate developers, policy makers, community groups, and health professionals with a shared vision of re-designing our built environment to reverse the alarming rates of chronic disease. THE CENTER FOR ACTIVE DESIGN: EXCELLENCE awards honors the accomplishments of firms and individuals whose work shows innovation in at least one of the Center’s four unique approaches to transforming the built environment: Active Recreation; Active Transportation; Active Buildings; and Healthy Food Access. With expertise in research and practice, the competition’s distinguished jury comprised: David Burney, FAIA, Chairman of the Center for Active Design and Professor at Pratt Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment; Signe Nielsen, ALA, FASLA, Principal Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects; and William Menking, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Architect’s Newspaper. The six winning projects were led by BKSK Architects, Design Workshop, GGLO, and VMDO Architects, with honorable mentions going to BIG and Gensler. Blue Sea Development Company was recognized with the Leadership in Active Design: Excellence award for early adoption and continued implementation of Active Design. Together, they reflect the growing national and international demand for Active Design. The winning projects will be on display at the reception. ACTIVE DESIGN is quickly gaining momentum as an effective solution to the rise in chronic diseases, recognized as today’s greatest health epidemics, and the Center is a leader of this new design and health movement. The Center for Active Design translates health research into practical design strategies unique to each community. As a nonprofit resource for design professionals, policy makers, community organizations and the real estate community, the Center maintains a multi-disciplinary approach to promoting and expanding the Active Design Guidelines published in 2010. By sharing health research, developing design strategies, impacting policies, and educating stakeholders, its work not only improves public health, it advances environmental sustainability and universal accessibility, and drives economic development and social equity. LIMITED TICKETS are available for $100 and are tax-deductible at http://celebrateactivedesign.eventbrite.com/?aff=Bustler SPONSORSHIP of the Center for Active Design offers a great opportunity to position your firm at the forefront of Active Design! Visit centerforactivedesign.org to learn more.
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