April 3, 2025
Welcome to Faces of Our City!
The Faces of Our City is the inaugural Facades Awards event that honors and celebrates the architects and others who shape our cities through their work. These awards recognize the ambition, innovation, craftsmanship, and dedication that bring New York’s skyline to life. Faces of Our City aims to inspire future projects and professionals that will continue to define the city’s architectural landscape.
Facades establish the public faces of our city. When we design, develop, and deliver buildings, we are redesigning the streetscape—one piece at a time. Building envelopes serve a dual purpose: providing comfort and wellness for occupants while also creating a visual and hopefully visceral experience for all passersby. Facades embody the architectural language that emerges from the overlapping aspirations and desires of all of their creators.
The Faces of Our City awards provide recognition to the wide range of dedicated individuals—owners, architects, engineers, builders, fabricators, suppliers, manufacturers, and others—who represent and activate our industry and, through their dedication, enable these buildings and our city to stand the test of time.
All the best,
Diana Darling CEO & Creative Director, AN Media Group
Program
5:00–6:30 PM
COCKTAILS
6:30–7:15 PM
AWARDS & REMARKS
Project of the Year Nominees
The Refinery at Domino El Borinquen Residence
Gilder Center at AMNH
Columbia Business SchoolThe Henry R. Kravis Hall and David Geffen Hall Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC)
Emerging Professional
Kateri Knapp, Arup
Lifetime Achievement Award
Robert Heintges, Heintges
Product Innovator of the Year
CIRCAL Recycled Aluminum by Hydro
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7:15–8:00 PM
COCKTAILS & HORS D’OEUVRES
Advisory Board
KATHERINE CHAN
Walter P Moore / Senior Associate
Katherine Chan, MSFE is a facade engineer and educator. As Project Manager at Walter P Moore, she leads design through integration of detail development and technical performance. A founding member of the WPM DEI Council, Kat engages in community impact work, including WPM’s participation in the design collaborative Design Advocates. Kat has a degree in structural engineering from Columbia University, and she teaches as part of Adjunct Faculty at Columbia’s GSAPP.
DIANA DARLING
The Architect’s Newspaper / CEO & Creative Director
Diana Darling is CEO and creative director, and co-founder of The Architect’s Newspaper, which she co-founded with her late husband, Bill Menking, in 2003 Under her leadership, the company has grown into AN Media, with an array of award-winning print and digital publications covering architecture and design news, including AN Interior magazine, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this spring. Diana also founded the Facades+ and TECH+ conferences, and the CE Strong continuing education platform.
CHRISTINE DUNN
Columbia University / Senior Project Manager
Christine Dunn is a Senior Project Manager for Design Management with Columbia University’s Manhattanville Development Group, where she manages major ground-up academic research building projects on the Manhattanville Campus in New York City. She has over 20 years of experience leading clients and design teams on transformative projects for civic, cultural, commercial, and institutional clients, including roles as Design Director in Studio Gang’s NYC office and Design Principal at Sasaki in Boston.
ARTHI KRISHNAMOORTHY
TenBerke / Senior Principal
Arthi Krishnamoorthy, AIA, LEED AP, is a partner at the New York-based architecture studio TenBerke. Arthi has led some of the firm’s most ambitious projects, working with colleges, universities, cultural institutions, and non-profits to help them grow, expand their reach, and engage with their community. Arthi also leads the firm’s work for foundations, including for the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, the Women’s Building, and The Wallace Foundation.
SAMEER KUMAR
Techne / Principal
Sameer Kumar is the founder of Techne, a building enclosure design and consulting firm based in New York. With over 23 years of experience in the field of architectural facades, Sameer’s accomplishments represent a pursuit of design excellence through the balance of craft and environmental performance in material expressions on projects around the globe. Sameer also serves as a visiting faculty member with Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Advisory Board
TALI MEJICOVSKY
ARUP / Associate Principal
Tali Mejicovsky is a facade engineer who leads the Americas Building Envelope Skills Network and the Americas East Facades teams from the New York office. Tali’s technical focus includes materials science, facade system design, structural and thermal analyses, specifications, waterproofing, and detailing with interests in facade design for disassembly and circularity. Since joining Arup, Tali has spent periods working on major projects in New York, Australia, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia.
JACK MURPHY
The Architect’s Newspaper / Executive Editor
Jack Murphy is the Executive Editor of The Architect’s Newspaper. He earned an undergraduate degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a graduate degree in architecture from Rice University. He has worked for award-winning architects in New York City, Houston, Austin, and Boston. Previously, he was Editor of Cite: The Architecture and Design Review of Houston and Adjunct Professor at the Gerald D. Hines University of Houston College of Architecture and Design.
CHRISTOPH TIMM
SOM / Principal
Christoph Timm leads SOM’s Enclosure Group, a practice embedded among the design and engineering studios in the firm’s New York office. Christoph has deep expertise in the design and fabrication of high-performance building enclosures, and is particularly interested in how their aesthetically crafted appearances shift under varying lighting conditions. At SOM, Christoph started a construction site visit program that regularly takes young architects to sites to create a better understanding of the complexities of construction in relation to design.
MARTY WOOD
The Architect’s Newspaper / VP of Events
Marty Wood is the VP of Events for The Architect’s Newspaper, overseeing the programming and marketing of the Facades+ Conferences and other AN initiatives that bring together AEC professionals to share their stories, expertise, and projects. As a writer, he’s contributed to The Architect’s Newspaper, Metropolis, and other design publications. He has also been visiting instructor at Pratt Institute and joined design reviews at SCI-Arc, Parsons, GSAPP, and the University of Illinois. Wood has a BA in Communications from San Francisco State University and a M.S. from Columbia University GSAPP.
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