Who knows, maybe designing lighting around an architectural project by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the international firm of British high-tech wizard Richard Rogers, would bring with it a sense of terra incognita.
Architect Curtis Fentress, GSA Public Buildings Service chief architect Les Shepherd, and urban planner Ken Greenberg are the 2010 recipients of the Jefferson Awards, which honor professionals who have advanced the cause of public architecture.
A team of five New York architecture firms has won one of two top prizes in a Dutch design competition for a complex in a redeveloping docklands zone called Amsterdam North.