AWARDS AND HONORS

April 2010. Anna Torriani has been appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to serve on the Advisory Board of the United Nations Capital Master Plan. April 2010

2009
Award for Excellence in Design from the New York City Design Commission

Atelier Pagnamenta Torriani's Mariners Harbor Branch Library, a project for the Department of Design & Construction and the New York Public Library, wins a 2008 Award for Excellence in Design from the New York City Design Commission. The award was presented during a ceremony with the Mayor at the New Museum.

Design and Construction Excellence Initiative 2009, Mayor Bloomberg and the New York City Department of Design and Construction.

Design and Construction Excellence Initiative 2007, Mayor Bloomberg and the New York City Department of Design and Construction.

Design and Construction Excellence Initiative 2004, Mayor Bloomberg and the New York City Department of Design and Construction

1997 - AIA Citation Award in Interior Design from the New York Chapter Architecture Design Awards.

1988 - First Prize in the New York Waterfront, International Competition sponsored by the Municipal Art Society.

PUBLICATIONS /TV PROFILES

D+C

Lorenzo Pagnamenta presented Mariners Harbor Branch Library during "Libraries: Between Digital and Physical Worlds" at the AIA New York Chapter Center for Architecture, NYC, April 2012

D+C

Mariners Harbor Branch Library featured in "Public Projects, Small Firms, Targeted Tactics", Oculus, Spring 2012

D+C

Mariners Harbor Branch Library featured in the article "Investments in Public Architecture Pay Off for the City", Architectural Record, September 2011

DDC Mariners Harbor Branch Library featured on NY1 News, July 2011
DDC

Mariners Harbor Branch Library published in "Sustainable New York", p.78-81, Design+Construction Excellence, DDC Publications, 2011

Mariners Harbor Branch Library Published in the article "Spatial Relation", gb&d Magazine, Dec 2010
A. E. Smith High School Library. Architonic Website, May 2010
"Anna Torriani: Una svizzera all"ONU", Corriere del Ticino, May 2010
"Bibliotheken machen Schlagzeilen", SAB/CLP, 02/09
presS/Tmag "presS/Tmag" by Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi & Anna Baldini, featuring PSA9
"Working for the city" by A. Seward, The Architect's Newspaper, October 2009
"The A-List" by Aaron Seward
The New York Public Library Press Releases, September 2009
The official New York City Web site, July 2009
The New York Public Library Press Releases, July 2009
The Architect's Newspaper,
July 2009
Télévison Suisse Romande (TSR), July 2009
Neue Zürcher Zeitung Online,
July 2009
Ticino News, July 2009
Architetti, July 2009
Staten Island Advance,
July 2009
ID mag The International Design Magazine, June 2009
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Bookmark Magazine: Fall 2008, Volume 2, Number 1

SILive.com, Staten Island NY Local, News : June 2008

Oculus Magazine: Summer 2006, Volume 68, Issue 3

Clear Magazine: 2006 Volume VI, Issue 2

spazio architettura - 16 Dicembre 2005 PSA 9 – Atelier Pagnamenta Torriani di Diego Caramma

Abitare No 454, Designing for the Police, Police Headquarters 9 in Flushing by Atelier Pagnamenta Torriani

Wallpaper * Architecture July 2005, Boxing Clever, NYPD Lightens up, Police Service Area 9

Abitare No. 451 June 2005 War and Architecture, Atelier Pagnamenta Torriani, Byblos Gibran Library, Lebanon

PresS/Tmagazine No. 4 year 2005, Police Station Area 9 , Atelier Pagnamenta Torriani

The New York Times, David Dunlap “Projects’ Community Centers Open Up, with Glass and Air”; November, 2002

Swiss Television – RTSI, Atelier Pagnamenta Torriani’ s Profile, May 2001

Oculus Design Awards, AIA New York Chapter, Interior Architecture Summer 1998

Controspazio, Pagnamenta Torriani’ s Firm Profile, Year XXIX- Number 1/1998

Metropolis, Library Renewal-Library Science, “goodbye room 227, hello sibl”, March 1996

Oculus, News All Around Town, November 1994

Competitions, Karen Van Lengen “Spreebogen Revisited, Spreebogen Typologies”, Fall 1993

Kunst Bulletin, A Grand Tour, April 1993

Oculus, An Eye on New York Architecture, News Notes around Midtown, March 1992

Oculus, An Eye on New York Architecture, Front Cover, March 1990

Architektur+Wettbewerbe, AW 140, December 1989

Progressive Architecture, P/A News Report, May 1988

Arredo Urbano, AU, Anno 8, no.27/28, July-October 1988



Design Excellence /
Collections

International Private Collections, paintings of Lorenzo Pagnamenta and Anna Torriani

Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Artwork from the Ulugh Beg Competition, Museum Collection 1992

Columbia University, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Artwork from the Waterfront Competition, Avery Collection 1991

Exhibitions/
Lectures

AIA NY/Center of Architecture : West 4th subway Station exhibition "New York Now", Mariner Harbor Brand Library and A.Smith High school Library, Oct 2009

DDC - Libraries,
DDC, L.I.C, New York, Summer 2008

New York Now,
Group Exhibit, Center of Architecture
New York City, 2007

New New York: Fast Forward, Group Exhibit, the Architectural League, New York City, 2007

Going Public 2, Group Exhibit, Center for Architecture, New York City, 2006

War and Architecture, Presentation and Debate, EXPA Architectural Gallery, Palermo, Italy, 2005

New York Now, Group Exhibit, Center for Architecture, New York, NY, 2005

American Institute of Architects, Going Public, Group Exhibit for the official opening of the new Center for Architecture in New York City,        2003

American Library Association, Annual National Convention, Alternate Materials Lecture, Atlanta, Georgia 2002

Controspazio Review, 30 Years of Italian Architecture Exhibit, New York, NY 2002

Roma Centocelle Park International Design Competition Exhibit, Rome, Italy 1999

Duke University, Lecture: 21st Century Libraries, Durham, NC, 1998

AIA New York Chapter, The Business of Practice Lecture, 1998

Van Alen Institute, Public Property, An Idea Competition for Governors Island, New York, NY, 1996

American Craft Museum, The Best of New York AIA Interiors in the 90s, Group Exhibit, 1995

Reichsbank Building Berlin, Spreeinsel Urban Design Competiton, Berlin, Germany, 1994

Arbeitsgemeinshaft Berlin, Spreebogen International Urban Design Competiton, Berlin, Germany, 1993

Swiss Institute, A Grand Tour, Group Exhibit, New York, NY 1993

Urban Center Galleries, The Productive Park: Waterworks as Neighborhood Resources, Group Exhibit, 1992

Switzerland and Europe, Lecture during the European Symposium, Switzerland, 1990

Swiss Institute, From Architecture to Art, Solo Exhibit, New York, NY 1990

Urban Center Galleries, New York Waterfront Competition, New York, NY 1988

F.I.T. Gallery and Auditorium, New York Waterfront Competition Exhibit and lecture, New York, NY 1988