Transportation and Infrastructure Awards: Kempegaowda Airport and Brooklyn Yards

As the first in a series of spotlight events celebrating winners of AIA New York's Transportation and Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards, this program will focus on Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru — Terminal 2 awarded the Best in Competition and Brooklyn Yards, a Citation winner in the Planning category.

The Transportation and Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards are organized in partnership with ASLA New York, AIA Austin, ASLA Chicago, AIA Los Angeles, and AIA Miami.

Speakers:
Jay Valgora, FAIA, AICP, LEED AP, WEDG, Founder and Principal, Studio V
Laura Ettelman, FAIA, Managing Partner and Member of the Executive Committee, SOM
Margaret Newman, FAIA, LEED BD+C, Practice Leader for Urban Places and Smart Mobility, Stantec

About the Speakers:
Laura Ettelman is a managing partner and member of the Executive Committee at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). Ettelman is an expert at leading large, technically complex projects with critical construction, phasing, and operational requirements while fostering a high level of collaboration. In 2020, Ettelman was one of two architects appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio to New York City’s Advisory Council in the Construction and Real Estate Sector. She serves on SOM’s Executive Committee, where she is tasked with long-term strategic decision making and guiding efforts to increase equity in the firm and profession. As a mentor and a longtime leader of the SOM Women’s Initiative, she is deeply committed to training the next generation of women architects.

Margaret Newman is Practice Leader for Urban Places and Smart Mobility at Stantec. An architect and urban planner, Newman focuses on projects that prioritize people to better integrate transportation options into the fabric and context of cities. Dedicated to creating vibrant, sustainable, and economically successful places, she works with a diverse group of clients including public agencies and private industry. She served as Chief of Staff for the NYC Department of Transportation under Mayor Bloomberg, directing major agency projects including the capital construction plan for Times Square. A founding partner in Marren and Newman Architects in NYC, and an AIA Fellow, Newman was recognized for her role in changing the streets of New York.

Jay Valgora was inspired by the industrial architecture of his hometown of Buffalo, from the iconic grain elevators to the vast steel mills where his father worked, Valgora pursued his passion for architecture. Receiving degrees from Cornell University, Harvard University GSD, and a Fulbright Fellow to the United Kingdom, he gained valuable experience in firms from Boston to London. Finally arriving in New York City, he founded STUDIO V, a practice dedicated to the reinvention of the city. Valgora’s work is defined by an extraordinary range of projects and scales, encompassing innovative new construction to creative adaptive re-use, dramatic interiors to new urban networks and neighborhoods. His designs have been recognized internationally for engaging history, culture and context with innovative contemporary design: creating inspirational public spaces, encouraging diversity, restoring historic artifacts, and bringing new life to the edges and interstices of our city while reconnecting communities.