Salvadori Center benefit to honor industry leaders.The Salvadori Center, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to motivating New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. youngsters to learn about math, science, and the humanities and arts, will recognize five notable leaders in architecture, design, business and education with awards at its annual celebration and benefit. Awards will be given to commercial real estate industry leader Tommy Craig Thomas "Tommy" Brooks Craig was born on 21 November, 1950 in Glasgow, Scotland. He is currently the assistant manager of Hibernian. Playing career Craig was previously a talented midfielder and started his playing career at Aberdeen. , senior vice president of Hines; acclaimed architects Bernardo Fort-Brescia and Laurinda Spear of Arquitectonica; leading interior designer Greg Jordan of Greg Jordan Incorporated; and renowned educator Dr. George Campbell George Campbell may refer to: FOOTBALLER
The Celebration and Benefit will be held at Citicorp Center The Citicorp Center is any of a variety of skyscrapers in the United States, including:
"We are delighted to recognize the outstanding accomplishments these five professionals have made in business, as well as in their philanthropic endeavors," said Charles H. Thornton, president of the board of the Salvadori Center, and chairman of Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers. "Their achievements in design, architecture, business and education parallel the commitment to excellence and passion for learning the Salvadori Center strives to infuse in·fuse v. 1. To steep or soak without boiling in order to extract soluble elements or active principles. 2. To introduce a solution into the body through a vein for therapeutic purposes. in the thousands of New York City students we reach each year." Salvadori Center, founded by the late eminent engineer and university professor Dr. Mario Salvadori Mario Salvadori (1907-1997) was an architect, structural engineer and professor of both civil engineering and architecture at Columbia University. During World War II he was a consultant on the Manhattan Project. He was born in Rome, Italy in 1907. , imparts the excitement and understanding of mathematics, science and the humanities to youngsters while stimulating their curiosity about their neighborhoods and city. "The annual Celebration and Benefit is Salvadori Center's chance to shine a bright light on the hard work and exceptional accomplishments of our students, teachers, volunteers and the distinguished honorees during the past year," Dr. Thornton said. "This year's honorees are extraordinary in their fields and represent the very essence of the qualities to which out students aspire." Salvadori's Business Honoree hon·or·ee n. The recipient of an honor. Noun 1. honoree - a recipient of honors in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments recipient, receiver - a person who receives something , Tommy Craig, is the senior vice president of Hines, and has been responsible for the Metropolitan New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of area office since 1996. He has spearheaded numerous major development projects throughout the Northeast. Currently, he is involved in the build-to-suit of a two million square-foot, mixed-use project for Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is one of the world's largest global investment banks. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City at 85 Broad Street. in New Jersey. Bernardo Fort-Brescia and Laurinda Spear of Arquitectonica, founding partners of the famed Miami and New York City-based architecture firm, will receive this year's Founders Award for Excellence in Architecture from Salvadori. In New York, the firm is developing the radical Westin Hotel in Times Square, a major component of the overall redevelopment of the area. The organization is proud to recognize Dr. George Campbell Jr. as this year's education honoree. Dr. Campbell has been the president and CEO of NACME since 1989, a non-profit corporation that conducts research and public policy analysis, publishes original educational materials and operates comprehensive scholarship and academic enrichment programs in engineering, targeting economically disadvantaged students. In this new century, Salvadori Center is pleased to add a new category to its roster of honorees: interior design. Greg Jordan is the first time recipient of this Founder's Award for Excellence. The impetus for this important addition is to recognize an individual who is changing the traditional definition of interior design to encompass broader and more meaningful quality of life issues. Greg Jordan, Inc., specializes in full-service interior design and architecture. Jordan was recently featured as a member of Architectural Digest's Exclusive AD 100 Design Legends issue and his work is regularly featured in House Beautiful, House & Garden, Town & Country, Art & Antiques, Travel & Leisure, In Style and Interior Design magazines. To reserve tickets or to learn more about Salvadori Center, please contact Lorraine Whitman at the Center at (212) 650-5497. |
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