Senior Urban Designer, NYC-Department of City Planning
Bachelor of Architecture with Honors from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2002); Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University as a Fulbright Scholar (2007). At Columbia Skye was awarded a Kinne Travel Fellowship and the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize (2007). She currently holds the position of Senior Urban Designer at the NYC Department of City Planning, Office of the Chief Urban Designer where she was recently awarded the Michael Weil Award for Urban Design in recognition of outstanding performance, dedication and creativity. She has worked on a number of large scale site specific projects including Coney Island, Hunters Point South, Hudson Yards, Hudson Square, Lower Concourse, and North Shore, as well as various city wide efforts that look to improve the health and sustainability of New York’s build fabric. She has contributed to the New York City agency publications; Active Design: Shaping the Sidewalk Experience (2013), Vision 2020: New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan (2011), Working West Shore 2030: Creating Jobs, Improving Infrastructure and managing Growth (2011), Active Design Guidelines (2010), USGBC NYC Green Codes Task Force Report (2010) and the NYCDOT Street Design Manual (2009). In 2005 she won the National Premier Award for her team’s entry, (Swings & Roundabouts) in the “Housing New Zealand State Housing Competition.” Her work has also been published in Landscape Architecture New Zealand (2012), Emerging Urban Futures (2009), Water System Science and Policy Interfacing (2009), Constellations: Constructing Urban Design Practices (2007), Architecture New Zealand and Cross Section NZIA (2005).
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Bachelor e Arkitekturës e nderuar nga Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2002), Master e Shkencës në Arkitekturë dhe Planifikimit Urban në Columbia University me titull Fulbright Scholar (2007). Në Colombia, Skye u shpërblye me “Kinne Travel Fellowship” dhe “Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize” (2007). Aktualisht mban postin “Senior Urban Designer” në Departamentin e Planifikimit Urban në Nju Jork, ku kohëve të fundit u shpërblye me çmimin “Michael Weil Award for Urban Design” për punë të shkëlqyer, përkushtim dhe kreativitet.
Ka punuar në një numër të madh projektesh përfshirë Coney Island, Hunters Point South, Hudson Yards, Hudson Square, Lower Concourse, dhe North Shore, si dhe ka qenë pjesë e shumë iniciativave për përmirësimin e qëndrueshmërise së objekteve të Nju Jork-ut. Ka dhënë kontribut edhe në agjensinë e publikimeve në Nju Jork. Aktualisht merret me: Sidewalk Experience (2013), Vision 2020: New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan (2011), Working West Shore 2030: Creating Jobs, Improving Infrastructure and managing Growth (2011), Active Design Guidelines (2010), USGBC NYC Green Codes Task Force Report (2010), NYCDOT Street Design Manual (2009). Në vitin 2005 fitoi çmimin “National Premier Award” për paraqitjen e ekipit të saj (Swings & Roundabouts) në “Housing New Zealand State Housing Competition.” Puna e saj është publikuar edhe në: Landscape Architecture New Zealand (2012), Emerging Urban Futures (2009), Water System Science and Policy Interfacing (2009), Constellations: Constructing Urban Design Practices (2007), Architecture New Zealand and Cross Section NZIA (2005).
