New York is a city of great and often overlooked projects at many scales from renovated interiors to major new buildings. The Architectural League created New York Designs to provide a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished built work in New York City. From 2003-2009, New York Designs was structured around a yearly theme, developed by a committee that also served as the program’s jury. From 2009 to the present, projects need not fit a theme and are selected through a review committee from rolling submissions.

Presented projects 2010-2011
Victoria Meyers and Thomas Hanrahan, hanrahanMeyers architects, “Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist”
Juergen Riehm and Chad Groshart, 1100 Architect and Atelier 10, “The New York Public Library, Battery Park City”

Presented projects 2009-2010
Ben van Berkel and Blake Middleton, UNStudio and Handel Architects, “New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion”
Sandra Wheeler, Corinne Ulmann, and Alicia Cheng, Matter Architecture Practice, Maya Lin Studio, and mgmt. design, “Museum of Chinese in America (MoCA)”
Michael Manfredi, Weiss/Manfredi, “The Diana Center, Barnard College”

2009: Public
Henry Stolzman & Leni Schwendinger, PKSB Architects and Leni Schwendinger Light Projects, “Triple Bridge Gateway, 42nd Street Port Authority Bus Terminal”
Jonathan Kirschenfeld, Jonathan Kirschenfeld Architect, “Floating Pool”
Michael Ludvik & Charles Williams, Perkins Eastman and Choi Ropiha, “TKTS Booth, Times Square”
Sandro Marpillero and Linda Pollak, Marpillero Pollak Architects, “GreenBranches Learning Gardens, Horticultural Society of New York, Queens Library, Whitestone Branch and Brooklyn Public Library, Stone Avenue Branch”
Claire Weisz & Jake Barton, WXY Architects and Local Projects, “NYC Information Center, Times Square”
Stephen Yablon, Stephen Yablon Architect, “Betances Community Center and Boxing Gym”

2008: Threshold
Eric Bunge & Mimi Hoang, nARCHITECTS, “Switch Building”
Luben Dimcheff, Laurie Hawkinson, & Henry Smith-Miller, Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects, “322 Hicks Street”
Karen Fairbanks & Scott Marble, Marble Fairbanks, “Slide Library, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University”
Johannes Feder & Barbara Wilks, Archipelago, “West Harlem Piers Park”
Richard Garber & Nicole Robertson, GRO Architects, “Best Pedestrian Route”
Astrid Lipka and Lyn Rice, Lyn Rice Architects, “The New School/Sheila C. Johnson Design Center”
Jonathan Marvel & Rob Rogers, Rogers Marvel Architects, “Luminaire Celebrates Public Space”
Karin Tehve & Linnaea Tillett, Tillett Lighting Design and KT3D, “Bridge Underpass Light Installation, Brooklyn”

2007: Starts & Finishes
Amale Andraos & Dan Wood, WORK Architecture Company, “Diane Von Furstenberg Headquarters”
Sunil Bald & Yolande Daniels, Studio SUMO, “The Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Art”
Markus Dochantschi, studioMDA, “The Twist: West Village Townhouse”
Lynn Gaffney, Lynn Gaffney Architect, “Tank – Quandt Heyer Roof Project”
Tom Hanrahan & Victoria Meyers, hanrahan Meyers, “Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion”
Sandra Wheeler & Alfred Zollinger, Matter Architecture Practice, “Ecotopiaries”

2006: Lean and Green
Samuel Anderson, Samuel Anderson Architects, “Thaw Conservation Center, The Morgan Library & Museum”
Davidson Norris, Carpenter Norris Consulting, “Sunlight in Teardrop Park”
Claire Weisz & Mark Yoes, weisz +yoes architecture, “The Battery Bench & Kowsky Plaza”

2005: So what’s the big idea?
Dana Cupcova-Myers, DCm-STUDIO and Martin Myers, “Sandra Gering Gallery”
Robin Elmslie Osler, Elmslie Osler Architect, “Klinkowstein/Gillett Residence”
Craig Konyk, kOnyk, “Malin+Goetz”
Thomas Leeser, Leeser Architecture, “Vaccaro Residence”
David Lewis, Paul Lewis, & Marc Tsurumaki, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis, “Fluff Bakery, Xing Restaurant, Tides Restaurant”
Leo Modrcin, Ured Architecture, “59E59 Theaters”
Michael Morris & Yoshiko Sato, Morris/Sato Studio, “j-Lu washbasin”

2003: Residential Interiors
Kathryn Dean & Charles Wolf, Dean/Wolf Architects
Steven Harris, Steven Harris Architects
Salvatore LaRosa, B Five Studio
Emanuela Frattini Magnusson, EFM Design
Michael Pierce, Pierce/Allen
David Piscuskas & Juergen Riehm, 1100 Architect
William Ryall, Ryall Porter Architects
Joel Sanders, Joel Sanders Architect
Annabelle Selldorf, Selldorf Architects
Alan Wanzenberg, Alan Wanzenberg Architects

Firm names and partnerships are as of the time of selection as New York Designs participants. Names listed are of those who presented the projects.