Click here to see pictures of this year’s party and Benefactors Dinner.

Beaux Arts Ball 2011: Transport
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Brooklyn Army Terminal
140 58th Street
Brooklyn, New York

Environment by
Leong Leong with Jiminie Ha

Music by
A R P and Jon Santos

A benefit for the programs of the Architectural League

Click here to see the 2011 Benefit Committee.
Click here to see pictures from previous years.

About the Brooklyn Army Terminal
Designed by Cass Gilbert (one of the founders in 1881 of the Architectural League) the Brooklyn Army Terminal opened in September 1919 and was the largest military supply base in the United States through World War II. Set on 95 acres on the waterfront in Sunset Park, the complex of buildings was built using girderless steel-reinforced concrete slabs. At the time of its construction, its system of 96 centrally-controlled elevators was the largest of its kind in the country. The atrium, a soaring volume of 4 million cubic feet bisected by railroad tracks that carried soldiers in and out of the building, is lined with staggered concrete balconies from which supplies were loaded and unloaded by mobile cranes that ran along the roofline. The Brooklyn Army Terminal reached the pinnacle of its fame in 1958 when Elvis Presley was deployed to Germany from there, an event that attracted thousands of fans and photojournalists. In 1981, the City of New York bought the Brooklyn Army Terminal from the federal government. Today it is home to a diverse mix of high tech, cultural, and financial services companies.

Image: Brooklyn Army Terminal as photographed in October 1949 by Andreas Feininger. (Courtesy of Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

BEAUX ARTS BALL 2011
CO-CHAIRS
Stella Betts and David Leven
Astrid Lipka and Lyn Rice

CORPORATE SPONSOR COMMITTEE
Joseph Mizzi, Chair
Ken D’Amato
Christine Flaherty
Denzil Gallagher
Laura Guzman
Elisa Orlanski Ours
David Pfeffer
Marc Simmons
Mimi Taft

The Architectural League gratefully acknowledges the
corporate sponsors of the 2011 Beaux Arts Ball

SUSTAINER
RFR Holding LLC

PATRONS
Angelo Gordon & Co./Belvedere Capital/Myles Horn
Buro Happold
Miele
Molteni&C Dada
RD Rice Construction
Sciame Construction
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP
Waterworks
Zubatkin Owner Representation

ADVOCATES
Arup
Belden Tri-State Building Materials
Front Inc.
Microdesk
Nicholson and Galloway Inc.
The Par Group
Poliform
Port Morris Tile and Marble
STV
Villeroy & Boch
W&W Glass LLC
WB Wood
Walsh Glass & Metal

List in formation.

For information about corporate sponsorship opportunities, please contact Kathryn Slocum, at 212-753-1722, ext. 21 or email slocum@archleague.org.

Wine generously donated by

Lighting by

Click here to see the photos of the party on Flickr.
Click here to see a series of light paintings done at the party by Jeff McCrum.

Saturday, September 25, 2010
The American Academy of Arts and Letters
Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets
Washington Heights, New York

Beaux Arts Ball Co-chairs
Amale Andraos and Dan Wood
Eve Klein and Robert Owens
Kate Orff and Oded Horodniceanu

The Architectural League gratefully acknowledges League staff members Reid Bingham and Sarah Snider for producing this year’s Beaux Arts Ball.

Video, light, and interactive installations by
Jeanne Angel
Gerardo Cid
Ghosh
Ingo Günther
In Process Out
Jason Krugman
Geoff Matters
NO CARRIER
The Vandalights

Technical Support: Brendan Byrne
Music: DJ Chris Annibell/Afrokinetic
Catering: Robbins/Wolfe

Nine different artists and design teams created video projects and interactive installations that transformed the galleries and Terrace of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Volunteers: Jamie Bekker, Emily Danzinger-Willemson, Kate Cahill, Claire Tokunaga, Carly Liebman, Conner Garrison, Caroline Golum, Cequyna Moore, Lorraine Cheng, Ivan Safrin, Purva Jain, Christine Dennett, Leisa Jamison, Tamara Linde, Caroline Stover, Linda Campbell, Melissa Constantine, William Martin, Ashleigh Baber, Meredith Baber, and Steve MacFarlane

The Architectural League would also like to thank the following for their help in making the evening possible: Dr. Victor Alicea, Nicholas Anderson, Mitchell Codding, Virginia Dajani, Steve Ecker, Kathy Kienholz, Anne Rieselbach, Cassim Shepard, Varick Shute, Cody Upton, and Gregory Wessner.

About the American Academy of Arts and Letters
The American Academy of Arts and Letters is an honor society of 250 architects, composers, artists, and writers. The honor of election is considered the highest formal recognition of artistic merit in the United States. The Academy is headquartered in three beaux arts granite and limestone buildings, designed by McKim Mead & White, Cass Gilbert, and Charles Pratt Huntington, that are part of the Audubon Terrace Historic District in upper Manhattan.

Thumbnail photo: Lighting painting by Jeff McCrum

SOLD OUT.
Tickets are no longer available for the Beaux Arts Ball.
We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

The Architectural League of New York
Beaux Arts Ball 2010 Unseen Worlds
Saturday, September 25, 2010
9 pm to 12 midnight
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Broadway between 155th and 156th
New York City
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Music by
Chris Annibell/Afrokinetic

Light and interactive installations by
Jeanne Angel
Gerardo Cid
Ghosh
Ingo Günther
In Process Out
Jason Krugman
Geoff Matters
NO CARRIER
The Vandalights

Drinks and light fare
Festive attire

Tickets $75
Patron tickets $150

To purchase tickets, click here. Tickets are no longer available.

To view photos from past Balls, click here.

You may call 212-753-1722, ext. 10, if you have any questions.

Beaux Arts Ball 2010 Co-chairs
Amale Andraos and Dan Wood
Eve Klein and Bob Owens
Kate Orff and Oded Horodniceanu

Patrons
Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Rogers Marvel Architects
SHoP Architects
Tsao & McKown Architects

Benefit Committee
1100 Architect
Maria Alataris and Vishaan Chakrabarti
Archi-Tectonics
ARUP
Carmi Bee
Stella Betts and David Leven
Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson
Stephen Cassell
Arthur Cohen
Yolande Daniels and Sunil Bald
Kenneth Drucker, HOK
Ennead Architects
FXFOWLE Architects
Gauthier Architects
Rosalie Genevro and Armand LeGardeur
Lisa Green and Bill Dacey
H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture
Mimi Hoang and Eric Bunge, nArchitects
Interboro
Ken Smith Landscape Architect
Lauren Kogod and David Smiley
Dorothy Kresz and Michael Bierut
Jamie Maslyn Larson, West 8
Jill Leckner and Jeffrey Johnson
Jennifer Lee and Pablo Castro
Lerival
Leroy Street Studio
Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis Architects
Eric Liftin
Lyn Rice Architects
Alice Chung and Casey Mack
Marble Fairbanks
Matilda McQuaid and Craig Konyk
Menaker & Herrmann LLP
Joseph Mizzi
Andrea Monfried and Mike Harshman
Toshiko Mori Architect
Murphy Burnham Buttrick Architects
Jeannie and Tom Phifer
Charles Renfro
Anne Rieselbach and Grant Marani
Mark Robbins and Brett Seamans
Robert Silman Associates
Susan Rodriguez and Charles Lowrey
Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith
Joel Sanders
Selldorf Architects
Susan Sellers and Michael Rock
Hayes Slade and James Slade
Snøhetta
Mimi Taft and Frank Lupo
Ali Tayar
Suzan and Robert Tillotson
Ana Maria Torres
Billie Tsien and Tod Williams
Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi
Claire Weisz and Mark Yoes
Adam Yarinsky

About the American Academy of Arts and Letters
The American Academy of Arts and Letters is an honor society of 250 architects, composers, artists, and writers. The honor of election is considered the highest formal recognition of artistic merit in the United States. The Academy is headquartered in three beaux arts granite and limestone buildings, designed by McKim Mead & White, Cass Gilbert, and Charles Pratt Huntington, that are part of the Audubon Terrace Historic District in upper Manhattan.

Invitation designed by Pentagram.

Saturday, June 6, 2009
The Old American Can Factory
232 Third Street at Third Avenue
Gowanus, Brooklyn

Beaux Arts Ball Co-chairs
Andrew and Nicole Bernheimer
Jared and Carolina Della Valle
Granger Moorhead and Penelope Hardy
Robert Moorhead and Maggie Wright

Produced in collaboration with XØ Projects Inc.
Food by Lisa Sigal + Hot Bread Kitchen, The Dosa Man, Blue Marble Ice Cream
Music by DJ Chris Annibell/Afrokinetic
Video by Josh Goldberg, Adam Kendall, Moey Inc.
Lighting by Wingspace

Follow the links to check out photos from the party and Benefactors Dinner on Flickr.

Artisans, fabricators, artists, designers, filmmakers, publishers and non-profit organizations from the more than 200 creative producers at The (OA) Can Factory opened their studios throughout the complex during the course of the event. A temporary collaborative creation space called The Factory was fitted out with machinery, materials and expert manufacturers for building, binding, stitching and printing.

For a list of the people and organizations that collaborated with us, click here. To view the Benefit Committee, click here.

May 17, 2008
275 Hudson Street

Co-Chairs
Kim Yao and Paul Lewis
Carmen Lenzi and Marc Tsurumaki
Alice Min Soo Chun and David J. Lewis

Environment by Leven Betts Studio, Lyn Rice Architects, and OBRA Architects

Click the image above to see pictures from this event.

May 19, 2007
3-Legged Dog, 80 Greenwich Street, NYC
Environment by 2×4 + Moko Omaha

Click image above to begin slideshow.

Photo by David Malosh.

May 20, 2006
The Mink Building

Environment by Freecell
Photography by David Malosh