New York Designs
Group Tour
Columbus Circle Station Complex Rehabilitation
Lester Burg, Jeff Dugan, Judith Kunoff, and Sara McIvor
Wednesday, May 25
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Columbus Circle Subway Station
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Join Jeff Dugan, principal at Dattner Architects (and principal in charge of the project); Lester Burg, project manager at MTA Arts for Transit; Judith Kunoff, Chief Architect at MTA New York City Transit, and Sara McIvor, historic preservationist at MTA New York City Transit for a tour of the rehabilitation of the Columbus Circle Station Complex and the installation of the Sol LeWitt public artwork.

Columbus Circle is one of the original IRT stations, dating from 1904. As one of Manhattan’s primary transit hubs, it serves more than 200,000 riders daily. The project, which was completed while the station was in operation over the last five years, preserves and restores the station’s landmark elements, provides improvements to public access and employee facilities, and showcases a major artwork in porcelain tile by the late American artist Sol LeWitt, titled “Whirls and Twirls (MTA)” and two of his compass rose designs. A new entrance at West 60th Street and Broadway makes entry to the complex more convenient and eases passenger flow, while new elevators provide handicapped accessibility to all platforms.

Jeff Dugan,Principal at Dattner Architects, led the Columbus Circle Station renovation project, and he is also involved in other transportation projects in the New York metropolitan area such as the PATH Grove Street station in Jersey City, the Second Avenue Subway, and the Number 7 Line extension. He oversaw the award-winning Myrtle-Wyckoff Station Complex Rehabilitation in Brooklyn and the Pelham Parkway Station Rehabilitation in the Bronx – both for New York City Transit. In addition to his transit work, he is the principal in charge of the New Settlement Community Campus, a public school and community center currently under construction in the Bronx.

Dattner Architects is a New York City firm founded in 1964 with a staff of 70. The firm’s portfolio includes transportation and infrastructure projects; master planning and buildings for educational and cultural institutions, public agencies, not-for-profit groups and corporate clients; historic preservation/adaptive reuse; sustainable architecture; and interior design.

Lester Burg has more than fifteen years experience in public art project management, having been involved in artist selection and overseeing fabrication and installation of public art from Hollywood, CA to New York City, where he is currently a manager at MTA Arts for Transit. He served as project manager for the fabrication and installation of the Sol LeWitt artwork at the Columbus Circle station. Prior to the MTA, Burg was City Art Coordinator for the City of West Hollywood, CA and spent many years at the LA Community Redevelopment Agency, where public art and cultural development were used as tools to rebuild neighborhoods.

MTA Arts for Transit has installed 220 permanent projects throughout the transit system with another 90 in planning.

Judith Kunoff is the Chief Architect of MTA New York City Transit. As Chief Architect, her role is to champion “design excellence of civic architecture within Transit including respect of our historic rich assets, incorporation of high performance architectural systems, and the implementation of state of the art processes aiding the goal of attaining a quintessential built environment for our passengers.”

Sara J. McIvor is a historic preservationist and has been involved with the 59th Street/Columbus Circle Station Project since December of 2009; the time at which she first joined New York City Transit. Since joining the project, Sara has assisted with on-site mock-up review, matching finishes, design change review, submissions to the State Historic Preservation Office, coordination with the FTA, and oversight for the work taking place with the landmark boundaries of the original IRT station.

Reservations are required. Due to the limited number of tickets and to facilitate fair access across our membership, reservations are limited to members only. Upper level members, including League Circle firms, are limited to two reservations. Please email anderson@archleague.org. Further program information will be given upon confirmation.

This program is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Images from top to bottom: Model diagramming renovation, courtesy of Dattner Architects; New York City Transit archive photo of the historic Broadway Island north stair at platform, courtesy of Dattner Architects

New York Designs
Group Tour
reOrder: An Architectural Environment by Situ Studio at the Brooklyn Museum
Sharon Matt Atkins, Aleksey Lukyanov, Wes Rozen
Thursday, May 12
6:00 p.m.
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
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Join Aleksey Lukyanov and Wes Rozen of Situ Studio and Sharon Matt Atkins, Managing Curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, for a tour and discussion of the design, fabrication, installation, and program of reOrder : An Architectural Environment at the Brooklyn Museum.

Situ Studio’s installation responds to the building’s 120-year architectural history and operates upon the ideals of proportion and ornament that figure so centrally in McKim, Mead and White’s original design of the Great Hall. Augmented by a new set of ordering principles that challenge the colossal scale and regularity of the gridded space, reOrder plays with and transforms the ornamental logic of the classical order in the service of the complexities of a contemporary institutional program.

This vision of a new, dynamic order is expressed through the lightweight and flexible language of fabric construction. Building on strategies developed in the textile industry for folding and gathering, the resulting variety of forms is generated without complex cutting or patterning of fabric. A system of flexible canopies, thermoformed benches and tables, and a configuration of internal plywood and steel armatures forms a new logic of the architectural order, one that creates a unique forum for public interaction and assembly within this ever-evolving institution.

Situ Studio was founded in 2005 in Brooklyn, New York shortly after the five founding partners graduated from the Cooper Union School of Architecture. Through research, design, and fabrication, the firm operates at the intersection of architecture and a variety of other disciplines to engage a wide range of spatial projects. Recent projects include the design and fabrication of a series of analytical models for the Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, as well as Solar Pavilions 1-3, a series of traveling structures commissioned by Solar One.

Recently appointed Managing Curator of Exhibitions, Sharon Matt Atkins joined the Brooklyn Museum in 2009 as Associate Curator of Exhibitions. Since then, she has coordinated exhibitions devoted to Andy Warhol and Norman Rockwell, and has facilitated numerous other special exhibitions. She coordinated the installation of reOrder with Lance Singletary, Associate Exhibition Designer.

Reservations are required. Due to the limited number of tickets and to facilitate fair access across our membership, reservations are limited to members only. Upper level members, including League Circle firms, are limited to two reservations. Please email anderson@archleague.org. Further program information will be given upon confirmation.

This program is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Images from top to bottom: reOrder: An Architectural Environment by Situ Studio at the Brooklyn Museum. Installation Image Courtesy of Keith Sirchio; Installing reOrder in the Great Hall of the Brooklyn Museum. Photo by Keith Sirchio.

New York Designs
Group Tour
Bonnie Dimun, Deborah Gans, Tom Garcia, and Amy Stein-Milford
Friday, April 8, 2011
9:30 a.m.
Museum at Eldridge Street
12 Eldridge Street
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In October 2010, the Museum at Eldridge Street, located in the landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue, commissioned a monumental new stained-glass window by Kiki Smith and Deborah Gans. Join Gans, stained glass craftsman Tom Garcia, and Bonnie Dimun and Amy Stein-Milford of the Museum at Eldridge Street in a discussion of the window and tour of the restored Eldridge Street Synagogue.

The recently completed window is the only 21st-century element in the 1887 space, a National Historic Landmark. Weighing more than 6,000 pounds and composed of more than 1,200 pieces of glass, and not a single piece of lead, the new window weds traditional stained glass with modern technologies. Combining both Jewish and American motifs, it pays tribute to the aspirations of the synagogue’s 19th-century immigrant founders. The new window is the culminating piece of the Museum’s 24-year, awarding winning restoration of the Eldridge Street Synagogue.

The site for the new Kiki Smith-Deborah Gans design was originally a stained-glass rose window. That window was damaged over time and in 1944 the congregation opted to replace the window with tablet-shaped glass blocks. The glass blocks were an inexpensive option at the time, and the congregation, much diminished in size, did not have the resources to go with expensive stained glass. The Museum’s decision to commission a new window pays homage to the grand intent of the synagogue’s original immigrant founders. At the same time, it extends the story of the building. The Eldridge Street Synagogue now bridges three centuries – built in the 19th, prosperity and decline in the 20th, and renewal in the 21st.

Artist Kiki Smith and architect Deborah Gans collaborated on the design of the window. The commission of the window was overseen by Museum Executive Director Bonnie Dimun and Deputy Director Amy Stein-Milford. Tom Garcia’s The Gil Studio was responsible for the stained-glass work.

Deborah Gans is principal of Gansstudio, whose work ranges in scale from a school desk for the New York City SCA to a master plan for New Orleans East and focuses on new ways to define and engage the social realm. The work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim, IFA Paris, RIBA London, and the Architectural League of New York.

Tom Garcia has been working as a stained glass craftsman since 1974. The Gil Studio, which he opened in 1989, is dedicated solely to the fabrication, restoration, and design of stained and leaded glass windows. The Gil Studio has received six Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards from the New York Landmarks Conservancy, as well as numerous other preservation awards.

Reservations are required. Due to the limited number of tickets and to facilitate fair access across our membership, reservations are limited to members only. Upper level members, including League Circle firms, are limited to two reservations. Please email anderson@archleague.org. Further program information will be given upon confirmation.

This program is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Eldridge Museum Interior, copyright Peter Aaron/Esto

Submission information for project consideration
Deadline: rolling
The committee selects projects for presentation periodically.  The next review will occur in late June.  Please submit material by June 6, 2011 to be considered in the next cycle.

2011 New York Designs Committee
Andrew Berman, Stella Betts, Joe MacDonald, Anne Rieselbach, Linnaea Tillett, Shawn Watts, Claire Weisz, Barbara Wilks, and Stephen Yablon

Call for Submissions
Architects, landscape architects, engineers, and other designers are invited to submit projects to the Architectural League’s New York Designs series. Projects of all types at any scale, either built (completed within one year of submission) or under construction in New York City, are welcome. Quality is the sole criterion for selection.

New York Designs recognizes accomplished built work in New York City. If your project is selected, League staff will work with you to develop an appropriate presentation, most often taking the format of an on-site tour or brief lecture. We invite designers to include project collaborators, such as consultants, contractors, engineers, clients, and others in the project presentation. Submission assumes the accessibility of the space by a group of 20-30 people and availability of the designer to take part in a New York-based program. Travel monies will not be provided.

Submission deadlines
New York Designs is an ongoing project recognition series. You may submit a project at any time.

Submission requirements
Submissions are digital. Please submit a PDF of no more than four pages that includes project images, a written statement not to exceed 250 words, and a brief project description and timeline.

Submissions should be sent to Nick Anderson at anderson@archleague.org. For more information, call 212.753.1722 x13.

League programs are made possible, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

New York Designs
Group Tour
Juergen Riehm, Joanna Pestka, and Chad Groshart
Thursday, November 18, 2010
5:30 p.m.
The New York Public Library, Battery Park City
175 North End Avenue
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Architect Juergen Riehm, FAIA, will lead a tour of 1100: Architect’s recently completed Battery Park City branch of The New York Public Library, the most eco-friendly library within the system. Joining Riehm will be Chad Groshart from Atelier 10, the sustainability consulting firm on the project, who will address more specifically the lighting design, process, and sustainability elements of the library. Joanna Pestka from the Library will also be on hand to share the client’s perspective.

Serving the commercial and residential neighborhood of Battery Park City, the new 11,000 square-feet branch, with LEED Gold certification, is oriented toward a self-service system requiring the layout of the spaces to be easy to navigate and exceptionally user-friendly. The library’s open, bright spaces create a welcoming new public space and environment, while the design of the furniture, shelving, information desks, displays of books, and periodicals facilitate the most efficient circulation. The Battery Park City branch utilizes numerous sustainable design strategies including a technologically advanced low energy heating cooling system, low energy lighting system, and the incorporation of many recycled and renewable building materials, including cardboard, glass chips, and tires.

1100: Architect is the New York and Frankfurt-based firm of David Piscuskas and Juergen Riehm. Since 1983, the forty-one person firm’s mission has been to create “functional architecture of lasting beauty…favoring a careful consideration of light, material, and detail specific to the nature of each project.”

Reservations are required. Due to the limited number of tickets and to facilitate fair access across our membership, reservations are limited to members only. Upper level members, including League Circle firms, are limited to two reservations. Please email anderson@archleague.org. Further program information will be given upon confirmation.

This program is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

The New York Public Library, Battery Park City, View of entry towards stair lounge area and new browse area. 1100: Architect, photo © Michael Moran.

New York Designs
Group Tour
Victoria Meyers and Thomas Hanrahan
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
5:30 p.m.
Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist
171 MacDougal Street
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Victoria Meyers and Thomas Hanrahan, principals of hanrahanMeyers architects, will lead a tour of the recently finished Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist; a radical reconfiguration of the interior of a midblock historic structure to create a lightwashed sanctuary space, and open street-front reading room and gathering area. Clients John Ryan and Andrea McCormick and lighting designer Lana Lenar of zeroLUX Lighting Design will join the tour of the sanctuary, reading room, and Sunday school.

The Infinity Chapel for the Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist, features a 4,000 square foot cubic sanctuary transformed by slivers of natural light and the traces of complex curves. Three inwardly curving walls – one from the south, one from the north, and one from the west – suggest large spheres. These forms bend toward each other to create a continuously curved room on three sides, suggesting an infinite surface similar to the Klein bottle or Mobius strip. A cubic space defines the seating area, while the additional ‘deep’ space of the stage and organ extend the cubic space into a golden section. Natural light penetrates the room through the western wall, both at the stage level and through the curved surface above.

The 3,000 square foot lobby and Christian Science Reading Room face the street, and are designed as open, relaxed spaces for study and conversation. The historic façade toward MacDougal Street and Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village has floor to ceiling glass, with large pieces of free-form ash floating in the window display areas. Below the ground level is a 7,000 square foot school and boardroom, which has borrowed natural light entering above from rectangular light wells that project through the first floor. These light wells are integral connectors between the two levels of the project, and create formal punctuations that mark the passage of worshippers from street to sanctuary.

Victoria Meyers and Thomas Hanrahan founded hanrahanMeyers architects (hMa) in 1987. The firm’s design philosophy, “design is a frame to Nature,” emphasizes the office’s interests in nature, sustainability, and light. Recent and ongoing projects include a Buddhist campus in upstate New York; Digital Water Pavilion (Battery Park City Community Center); WaveLine, a small multi-purpose performance pavilion in Queens; and Pratt Pavilion, a new campus center for Pratt Institute’s main campus in Brooklyn.

Reservations are required. Due to the limited number of tickets and to facilitate fair access across our membership, reservations are limited to members only. Upper level members, including League Circle firms, are limited to two reservations. Please email anderson@archleague.org. Further program information will be given upon confirmation.

This program is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Photos by Michael Moran

New York Designs
Group Tour
Karen Fairbanks, Michael Manfredi, and Marion Weiss
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
5:00 p.m.
The Diana Center
3009 Broadway
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Tickets for the tour to the Diana Center are sold out.  If you would like to be added to the wait list, email anderson@archleague.org.

Michael Manfredi and Marion Weiss, principals of Weiss/Manfredi, will lead a tour of their newly completed The Diana Center at Barnard College. Joining the tour will also be Karen Fairbanks, Chair of the Department of Architecture at Barnard College.

Winner of a national design competition and a Progressive Architecture Award, the project establishes “a new nexus for social, cultural and intellectual life at Barnard.”

Carving a diagonal void through the seven-story building on Broadway, a slipped series of atria create views through diverse program spaces and visually connect the adjacent Lehman Lawn to the upper floors of the building and the green roof. The facade – composed of 1,154 clear and color integral glass panels – translates the brick and terra cotta of the surrounding neighborhood into an energy-efficient exterior.

Envisioned as a center for campus life, the 98,000 square foot building includes architecture and painting studios, a 500-seat performance space, black box theatre, cafe, dining room, reading room, classrooms, and exhibition galleries.

Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism is a multidisciplinary design practice based in New York City. Founded by Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, the firm is known for the integration of architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape design. Weiss/Manfredi received the Academy Award in Architecture and were named by the Architectural League as an “Emerging Voice.” The firm has also won the New York City AIA Gold Medal of Honor. Other major projects include the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle; the Smith College Campus Center in Northampton, MA; and the Taekwondo Park in Muju, South Korea.

Reservations are required. Due to the limited number of tickets and to facilitate fair access across our membership, reservations are limited to members only. Upper level members, including League Circle firms, are limited to two reservations. Reservations open on May 11th at 10:00 a.m. Please email anderson@archleague.org. Further program information will be given upon confirmation.

This program is made possible, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. The League also thanks the Architecture Department at Barnard College for partnership on this program.

Diana Center, Barnard College. West Stair. Photo by Albert Vecerka/Esto; Diana Center, Barnard College. View from Gallery. Photo by Paul Warchol.

New York Designs
Group Tour
Sandra Wheeler, Matter Architecture Practice; Corinne Ulmann, Maya Lin Studio; John Kuo Wei Tchen, exhibition co-curator and co-founder of MoCA; Cynthia Lee, Vice President of Exhibition, Programs & Collections; and Alicia Cheng, mgmt. design
Tuesday October 27, 2009
5:00 p.m.
Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre Street

A tour of MoCA will spotlight the challenges and considerations of developing a small organization into a national museum, the museum’s relationship to the neighborhood, community, and culture of the city, and the means by which the architecture and the exhibitions embrace sustainable strategies and enrich narratives key to communicating MoCA to a broad and diverse public.

Formerly occupying a couple of rooms in a converted school on Mulberry Street, MoCA has expanded six-fold into a new facility designed by Maya Lin. From its community-based roots, MoCA has emerged as a national institution, occupying a 14,000 square-foot space in a former machine shop. Referencing the traditional Chinese house, at the heart of the museum is a skylit courtyard, around which a new core exhibition narrates the diverse layers of the Chinese experience while examining America’s journey as a nation of immigrants.

Further extending the schematic metaphor of a house, the exhibition’s design—designed by Matter Architecture Practice with exhibition graphics by mgmt. design—structures the content as a chronological journey through a series of rooms, each staging a moment in the Chinese-American experience. Portals from each room into the court contain commissioned media portrait pieces of selected individuals telling their experience of immigration, adapting, or integrating into American culture—voices of the house’s inhabitants through the ages.

Leading the tour will be Sandra Wheeler, a principal of Matter Architecture Practice and exhibition designer and Alicia Cheng, principal, mgmt. design, exhibition graphics designer, who will discuss the design of the permanent galleries and how the exhibition integrates itself with the building’s architecture and seeks to communicate the museum’s mission. Joining them will be Corinne Ulmann, design project manager from Maya Lin Studio, who will discuss the new building and the concept behind its design. John Kuo Wei Tchen, permanent exhibition co-curator, writer, senior historian (and co-founder of MoCA), and currently Professor, A/P/A Studies at the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at The Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University will discuss the founding and development of the museum and a brief narrative of the core exhibition. Cynthia Lee, permanent exhibition co-curator, writer, and Vice President of Exhibition, Programs & Collections at MoCA will introduce the mission of the museum and how it situates itself within a specific community and reaches beyond to embrace the public at large.

Bialosky and Partners were the architects of record for the project.

Reservations are required. Due to the limited number of tickets and to facilitate fair access across our membership, reservations are limited to members only. Upper level members, including League Circle firms, are limited to two reservations. Reservations will be given on a first-come, first-served basis, beginning at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, October 20. Reservations received before 10:00 a.m. on October 20 will not be honored. Please email anderson@archleague.org. Further program information will be given upon confirmation.

This program was made possible in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

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Ben van Berkel, co-founder of the Dutch architectural design studio UNStudio, will lead a tour of New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion. Located in The Battery, New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion, opening to the public that week, will be a dramatic “outdoor living room” and intermodal transport hub for spontaneous and scheduled activities, public markets, seating and shade, and a pavilion for food and information to serve commuters, New Yorkers, and visitors alike.

As part of the NY400 celebration and in honor of the enduring relationship between New York and Holland, New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion calls for a 5,000 square-foot, carefully programmed space located within The Battery’s Peter Minuit Plaza, named for the enterprising Dutch Director-General who in 1626 consolidated the early settlements at the tip of Manhattan – a grouping that came to be known as New Amsterdam.

This destination is, as Ben van Berkel notes, “the ideal site for a permanent commemoration of 400 years of Dutch history in New York, because it is steeped in a sense of a shared past and looks directly toward the harbor where Henry Hudson sailed, but is also entirely focused on the future by virtue of its role as a modern transportation hub within the constantly changing scene of Lower Manhattan. This is a site where history meets the future.”

To express the interplay of history and future, the landscape architects of New York City Department of Parks & Recreation Manhattan Capital Projects have conceived a stone-paved civic platform – plein, in Dutch – with walkways featuring engraved quotations from Russell Shorto’s acclaimed book The Island at the Center of the World. At the entrance to the Plein, a carved stone map of Castello’s New Amsterdam will provide historical context. Within the open space of the Plein, visitors will find UNStudio-designed seating and tables. These will surround a highly sculptural pavilion with an expressive, undulating roofline and curving walls. The pavilion will be equipped with an electronic facade LED system that allows for a constantly changing light show at night. New Amsterdam Plein will also feature berms and perennial garden planting beds, designed by New York City Parks & Recreation using the color palette of Piet Oudolf, who created The Battery Bosque Gardens and the Battery’s Gardens of Remembrance. Handel Architects of New York, will serve as associate architect on the pavilion, working in collaboration with UNStudio.

UNStudio, founded in 1988 by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, is a Dutch architectural design studio specializing in architecture, urban development, and infrastructural projects. The name, UNStudio, stands for United Network referring to the collaborative nature of the practice. The office is composed of individuals from all over the world with backgrounds and technical training in numerous fields. As a network practice, a highly flexible methodological approach has been developed which incorporates parametric designing and collaborations with leading specialists in other disciplines. Drawing on the knowledge found in related fields facilitates the exploration of comprehensive strategies, which combine programmatic requirements, construction, and movement studies into an integrated design.

Based in Amsterdam, the office has worked internationally since its inception and has produced a wide range of work ranging from public buildings, infrastructure, offices, residential, products, to urban masterplans. Pivotal UNStudio projects within these fields include; the New Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart (2001- 2006), the Galleria Department Store in Seoul (2005), the private family house VilLA NM in Upstate New York (2002-2007), the Agora Theater in Lelystad (2004-2007), and the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam (1990-1996).

Please email anderson@archleague.org for more information.

This program was made possible in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Images courtesy of UNStudio.

New York Designs 2009: Betances Community Center and Boxing Gym, South Bronx
Stephen Yablon Architect
Presented by Stephen Yablon
Recorded: June 11, 2009
Running time: 19:00

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The Architectural League created the juried lecture series New York Designs to provide a forum for the presentation of innovative and accomplished built work in New York City. The 2009 New York Designs committee–comprised of Craig Konyk, Scott Marble, Linnaea Tillett, Sandra Wheeler, and Barbara Wilks–asked designers to think about and define “public” today; and how they would imagine buildings, landscapes, and urban places that aspire to be for the public. Architects whose projects were selected by the jury presented their work in lectures on June 4 and 11, 2009.