Beaux Arts Ball 2025: Pattern Recognition

A benefit for the programs of The Architectural League of New York.

October 3, 2025

Beaux Arts Ball 2025: Pattern Recognition celebrates the quiet attention required to uncover patterns, and the critical imagination required to design new templates for what’s to come.

On Friday, October 3, 2025, The Architectural League gathered at MADE Bush Terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Dedicated to New York’s manufacturers, artisans, designers, and entrepreneurs, the reimagining of Bush Terminal began with a focus on the unique pressures facing the city’s garment workers. Allying Bush Terminal’s and the League’s missions to support creative expression in arts and design, the space was transformed in response to this year’s theme: Pattern Recognition. The event featured an original commissioned installation by Felecia Davis, sounds by Lovie, and a graphic identity designed by Eddie Opara and his studio at Pentagram.

History, like fabric, has a warp and a weft. Certain structures give it shape, and others give it color and texture. More than simply taking notice as it unfolds, we also take part in its making. Well worn paths can bring comfort, and they can wear out. Novel technologies can bring excitement, and they can reproduce hidden biases. Old “Beaux Arts” can be imitated, but are those the histories we intend to flatter? Building the future we need will rely on recognizing the forms of the past and present that are worth repeating, and altering the ones that aren’t.

#BAB25

Beaux Arts Ball 2025: Pattern Recognition

Event Co-Chairs
Vishaan Chakrabarti, Eli Gottlieb, Mimi Hoang & Eric Bunge, Leah Meisterlin, Mark Robbins, and Ken Smith & Priscilla McGeehon

Installation
SOFTLAB at Penn State
Directed by Felecia Davis

William Storms, artist and weaver
Brooklyn, NY

Shayleigh Larsen and Zoe Hezrony
Zeis Knitting Lab, North Carolina State University

Lighting design
Joel Fitzpatrick Studio

Music
Lovie

Graphic design
Eddie Opara and studio, Pentagram

Catering
Great Performances

Wine and spirits generously provided by
Brooklyn Liquors
Fort Hamilton Distillery

Fort Hamilton Distillery

Sustainer Sponsors

Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang, nARCHITECTS
CRAFT Engineering Studio
Dattner Architects
Kenneth Drucker, HOK
Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown
LaGuardia Design Group
Leroy Street Studio
LTL Architects
MADE Bush Terminal
Michael A. Manfredi and Marion Weiss
RAMSA
Sage and Coombe Architects
Sasaki
SOM
Steven Harris Architects
Susan T Rodriguez | Architecture • Design
Billie Tsien
TYLin
WXY architecture + urban design

Advocate Sponsors

Altieri, LLC
Arup
Atelier Ten
Berman Group
Bernheimer Architecture
Beyer Blinder Belle, Architects and Planners, LLP
Alissa Bucher and Rob Rogers
Buro Happold
Walter Cain, WaCa Design
Civic Data Design Lab
CO Adaptive
Coronet LED
Davies Toews Architecture
Herzog & de Meuron
Steve Hogden – Owner’s Representative
Hollberg Architecture
ikon.5 architects
IMEG
Interboro Partners / City Architecture
James Lima Planning + Development
Mary Margaret Jones, Hargreaves Jones
JUDLOWE
Ken Smith Workshop
LEVENBETTS
LEVER Architecture
Lopergolo + Bartling Architects
Marble Fairbanks Architects
MARVEL
Deirdre & Nicholas McDermott
MdeAS Architects
MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Juergen Riehm, 1100 Architect
Rockwell Group
Sciame Construction
Annabelle Selldorf
Severud Associates
SilverLining Inc.
William M. & Catherine Sweeney Singer
SOCOTEC
Studio Cooke John Architecture + Design
TenBerke
Walter P Moore

Supporters

Michael Bierut
Anthony Borelli, Edison Properties
COOKFOX Architects
Martin Cox
Sharon Davis
Department of Architecture at the New York City College of Technology / CUNY
design one lighting
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Fisher & Paykel
Frances Mildred LLC
Leslie Gill
HKS Architects, Inc.
Tracey Hummer
INC Architecture & Design
Lauren Kogod and David Smiley
Pelli Clarke & Partners
Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation
Mark Robbins
LeAnn Shelton, AIA, Esq.
SITU
Karen Stein
Studio Joseph
Studio Modh Architecture
Calvin Tsao
Tucker Viemeister
Jaun Frano Violich & Sheila Kennedy
Young Projects

Contributors

Aanda Architects
BKSK Architects
Corgan Associates
Great Ink Communications
Jerome Haferd Studio
Anne Lewison
Mae-ling Lokko
Kate Mann – ZGF Architects
Spacesmith
Think! Architecture and Design
Workshop/APD

Beaux Arts Ball 2025: Pattern Recognition

A benefit for the programs of The Architectural League of New York.

October 3, 2025