Architect: CookFox Architects
Luxury apartments in New York restore and renovate a century-old residential building 378 West End Avenue
Designed by COOKFOX, 378 West End Avenue draws design inspiration from the adjacent church, built in 1892
New York City’s First All-Electric Skyscraper Is a Stunning Game-Changer
The monumental building serves as a powerful precedent for future developments
Architect: Alloy Development
Architect: Dattner Architects
Passive House Is Now a Platform for More
Explore three projects that demonstrate a shift in thinking about the sustainability standard from a goal to a means
Brooklyn Multifamily Community Is Sustainable and Affordable
Passive House mixed-use development Chestnut Commons provides affordable housing to formerly homeless and low-income residents within a self-sustaining neighborhood
Architect: Dattner Architects
Architect: Alloy Development
New York's first all-electric skyscraper
The super-efficient fossil-fuel-free tower has improved insulation, triple-glazed windows and offers parking spots for 500 bikes – and no cars
Hill West Architects completes "sail-like" Dumbo skyscraper
Located alongside the Brooklyn Bridge in Dumbo, the Olympia Dumbo tower rises 401 feet tall (122 metres) and has 33 storeys. It has a wedge-shaped form and sits on top of an angular podium
Architect: Hill West Architects
Architect: HLW
Embodied Carbon in New York City
Schrödinger NYC, located in the heart of Times Square, is a great example of sustainability in interior design
2023 Best of Year Winner for Small Beach House
The Pink Pool House has been recently awarded a 2023 American Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies
Architect: Roger Feriss Architects
Architect: Deborah Berke Partners
Special Spotlight
Unveiling the editors’ picks of AN’s 2023 Best of Design Awards
Special Spotlight
Unveiling the editors’ picks of AN’s 2023 Best of Design Awards
Architect: Dattner Architects
Architect: Tighe Architecture
Westside Urban Forum Recognizing the 2023 Design Awards
Winning projects were selected by an independent jury and span a range of categories: Mixed-Use, Adaptive Reuse, Public/Institutional, Public/Open Space, Retail/Restaurant, Multi-Unit Housing (49 or less units), Multi-Unit Housing (50+ units), Affordable Housing, Office, and Hospitality.
Deborah Berke Partners' NXTHVN is an art incubator for emerging artists of colour
“NXTHVN builds on ideas we developed 20 years earlier in our design for the Yale School of Art: that the best things come from complex combinations of program and use. At NXTHVN one finds artists in residence, with technical studios and facilities, a public commons and cafe, a theatre, a gallery and an internship program. We call this kind of project one that is ‘more than...’ This is entirely in keeping with Titus’ own visionary project.”
Architect: Deborah Berke Partners
Architect: RIOS
Lynn Wyatt Square becomes the new front yard of Houston’s Theater Distric
The new Lynn Wyatt Square in downtown Houston has been transformed from a concrete heat island into the new, lush front yard of Houston’s Theater District. Designed by international design collective RIOS, the park is a testament to the ingenuity of interdisciplinary design: By addressing the citywide need for both more green space and outlets for art and creative expression, Lynn Wyatt Square is no longer a place to get through, but a place to linger
TenBerke completes hybrid‑CLT residential hall design at Brown University
The Brook Street Residence Halls project is part of the university’s plan to expand its on-campus housing offerings and was completed using a hybrid steel and cross-laminated timber structure. Brown says their realization creates an important new connection to the east side's Fox Point neighborhood, adding to its capacity to interface with the community of Providence while likewise maintaining its holistic sustainability strategy
Architect: Deborah Berke Partners
Architect: Perkins Will
In Long Island City Perkins&Will changes the narrative of traditional STEM buildings with the renovation of a 1930s warehouse
Developed in partnership with King Street Properties, the new laboratory complex is envisioned as both a high-tech workplace and community hub. This is achieved through generous amenity offerings and public spaces, like a ground-floor cafe, but also because of the architecture’s alignment with street level sociability and respect for the neighborhood’s existing character
Q+A: Heather Gayle Holdridge, Lake|Flato Architects
"We urgently need to become more educated on carbon and how to design and construct carbon-neutral buildings,"
Architect: Lake Flato
Architect: FXCollaborative
One Willoughby Square is a Welcome Relief to the Brooklyn Skyline
Designed by FXCollaborative, the new office building not only adds a unique silhouette to the Borough’s skyline, but has also achieved the highest LEED Interior rating in the United States
In pictures: Princeton residential colleges by TenBerke
The 485,000 sq ft project sits on an 11-acre site close to the historic heart of the campus. The two colleges, New College West and Yeh College, reflect the university’s desire to “ground its social life in a campus characterized by inclusion and belonging”. They are the seventh and eighth residential colleges to be completed on the campus
Architect: Deborah Berke Partners
Renovation Architect: Deborah Berke Partners
TenBerke deftly blends new and old at Harvard’s Lewis International Law Center
Through subtraction and addition, the firm introduced new facade elements on the top-floor addition and at the entrance, using aluminum composite panels fabricated by Massachusetts-based Sunrise Erectors to secure the windows and provide shading. The replacement windows and the new high-performance glazing were treated with a pinstriped ceramic frit and placed over an insulated spandrel to optimize the window-to-wall ratio and mitigate solar heat gain and glare The slenderness and depth of vertically oriented aluminum composite fins that shade the additions’ glazing also blend with the original structure’s tall stone piers. The result is not so much an addition as a melding of new and old.
Alexis Sablone and Converse Have Made the Next Iconic Skate Shoe
An Olympian, architect, designer, and now, one of the first female skaters with a signature shoe, Sablone continues to push skateboarding to new heights
Renovation Architect: Roger Ferris Architects
The Flyfish Club, which sold membership via NFTs, leases first space
A private dining club that sold $14 million in memberships through NFTs early this year has leased its first space. The Flyfish Club has landed in 11,000 square feet on three levels at 141 E. Houston St., a new office building that was developed on the site of the former Sunshine Theater by East End Capital, Grandview Partners and KPG Funds. Flyfish was founded by the VCR Group’s restaurateur David Rodolitz, entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, celebrity chef Josh Capon and chef Conor Hanlon — with membership through non-fungible tokens that were purchased on the blockchain and are now being resold on Opensea.io
2022 Design Showcase Award of Merit: NewYork-Presbyterian, Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Center for Community Health
A spacious entrance lobby greets visitors and sets the overall tone for the interiors with a sculptural reception desk backed by a wall of marble and large, colorful artwork on the walls
Architect: Urban Architectural Initiatives
Deborah Berke Partners shakes up Penn’s campus with terra-cotta baguettes
With much of its campus shaped by eclectic historical architecture, the University of Pennsylvania sought an updated look for its new Meeting and Guesthouse. Serving as a space to host important dignitaries and other special events, the Meeting and Guesthouse by Deborah Berke Partners was built as an addition to two Victorian townhouses designed by Frisbey Jones. Adjacent to the President’s House, the Meeting and Guesthouse will also serve the need to host high-level meetings with university administration, and to allow ample space to host guests of the President
This project was selected as an Honor winner in the 2022 Residential Architect Design Awards, Specialized Housing category.
“There is a well-balanced juxtaposition between the upper floors—wrapped with smaller windows lending a sense of privacy and intimacy—and the lower floors, filled with wide open common spaces projecting a positive image out onto the streetscape. It is well thought out, and a great example of what supportive housing can mean to its residents and contribute to a neighborhood.” — Juror Brian Loughlin, AIA
Architect: FXCollaborative
Architect: Urban Architectural Initiatives
Brotherhood Sister Sol's Mission of Transformative Support for At-Risk Youth Gets a New Home in Harlem
BroSis, as it is also known, nurtures personal development and academic achievement over the course of secondary schooling (or longer, as needed, since it serves ages 8 to 22), “empowering critical thinkers and community leaders,” according to the organization. Many low-income communities are dotted with social service agencies, but BroSis avoids the usual piecemeal approach that makes it too easy for kids to fall through the cracks
The Restoration Of Larchmont Mercantile Brings New Life To Los Angeles’ Famed Larchmont Boulevard
Larchmont Village is one of the most unique neighborhoods in all of Los Angeles. Rich in history, it’s one of few places that’s walkable and feels like a true town in the middle of a big city. One of the hallmarks of the area is Larchmont Boulevard, which is known for its variety of retail shops, restaurants, and businesses. The opening of a new retail concept called the Larchmont Mercantile marks a new era for the neighborhood
Architect: Gensler
Architect: Alloy Development
A Luminous Three-Bedroom Loft Hits the Market in Brooklyn
The 1,733-square-foot apartment sits perched in the corner of a historic factory building, conveniently located in the waterfront neighborhood of DUMBO. A free-flowing layout connects the primary living spaces, which are accessed via a gracious foyer upon entry. Notable features include: refinished, wide-plank oak flooring, concrete beams and columns, as well as all a custom, Haisa-marble mosaic on the floor in the primary bath
Brooklyn’s Betsy Head Park emerges from $30 million revamp with rich plantings and a parkour course
The park is unique in that its program is split between two non-contiguous parcels separated by Dumont Avenue. The northern parcel is home to a Rockwell Group-designed play area known as the Imagination Playground, completed in 2016 to replace an aging existing playground. Just above the Imagination Playground is a compact but varied swath of new parkland that was previously the aforementioned asphalt lot
Architect: Abel Bainnson Butz