NOA is an award-winning practice based in New York City dedicated to radical exploration of nature, ecology, and urbanism through innovative architecture. NOA's projects include 865 UN Plaza, a residential commission in New York completed in 2008 and featured on the cover of Case da Abitare; This Is Not A Park, a proposal for a new public park in Berlin, which the Union Internationale des Architectes awarded the Japan Institute of Architects Prize; Snow Mound, a land art installation for Rauma, Finland completed in 2010. In addition, NOA’s design proposal for New York's High Line Park received the New York Heritage Award. NOA is lead by Andrew Heid. In 2011, PIN-UP Architecture Magazine featured Andrew as one of the ten up-and-coming architects in New York City.