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ODA plans new residential development in East Williamsburg

2024-04-16T14:14:00-04:00

ODA has revealed plans for a new residential project under construction in Brooklyn that will deliver 336 units of studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments. Their design for the Lorimer House and Copper Lofts in East Williamsburg calls for a triangular block-scale development connected by a bridge, surrounding three small interior courtyards and defined by curved corners that soften its form in response to the site's unique dimensions.

Rendering courtesy of Secchi Smith

Other aspects of the project include a third-floor pocket park space that combines with an upper-level amenity lounge and a circular roof deck with landscaping to give residents a total of 26,000 square feet of outdoor areas. The building's facade is composed of brick with horizontal metal panels, vertical metallic piers, and a slab edge to create an appealing visual character completed by integrated planters, balconies, and recessed terraces.

Rendering courtesy of Secchi Smith

Durukan Design has been tasked with comp...

Brooklyn group opposes new Tony Hawk-backed skatepark: 'Pouring concrete is Stone Age'

2024-04-08T11:58:00-04:00

The city has construction plans for Mount Prospect Park, once the site of a lookout station for George Washington’s army. About 40,000 square feet of the 7.79-acre park are to be turned into one of the largest skateboarding spots on the East Coast. Some nearby residents are fighting the plan. [...] They say the poured-concrete skateboarding facility would take up precious green space in a city that does not have enough of it.

A total of four skatepark designs are scheduled to be built in the Bronx and Brooklyn, courtesy of The Skatepark Project (or TSP). Costs for a new park at the contested Brooklyn location are about $100,000.

The Mount Prospect Park location calls for 40,000 square feet worth of concrete to be poured, leading to local protests recently. Hayley Gorenberg of the group Friends of Mount Prospect Park told the Times, “Paving green space isn’t acceptable to the community, and it’s not the way for New York City to look forward to a more resilient future. It’s backwards thinking.”

Tony Hawk is also involved in Peterson Rich Office and OSD’s new adaptive reuse design for the Shepherd Gallery and Art Center in Detroit.

Frida Escobedo reveals first American residential design in Brooklyn

2024-04-04T15:16:00-04:00

Frida Escobedo’s first American residential commission has been revealed as a block-scale condominium project in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn.

The designer of the new Modern and Contemporary Art Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (in which she has set up a working studio) will deliver the new Bergen development at 209,000 square feet for client Avdoo & Partners by 2025.

It will stand as the second building project in the New York market for Escobedo following her collaboration with Handel on the new National Black Theatre mixed-use development in Harlem.

Image credit: DARCSTUDIO

Escobedo had gained notoriety in Mexico for residential projects, including Mar Tirreno 86, which will now inform her latest design, calling for 105 units configurable in 53 different types and ranging from studios to five bedrooms. The facade of the building is angled such that it maximizes natural light from an east-west direction, with porous openings made along the street level to produc...

Developer behind SHoP-designed The Brooklyn Tower is facing foreclosure on $240 million loan

2024-04-04T12:20:00-04:00

Michael Stern, the developer of SHoP’s new The Brooklyn Tower (also known by its address at 9 Dekalb Avenue), is facing foreclosure over a failure to pay a $240 million loan that was extended by Silverstein Properties in 2019 to complete the 93-story project, according to reports from The Real Deal.

As TDR pointed out, Stern is also responsible for 111 West 57th Street, which has had issues with cost overruns and other legal setbacks.

Stern, a veteran of the city’s high-stakes recent luxury market, is known for making huge bets on his projects. Speaking for a 2020 Financial Times profile, FXCollaborative’s Daniel Kaplan said of his approach, “He’s commissioned some very good architecture. The thing that’s really interesting about him is that all the things people say you can’t do — or you can’t do for the money — he says, ‘Forget it!’”

The tower, which stands as Brookly...

'Grenfell: in the words of survivors' play comes to New York this spring

2024-03-21T13:36:00-04:00

A new dramatization of the deadly 2017 Grenfell Tower tragedy is being staged next month at the St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, after traveling from the National Theatre in London, where it premiered last summer.

Playwright Gillian Slovo’s interviews with survivors are the basis for the play’s verbatim dialog. Directors Phyllida Lloyd and Anthony Simpson-Pike will reprise their roles for the four-week run, beginning an opening night performance on April 13th.

A July review of the first adaptation from The Guardian called it “a masterpiece of forensic fury.” The New York Times’ Alex Marshall wrote about the play's proselytizing effects, framing it as a democratic and justice-driven “call for change.”

The aftermath of the blaze that claimed the lives of 72 people has indeed led to several proactive reforms, including a recent mandate concerning cladding remediation and the appointment of a new building safety regulator. Potential criminal charges stemming from the London Me...

Pratt Institute launches new Center for Climate Adaptation aimed at researching resiliency solutions for island cities

2024-03-13T14:28:00-04:00

Pratt Institute has announced the creation of the new Center for Climate Adaptation (CCA). The initiative is part of its alignment with The New York Climate Exchange, a consortium of research institutions that will use Governor’s Island as its hub for climate change investigations and education. David Erdman, an associate professor in the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) program, will lead the center as its first Director.

Pratt says the new CCA is aimed partially at protecting global island cities such as New York and Singapore. The focus expands on the United Nations Archipelago Agenda and will include experts taken from every subfield of architecture and urban design. Pace University and Singapore University of Technology and Design have signed on as academic partners in the initiative as well.

The school's President, Frances Bronet, stated: “The Center combines our deep engagement with the local community and global networks, and our collaborative approach to critic...

VolvoxLabs opens internship combining digital fabrication, media, and immersive environments

2024-02-14T17:58:00-05:00

Following last week’s look at an opening for a Graphics/Multimedia Editor at The New York Times, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Physical Design + Fabrication Internship at VolvoxLabs.

The role, based in Brooklyn, NY, calls for an individual who is “passionate about technology-embedded installations, digital fabrication techniques, parametric design, and exploring new technologies in fabrication.” Among the qualifications sought after in internship applicants are basic digital fabrication knowledge and shop skills, alongside knowledge of 3D modeling software.

TETRA / KINETIC SCULPTURE by VolvoxLabs

Why the role interests us

The open role at VolvoxLabs offers us the opportunity to explore the work of a studio grounded in the intersection between digital and physical space. With a team spanning artists and technologists, the studio has built a portfolio of contemporary art installations and immersive environ...

Four masonry cultural buildings by Architecture Research Office: Your Next Employer?

2023-12-04T12:56:00-05:00

Following last week’s visit to Massachussets-based I-Kanda Architects, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to New York this week to explore the work of Architecture Research Office.

From their studio in Brooklyn, the firm has built a portfolio that, in their words, “unites beauty and form with strategy and intelligence.” In September, we reported on the firm’s plans for the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape in Upstate New York, while in May, the firm was part of a wider team behind the design of a Brooklyn high school campus with a hydroponics greenhouse and outdoor teaching spaces.

Over on Archinect Jobs, the firm is currently hiring for a Junior Designer to join their Brooklyn office. For candidates interested in applying for the position, or anybody interested in learning about the firm’s output, we have rounded up four masonry cultural buildings by Architecture Research Office that exemplify the studio’s ethos.

Dia Chelsea. Image credit: Elizabeth Felicel...

Glazed brick accentuates Shakespeare, Gordon, Vlado: Architects’ new Brooklyn apartment complex

2023-11-24T09:00:00-05:00

Shakespeare, Gordon, Vlado: Architects (SGVA) has offered an insight into their completed multi-family housing scheme in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Named The Garnet, the project is defined by a gray and black masonry facade punctuated by jewel-toned glazed-brick accents.

Image credit: Alexander Severin

Built on a 15,000-square-foot lot adjacent to the Fulton Street subway line, the scheme holds 103 apartment units above a 12,000-square-foot ground-floor retail space. A second-floor roof terrace seeks to strengthen the residents’ connection to the outdoors, adding to an overall mission of creating “housing that feels expansive and liberating, rather than constrained by its affordability.”

Image credit: Alexander Severin

From the outside, the eleven-story structure is clad in textured masonry with bright accents to form a “pleasant and visually engaging street wall.” A red motif first established on the facad...

The new Sunset Park Library & Apartments bookend New York City's push for affordable housing

2023-11-21T14:20:00-05:00

A unique project addressing the need for affordable housing and library services has debuted in central Brooklyn with the completion of the recent Sunset Park Library & Apartments renovation from Magnusson Architecture and Planning and Mitchell Giurgola.

The project establishes a new 49-unit housing development in addition to an existing single-story structure from the 1970s. The program entails adding a six-story, 50,000-square-foot residential component above the now 20,000-square-foot library, which is expanded to twice its original size. The new building stands at eight stories in total, topped by a 45-kW rooftop PV array.

Image courtesy Brooklyn Public Library

“The Sunset Park Library and Apartments is a crowning achievement that tackles essential community needs and affordable living at a time when New York must urgently address its housing crisis. This historic collaboration between the Brooklyn Public Library and Fifth Avenue Committee exemplifies visionary leadership and pru...

Archtober 2023: NYC's Building of the Day series is back with architect-led tours

2023-09-26T18:58:00-04:00

Archtober, New York City's annual month-long festival of Architecture and Design, is about to commence once again, featuring a packed calendar of exciting events and activities across the five boroughs.

Organized by the Center for Architecture in collaboration with a host of partners, Archtober is returning its popular Building of the Day initiative, which offers unique opportunities to explore nearly 30 outstanding buildings and sites through tours led by architects and other design professionals.

Check out the list of this year's sites below and use the Archtober Map to New York as your handy mobile guide.

Monday, Oct 2: Powerhouse Arts. Photo: PBDW Architects.

Monday, Oct 2: Powerhouse Arts
Architect: Herzog & de Meuron; PBDW Architects

Tuesday, Oct 3: High Line - Moynihan Connector
Design: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM); Field Operations

Tuesday, Oct 3: High Line - Moynihan Connector. Photo: Lucas Blair Simpson © SOM.

Wednesday, Oct, 4: One South First
Architect: COOKFOX

Thursday,...

Win tickets to Beaux Arts Ball 2023: SEA CHANGE

2023-09-18T13:32:00-04:00

It's that time of the year again as the Architectural League of New York prepares to host its big annual Beaux Arts Ball on Friday, September 29. This year's festivities are organized under the 2023 theme of SEA CHANGE, which the League describes as a "call to collective action" to celebrate "circularity, reinvention, and the interdependence of planetary ecosystems and the built environment."

Brooklyn Navy Yard will host the Ball again, featuring an immersive installation by local studio CO Adaptive and lighting design by Joel Fitzpatrick and Ken Farmer. DJ Lina will keep the dancefloor packed and rumps shaking.

Thanks to The Architectural League, Archinect is giving away five tickets to five of our readers!

For a chance to win a ticket, leave a comment below naming your favorite recent architectural project, social movement, or technological innovation that truly represents a sea change, and briefly describe why you chose it. Only your first comment will count. Each winner will rec...

Get Lectured: Pratt Institute, Fall '23

2023-08-29T11:56:00-04:00

*Editor's note: The date for Neil Brenner's seminar has been updated.

With classes back in session, it’s time once again for our Get Lectured series to look at what’s happening this semester at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in Brooklyn.

Events this year are organized to answer the essential question: “How do we live together and share our built environment?” under the uniting theme of “cohabitations.”

The school shares: “Across the SoA, our students, staff, and faculty work deeply in looking at the design, planning, and management of affordable and equitable housing, structures that serve the public, as well as how to improve public space design and use — all while considering environmental justice and social equity. cohabitations is a school-wide provocation to bring together the work of our community — across our four departments of the School of Architecture — around this question.”

The Fall term begins on Thursday, September 14, with a lecture from former Columbia GS...

NYC approves Olalekan Jeyifous and Amanda Williams' Shirley Chisholm monument for Brooklyn

2023-07-18T14:48:00-04:00

New York City is getting a new monument dedicated to the late pioneering Brooklyn congresswoman Shirley Chisholm following the approval on Monday, July 17, of a sculpture designed by artists Olalekan Jeyifous and Amanda Williams.

The piece is part of the city’s new She Built NYC initiative, a series of public art commissions created under the de Blasio administration that will install monuments to historic trailblazers in every borough over a proposed four-year timeline.

A previously-approved version of the monument, which will be the first ever to depict a woman in Brooklyn, was delayed through the pandemic and will now restart using a slightly refined design featuring a gestalt of imagery that combines Chisholm’s silhouette and the U.S. Capitol Building dome into one 32-foot latticed steel form. The artists say this combination “symbolizes how she disrupted the perception of who has the right to occupy such institutions and to be an embodiment for democracy.”

The 2019 'Our Desti...

Herzog & de Meuron’s Powerhouse Arts restoration opens in Brooklyn

2023-06-06T14:56:00-04:00

A crossover arts and manufacturing project from Herzog & de Meuron opened on May 19 following several years of construction that remade a former brownfield site into the new home of the non-profit Powerhouse Arts in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Coinciding with the ongoing cleanup of the Gowanus Canal, the project reused a Turbine Hall located at the site of Brooklyn's Rapid Power Transit Station from 1904 while adding new space in the shell of a reinstated Bolier House building that was semi-preserved in the process.

Image © Iwan Baan/Courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron.

Nicknamed “The Batcave” by many of the city’s graffiti taggers after its decommissioning in the 1950s, the site was decontaminated as part of the New York State Brownfield Cleanup program prior to the firm winning the project's commission and then beginning its planning phase at the end of 2016.

Image © Iwan Baan/Courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron.

Herzog & de Meuron says: “The industrial landscape and history of the site play a pivota...

Take a look inside Woods Bagot's lobby design for The Brooklyn Tower

2023-05-30T19:55:00-04:00

Woods Bagot has shared photos of their ongoing interior work inside SHoP’s supertall landmark The Brooklyn Tower (formerly known as 9 DeKalb), in anticipation of the record-breaking high-rise’s completion later this year.

The project was led by Principal Krista Ninivaggi of Woods Bagot’s New York studio. Their brief for a lobby space and an amenity program called for a seamless transition between the 93-story building’s interior and exterior facade, whose own design was inspired by the imagined “Metropolis of Tomorrow” first envisioned by writer and architect Hugh Ferriss in the late-1920s.

Photo by Adrian Gaut

An assembly of wood veneers and milled panels scaled to the facade's extrusions feature prominently among the building’s interior. Further details include stone cladding and a vaulted ceiling that harkens to the former Dime Saving Bank that forms the tower’s base. Overall, The Brooklyn Tower includes a total of 547 apartment units, a commercial gym, and four pools in addition...

CannonDesign is pitching in to help acclimate migrants to NYC

2023-05-15T14:52:00-04:00

A new project from CannonDesign aimed at helping migrants who were relocated to Brooklyn’s Red Hook Cruise Terminal in the past year is providing hope to advocates for inclusive design as the city grapples with a vexing crisis that’s only expected to grow with the end of Title 42.

The project was initiated by Blue Cottage of CannonDesign team member Kimberly Silver, a resident of Red Hook, who, in reaction to Councilwoman Gale Brewer’s charge to do more, worked with fellow CannonDesign staffers Steffany Brady, Dylan Coonrad, and Abbey Furlow to strategize a set of wayfinding design solutions that can help better orient them to the neighborhood and city. Together, they say three core “functions” can be achieved as a result of the project.

Using Silver’s observations of the area, TRANSIT activates street surfaces and other barriers surrounding the terminal with clear trail marker-like visual wayfinding directions to the subway and nearby bus stations.

Image courtesy CannonDesign

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10 featured job opportunities for architects and interior designers in Brooklyn

2023-05-05T20:03:00-04:00

This week's curated employment highlight from Archinect Jobs features ten attractive openings for architects and interior designers in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. For the complete list of firms currently hiring in Brooklyn, click here.

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FXCollaborative seeks an Architect - Construction Administration and Senior Project Manager - Transportation
"FXCollaborative is an established architectural, interior design, planning, and urban design firm based in New York City. [...] We are currently seeking an Architect - Construction Administration with at least 10 years’ experience. This position will be responsible for all activities related to project construction administration, including reviewing submittals and...

SCAPE, ARO, and Colloqate design Brooklyn high school campus with a hydroponics greenhouse and outdoor teaching spaces

2023-05-05T14:40:00-04:00

A team comprising SCAPE, Architecture Research Office (ARO), and Colloqate has unveiled a vision for a high school campus in Brooklyn with anti-racism, climate action, sustainable food systems, environmental justice, and experimental learning at the heart of its curriculum. The Launch School at Floyd Bennet Field will be constructed on a former airfield along the shores of Jamaica Bay, and will see a series of connective outdoor hallways knitting together buildings and landscapes.

Image credit: SCAPE

The design of the 7-acre campus embodies a ‘learning by doing’ approach featuring a refurbished and modernized central building, an urban farm and outdoor classroom, and a harvest and sensory garden. The campus will also hold a greenhouse with hydroponics, a central community hall, and spaces for outdoor art, teaching, performance, and exploration.

Image credit: SCAPE

“Launch at Floyd Bennett Field is an unprecedented opportunity to build a world-class educational ecosystem for communitie...

Biophilic installation begins at Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Factory, including 17 big trees

2023-04-10T14:55:00-04:00

In advance of the expected project completion later this summer, the Brooklyn-based developer Two Trees Management has shared images of its recent installation of the biophilic program inside PAU’s long-awaited Domino Sugar Refinery redevelopment in Williamsburg.

The installation comprises 17 30-foot trees, each weighing more than 10,000 pounds, that make up the core of the project’s indoor vertical garden component, which highlights the 460,000 square feet of new office space being created inside the iconic 19th-century waterfront structure.

Image © Wes Tarca

Each tree had to first be carefully hoisted above the roofline of the refinery and then “surgically” placed inside via a 12-foot-wide opening between the brick facade and envelope of the 27,000-square-foot all-glass office addition located further within.

Image © Wes Tarca

The overall $250 million project began in 2014 and includes the James Corner Field Operations-designed Domino Park segment i...

Five New York projects with industrial echoes by S9 Architecture: Your Next Employer?

2023-04-04T11:34:00-04:00

Following last week’s visit to Arizona-based Studio Ma, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to New York this week where we meet S9 Architecture.

From their office on 8th Avenue, the team of 60 designers has built a portfolio around a theme of “modern contextualism” inspired by local urban narratives. “We believe our projects are part of a larger whole, acting as the glue that helps bind and enhance their context for human experiences,” the firm explains. More recently, we covered the news that the firm’s Universal Hip Hop Museum in The Bronx is set to open in 2024.

Over on Archinect Jobs, the firm is currently hiring for several positions across their New York office. For candidates interested in applying for a position, or anybody interested in learning more about the studio’s work, we have rounded up five New York projects by S9 that demonstrate their design ethos.

205 Water Street, Brooklyn

Located in the DUBMO Historic Landmark District, 205 Water Street was designe...

David Adjaye designs revitalized Bedford Stuyvesant campus to fight racial disparities in Brooklyn

2023-02-17T11:44:00-05:00

Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation has unveiled plans for an Adjaye Associates-designed Restoration Innovation Campus in Brooklyn. A re-imagination of the milestone corporation’s longtime Fulton Street home, the 840,000-square-foot campus will be dedicated to closing Brooklyn’s racial wealth gap.

The project will include a significant expansion of Bed-Stuy’s cultural center and the Billie Holiday Theater, new public open space, and two commercial buildings serving private, nonprofit, and government partners focused on addressing the racial wealth gap. 600,000 square feet of office space will be offered in the new hub alongside 190,000 square feet of retail, while a publicly-accessible rooftop will accommodate cultural programming and events.

Image credit: Adjaye Associates

Since its opening in 1972, the center has served as “a beloved town square for one of the country’s largest African American communities.” Once a milk bottling plant, the center now attracts more than 1.5 m...

BIG designs film studio as ‘dynamic vertical village’ on the Brooklyn waterfront

2023-02-03T10:58:00-05:00

Bjarke Ingels Group has designed a new movie studio to be constructed along the Brooklyn waterfront. Commissioned by production company Samson Stages, the Red Hook Studio is imagined as a “dynamic vertical village, where the building structure is created from the stacking of eight stacked stages.”

Image credit: Samson Stages

The 330,000-square-foot building is projected to cost $400 million to deliver and will include green terraces, parking, and a new public park. Internally, the building will feature a cafe alongside the eight stacked stages.

The Brooklyn studios project is separate from the BIG-designed Wildflower Studios development currently under construction in nearby Queens. Designed for the Robert De Niro-led Wildflower Development Group, the Queens project shares Red Hook’s approach of a vertical film studio, with two levels of sound stages.

Image credit: Samson Stages

News of the studio comes weeks after BIG and Safdie completed a jagged new tower in Quito, Ecuador, as well...

Adjaye's Restoration Plaza project gets a little clearer in Brooklyn

2023-01-30T18:11:00-05:00

First announced in 2019, the project spans a block of Fulton Street between Brooklyn Avenue to the east and New York Avenue to the west. Plans call for the construction of three buildings featuring approximately 840,000 square feet of offices, educational, cultural, and commercial space. While the project would roughly double the size of the existing 1970s structures at Restoration Plaza, the property's namesake open space would be retained by building up, rather than out.

According to Urbanize NYC, the Restoration Plaza development will include two 13- and 16-story mixed-use structures separated by a 4-story community building to house art galleries, a dance studio, and other cultural spaces. This will be Adjaye Associates’ next New York project, after 130 William, the Carriage House, the Studio Musem in Harlem, the Sugar Hill Mixed-Use Housing Development (also in Harlem), and the 2015 Pitch Black office and studio space project for artist Lorna Simpson.

"We want this to be the tech hub of Central Brooklyn that’s very similar to downtown Brooklyn, that’s very similar to the Navy Yard," Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation CEO Blondel Pinnock told THE CITY. Current estimates are for an eight-year construction timeline.

Brooklyn’s historic Domino Sugar Factory restoration lights up with signs of progress

2022-12-28T13:29:00-05:00

A beloved monument returned to the Brooklyn skyline without pomp or circumstance last night when the Domino Sugar sign was quietly relit atop the Thomas Havemeyer building’s new barrel vaulted glass roof, illuminating the Williamsburg waterfront for the first time in eight years. It also marked one last milestone in 2022 for redevelopment at the former refinery, which was last open to the public in 2014

Meanwhile, PAU’s portion of the $250 million Domino Sugar Factory project is nearing completion with the placement of the structural steelwork required to support the 27,000-square-foot glass addition slotted into its 140-year-old interior.

New York YIMBY also reported that construction of the reinforced concrete core is complete as well. The tree-lined and column-free office portion is yet to be fully leased in spite of the space’s considerable marketability. The full restoration is expected to be ready sometime in the next year.

OMA completes stepped Greenpoint Landing towers in Brooklyn

2022-12-08T11:36:00-05:00

Construction has been completed on OMA’s Eagle + West towers along the Brooklyn waterfront. Designed in collaboration with Beyer Blinder Belle, the towers represent OMA’s first high-rise scheme in New York.

The 600,000-square-foot development comprises two towers and a seven-story building, holding a total of 745 residential units. The two towers lean into and away from each other, with expanding and contracting forms determined by an attempt to maximize internal efficiency. While the forty-story tower widens as it rises in order to maximize views, the thirty-story tower widens towards the ground to face the waterfront.

Image credit: Jason O'Rear

The stepped massing of the towers sees the form broken into seven-to-eight-story blocks, reflecting the scale of neighboring buildings, according to the architects. The subdivision is further expressed on the façade itself, where a grid of precast concrete panels is carved by angled planes alternating in orientatio...

New York City considers making Grand Army Plaza car-free

2022-11-15T09:00:00-05:00

The city’s Department of Transportation is considering making Grand Army Plaza car-free and connecting it to the Open Streets on Vanderbilt and Underhill Avenues, officials said this week.

The NYC Department of Transportation is currently seeking the public’s feedback regarding improvements to an area that’s been defined by constant traffic, disrepair, and hazardous conditions for pedestrians and cyclists. The agency hopes it can access the $904 million that Mayor Eric Adams pledged to tackle the city’s traffic violence and improve public transportation infrastructure.

The Department is expected to draft plans within the year. Last Saturday, November 12th, they hosted an outreach session, which will be followed by a virtual online workshop on November 16th.

Archtober 2022: Explore NYC's Buildings of the Day with architect-led tours

2022-10-04T14:11:00-04:00

It's that time of the year again: Archtober, New York City's Architecture and Design Month, is back. Now in its 12th year, the annual festival has returned with another packed calendar featuring lectures, tours, workshops, screenings, and other exciting live special events across the five boroughs.

Organized by the Center for Architecture in collaboration with numerous partners, Archtober is once again presenting its popular Building of the Day series, inviting New Yorkers and visitors to explore significant buildings and sites through tours led by architects and other design professionals.

Take a look at the full list of featured sites below and use the Archtober Guide to NYC as your handy mobile guide.

Saturday, Oct 1: New York Public Library Van Cortlandt Branch. Photo: Michael Moran.

Saturday, Oct 1: New York Public Library Van Cortlandt Branch
Architect: Andrew Berman Architect

Monday, Oct 3: Battery Maritime Building
Architect: Marvel

Monday, Oct 3: Battery Maritime Building. Pho...

Meet architects, researchers, and fabricators SITU: Your Next Employer?

2022-09-13T09:04:00-04:00

Following last week’s visit to residential specialists DAHLIN, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Brooklyn, NY this week, where we meet the self-described “unconventional architecture practice” SITU.

Founded in 2005 by four friends studying architecture at The Cooper Union, SITU has since grown to a studio of 38 people practicing a multi-disciplinary style including design, research, and fabrication.

The firm is already familiar with our editorial, having recently collaborated with the Design Trust for Public Space on an initiative that aims to transform underutilized spaces into vibrant, accessible venues for arts and culture. Back during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the firm also collaborated with Gensler, WXY and others on a 100-page guide for safe social distancing in schools.

From their base at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the firm is currently hiring over on Archinect Jobs. For candidates interested in applying for a position, or anybody interested in lear...

15 featured architecture job opportunities in Brooklyn

2022-09-08T14:58:00-04:00

Each week the Archinect team highlights new job opportunities for emerging, mid-level, and senior-level architects and design professionals. This week we highlight 12 Brooklyn-based architecture firms that are looking to hire project architects, design heads, junior designers, construction administrators, and business development experts to join their team. If you're looking for internship opportunities, be sure to check out which firms are accepting applicants below.

As the architecture industry's leading job board, Archinect Jobs features 100+ new job listings each week. If you're looking for a job in the New York region, be sure to explore the job board today.

Bridgehampton Beach House by James Merrell Architects. Landscape: LaGuardia Design Group Builder: Men At Work Construction. Image courtesy of James Merrell Architects.

James Merrell Architects P.C. seeks a Head of Studio

Details: "Award-winning Hamptons architecture firm seeks an experienced architect to lead our Brooklyn s...