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Sage and Coombe Architects employees announce union

2023-09-15T14:04:00-04:00

Employees of Sage and Coombe Architects have declared the formation of a new union within the New York office, the firm announced via a social media post late Thursday.

“Sage and Coombe Architects is pleased to announce it has recognized a union as requested by a committee of firm employees. Although we are uncertain about the impact of this process on an architectural office of our size and history, we respect the right to organize and are proud of what the committee called our 'humane, open, collegial, and supportive culture,'” a portion of their statement reads.

With the move, Sage and Coombe joins Bernheimer Architecture as the second significant office in the United States to have successfully formed a union within the past year. Another effort at Snøhetta’s New York and San Francisco office failed over the summer, prompting an investigation at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) after the group Architectural Workers United (AWU) charged the firm’s leadership with miscond...

New York's Center for Architecture announces new leadership and chair

2022-07-29T17:19:00-04:00

One of the New York area’s most influential architectural institutions is getting new leadership after the AIANY's Center for Architecture announced its new board of directors positions on Friday.

The Center announced Sage and Coombe founding partner Jennifer Sage as the institution’s new chair, and Cornell University professor Peter Robinson as its new vice chair, in replacement of Columbia University’s Barry Bergdoll, who served in the position until June 30th. Marc Norman, a 2015 Harvard Loeb Fellow and the new director at NYU's Schack Institute of Real Estate, is joining the board as a trustee as well.

A graduate of Harvard College and the Yale SoA, Sage has enjoyed a strong tenure with the organization thus far. After joining the AIANY Board of Directors in 2013 as a Director, she went on to serve as Vice President of Design Excellence from 2016 to 2018 before finally joining the Center for Architecture Board in 2019. Through the work of her firm, she has been involved in majo...