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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...

Win tickets to Beaux Arts Ball 2019: WAVE

2019-09-25T12:29:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York is ready to kick off the 2019 Beaux Arts Ball: WAVE, a yearly benefit party that supports their programs. Continuing their multi-year residency exploring the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Ball takes place this Friday, September 27 at the Shed 269 building, which was used as a subassembly unit and is currently part of Agger Fish Corp.

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

From First Wave to Nouvelle Vague to New Wave, this year's theme celebrates and reflects on these pivotal cultural movements throughout history.

For a chance to win a ticket, leave a comment below naming your favorite design or architectural "wave" movement and why you chose it. Only your first comment will count. Each winner will receive one ticket. Deadline is this Friday, September 27 at noon, Eastern Time.

Attendees to this year's Ball will get to enjoy an evening of festivities amid an original, immersive installation in...

The Architectural League announces Beaux Arts Ball 2019: WAVE

2019-09-11T11:13:00-04:00

This post is brought to you by The Architectural League of NY

The Architectural League of New York will hold its annual Beaux Arts Ball on Friday, September 27, 2019. Continuing their multi-year residency exploring the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Ball will take place at Shed 269, a vast former submarine assembly building, currently part of Agger Fish Corp.

First Wave, Nouvelle Vague, Third Wave, Next Wave, New Wave, No Wave. Waves have long been used as metaphors for movements and cohorts that mark moments in culture. The Architectural League Beaux Arts Ball 2019: WAVE will celebrate these generative and transformative forces of waves. The League has commissioned 2017 League Prize winners Greg Corso and Molly Hunker of SPORTS to design Ceiling Unlimited. The "fluid and dynamic" installation along with lighting designed by Ken Farmer of Wild Dogs International will create an original, immersive environment in response to this year’s theme.

Since the League’s revival of the event in 1990,...

Win 2 tickets to Beaux Arts Ball 2018: Vector

2018-09-17T14:21:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York is getting ready to host this year's Beaux Arts Ball, a benefit for their programs taking place September 28 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Attendees will enjoy a night of festivities around the site-specific installation, 16 Salt Tarps, Half Red Half White, a response to this year’s theme and the Navy Yard’s history by Landing Studio.

Thanks to The Architectural League, Archinect is giving away two pairs of tickets to three of our readers!

This year’s theme, Vector, celebrates the flow of ideas, goods, and people through global networks of communication and exchange. For a chance to win, follow us on instagram @archinect and leave the #BeauxArtsBall18 hashtag in the comment section of an image on our account that best represents this year's Vector theme by Friday, September 21st, 12 PM EST.

Only your first comment will count. Three winners will be announced next Monday, September 24. Best of luck!

Tickets start at $100. 21+ only. Festive attire...

Win 2 tickets to Beaux Arts Ball 2017: Alchemy

2017-09-14T09:00:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York is getting ready to kick off another eventful Beaux Arts Ball, taking place September 22nd at Building 28 in Brooklyn's Navy Yard. Attendees will get to mingle with fellow designers and friends, listen to music spun by DJay Jung while illuminated by lighting from Joel Fitzpatrick Studios, and see site-specific installations by Brett H. Schneider and Lizzie Hodges.

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

This year’s theme, Alchemy, celebrates the transformation from one state to another, the quicksilver act of creation: dockyards into an innovation hub; concrete, steel, and wood into the world we live in. For a chance to win, respond to the following prompt in the comment section below by Friday, September 15th, 12 PM EST: Name your favorite instance of adaptive re-use in architecture this year.

Only your first comment will count. Two winners will be announced next Monday, September...

The Architectural League's Beaux Arts Ball 2017: Alchemy

2017-09-10T09:00:00-04:00

This post is brought to you by The Architectural League

Join friends and colleagues for Alchemy, the 2017 Architectural League Beaux Arts Ball taking place at Building 28 in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard. This year’s theme celebrates the transformation from one state to another, the quicksilver act of creation: dockyards into an innovation hub; concrete, steel, and wood into the world we live in. Responding to this year’s theme, Brett H. Schneider and Lizzie Hodges have designed UNPACKING, a site-specific installation that will stretch along 400 feet of the building’s interior to create “soft rooms” for the Ball’s patrons.

Learn more about this year's event and how to purchase tickets.

Since The Architectural League revived the event in 1990, the Beaux Arts Ball has become the premier annual party of the architecture and design community in the city with over 1,000 architects, designers, artists and their friends attending. The League identifies a distinctive architecturally significant v...

A fresh start at the Arch League's 2016 Beaux Arts Ball

2016-10-04T21:03:00-04:00

The Architectural League started another cultural year on a high note at the 2016 Beaux Arts Ball, which took place at the new nARCHITECTS-designed A/D/O space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn last Friday. Co-chaired by architects Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown, this year's “Tabula Rasa” theme was all about celebrating creativity in progress, the act of fresh-thinking, and New York's ceaseless reinvention. Here are some photos from the event:

Over 1,200 architects, designers, and friends showed up to the yearly party. In tandem with the Tabula Rasa theme, guests got a good look inside the 23,000 square-foot still-in-progress A/D/O industrial space and were surrounded by natural stone slabs from ABC Worldwide Stone. Chef Fredrik Berselius of the acclaimed Nordic-inspired restaurant Aska curated a menu of light fare.

“Table's Clear” designed by Ultramoderne.

Ultramoderne designed a site-specific “floating tabula rasa” installation called “Table's Clear” for the party. “The lightweight fabric hangs i...

Winners of the 2016 Beaux Arts Ball ticket giveaway

2016-09-26T19:40:00-04:00

The 2016 Beaux Arts Ball is happening this Friday at the new A/D/O space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn! Thanks to the Architectural League of New York, two Archinect readers will each win a pair of tickets to the Tabula Rasa-themed ball.

The giveaway winners are Wendy Fok and Aditya Ghosh.

Congrats! Thanks to everyone who participated.

Learn more at archleague.org/BAB16.

Win 2 tickets to Beaux Arts Ball 2016: Tabula Rasa!

2016-09-20T09:00:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York is getting ready to kick off another eventful Beaux Arts Ball 2016: Tabula Rasa, taking place on September 30 at the new nARCHITECTS-designed A/D/O space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Co-chaired by Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown, this year's Tabula Rasa theme is all about celebrating creativity in progress, the act of fresh-thinking, and New York's ceaseless reinvention.

Attendees will get to mingle with fellow designers and friends, see site-specific installations from Ultramoderne and Wild Dogs International, and enjoy a menu of light fare by Fredrik Berselius of Aska.

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

For a chance to win, respond to the following question in the comment section below by Friday, September 23, 12 p.m. Eastern Time: Name your favorite instance of fresh-thinking and innovation in architecture this year (a project, research, an award recipient, etc.).

Only your first comm...

Beaux Arts Ball 2016: Tabula Rasa

2016-09-08T13:43:00-04:00

This post is brought to you by The Architectural League.

Join friends and colleagues for Tabula Rasa, the 2016 Architectural League Beaux Arts Ball taking place at A/D/O, a new design space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This year’s theme celebrates the creative act of fresh thinking and innovation and New York’s own ceaseless reinvention. The Ball will offer a rare inside look at the raw and in-progress 23,000 square-foot A/D/O space designed by Brooklyn-based nARCHITECTS. Responding to this year's theme, Ultramoderne will design a site-specific installation and Wild Dogs International will develop projection-mapped installations to be displayed throughout the space. Fredrik Berselius of Aska will create a menu of light fare.

Since the League’s revival of the event in 1990, the Beaux Arts Ball has become the premier annual party of the architecture and design community in New York with over 1,000 architects, designers, artists, and their friends attending. Located each year at a different...

Partygoers have a blast at the Architectural League's 2015 Beaux Arts Ball

2015-09-22T09:48:00-04:00

Architects, designers, and artists gathered at the Knockdown Center in Queens last Friday night for the Architectural League of New York's Beaux Arts Ball 2015. Co-chaired by Vishaan Chakrabarti of SHoP Architects and Maria Alataris, this year's "Threshold" theme kicks off another cultural year for The Architectural League and the New York design community. It also nods to the industrial history of the Knockdown Center, a former doorframe factory that was restored into an arts and performance space.

Every year, guests dress up, boogie down, socialize, and enjoy refreshments alongside fellow architects, all while helping support the League's programs.

Here's a glimpse of this year's party.

Inside the Knockdown Center's 50,000 square foot, 40-foot high spaces, the design offices of Alibi Studio, MODU, and Moorhead & Moorhead created site-specific “threshold” installations to play up the industrial space of the Knockdown.

Check out photos from 2014: Craft and 2013: -isms.

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Last chance to get tickets to the Architectural League's Beaux Arts Ball 2015: THRESHOLD + Giveaway winners announced!

2015-09-16T21:00:00-04:00

Time is running out to get tickets to The Architectural League of New York's Beaux Arts Ball 2015: Threshold, happening at the Knockdown Center in Queens this Friday, September 18. Co-chaired by Vishaan Chakrabarti of SHoP Architects and Maria Alataris this year, the "Threshold" theme gives a hats off to the start of another cultural year for the League and the wider New York design community.

Guests get to spend an evening with fellow architects, designers, and artists for a night of fun, all while helping support the League's programs.

You can purchase tickets for $100 here.

In Archinect's latest giveaway, two of our readers each won a free pair of tickets to the 2015 Beaux Arts Ball. They are:

Andrew D.
Jacqueline L.

Congrats, and enjoy the party! Thanks to everyone who participated.

For further event details, visit archleague.org/BAB15.

Win 2 tickets to the ArchLeague's Beaux Arts Ball 2015: THRESHOLD on September 18 in NY

2015-09-11T14:51:00-04:00

Tickets are already on sale for the Architectural League of New York's Beaux Arts Ball 2015: Threshold, happening at the Knockdown Center in Queens on Friday evening, September 18. Join fellow architects, designers, and artists in one of the most highly anticipated events for the New York design community.

If you haven't secured tickets yet, you're in luck because Archinect is giving away two pairs of tickets to two of our readers! (Two tickets per winner.)

TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY:

Respond to the following question in the comment section below by Monday, September 14: What appeals to you most about the 2015 Beaux Arts Ball?

Only your first comment will count. Two winners will be announced on Tuesday, September 15.

Co-chaired by architects Vishaan Chakrabarti and Maria Alataris this year, the "Threshold" theme gives a hats off to the start of another cultural year for the League and the wider New York design community. It's also a play on the specific industrial history of the Knockdown Cen...

The Architectural League announces the Beaux Arts Ball 2015: Threshold

2015-09-03T21:57:00-04:00

Over 1,000 architects, designers, and artists will gather for a night of festivities at the Architectural League of New York's Beaux Arts Ball 2015: Threshold, taking place on September 18 at the Knockdown Center in Queens, New York City. Since the League revived the event in 1990 to fundraise support for their programs, the Beaux Arts Ball has grown into a highly anticipated event for the New York design community and friends. The League picks a different venue every year that is architecturally historic and based within the city's five boroughs.

Co-chaired by architects Vishaan Chakrabarti and Maria Alataris this year, the "Threshold" theme gives a hats off to the start of another cultural year for the League and the wider New York design community. It also draws inspiration from the specific industrial history of the Knockdown Center — a former doorframe factory restored into an artist/performance space.

Inside the factory’s 50,000 square foot, 40-foot high spaces, the design offic...

Festivities ensue at the Beaux Arts Ball 2014: Craft in New York

2014-09-25T17:35:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York hosted another successful Beaux Arts Ball this year at Weylin B. Seymour's in Williamsburg, New York this past Saturday night. In spirit of the ball's 2014 theme "Craft", eight architects and designers collaborated with Nuit Blanche New York in creating digital art projections inspired by the gorgeous interior motifs and details of the historic Weylin B. Seymour's building.

Digitally carved onto the arches of the venue's central domed hall, the installation helped create a festive environment as hundreds of well-dressed guests enjoyed drinks and desserts, and danced the night away with music by pazel. It was a fancy occasion indeed.

Want more insight to the Weylin B. Seymour's building? Check out the ArchLeague's feature on the building's restoration.

Check out photos from the ball and the Benefactors Dinner below.

Winners of the Beaux Arts Ball 2014: Craft ticket giveaway

2014-09-16T14:34:00-04:00

We're excited to announce the two lucky winners who will get to attend the Architectural League of New York's Beaux Arts Ball 2014: Craft, happening at the historic Weylin B. Seymour's in Brooklyn, NY this Saturday!

The winners are:

Brian P., NYC
George D., NYC

Congrats to you both! Hope you (and your guests) have a splendid evening at the ball. Last but not least, thanks to everyone that participated in the giveaway.

Win tickets to ArchLeague's Beaux Arts Ball 2014: Craft in New York on September 20

2014-09-12T15:19:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York's Beaux Arts Ball 2014: Craft on September 20 is coming up! Tickets to the festive event are currently on sale, but guess what: Archinect is giving away two pairs of tickets to two lucky readers! (two tickets for each winner)

TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY: In the comment section below, give at least one example of a building or architectural detail that exemplifies the art of "craft". Two winners will be chosen on Monday, September 15.

Read on for more details...

Taking place this year at the historic Weylin B. Seymour's in Brooklyn, the ball's 2014 theme "Craft" celebrates the value of artisanship and multi-disciplinary collaboration in creating architecture. Nine architects and designers will work with Nuit Blanche New York to create digital projection interpretations that will highlight the "craft" of the interior design of Weylin B. Seymour's, which is an 1875 George B. Post and Peter B.Wight-designed former Williamsburgh Savings Bank.

For the next two w...

The Arch League announces 2014 Beaux Arts Ball: Craft, co-chaired by Tod Williams & Billie Tsien

2014-09-04T15:53:00-04:00

The time has come for The Architectural League of New York's annual Beaux Arts Ball, taking place at Weylin B. Seymour's in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Saturday, September 20. The 2014 theme, "Craft", celebrates the value of artisanship in architecture and multi-disciplinary collaboration in creating architecture. This year's co-chairs include Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.

Drawing inspiration from the recent interior renovations of Weylin B. Seymour's — an 1875 George B. Post and Peter B.Wight-designed former Williamsburgh Savings Bank — nine architects and designers will work with Nuit Blanche New York to create digital projection interpretations that will highlight the "craft" of the building's interior design.

More event details from The Architectural League:

"[Weylin B. Seymour's ] exuberant interior decorations of tiling and mosaics, patterned wallpapers, frescoed domes, carved wood and stone, and bronze and gilt work, recently magnificently restored, will serve as inspiration for ...

A quick recap of the Beaux Arts Ball 2013

2013-10-02T20:09:00-04:00

Over 1,350 people attended this year's Beaux Arts Ball at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City on Sept. 28. Hosted by the Architectural League of New York — and with Archinect/Bustler as one of the media sponsors — the annual evening event brought together the architecture and design community for a centennial celebration of the infamous 1913 "Armory Show" — when European modern art was introduced into the U.S. The sold-out Ball also helps support other Arch. League events.

Special shoutout to long-time Archinectors John Jourden, Aaron Plewke, and Quilian Riano who attended the Ball!

Here's what Aaron Plewke shared with Bustler on the event:

"The overall environmental effect created for this year's ball was quite successful. The white tarp-like canopies created an intimate space at the center of the dark and voluminous armory hall. The sound installation built from a dream-like drone steadily toward a beat-heavy dance party. Large Mylar puppets marched rhythmically through the space, adding spectacle, and pushing vertically into the dark void above."

Last chance to get tickets for New York’s Beaux Arts Ball 2013: –ism

2013-09-26T15:10:00-04:00

Only a few more days until New York City's 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue opens its doors this Saturday night for an event extraordinaire: the Beaux Arts Ball hosted annually by the Architectural League of New York. This year's ball marks the centennial celebration of the iconic 1913 "Armory Show," so the theme for 2013 will be "–ism" and guests are invited to dress playfully as their favorite "ism."

The Architectural League also recently announced its 2013 fall "Current Work" lecture series, held in conjunction with the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. The lineup includes Richard Meier, David Adjaye, Toshiko Mori, Thomas Phifer, and many others.

Check out the lecture poster below for details and click here for more upcoming League events.

The PLAY LOUNGE - UK/CoD students transform Lexington's 2013 Beaux Arts Ball

2013-09-19T19:30:00-04:00

Jason Scroggin, of Lexington, KY-based Design Office Takebayashi Scroggin (D.O.T.S.), has shared with us the project The PLAY LOUNGE—the result of a fabrication course Scroggin taught last Spring at The University of Kentucky College of Design, School of Architecture.

The resulting objects were then part of Lexington's annual Beaux Arts Ball (previously).

The PLAY LOUNGE is the result of a graduate elective course entitled Tectonics, Typology, and Distribution taught by UK/CoD Assistant Professor Jason Scroggin (DOTS) in Spring 2013 that investigates participatory design and interactive manufactured objects. The class is treated as a laboratory for exploring these issues through research, discussion, and fabrication. An analysis of simple toys set up the discussion and acts as the motivating driver for a series of material constructs that consider new relationships between digital design and assembly processes to examine how physical form can engage the public realm. ...

The Architectural League of New York announces its Beaux Arts Ball 2013 theme: -ism

2013-09-05T18:44:00-04:00

Hey New Yorkers, it's that time of the year again and it's going to be extra special: The Architectural League of New York's annual Beaux Arts Ball at the 69th Regiment Armory is just around the corner, and this year, the event marks the centennial celebration of the iconic 1913 "Armory Show". The League announced Saturday, September 28, as the ball's date and emerging practices SITU STUDIO and Processional Arts Workshop as [...] featured artists to transform the space for one extravagant night.

Event Details

BEAUX ARTS BALL 2013: -ISM
Saturday, September 28, 2013
9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
69th Regiment Armory
Lexington Avenue at 25th Street
New York City

Environment: SITU STUDIO
Performance Installation: Processional Arts Workshop
Music and Sound Installation: Nathan Halpern (with Mary Lattimore and Chris Ruggiero)
DJ Set: Jon Santos
Beer, wine, and light fare

Tickets are $75 in advance; $100 at the door (space permitting). Tickets and a full list of this yearʼs Benefit Committee are available on the Leagueʼs website or by phone at 212.753.1722 x10.