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 offices of Alibi Studio, MODU, and Moorhead & Moorhead will create site-specific “threshold” installations. Guests will get to enjoy drinks and desserts, and groove to music by pazel. 

BEAUX ARTS BALL 2015: THRESHOLD
Friday, September 18, 2015 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
Knockdown Center 52-19 Flushing Avenue Maspeth, Queens

Installations by:
Alibi Studio, Catie Newell
MODU, Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem
Moorhead & Moorhead, Granger Moorhead and Robert Moorhead

Co-chairs: Vishaan Chakrabarti and Maria Alataris
Beaux Arts Ball Event Committee: Sarah Berman, Jared Della Valle, Alexander P. Lamis, Nat Oppenheimer, Elisa Orlanski Ours, Bradley Samuels, Dan Shannon, and Billie Tsien

Scroll down for some photos from the 2014 Beaux Arts Ball: Craft at Weylin B. Seymour’s in Brooklyn.

You can purchase tickets for the Beaux Arts Ball 2015 now online. Tickets are $100.