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.
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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 Center — a former doorframe factory restored into an artist/performance space.
The design offices of Alibi Studio, MODU, and Moorhead & Moorhead will create site-specific “threshold” installations inside the factory’s 50,000 square foot, 40-foot high spaces. Guests will also get to enjoy drinks and desserts, and groove to music by pazel.
TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY:
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Threshold // Appeal to me
Denounced usually as a barrier, or permeable gateway.
Is often not computed within architecture + as a result, overlooked.
The exploration [In this event] as use to bridge divides, between:
_Architecture + Nature
_Society + It's Roles
_De-materialization + Growth
All trends to a relevant future in architecture // A way to bridge the past and future.
^ This this, is what appeals to me.
I don't know... The whole Pentagraphic and Vishaan presence just sucks all of the life out of the event. I prefer the days when architects were architects and not Branders or Real Estate Developers etc.
Architects seem to only get a place at the big table if they give up everything. Oh, congrats, you got them to rotate the glass tower slightly to the left... Architecture!
The most appealing aspect of this years Ball has to be its location in Queens! If you look at some of the previous venues you might not think the Newton Creek Estuary to be the most logical location for the Architectural Leagues biggest event. However, I think the League is attune to the fact that they are the architectural League of New York not just Manhattan and Brooklyn. Especially considering the Urban Ominbus' Block Party a few months ago which was also in Queens, I find the most appealing aspect of the Ball this year to be exposing architects to an area (and borough) of New York the they normally might not visit.
The idea of passage and entering a new chapter architecturally and artistically, as the title of threshold implies. Furthermore, the industrial environment, turned art space is an inspiring example of how urban architecture should continue to evolve.
The image is a kind of Vasereli-type diagram which I found very appealing and disturbing at the same time!
What appeals to you most about the 2015 Beaux Arts Ball?
I love Queens and I love anything that brings in the architectural savvy folk! Then we can head to Flushing for some Pho.
What appeals to you most about the 2015 Beaux Arts Ball?
Spending my free time on a Friday night talking about ARCHITECTURE with a bunch of ARCHITECTS. There is no possible way that could be insufferable! Pick me pick me!
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