Exhibition Tours

Join us for the third waterfront walking tour with the project team behind Energies of Repair: Visualizing Community Power in NYC, a CFA Lab residency. Organized in collaboration with the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance and The POINT CDC, the tour highlights a community-led vision to transform Rikers Island into a site of reparative justice.

Rikers Island isn't just the site of the city's jails—it is also at the middle of a ring of numerous polluting facilities, from peaker plants, to waste transfer stations, to multiple expressways along the Bronx and Queens waterfronts. Renewable Rikers is a campaign-driven vision to repurpose the island into a hub for new renewable powered infrastructure that can improve water and air quality for the many communities that surround the island and save billions as decades old infrastructure meets its operational lifespan. 

During the tour, participants will learn about the vision and latest updates from the Renewable Rikers campaign, as well as the perspective of Hunts Point, a frontline community situated across from the island. Hunts Point is a community seeking to preserve its industrial roots while embracing a green transition away from fossil fuels that can serve as a model for environmental justice communities nationwide.

The tour begins at The POINT CDC and concludes at Barretto Point Park along the East River.

Meeting Location: The POINT CDC, 940 Garrison Ave, Bronx, NY 10474

Disclaimer & Notes
This event will be filmed for a May 2026 exhibition at the Center for Architecture. Participants will be asked to sign a photo/video release form. If you prefer not to be documented, that’s completely fine—we’ll support any level of comfort.

“REFLECTION OF THE FUTURE” is a landmark exhibition uniting the academic depth of Shenzhen University, the global prestige of the A’ Design Award, and the creative vitality of New York City’s local design community.

Set against the backdrop of Manhattan’s rapidly evolving West Side—at the crossroads of historic Hell’s Kitchen and the futuristic Hudson Yards—this exhibition positions Shenzhen as a living prototype for the future city, while inviting a critical cross-cultural dialogue on urbanization, technology, and ecology.

Please join us for the opening night celebration for three exhibitions—CFA Lab: Repair – Democracy and Urban Spaces, AIANY Design Awards 2026, and Gerrit Rietveld: Wealth of Sobriety—that will be on view at the Center for Architecture from May 7–September 2, 2026. The evening will include remarks from each exhibition team as well as mingling and light refreshments! 

About the Exhibitions: 

Center for Architecture Lab: Repair – Democracy and Urban Spaces
Center for Architecture Lab is a multi-month, multi-disciplinary residency program that offers new voices in architecture and design full authorship over dedicated areas of the Center for Architecture’s platforms, allowing them to develop and share compelling and provocative content meant to elevate underrepresented perspectives.

The 2026 Lab cohort will respond to the prompt of “Repair – Democracy and Urban Spaces.” Residents will address the urgent need to repair not only the physical infrastructure of our environments but also the political and social inequities embedded within them. The open call invited architects, urban planners, designers, artists, cultural conservationists, and community activists to examine how the concept of repair can serve as a lens to reimagine democratic, equitable spaces.

Selected residents:
Energies of Repair: Visualizing Community Power in NYC by Andrea Johnson and Ashley Dawson
DEPAVE: An Ecological Repair of the Ground by Friends Making Work (Christine Giorgio, Amelyn Ng, and Gabriel Vergara)

Graphic Design: WSDIA

AIANY Design Awards 2026
AIANY Design Awards 2026 features Honor, Merit, and Citation recipients in the categories of Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design. The selected projects and the architecture firms that designed them represent the exceptional work by AIA New York members and architects practicing in New York City. To be eligible, projects had to be completed by AIANY members or architects/designers practicing in New York or be New York projects designed by architects/designers based elsewhere.

Graphic Design: World

Gerrit Rietveld: Wealth of Sobriety
In 2018 Dutch photographer Arjan Bronkhorst published the photographic volume Wealth of Sobriety based on a several-years-long project of photographing the lesser-known, and sometimes all but unknown, houses by the renowned architect Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964). A selection of the projects published in the book will be on view at the Center for Architecture.

Photography: Arjan Bronkhorst
Curators: Arjan Bronkhorst and Barry Bergdoll
Graphic Design: Ian Sullivan