Building Tours

The interconnected towers of One South First and Ten Grand are located at the northern end of the five-building Domino Sugar development, which includes the adaptive reuse of the landmarked sugar refinery and four new buildings on the Williamsburg waterfront, each designed by a different architect under a 2013 master plan created by SHoP Architects.

Architect: COOKFOX

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

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Adapting St. Luke’s Hospital by Ernest Flagg, 1896-1928, into apartments within five French Renaissance Revival-style pavilions across from Morningside Park, the conversion builds on Flagg’s maximizing light and air around a central carriage house–later a standard for hospital design. The conversion resolves varied floor heights and structural systems, adding infill buildings. Inside, unconventional duplexes with double-height living rooms behind mansard roofs open residents to the carriage house's new, double height resident lounge with vaulted ceilings.
Please note: this tour is accessible by wheelchair.

Architect: CetraRuddy

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Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

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As the design architect and landscape architect, Snøhetta has repositioned the landmarked 1980s tower originally designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee for a new age while transforming an existing but underutilized Privately-Owned Public Space (POPS) into a lavishly planted, year-round garden. This expansive role includes the conceptual re-thinking of the tower’s structural core for multi-tenant occupancy and the redesign of the tower’s ground level public areas to be more transparent, accessible, and verdant.
Please note: this tour is accessible by wheelchair.

Architect & Landscape Architect: Snøhetta

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Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

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The renovation of the East Flatbush Branch Library represents a key moment in the public life of this community. As the affluence of the city increases and income levels and services in neighborhoods like East Flatbush rise accordingly, but at a far lesser rate than other areas of the city, there exists an opportunity to make these key public buildings more transparent, vibrant and architecturally participatory in the life of the street. At the same time, the need for security and safety for the people who use the library remains. To address this opportunity, the design intent for the library is a light filled communal space of learning, self-improvement and community gathering. The overall design establishes a large central space with glowing smaller spaces ringing the perimeter and provides the technical and spatial needs for the branch library to flourish.

Architect: LEVENBETTS

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

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A performing arts center was a key component of the master plan to rebuild the World Trade Center site following the attacks on September 11, 2001. Located adjacent to the new Transit Hub, The Perelman Center for Performing Arts at the World Trade Center (PAC) will create approximately 135,000 sf of space for theater, dance, music, film, and opera in Lower Manhattan. PAC will further animate Lower Manhattan and become an anchor for the arts community.

Architect: REX, Davis Brody Bond

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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Located on the banks of the Harlem River, the Bronx Children's Museum aims to engage children with the connectivity of urban culture and the natural world. The design catalyzes the site's position between city grid and tidal river with a Museum Architecture of organic flow inside the rectangular frame of the existing historic powerhouse – a new kind of space unlike the city's cellular rooms and street grids, connecting to the geometry and experience of the natural landscape and waterfront.

Architect: O'Neill McVoy Architects

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

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City Kids is a new childhood education center located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The project is an adaptive reuse of a former lumber warehouse located under an existing high rise residential tower. Six preschool classrooms open onto a central double height courtyard gathering space. The after school program for elementary school students including specialized classrooms for cooking, theater, STEM, art, and movement are located up the stairs at the reception area.
Please note: this tour is accessible by wheelchair.

Architect: Barker Architecture Office

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Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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SAGE Center is housed on the ground floor of the Stonewall House Senior Residences. The primary audience is the elder LGBTQ+ community for whom it provides services but everyone is welcome. Older LGBTQ+ people often need help because many are single without children, and may be estranged from their families or feel isolated in traditional senior centers. The Center’s design satisfies a flexible program on a modest budget while celebrating the lives of its users.
Please note: this tour is accessible by wheelchair.

Architect: Ted Porter Architecture

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Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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Bronx Point is a transformative, community-oriented, mixed-use development that will bring dynamic commercial/retail and community facility uses, affordable housing to the South Bronx. The project seeks to reconnect neighbors to the Harlem River waterfront through a new waterfront esplanade and park expansion and encourages community interaction via a cultural anchor of deep local resonance—a dedicated home to The Hip Hop Museum to attract local guests and global supporters of Hip Hop culture.

S9 Architecture's façade design uses building materials that are contextual, utilizing various bricks, stones, metals, and concrete materials on both the tower and podium with fine grained materials used on the podium. Marvel leads Bronx Point’s landscape design and planning, creating usable waterfront space with 18 contiguous acres of green space, and addressing issues of community access, programming, safety and resiliency at the water’s edge.

Building Architect: S9 Architecture
Landscape Architect: Marvel
Landscape Architect of Record: Abel Bainnson Butz

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

All Archtober sales are final. No refunds available.

ENYA members will be led on a building tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing Renovation, designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and WHY Architects, as presented at the previous Beyond The Boards event on October 12. The tour will commence at 3:00pm at the Met. Details and instructions will be shared closer to the event.

Speakers:
Byron Chang, Architect and Exhibitions Designer, WHY
Henry Miller, AIA, CPHC, LEED AP, Architect, Beyer Blinder Belle
Nicky Rackard, Architectural Designer, MoMA, Architectural Designer, 92NY

About the Speakers:
Byron Chang is an experienced architect and exhibition designer with a vast knowledge of working with large museum stakeholder groups. A key member of WHY since 2008, he has designed major museums and galleries both nationally and internationally including expansions at the Speed Art Museum and Asian Art Museum and gallery reinstallations at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Harvard Art Museums and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Chang often serves as the main point of contact with museums, working closely with curatorial, conservation, and educations departments to execute projects that bring a clarity to the design while honoring the vision of each institution.

Henry Miller has over a decade of experience working on a wide range of projects encompassing new construction, historic preservation, and sustainable design. He is adept at all phases of a project, from programming and design through technical detailing and documentation, and has a particular interest in utilizing the latest in BIM software for existing buildings and preservation projects. His clients include NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Elad Group. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College and a Master of Architecture from Pratt Institute. Miller has been at BBB since 2004. Miller is a Certified Passive House Consultant (CPHC).

Nicky Rackard is a NYC-based architectural designer specializing in institutional projects, notably with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and 92NY. Covering all design phases from development to construction administration, he has experience in Landmarks Preservation and Passive House standards. Keen on physical model-making and adept in BIM, Rackard has also contributed to ArchDaily. He holds both a B.Sci and M.Arch from University College Dublin and joined BBB in 2019.

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. Read our full Health and Safety Protocol here.

The International Center of Photography (ICP) enlisted Gensler to realize its 20-year goal of unifying its museum and school under one roof. As the cultural anchor of Essex Crossing, Gensler created a compelling visitor journey that supports ICP’s exhibitions, education programs, and public events. The Center features galleries, a research library, and the school. A bookshop, café, and event spaces add to the expansive space, which when combined, creates a dynamic destination for the community.
Please note: this tour is accessible by wheelchair.

Architect: Gensler

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

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ENYA members will be led on a building tour of New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Renovation, designed by Beyer Blinder Belle, as presented at the previous Beyond the Boards event on October 12. The tour will commence at 11:00am at the NYPL location. Further details and instructions will be shared closer to the event.

Speakers:
Sam King, Architect, Beyer Blinder Bell
Kerry Nolan, AIA, Senior Associate, Beyer Blinder Belle

About the Speakers:
Sam King is an architect who has been with Beyer Blinder Belle for 6 years. He has worked on a number of educational and institutional projects including SASB and Adams House as a part of Harvard House Renewal. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, he holds degrees in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and Yale University.

Kerry Nolan is a Senior Associate at Beyer Blinder Belle and brings over two decades of expertise leading project teams through the design, documentation, and construction administration of cultural and educational facilities; her current clients include NYPL, University of Pennsylvania, 92NY, and Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, FL. She is a valued resource on the construction site and in the office, with a team-oriented approach to complex problem-solving. Nolan is an active mentor for staff in BBB’s office. She is on the Advisory Board for AIANY’s Women in Architecture committee and served as its co-chair for six years. She joined BBB in 2015.

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. Read our full Health and Safety Protocol here.

Lying just below the Seagram Building’s iconic plaza and flanking fountains now sits one of the most unique amenities offerings in New York’s real estate market—The Playground. Accessed directly from the landmarked elevator cabs, the experience unfolds much like an athlete entering an arena. A tunnel-like entry leads to a color washed multi-sport flex court surrounded by a variety of working and meeting spaces, creating unexpected proximities like rock climbing next to a board meeting.
Please note: this tour is accessible by wheelchair.

Architect: STUDIOS Architecture

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

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In reimagining a creative workplace experience, A+I collaborated with the French advertising giant Publicis Groupe on the company’s flagship building in Manhattan. The resulting ‘Clubhouse for Creativity’ is a space for their newly-formed collective, “Le Truc” – designed to support and unlock creativity across the organization. Conceptualized at the onset of the pandemic, the project is emblematic of the more flexible model of work and serves as the new center of gravity for Publicis.
Please note: this tour is accessible by wheelchair.

Architect: Architecture Plus Information (A+I)

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

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A striking copper and grey-striated stucco courtyard building is carved into the steep rocky hillside opposite Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan. The Albert is a new 164-unit 100% affordable senior residential community built to Passive House standards. The late-construction/ near completion hardhat tour will allow visitors behind the scenes of the design and construction of a state-of-the-art all-electric building designed to Passive House standards that’s also home to Rocky Mount Baptist Church.
Please note: this is a hard-hat tour and is not accessible by wheelchair.

Architect: Architecture in Formation, SLCE

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Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

All Archtober sales are final. No refunds available.

Founded in 1886, the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) is one of the premier Jewish institutions in the United States. To foster dialogue with a broader community, JTS sought to consolidate their holdings and reimagine their cloistered campus to be more open and inviting. The renovated and expanded campus now features a 208 seat auditorium, refreshed courtyard, new library with rare books collection, cafeteria, dormitory, and Moadon student-run space all connected by a central Light Court.
Please note: this tour is accessible by wheelchair.

Architect: Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

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The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation is the latest addition to New York’s historic American Museum of Natural History. At a time of urgent need for better public understanding of science and greater access to science education, the Gilder Center is designed to amplify the intellectual impact of the Museum with experiential architecture that encourages exploration—drawing in people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities to share the excitement of scientific discovery and learning about the natural world.

Architect: Studio Gang

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

All Archtober sales are final. No refunds available.

Selldorf Architects has collaborated with Hauser & Wirth on its spaces internationally since the founding of the gallery in 1992. In each location, the goal is always to create strong, well-proportioned spaces that place art at the forefront of the visitor’s experience. This project is Selldorf's first purpose-built, ground-up building for the gallery with the Gallery. Subtly articulated, various scaled volumes of space throughout the 36,000 sf structure feature natural light and flexible configurations.
Please note: this tour is accessible by wheelchair.

Architect: Selldorf Architects

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

All Archtober sales are final. No refunds available.

This tour will be offered at two times on October 21st: 12-1pm & 1-2pm.
The Special Collections at NYU’s Bobst Library occupies two floors of the eleven-story library, located on the southeast corner of Washington Square Park. Design was inspired by the collections’ content, the building’s location in Greenwich Village and the strong architectural character of Bobst Library, designed by Philip Johnson in the early 70s. The project includes a special collections reading room, galleries, classrooms, curatorial offices and workspaces, and compact material storage systems.
Please note: this tour is accessible by wheelchair.

Architect: CannonDesign

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

All Archtober sales are final. No refunds available.

This tour will be offered at two times on October 21st: 12-1pm & 1-2pm.
The Special Collections at NYU’s Bobst Library occupies two floors of the eleven-story library, located on the southeast corner of Washington Square Park. Design was inspired by the collections’ content, the building’s location in Greenwich Village and the strong architectural character of Bobst Library, designed by Philip Johnson in the early 70s. The project includes a special collections reading room, galleries, classrooms, curatorial offices and workspaces, and compact material storage systems.
Please note: this tour is accessible by wheelchair.

Architect: CannonDesign

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

All Archtober sales are final. No refunds available.

Melrose North serves as a beacon for Morrisania, connecting to the neighborhood’s historic fabric while embracing its future. Featuring a 120-ft mural welcoming residents and visitors to the Bronx, the building is scaled to the neighborhood yet modernly detailed. The 170 affordable apartments include 103 supportive units, with a community space run by DreamYard. Melrose North will be Passive House certified, featuring a solar array and robust, lushly planted outdoor areas.
Please note: this tour is accessible by wheelchair.

Architect: Curtis + Ginsberg Architects

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

All Archtober sales are final. No refunds available.

Ennead and their consultants designed a new copper roof to protect the 120 year old Guastavino tile dome over the Cathedral's crossing and restored the interior of the dome. Our tour would include looking at the dome from street level, inside the Cathedral, and up close from an adjacent roof (that requires a 17-story climb).
Please note: this tour is not accessible by wheelchair and will include climbing many stairs.

Architect: Ennead Architects

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

All Archtober sales are final. No refunds available.

Designed for the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Idlewild Park Salt Marsh Environmental Science Learning Center offers classroom and exhibit space in the Idlewild Park Saltwater Marsh in Queens. By its location and form, the building tells the story of water in our urban habitat, and acts like a porch to the wetland landscape beyond. Classrooms, an exhibit hall, and the entry space all frame the views around the site.
Please note: this tour is accessible by wheelchair.

Architect: Handel Architects

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

All Archtober sales are final. No refunds available.

The adaptive reuse of One Madison Avenue adds an 18-story tower atop an updated, mid-century podium. Structurally, this is achieved by deploying an innovative mega-column system to support the tower that minimizes interventions in the existing building. The limestone façade at the base is retained and repaired, while the new tower steps back from the neighboring landmarked clock tower, creating dialogue between old and new. The design retains 67% of the building’s original structure, preserving a significant amount of embodied energy, and is forecast to result in an energy reduction of over 60% against the AIA 2030 Commitment baseline. The project is designed to comply today with the 2030 building emission targets determined by NYC’s Local Law 97.
Please note: this tour is not accessible by wheelchair.

Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

All Archtober sales are final. No refunds available.

The Paulson Center is a vertical extension of the NYU campus comprised of unique programmatic ‘neighborhoods’ including specialized academic, athletic, performing arts, dining, and residential spaces connected to a multi-use Commons, fulfilling the academic community’s desire for transparent, wellness-oriented spaces while exceeding the University’s sustainability and energy-use goals.
Please note: this tour is accessible by wheelchair.

Architects: Davis Brody Bond, KieranTimberlake

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour.

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

All Archtober sales are final. No refunds available.

Conceived as a vertical campus, 15 Beekman Street is Pace University’s new student-centered academic and residential tower in lower Manhattan. The first 11 stories of the building, designed by Architecture Research Office, feature nine dining concepts, a flexible, 200 person event space, a library with 50,000 volumes, spaces for individual and group study, as well as classrooms that support diverse modes of teaching and learning.
Please note: this tour is accessible by wheelchair.

Architect: Architecture Research Office (ARO)

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

All Archtober sales are final. No refunds available.

Join Archtober's first tour upstate to The Robert Olnick Pavilion, the second building on Magazzino Italian Art’s campus, is designed by architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo. The pavilion highlights industrial materials such as concrete to facilitate an aesthetically neutral environment to compliment the postwar and contemporary Italian art it will exhibit. The building includes the isotropic room, designed by Campo Baeza as a perfect cube, perforated with square windows at each corner, facilitating a constantly evolving stream of light.

Transportation to Magazzino Italian Art is not included in ticket purchase. Attendees can arrive by car (about an 80 minute trip) or train (about 70 minutes from Grand Central station to Cold Spring station). You can find more details on transportation on Magazzino's website.

Architect: Miguel Quismondo of MQ Architecture, Alberto Campo Baeza

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. Please note: this tour is accessible by wheelchair.

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

All Archtober sales are final. No refunds available.

The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art — founded by Jacques Marchais (1887-1948), an important collector and respected expert — replicates the monasteries of Lhasa, containing unique artifacts reflecting art, history, culture, and spirituality of Tibet. Designed by Marchais, the rustic complex of fieldstone buildings resembles a Tibetan monastery. These historic buildings represent the first Himalayan-style architecture to be built in the U.S., and the first museum in the world devoted solely to Tibetan art.
Please note: this tour is not accessible by wheelchair.
The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art staff have been working hard to preserve the historic building. Please consider supporting the museum to help continue their mission of preservation and education through this donation link. 

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

All Archtober sales are final. No refunds available.

The Louis Armstrong Center is across the street from the existing Louis Armstrong House Museum in the Corona section of Queens.  the new two-story, 14,000-square-foot center celebrates the life and legacy of the legendary jazz trumpeter. The Center houses the 60,000-piece Louis Armstrong Archive, consisting of recordings, manuscripts, and personal artifacts, along with a reading room for visiting researchers.

Architect: Caples Jefferson Architects

This event is offered in person; COVID-19 vaccinations and face masks are strongly encouraged for all visitors. 

Meeting location will be emailed to registered attendees the day before the tour. 

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This program is organized in conjunction with Archtober, New York City’s month-long architecture, and design festival.

All Archtober sales are final. No refunds available.