Spring 2023 — AIA New York

Cover of Oculus Spring 2023 magazine issue

Spring 2023: 2023 AIANY Design Awards

A Publication of AIA New York, Volume 85, Number 2

On the Cover: The Brooklyn Public Library Adams Street Branch, designed by WORKac, puts children at the center in an elevated pavilion clad in maple-veneered MDF with a custom pattern. Photography: Bruce Damonte.

Table of Contents

News & Articles

Portrait of Matthew Bremer walking his two dogs in front of a bright mural

Letter from the President

Our City, Ourselves

by Mathew Bremer, AIA, President, AIA New York

Letter from the Editor

Pressing Back

by Jennifer Krichels, Oculus Editor-in-Chief

Contributors to This Issue

On View

CAMPUS_AULA; Reopening and New Programming, The Hispanic Society Museum & Library; Spring Highlights

Interior of John Lewis Elementary School with two children sitting in a sunny window seat

Summer 2023: Call for Op-Eds

Innovations in K-12 Education Spaces

Last Word

A Time of Transition

by Jesse Lazar, Interim Executive Director, AIA New York | Center For Architecture

Features

Promotional image for 2023 Honors and Awards Luncheon featuring orange to lavender gradient

Honor Awards

The following four awardees are united by their mission to address the urgent need for a more just, equitable, sustainable, connected, and resilient world

by the Editors

John Lewis Elementary School, Washington, DC, Perkins Eastman DC

Intro & Jury

An international panel of esteemed practitioners reviewed 180 submissions by 119 firms to arrive at this year’s 18 Design Awards recipients.

by the Editors

Index of Collaborators

Design Details

Take a closer look at six of this year’s award-winning projects.

by Rita Catinella Orrell

Architecture Honor

Columbia Business School Henry R. Kravis Hall and David Geffen Hall

Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with FXCollaborative

2050 M Street

REX

Uber Headquarters

SHoP Architects

11 Hoyt

Studio Gang

Marea

WORKac

Architecture Merit

One South First

COOKFOX

Princeton University Residential Colleges

Deborah Berke Partners

TheatreSquared

Marvel

John Lewis Elementary School

Perkins Eastman DC

The Hood Museum of Art

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners

Architecture Citation

Battery Maritime Building - Casa Cipriani

Marvel

Interiors Honor

Brooklyn Public Library Adams Street Branch

WORKac

Interiors Merit

Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Interiors Citation

Bronx Children's Museum

O'Neill McVoy Architects

Projects Merit

Battery Playscape

BKSK

Projects Citation

Barco de Papel Libreria y Centro Cultural

N H D M Architects

Urban Design Honor

New York City Housing Authority Open Space Master Plan

Grain Collective and Nancy Owens Studio

Urban Design Citation

550 Madison Avenue

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