by: Camila Schaulson Frenz
10.24.13: During a timely Building of the Day tour on United Nations Day, Assistant Secretary-General Michael Adlerstein, FAIA, Executive Director of the UN Capital Master Plan, and Werner Schmidt, Public Information Officer of the UN Capital Master Plan (not shown) escorted Archtoberites through the United Nations Headquarters.
10.25.13: Matthew D. Berman, Principal, workshop/apd, showed tour goers around Archtober Building of the Day BLDG 92, a LEED-Platinum-certified exhibition and visitors center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
10.26.13: During an Archtober Building of the Day tour, Dan Wood, AIA, of WORK Architecture Company/WORKac, and Lucy Ofiesh, Deputy Director of the Children’s Museum of the Arts, spoke about the challenges of designing a museum suitable for children of all ages.
10.27.13: Frank Mahan, AIA, Associate, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, led an Archtober Building of the Day tour of bank-turned-retail store 510 Fifth Avenue.
10.28.13: Building of the Day tour guides Robert Bates, AIA, Walter B. Melvin Architects, and Adam Yarinsky, FAIA, Principal, Architecture Research Office/ARO, stand outside of the Judd Foundation with a crowd of faithful Archtoberites.
10.28.13: Phyllis Lambert, Hon. FAIA, author of Building Seagram and founder of the Canadian Centre for Architecture mingles, with Belmont Freeman, FAIA, and Suzanne Stephens, Deputy Editor, Architectural Record, after the Oculus Book Talk.
10.28.13: After the Oculus Book Talk, Phyllis Lambert, Hon. FAIA, signed books for lucky fans, including Guy Geier, FAIA, AIANY Director for Publications, and Jill N. Lerner, FAIA, AIANY 2013 President.
10.30.13: Juergen Riehm, FAIA, BDA, 1100 Architect, and Frank Genese, AIA, Vice President of Construction and Facilities Management, Queens Library, were gracious tour guides of the Children’s Library Discovery Center, the 30th Building of the Day, leading attendees around the rest of the library and construction sites as well.
10.31.13: The Center for Architecture staff lines up in Archtober gear to film the Archtober Lounge Performance Video, on view here.
10.31.13: Guy Geier, FAIA, FIIDA, LEED, Managing Partner, FXFOWLE Architects; Alexandros Washburn, Assoc. AIA, Chief Urban Designer, NYC Department of City Planning; and Vishaan Chakrabarti, Assoc. AIA, Partner, SHoP Architects, spoke at the New York Building Congress Architects Leadership Council at the Center for Architecture.
11.02.13: The Sifang Art Museum in Nanjing, China, Steven Holl Architects’ first project in China, opened on 11.02.13.