Spring 2018: Design Awards
Explore the Spring 2018 issue of Oculus magazine, AIA New York’s quarterly print magazine. Cover: Best in Competition Winner The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Image by: Alan Karchmer, rights held by the Smithsonian Institution.
Table of Contents
Articles & News
Letter from the President
Architect | Activist
by Gerard F.X. “Guy” Geier II, FAIA, FIIDA, LEED AP
Letter from the Editor
A New Season
by Molly Heintz
At the Center
Social Housing: New European Projects
At the Center
Oculus Book Talk
At the Center
Designing Waste
Last Word
AIA’18, 30 Years in the Making…
by Benjamin Prosky
Features
Best in Competition: Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
Freelon Adjaye Bond + SmithGroupJJR
Architecture: Honor
Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse
Architecture Research Office
Tirpitz Museum
BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
Square House
LEVENBETTS
Magazzino Italian Art
MQ Architecture
University of Toronto Daniels Building at One Spadina
NADAAA
Architecture: Merit
Michigan Lake House
Desai Chia Architecture
Cornell University Upson Hall Renovation
LTL Architects and Perkins+Will
NYC DOT Harper Street Yard Structures
nARCHITECTS
The Book Company Headquarters
N.E.E.D. Architecture
Columbia University Lenfest Center for the Arts
RPBW/Davis Brody Bond
Kew Gardens Hills Library
WORK Architecture Company
LUMA Arles
Selldorf Architects
Canadian National Holocaust Monument
Studio Libeskind
Josai International University i-House Dormitory
Studio SUMO
Princeton University Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners
Kent State Center for Architecture and Environmental Design
WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/ Urbanism
Architecture: Citation
Delancey and Essex Municipal Parking Garage
Michielli + Wyetzner Architects
Williamsburgh Savings Bank
David Scott Parker Architects
Interiors: Honor
Nam June Paik Art Center Renovation
N H D M/Nahyun Hwang + David Eugin Moon
Interiors: Merit
Cornell University Rhodes Hall
LEVENBETTS
New York Family Office
SheltonMindel + A+I
Parsons Making Center
Rice+Lipka Architects
Interiors: Citation
The Gerken Residence
Young Projects
Projects: Honor
Manual of Section
LTL Architects
Interiors: Merit
Thinness Pavilion
APTUM Architecture
Interiors: Citation
London Mithraeum
Studio Joseph
Urban Design: Merit
One Vanderbilt
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Justice in Design
NADAAA
Houston-Galveston Area Protection System (H-GAPS)
ROGERS PARTNERS Architects + Urban Designers