Archtober

New for the 2025 Archtober Festival, our @BloombergConnects guide is getting an upgrade! 🗺️Introducing the Map feature on our Bloomberg Connects page, explore out Building of the Day program in an interactive way, and discover featured buildings are closest to you! Listen in on exclusive commenrary from the architects behind these fascinating projects and discover more exclusive content. Download the Bloomberg Connects app for free and access 100+ museums and cultural institutions around the world! 🔗Link in bio to start exploring! #archtober2025 #bloombergconnects #sharedspaces #newfeature

This year’s festival theme, Shared Spaces, considers a world where space and resources are shared responsibly, inviting participants to re-envision how we move, connect, and live together in New York City. In line with our theme, we want YOU to share with us the spaces that stand out to you, whether through one of our partners, a building tour, or simply in your day-to-day. Tag our account @archtober for a chance to be featured on our Instagram; we can’t wait to see Archtober through your lens! #archtober #architecture #design #archtober2025 #sharedspaces

It's October which means... Archtober 2025 kicks off today!! 🎇 This year marks the 15th anniversary of Archtober, New York City's month-long Festival of architecture and design!🌆 This year, we explore a world where space and resources are shared responsibly, inviting participants to re-envision how we move, connect, and live together in New York City. Head to archtober.org through the link in our bio to explore the hundreds of exciting programs lined up-including our popular Building of the Day tours, which begin today! #archtober #architecture #design #archtober2025 #safespaces

As the year comes to a close, we're looking back at an extra special edition of Archtober—we celebrated 15 years together! The 2025 festival took shape under the theme Shared Spaces, inviting participants to re-envision how we move, connect, and live together in New York City. Through talks, tours, workshops, and more, this year's festival explored the significance and joy of public space. This past Archtober, the festival hosted: 🏙️ 20 Building of the Day tours in three states, with over 350 attendees ✴️ Over 300 festival programs 👥 100+ partner organizations, including many who have been with us since the launch of the festival in 2011 🎃 Nine terrifying teams competing at Pumpkitecture! Take a look at the 🔗 in bio for an overview of the festival's highlights. Thank you for being a part of the Archtober community, here's to 15 more! 📷 Building of the Day tours: 1. The Green-Wood Cemetery Education and Welcome Center (@historicgreenwood ) with @architecture.research.office 2. Manhattan West (@manhattanwestnyc ) with @fieldoperations and @skidmoreowingsmerrill 3. Calder Gardens (@caldergardens ) with @herzogdemeuron 4. Manresa Wilds (@manresawilds ) with @scapestudio and @big_builds 5. NYCHA Red Hook Houses (@nychagram ) with @kpf 6. 505 State Street (@505statestreet ) with @alloy.bk

🌈✨ Please join us for a virtual trip to Japan, no passport needed! On 🗓️ Tuesday, December 9, 7:30–8:30pm ET you’re invited to Travel To: Hara Museum ARC—part of the @Archtober Travel To series in partnership with @bloombergconnects . This live webinar—open to all—offers a rare opportunity to dive into the architecture and ideas behind Shibukawa, Gunma’s @haramuseumarc , named after the French word for “rainbow” and Foundation Arc-en-Ciel (@arcenciel.aec ), the foundation that operates it. 🌐 Register at link in bio! ✨ Hear from: 🎤 Yoko Uchida, Former Director, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art; Former Executive Director, Foundation Arc-en-Ciel. 🎤 Junko Watanabe, International Program Director of Foundation Arc-en-Ciel and Hara Museum ARC 🎤 Hiroshi Yoshino, Principal, Hiroshi Yoshino Architects (@hiroyoshi_tk ) This live webinar brings the art, architecture, and history of Hara Museum ARC, nestled in the mountains of Gunma, straight to your screen. 🖼️ We’ll explore the museum’s incredible architecture, designed by Arata Isozaki, where galleries bathe in natural light, and outdoor installations interact with nature in powerful ways. Once the annex of the former Tokyo-based museum, Hara Museum ARC opened in its current form in Gunma in 2021, with a focus on making contemporary art a living, accessible part of society. 📸 1-3) Courtesy of Hara Museum ARC; 4) Keizo Kioku; 5) Sadamu Saito #Architecture #MuseumDesign #CenterForArchitecture #BloombergConnects #VirtualTravel

Celebrating NYC's vibrant public life 🚇 Our final feature highlighting this year's Shared Spaces illustrations is the 81st St–Museum of Natural History MTA Station! "For Want of a Nail," created in conversation with @amnh and installed in 2000, consists of mosaics and reliefs depicting extinct, existing, and endangered animals, inspired by the museum’s collections. 🌎 With a collection of 400+ artworks, @mtaartsdesign programming spans the MTA system’s 5,000-sq-mile travel area, exceeding four million "visitors" each day. Read the Q&A with Tina Vaz, Director, MTA Arts & Design, and browse behind-the-scenes into other public spaces around New York City, from Adams Street Library to @daviscentercentralpark , at the 🔗 in bio. Photos: For Want of a Nail (2000), a collaboration between MTA Arts & Design and American Museum of Natural History. 81 St-AMNH Station. Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design. 1, 4, 5. Rob Wilson 2. Jason Mandella (@mandellaphoto ) Illustration: @greaterstudio

🎃On October 29, Pumpkitecture returned to the hallowed depths of the @centerforarch Center to close out the 15th edition of the #Archtober festival. The annual architectural pumpkin-carving competition brought together 9 New York City-based design firms as they went gourd to gourd to compete for the prized Pritzerpumpkin!! Although they were provided with a standard set of pumpkin carving tools, firms were encouraged to bring additional (non-flammable and non-hazardous) tools and materials. After an hour and 15 minutes of carving, our esteemed jury picked from the patch of jack-o-lanterns and jack-o-lantern affiliates (see the People’s Pumpkin) and selected Once Future Fright Conductor’s ‘Squashington Square Park’ as the winner of the evening’s highest honors. The jury also bestowed several Pathetic Consolations (Honorable Mentions) upon the other wretched teams. Meanwhile, our dreadful audience arose from their graves to cast their ballots and nominated Modern Designers Engaging Artistic Squash’s ‘Jane’s Carousel’ as the winner of the People’s Pumpkin. 🎉 Congratulations to the winners! Thank you to all the participating firms, the 100+ audience members, and our esteemed jury for a festive evening. #archtober2025 #sharedspaces #pumpkitecture #jackolatern #halloween

As we enter our last week of Building of the Day tours, we want to send a big thank you to everyone that has attended a BOD tour this year! Nearly all of them were sold out, and we got to learn so much about the design and architecture of buildings across all five boroughs (and beyond). 🌆 📣Here are some highlights: 1. Jack Shainman Gallery (@jackshainman by Gloria Vega Martín AOR- VIQ architecture) 2. Casa Celina (Casa Celina by @map_nyc ) 3. 505 State Street (@505statestreet by @allow.bk ) 4. Terminal Warehouse (@terminalwarehouse by @CookFox ) 5. Harlem River Houses (Harlem River Houses by @cplusga ) 6. Pier 1 Pavilion, Brooklyn Bridge Park (@brooklynbridgepark by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects) #archtober2025 #sharedspaces #architecturetours

🏙️ Head Hi in the City, the month-long pop-up shop and program space @centerforarch , is in its last week! Featuring @headhi_ny reading materials and design objects for sale, including lamps by AFG Objects, this Archtober collaboration has been spotlighting recently released architecture publications related to the festival theme, Shared Spaces, and a commitment to deepening our relationships with the places we inhabit, available at the shop. 💠 The pop-up is designed by Head Hi founders Alexandra Hodkowski and Alvaro Alcocer in collaboration with New York-based architectural lighting designers @studioatomic and Italian company @dooor_official . The last day to visit is November 1—come visit while you can! #archtober2025 #bookstore #archtoberpopup #sharedspaces #designbooks #architecturebooks

We have been celebrating ARCHTOBER, New York City’s Architecture and Design Month, all throughout October! Professor Andrew S. Dolkart, Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University School of Architecture, brings you inside Neue Galerie New York’s historic building, one of the few surviving Gilded Age mansions on Fifth Avenue. Dolkart is the author of “1048 Fifth Avenue: From Mansion to Museum,” which recounts the colorful history of the building. In the process, he illuminates the social changes of New York over the course of a century. See full video series at neuegalerie.org/building ✨ ________ 🎥 @sandenwolff #NeueGalerie #NeueGalerieNY #Archtober

In conjunction with our 2025 festival theme, Shared Spaces, we're celebrating the city’s public life with a closer look at the series of illustrations depicting various public spaces around NYC, including The Louis Armstrong Center! This series highlights a festival illustration (created by @greaterstudio ) and features a short Q&A about the organization or initiative featured. 🏠 Designed by Caples Jefferson Architects, the Louis Armstrong Center is across the street from the existing Louis Armstrong House Museum in the Corona section of Queens. The two-story, 14,000-square-foot center celebrates the life and legacy of the legendary jazz trumpeter. The design team shared with us how they designed a building that would be able to honor the Armstrong legacy as well as fit into the surrounding neighborhood. In their words: "We tried to both fit in and to stand out. We fit the scale and the mass of the building in with the other neighborhood structures. We responded to overwhelming neighborhood requests that the building call out the exceptional genius in their midst with the curving golden glass façade and canopy." 🎺 Visit the Louis Armstrong Center in person to "feel some of the same kind of joy that you feel listening to his music." #archtober2025 #louisarmstrongcenter #sharedspaces #archtoberhighlights Photos 1 & 2 Credit: Albert Vecerka. Photos 3-5 Credit: Nic Lehoux.

🗓️One week of Archtober left and there are so many events to attend! Our Archtober team has chosen out a few of their favorites: 1. Sunday, Oct 26 at 10:30 AM: Midcentury Modern in New Rochelle: A Tour of Home Interiors by @histouryhousetours (Photo: Bayberry Association, homeowners, Chroma Architecture) 2. Sunday, October 26 at 3 PM: Eyal Vilner Big Band Concert: The New Roaring Twenties! by @museumateldridgestreet (Photo: Eyal Vilner and his band performing in the Museum’s Main Sanctuary in 2024) 3. Tuesday, Oct 28 at 9:30 AM: Adaptive Reuse in Brooklyn: A Tour of the Hartby by @hdcnyc (Photo: Historic Districts Council) 4. Tuesday, Oct 28 at 11 AM: Vision Zero Cities by @transportationalternatives (Flyer: Transportation Alternatives) 5. Tuesday, Oct 28 at 6:30 PM: Mikyoung Kim: Designing for Higher Ground by @nybg (Photo: Kate Joyce) 6. Wednesday, October 29 at 6 PM: Documenting Destruction: The Story of Hangar 17 by @911memorial (Photo: 9/11 Memorial & Museum, Photograph by Amy Dreher) #archtober2025 #sharedspaces #architectureevents #architecturenyc