🔹 Awarded an AIANY + ASLANY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Excellence Honor award in the Open Space category, @fieldoperations ' design of Seattle’s Waterfront Park transforms 1.5 miles of a former elevated highway into a vibrant public promenade. Extending 26 blocks, the park links neighborhoods, Pike Place Market, and the Seattle Aquarium through a continuous network of bike paths, gardens, piers, and public spaces.
🔻 Integrated public art, developed in collaboration with artists from the outset, reinforces the site’s identity. Green infrastructure manages stormwater through bioretention planters, while more than 150,000 plants and over 1,000 new trees expand habitat and urban canopy. Reclaimed materials—including wood from the original seawall—were reused throughout the site, and toxic creosote-treated pilings were removed to improve water quality. Community engagement guided the project, including partnerships with Coast Salish Indigenous communities to incorporate cultural narratives and design elements.
Learn more at the 🔗 in bio!
🏅 We’re still beaming from the 20th AIANY Honors and Awards Luncheon last month! We’re excited to share the four honoree acceptance speeches, starting with that of @headhi_ny , Architecture in Media Award recipient! Congratulations to co-founders Alvaro Alcocer and Alexandra Hodkowski!
Mark your calendars for July 13! The Center for Architecture is thrilled to announce the return of its Annual Golf Classic at the scenic Quaker Ridge Golf Club in Scarsdale, NY.
The Annual Golf Classic brings together professionals from architectural design, real estate, and beyond. Your participation supports scholarships for K-12 students to engage in our design education programs, which nurture the next generation in shaping a brighter future.
We hope you'll join us, whether you’re a golf pro or a pickleball enthusiast. Reserve your sponsorship by May 16 at the 🔗 in bio to secure a spot in the e-vite! Foursomes are first reserved for sponsors and will not be available until late May, along with individual golfer tickets.
Graphic design: Elijah Bobo (@elijahbobo )
Center for Architecture Lab is a multi-disciplinary residency program that offers new voices in architecture and design full authorship over dedicated areas of the Center for Architecture’s platforms, allowing them to develop and share compelling and provocative content meant to elevate underrepresented perspectives.
The 2026 theme “Repair – Democracy and Urban Spaces” invited architects, urban planners, designers, artists, cultural conservationists, and community activists to examine how the concept of repair can serve as a lens to reimagine democratic, equitable spaces.
The selected projects: "Energies of Repair: Visualizing Community Power in NYC" by Andrea Johnson and Ashley Dawson and "DEPAVE: An Ecological Repair of the Ground" by Friends Making Work (Christine Giorgio, Amelyn Ng, and Gabriel Vergara) are on view now–September 2, 2026.
Graphic Design: WSDIA (@weshoulddoitall )
📣 We’re back! Register for our third edition of Community-Centered Design—Building Belonging, hosted by AIA New York and 3x3. The 7 LU I HSWs credit program equips architects and allied professionals with best practice tools, skills, and frameworks to lead trust-centered community engagement and design that are both effective and inclusive, shaping better outcomes for projects and the communities they serve.
Participants will deepen their understanding of responsible and barrier-free engagement through a series of interactive modules, case studies, and best practices on how to build trust, legitimize decision-making, and strengthen alignment that carries through implementation.
🗓️ Wednesday - Thursday, June 3-4 I 🕕 9 AM–12:30 PM | 📍 Center for Architecture
✨Facilitators include: Rajesh Sankat, Thomas Bond, Megan Marini
🔗 RSVP here: /3X3AIANY (also in bio)
3x3 is a community-centered design and planning studio that seeds transformation.
🖼️ The Metropolitan Museum of Art (@metmuseum )'s new Costume Institute galleries reimagine a former exterior courtyard beside the landmarked Great Hall into nearly 12,000 square feet of exhibition space. Designed by @peterson_rich_office , the five-room sequence reveals layers of The Met’s 1880s–1890s façades while introducing a distinctly contemporary gallery environment.
👗 Opening with “Costume Art,” the space was designed to support the Costume Institute’s rotating exhibitions, including its annual spring show. The exhibition explores the significance of the dressed human form in fashion and fine art, featuring nearly 400 objects spanning centuries. Underscoring the show's focus on the embodied experience of fashion are the mirrored mannequins by artist @samarhejazi , which invite visitors to see themselves reflected in the body types and garments.
PRO partners Miriam Peterson, AIA, and Nathan Rich, AIA, will deliver the annual Gil Oberfield Memorial Lecture on May 19 at the Center for Architecture—🔗 in bio to join us!
Photos: Nicholas Calcott.
🚊 We've announced the winners of the 2026 AIANY and ASLANY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards! These awards celebrate exceptional design in transportation and infrastructure architecture by architects, landscape architects, and planners across the United States.
❇️ The Best in Competition honor went to the East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) project by Bjarke Ingels Group (@bjarkeingels ), with Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architecture (@mnla_landscape_architects ) and ONE Architecture & Urbanism (@one_arch_urb ).
▫️ ESCR is one of the first large-scale urban resilience projects of its kind in the US, with major sections now open to the public. Stretching 2.4 miles along the East River, the project includes elevated and reconstructed parks and esplanades, with additional sections of East River Park scheduled to reopen ahead of full completion in 2027. Designed to protect the area from storm-surge flooding, the $1.45 billion project was led by @nycddc in collaboration with a multidisciplinary design team and local residents.
🔗 in bio to learn more—stay tuned for info on the other lauded infrastructure projects.
Photos: Barrett Doherty, Jeff Tao, Matthew Lapiska/NYC DDC, Iwan Baan, BIG.
🎭 Nashville’s new Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) by @BIG_builds + @rawnarch with @hastingsarchitecture brings a 307,000-square-foot performing arts hub enveloped in a façade of undulating aluminum tubes. Breaking ground in 2027 (opening 2030), the space will serve as the new home of the Nashville Ballet, Nashville Opera, and Nashville Repertory Theatre while creating venues for traveling Broadway shows, dance performances, and community events.
Four venues anchor the project: a Grand Broadway theater, a dance and opera hall, a flexible black box theater, and a cabaret space. Outdoor stairs stitch the building to the riverfront, while a light-filled atrium, dual lobbies, grand stair, and terraces frame views from the waterfront park to the pedestrian bridge. Inside, floating wood “trays” shape intimate seating, and adaptable stages bring audiences closer to the performance.
Learn more at the 🔗 in bio!
Images: Courtesy of BIG.
🔸 Center for Architecture Lab is a multi-month, multi-disciplinary residency program that offers new voices in architecture and design an opportunity to develop and share compelling and provocative content meant to elevate underrepresented perspectives.
⚪️ The 2026 call was aligned with 2026 AIANY President Mark Gardner, AIA, NOMA's (Principal @jaklitsch.gardner.architects ) presidential theme "Repair – Democracy and Urban Spaces," asking applicants to address the urgent need to repair not only the physical infrastructure of our environments but also the political and social inequities embedded within them.
⚡️ The two selected projects, "Energies of Repair: Visualizing Community Power in NYC" by Andrea Johnson and Ashley Dawson, and "DEPAVE: An Ecological Repair of the Ground" by Friends Making Work (Christine Giorgio, Amelyn Ng, and Gabriel Vergara) will be on view at the Center for Architecture May 7–September 2, 2026.
Join us at Spring Exhibitions Opening Night next Thursday—RSVP at the 🔗 in bio.
May you love architecture 😍 For the month of May use promo code ARCH20 for 20% off tickets for any of our AIANY architecture tours. Link in bio to book!
📰 The Mushroom Pavilion designed by @omanewyork / @shohei_shigematsu has opened on the Fundación Casa Wabi (@casawabi )'s 65-acre campus in Puerto Escondido, MX. The 2,153-square-foot pavilion is an ellipsoidal form created to optimize interior organization for growing mushrooms.
⚪ The domed interior can be divided into three chambers—the fruiting room, incubation room, and storage—encircling a community gathering space at its center. The lower half of the bowl is stepped, like an amphitheater in the round, to make shelves for handmade terra cotta mushroom pots crafted by local artisans. The stepping and elliptical form create a panopticon viewing experience, rendering the mushroom growing process visible in its entirety. The project marks OMA’s first built work in Mexico.
🕳️ Founded by Mexican artist Bosco Sodi, the Casa Wabi’s mission is to forge social development through the arts. Its name originates from the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, which seeks beauty and harmony in the simple, the imperfect, and the unconventional. Keep reading at the 🔗 in bio.
Photos: Rafael Gamo (@rafaelgamo )
🏅 Thank you for joining us at the 20th AIANY Honors and Awards Luncheon! This past Friday, over 600 leaders in New York City's architecture, design, construction, and real estate community gathered at Cirpriani Wall Street to celebrate design excellence.
Congratulations again to our honorees:
@alloy.bk – The Medal of Honor recipient
Sharon Prince of @gracefarmsct – Champion of Architecture Award recipient
@headhi_ny – Architecture in Media Award recipient
@blackspaceorg – New Perspectives Award recipient
and to the 24 the winners of AIA New York’s prestigious Design Awards!
The ceremony ended with an address from @NYCCouncil Speaker Julie Menin (@julmenin ), announcing a new program to build 35,000 housing units on underused small lots.
We're still beaming from the celebration—stay tuned to hear the inspiring speeches from our honorees.
📸: Matthew Carasella (@matthewcarasella )
