LTL Architects' design for the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development has received an inaugural NYCxDesign Award. This is the first year of the award which celebrates outstanding achievement across major areas of design and LTL was honored as the top award in the Education category. The awards ceremony was held at MoMA on Saturday the 14th and hosted by Interior Design.
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NYU Steinhardt and Brown Institute Selected as Finalists for NYCxDESIGN Awards
LTL's projects, NYU Steinhardt School of Education, Culture, and Human Development, and Columbia University Brown Institute for Media Innovation have been selected as finalists for the NYCxDESIGN Awards in the "Education" and "Green" categories respectively. NYCxDESIGN is New York City's official celebration of design, organized by city agencies in coordination with cultural institutions. The Awards, hosted by Interior Design, are a global design competition celebrating outstanding achievement across major areas of design.
Manual of Section Sent to Printers, Available Fall 2016
After many years of work, Manual of Section is complete!
Published by Princeton Architectural Press, Manual of Section provides a conceptional and practical framework for understanding this key technique of architectural representation and design. In this forthcoming book, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis have developed a new typology of section, demonstrated through sixty-three intricately detailed sectional perspectives of some of the most important buildings from the last hundred years.
SCR Closing Presentation: Wednesday, March 30
Join Paul Lewis at the AIA NY Center for Architecture at the closing program of the Structures of Coastal Resilience exhibition, this Wednesday at 6:30 PM. Paul will present LTL Architects' and Princeton University's proposal for Atlantic City, NJ. The presentation will be followed by a group discussion exploring the themes of the exhibition with Guy Nordensen, Catherine Seavitt, and Roselle Henn. The event is free for AIA members, $10 for non-members. You can RSVP here.
LTL Architects and SCAPE to Design New Children's Enrichment Center
LTL Architects and SCAPE Landscape Architecture have been selected to design the new facility for the Helen R. Walton Children's Enrichment Center (HWCEC) and Early Childhood Initiatives Center (ECIC) in Bentonville, AR. LTL was chosen from a pool of 36 pre-selected firms in the inaugural round of the Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program. LTL and SCAPE will work alongside local architects Hight Jackson, engineers Harrison French, and contractors East Harding to complete the Center. HWCEC directly serves over 240 children aged months-old to pre-K, and ECIC provides training facilities for professionals from nearly 500 early childhood programs throughout Northwest Arkansas. Designed from the ground up, this new project will be a model for the integration of architecture and landscape in a community-based educational facility for young children.
This Thursday 2/11 David J. Lewis Lecture in Philadelphia
At this lecture, David will make the argument, through the recent work of LTL Architects, for an architecture of social intensification. At a time when digital technology and social media consumes more of our attention and time, segregated into self-selected niches and polarized crowds, architecture is in a unique position of reasserting physical and public space as a necessary stage for dialogue and engagement.
Sections and Social Intensifications: The Work of LTL Architects
February 11, 2016 6:00pm
Architecture Gallery 104
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, 2001 N. 13th Street
Structures of Coastal Resilience — NYC Exhibition
Please join LTL Architects for the opening of Structures of Coastal Resilience: Designing for Climate Change, at the Center for Architecture on Wednesday, February 3, 6-8 PM. Structures of Coastal Resilience is a multi-team project supported by the Rockefeller Foundation to address rising sea levels and storm surges in coastal cities. Out of the four proposals, this show will display the two closest to home in New York City. Princeton University/LTL Architects' proposal, "The Amphibious Suburb: Atlantic City, NJ" will appear alongside City College of New York's plan for Jamaica Bay, NY.
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012
(212) 683-0023
info@aiany.org
Exhibtion Dates
February 3 - April 2, 2016
Gallery Hours
Mon-Fri: 9am to 8pm
Sat: 11am to 5pm
Please RSVP for the opening here.
Paul Lewis to Speak in Shenzhen at 2015 Idea-Tops International Design Forum
Paul Lewis will present a lecture and participate in a panel discussion at the Idea-Tops International Design Forum in Shenzhen on December 3rd, 2015. This three-day design conference will conclude with the Idea-Tops AIT Award Ceremony.
LTL's work on Centerfold: Cornell Engineering Magazine
With construction underway on Upson Hall, the Cornell School of Engineering anticipates the new learning spaces that the renovation will provide. In addition to a completely new facade for the 60-year-old building, the redesign of Upson Hall will offer reconfigured offices and classrooms for increased exchange, an expanded Experiential Learning Lab, and hybrid engineering labs. The Upson Hall renovation was designed by the interdisciplinary team of LTL Architects, Perkins+Will, and Thornton Tomasetti.
NYU Steinhardt School selected as a Finalist for Interior Design Best of Year Awards
LTL's design for 7 contiguous floors of the NYU Steinhardt East Building, in NYU's historic Greenwich Village campus has been selected as a finalist in the Education category of Interior Design's Best of Year Awards. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on December 3rd.
Nazareth House Displayed at AIA PA Exhibition at Susquehanna Art Museum
LTL Architects' Nazareth House design is on display at the exhibition, Towards a New / Old Architecture, currently on view in the Main Gallery of the Susquehanna Art Museum (SAM). SAM partnered with the Pennsylvania chapter of the AIA and Chris Dawson Architect on this exhibition, which shows extensive representation of 10 projects in Pennsylvania. The exhibition will be on display until January 17, 2016.
Photo: Elizabeth Stene Photography
Columbia Brown Institute to be Archtober Building of the Day
The LTL-designed Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University will be one of 31 projects featured in The Center for Architecture's Archtober Building of the Day series. Join Marc Tsurumaki at noon on Monday, October 12 for a tour of the award-winning space in historic Pulitzer Hall, the home of the Columbia University School of Journalism. The design for the Brown Institute for Media Innovation creates a transformable, collaborative work environment intended to "sponsor thinking, building and speculating on how stories are discovered and told in a networked, digitized world."
Paul Lewis to Participate in IIT Roundtable
On Friday October 2nd at 10am, in partnership with the Chicago Biennial, IIT College of Architecture will host two roundtable discussions in S.R. Crown Hall during which, "panels of distinct design 'voices' that are influencing the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design" will discuss their work. Paul Lewis will participate in the first roundtable entitled, "Emerging Voices," along with Dan Wood, Tatiana Bilbao, Michael Meredith, and Florian Idenburg.
David J. Lewis to Lecture at Kennesaw State University
On Wednesday, September 23, at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, David J. Lewis will give a lecture entitled, "Sections and Social Intensifications – The Work of LTL Architects." The lecture will be held at 5pm.
NYU Steinhardt and Train Terraces receive AIA NYS Awards
Two LTL projects have been recognized with 2015 AIA New York State Design Awards. The seven-floor renovation of The NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development received a citation for Interior Design. Train Terraces, LTL's design for an intermodal transit hub in Westbury, NY, received a citation for Urban Planning and Design.
LTL in OpenStudios: Emerging Voices, Saturday July 11, 2015 10am to 1pm
"Open House New York and the Architectural League of New York invite you to OpenStudios: Emerging Voices, an unprecedented opportunity to visit the studios of more than forty of the most inventive and exciting design practices working in the city today, organized to mark the publication of 30 Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance." Please register and visit LTL's office.
LTL in Emerging Voices feature in Metropolis
The June issue of Metropolis published a feature on The Architectural League of New York's recent book, 30 Years of Emerging Voices. The article includes LTL Architects, along with a selection of 9 other firms representative of past Emerging Voices. LTL Architects was recognized in 2002.
Brown Institute Wins IALD International Lighting Design Award
Congratulations to Buro Happold on receiving an International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) Award for the Brown Institute for Media Innovation. The LTL-designed project at Columbia University’s School of Journalism is one of only 15 from around the world to win this prestigious award.
NYU Steinhardt School Featured in Interior Design
LTL Architects' renovation of seven contiguous floors of the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development is featured in the March issue of Interior Design. In addition to providing a cohesive identity for three of the Steinhardt School's core programs, the project also addresses the shifting programmatic needs of a major academic organization and provides infrastructural upgrades for three aging buildings to meet LEED Gold standards. Read the article here.
Marc Tsurumaki to Give Lecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology
On Monday, March 23rd, Marc Tsurumaki will give a lecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, as part of NJIT's College of Architecture and Design Lecture Series. The lecture will be free and open to the public.
