NUYORICAN POETS CAFE EXPANSION BREAKS GROUND
03/28/24
Today, RL proudly joined executive director Caridad De La Luz La Bruja, council woman Carlina Rivera, & DCLA Commissioner Laurie Cumbo in celebrating the start of construction on RL's $24.1m renovation and rooftop expansion for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on NYC's Lower East Side. The legendary Cafe, which is also celebrating its 50th Anniversary, gives voice to a diverse group of rising poets, actors, filmmakers, & musicians in what Allen Ginsberg called the most integrated place on the planet. This milestone project expands programming to include two performance spaces with integral bar zones, rehearsal, educational, administrative, & support spaces distributed over five floors. more>
PHILMONT SELECTS RICE+LIPKA FOR TWO STRATEGIC SITES
12/13/23
We are thrilled to announce that the two-firm team of Rice+Lipka Architects and Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects has been selected by the Village of Philmont, in coordination with Philmont Beautification, Inc (PBi), to advance designs for two strategic sites in the upstate New York community. The first site, situated on Summit Lake, will rethink public waterfront access, including new landscape, playground, and a community center. The second site reimagines the area around the site of the historic former Aken Knitting Co Mill No 3 as a public plaza providing a new access point to the unique natural features adjacent to the High Falls Conservation Area. RL looks forward to working closely with Philmont, PBi and the community on this significant project. press release>
LIBRARY OF BABEL AT ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY
11/05/23
RL's sequence of graphic works exploring the intimate relationship between the structure of Borges' The Library of Babel and the realm of architecture is part of Fairy Tale Architecture, an exhibition now on view at Roger Williams University's Cumming School of Architecture. The exhibition, curated by Kate Bernheimer & Andrew Bernheimer, is an extension of a project created for the public architecture, landscape, & urbanism journal Places, and presents work melding architecture, design, and literary critique. Exhibition on view Oct 25 - Dec 12. more>
WOODSTOCK LIBRARY WINS NATIONAL DESIGN AWARD
10/30/23
We are pleased to announce that Woodstock Library, designed for New York Public Library, has received a 2023 SARA National Design Award of Honor from a from a group of international entries. The award was presented this past weekend at the SARA National Design Awards Gala on Independence Mall in Philadelphia. Andrew Carnegie's 1901 gift of over 60 neighborhood branches in New York transformed the idea of the library and Woodstock offers a new model for rethinking these simple, powerful buildings by recovering and enhancing their spatial/organizational strength, and by amplifying their extraordinary character. more>
NYPL TEEN CENTER FEATURED IN JAKARTA DESIGN WEEK
07/18/23
The Hamilton Grange Teen Center, designed for NYPL, is included in an international exhibition of contemporary works focused on aural-acoustic architecture. The Tarumanagara University-sponsored exhibition is part of Architectural Design Week 2023, an annual event held by IMARTA (Tarumanagara Architecture Student Association) and SKETSA (Tarumangara Architecture Magazine) as a learning platform - this year, to expand awareness of acoustics in the built environment. RL is excited to support this student-led exhibition which runs Jul 26-30 at Hublife Jakarta. more>
OHNY & NYC PDC RAISE AWARENESS OF PUBLIC SPACE
06/30/23
Join OHNY and the NYC Public Design Commission (PDC) July 7 & 8 for Public Works: Five Borough Scavenger Hunt, a two-day citywide event featuring outstanding public spaces. Drawing from 40 years of projects honored with the PDC's Awards for Excellence in Design (including three RL projects), scavenger hunt participants will race to decipher dozens of clues that will bring them to sculptures, plazas, playgrounds, and buildings - some well-known, some obscure - and find a new appreciation for these vital public spaces. Registration deadline: Jul 5. learn more and register>
WOODSTOCK LIBRARY WINS SARA NY DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD
06/14/23
Woodstock Library, designed for New York Public Library, won top honors at last night's SARA NY Design Awards Gala, receiving a 2023 Design Award of Excellence. Projects are selected from a pool of international entries from architecture and allied disciplines. Grounded by the original McKim, Mead & White detailing, the library's new open floor plates and simple architectural elements provide expanded functionality and technology to support contemporary library functions. The LEED-gold project relinks the library, one of our culture's last civic spaces, to its neighborhood, strengthening visual connections to the street and creating a light, spacious, welcoming place. more>
NUYORICAN POETS CAFE EXPANSION RELEASED FOR BID
06/06/23
RL is excited to announce that another project, our full building renovation and expansion project for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, has been released for bid. NPC, a cultural icon situated on NYC's Lower East Side, serves as a forum for groundbreaking works of poetry, music, theater and visual arts. A multicultural and multi-arts institution, the Cafe gives voice to a diverse group of rising poets, actors, filmmakers, and musicians, championing performance as a means of social empowerment for minority and underprivileged artists. RL reconceptualized the organization's facilities with a new street identity, interior renovations & rooftop extension. Internally, program areas are expanded to include two theaters with integral bar zones, rehearsal, educational, administrative, and support spaces distributed over five floors. more>
ARVERNE LIBRARY EXPANSION ISSUED FOR BID
05/19/23
We are delighted to announce that the Arverne Library new building expansion, designed by RL for Queens Public Library, has been issued for bid. The expansion reflects the library’s significance as one of the last civic spaces remaining in contemporary culture. The program consists of two public spaces: a street-adjacent flexible space for general library uses and community gatherings, and a central zone dedicated to children's activities, readings, & screenings. Referencing the simple form of historic meeting houses, the new building has a traditional hip roof, skewed by its curious parallelogram shaped site. The entire building, located just 300 yds from the beach, is raised upon a resilient, faceted concrete plinth protecting the spaces from storm surges & providing a community gathering place in times of emergency. more>
BRANCHING THE CIVIC SYMPOSIUM EXPLORES AGENCY OF CONTEMPORARY LIBRARIES
03/07/23
Pratt School of Architecture and the Department of Undergraduate Architecture presents Branching the Civic: The Architectural Agency of the Neighborhood Library this Thu, Mar 9, 4-8pm in Higgins Hall auditorium. The symposium will engage scholars, practitioners, & library planners to discuss the role of contemporary libraries & how architectural form can establish new centers for distributed media literacy in urban neighborhoods. Lyn Rice will present RL's Woodstock Library, a rethinking of NYPL's historic McKim, Mead & White-designed branch in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx as a model for recovering & tapping into the Carnegie library's spatial & organizational strengths. Register for the event here. more>
CONSTRUCTION STARTS AT THE KITCHEN ALTERNATIVE ARTS CENTER
02/18/23
Construction work has started at The Kitchen, one of New York City's oldest non profit alternative art centers. Major renovations include the complete replacement of the building's life safety, systems, and performance & exhibition infrastructure to create a fully accessible venue with expanded programming and doubled capacity. The RL-designed project will equip the renowned organization with advanced facilities that will further its work offering emerging and established artists opportunities to create and present new work within, and across, the disciplines of dance, film, literature, music, theater, video, and visual art.
HAMILTON FISH PARK LIBRARY GOES OUT TO BID
01/25/23
We are excited to announce that our Hamilton Fish Park Library project, designed for NYPL, has shifted into the bidding phase. Situated on the border between Alphabet City and the Lower East Side, adjacent to historic Hamilton Fish Park, the Library rethinks its 1959 modernist structure, designed by Kelly & Gruzen. RL is declogging the central high center space (formerly mechnical & book processing), transforming it into an adult reading commons with an intimately scaled front-zone dedicated to children and teens. Large new windows will daylight the space and visually reconnect the branch to its surrounding neighborhood. more>
NYPD BOMB SQUAD BUILDING RELEASED FOR BID
12/27/22
We are thrilled that the new RL-designed headquarters building for NYPD's Bomb Squad is out for bid. The project is sited on the southern peninsula of Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx and will replace the unit's existing facilities, heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy. The project has run concurrently with the adjacent $275m Rodman's Neck Training Facility project, masterplanned by RL. The new Bomb Squad Building, will include an apparatus floor for the unit's specialized vehicles, training facilities, offices and robot repair shop. more>
FAIRY TALE ARCHITECTURE OPENS AT CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE
11/10/22
Join us for the opening of Fairy Tale Architecture tomorrow night at the Center for Architecture. The exhibition presents work melding architecture, design, and literary critique, and features RL's sequence of graphic works exploring the intimate relationship between the structure of Borges' The Library of Babel and the realm of architecture. The exhibition, curated by Kate Bernheimer & Andrew Bernheimer, is an extension of a project created for the public architecture, landscape, & urbanism journal Places. Opening Fri 11/11/22, 6pm-8pm. Runs through 02/25/23. more>
CULTURAL/SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF 70 FIFTH RECOGNIZED
05/31/22
Today The New School & Village Preservation unveiled a plaque marking 70 Fifth Ave - home to the RL-designed Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School of Design - for its legacy as the historic headquarters of the NAACP, ACLU and numerous other progressive, human rights & civil liberties organizations, & as the home of WEB DeBois' The Crisis magazine. “The New School has long advanced the values of social justice and equality to strengthen our community,” said Executive Vice President Tokumbo Shobowale during the unveiling ceremony. “We take seriously our responsibility to safeguard architecturally significant buildings, and we welcome this designation, which recognizes the university’s renowned Sheila Johnson Design Center, an academic and creative hub located at 70 Fifth Avenue. more>
CULTURAL CENTER EXPANSION STARTS CONSTRUCTION
03/01/22
Construction has started on the Choicirciati Cultural Center Expansion, aka 64E4, in New York's East Village. The project, with a new glazed facade & frontal addition, doubles the size of and spatially opens the public lobby space for the three theater companies (Teatro Circulo, IATI Theater, and Paradise Factory Theater) that comprise the CCC. RL is removing existing barriers separating upper and lower theater access in a unified street floor lobby & facade that will accommodate a larger public and provide a new identity for the CCC. The project is slated for completion in mid-2023. more>
NUYORICAN POETS CAFE PROJECT RESTARTS
02/15/22
After a nearly two-year pandemic-related pause, RL has resumed design work on a major renovation & expansion for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the acclaimed forum for innovative poetry, music, hip hop, video, visual arts, comedy and theater. RL is reconceptualizing the organization's East Village existing facilities with a rooftop expansion. The project includes developing a new street identity, two theaters, rehearsal & educational spaces and integrated bar/cafe zones. more>
OHNY TOURS TWO R+L LIBRARY PROJECTS OCT 16
10/04/21
Open House New York promotes unparalleled access to the city—to the places, people, projects, systems and ideas that define New York and its future. For two days each October, the annual OHNY Weekend unlocks the doors to some of New York's most important buildings and this year we are guiding two tours of RL-designed New York Public library branches on Oct 16. At 12:30pm, we will tour the Woodstock Branch Library in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx - a reinvented Carnegie branch originally designed by McKim, Mead & White. At 3pm, we will tour the Hamilton Grange Library Teen Center in Harlem, NYPL's first full floor dedicated to teens. You can sign-up for the Woodstock tour here and for the Teen Center tour here. Please join us!
THE KITCHEN LAUNCHES CAPITAL CAMPAIGN FOR RENOVATION
09/17/21
Marking its fiftieth anniversary, storied performance venue and alternative art space, The Kitchen, announced yesterday the launch of a $28 million, five-year capital campaign to fund the RL-designed renovation of its 1920s-era building in Chelsea. The organization stimulates artistic practices advancing innovation in music & performance work. The gritty heft of The Kitchen’s building underpins the experience within it - preserving this character is central to the project, which will create a sustainable foundation for the future, maximizing space, doubling capacity, and allowing artists to better leverage the former icehouse in cross-disciplinary experimentation. more>
NYC LANDMARKS COMMISSION DESIGNATES 70 FIFTH AVENUE
05/27/21
The New School has announced that the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) unanimously voted to designate 70 Fifth Avenue - home to four RL projects including the street level Sheila Johnson Design Center - for its architectural & cultural significance to NYC's diverse history. The building was home to the NAACP during an important period of the organization's development, the American Union Against Militarism (which developed into the ACLU), and other peace & social reform organizations. Additionally, the LPC's Designation Report cites the building's original beaux-arts style & references "the award-winning renovation by Rice+Lipka Architects" which opened the street facade with large deep-set windows between stone clad columns & joined three Parsons buildings with auditorium, galleries & classrooms programs.
FAIRY TALE ARCHITECTURE RELEASED
04/07/21
RL's exploration of the intimate relationship between the structure of Borges' The Library of Babel and the realm of architecture through a sequence of graphic works is included in the newly released book, Fairy Tale Architecture. The illustrations speculate on the library's impenetrability and the illusion that all knowledge may be somehow close at hand. Fairy Tale Architecture is written by Andrew Bernheimer & Kate Bernheimer, published by Oro Editions, and is available here. more>
MCD REOPENS TO THE PUBLIC WITH DESIGN BY TIME
03/31/21
San Francisco's Museum of Craft and Design will reopen to the public with two new exhibitions, Design by Time and Encoded Holidays, this Thursday, April 1. Design by Time, designed by R+L, explores how the dynamic passage of time can be embodied within design objects. Assembled in varied groups, the break-down exhibition tables' formal logic is extended to wall graphics to unify the visual field even as the physical context changes from venue to venue. Click here for a virtual walkthrough. more>
RL PARTICIPATES IN IN/VISIBLE TALKS 2021 AT SFMCD
01/13/21
Join Lyn Rice and Astrid Lipka for In/Visible Talks in coversation with curators Judy Fox & Ginger Duggan of c2, along with MCD curator, Ariel Zaccheo as they discuss upcoming exhibition Design by Time, designed by R+L. The San Francisco Museum of Craft & Design, In/Visible Transparency Project provides a behind-the-scenes view in to exhibition installation and design. The event is this Thu, Jan 14, 8-9pm EST - register here.
THREE ARCHITECTS, THREE FAIRY TALES AT CFA
11/24/20
Join authors Andrew Bernheimer and Kate Bernheimer in conversation with Rice+Lipka Architects, Rural Studio, and PRO for a sneak peek into Fairy Tale Architecture (ORO Editions). This webinar event, sponsored by AIANY's Center for Architecture, features dreamlike, clever, and meticulous designs for the iconic stories Little Red Riding Hood, Goodnight, Moon, and RL's contribution, illustrations based on Jorge Luis Borges' The Library of Babel.Three Architects, Three Fairy Tales is this Tue, Dec 1, 6-7pm - register here.
VOTE!
10/29/20
Vote now by mail, in dropboxes, early in-person, or on election day Tuesday, Nov 3! If you need information on how and where to vote, you can find it here - see you at the polls!
REIMAGINE ENGAGES GRADUATES TO RESPOND TO CRISES
10/07/20
REIMAGINE, organized by The Architectural League, brings together 119 recent graduates representing 44 design schools from across the US in small online groups seeking agency in the midst of the converging crises of Covid-19, climate change, economic inequality, & racism within our systems, infrastructures, & institutions. 20 groups, with coordinators drawn from across the country, presented the outcome of three September workshops in a public REIMAGINE Town Hall held on Oct 7. The program emerged from a series of ongoing practitioner-educator discussions facilitated by League president Paul Lewis with Stella Betts, & Lyn Rice. In the Town Hall, participants presented their ideas & conversations in the form of these short videos.
RL COVID UPDATE
09/21/20
Starting today, Monday Sep 21, RL is returning to work in our 40 Worth Street office. We are moving forward with a combination of in-studio and remote work that allows our staff the flexibility to respond and adapt to their individual circumstance as the situation continues to unfold. We again wish everyone good health & the best in their efforts to minimize the transmission of the virus.
AIANY TORCH MENTORSHIP CLASS OF 2020 ANNOUNCED
08/07/20
RL is participating in AIANY's TORCH Mentorship Program, which today announced the Class of 2020, selected by the steering committee from a competitive pool of Emerging Professionals (EPs). The TORCH One-to-One Mentorship Program is designed to empower Architects, both Fellows (FAIA) and EPs, by fostering symbiotic relationships that confer knowledge, culture and leadership strategies from one generation to another. Lyn Rice is pleased to be paired with EP Anna-Louise Duggan and looks forward to the next 12 months and the chance to cultivate a valuable mentorship relationship.
AMERICAN ROUNDTABLE LAUNCHES WITH TEN EDITORIAL TEAMS
04/29/20
Ten teams have been selected from submissions from 40 states & territories to participate in American Roundtable, a new Architecture League initiative that will bring together on-the-ground perspectives from small and mid-size American communities. The commissioned reports seek to highlight, in all their complexity & nuance, communities too often overlooked & will provide platforms for individuals & organizations to share stories & work imagining, understanding, & improving their local built environments. The initiative is organized by Rosalie Genevro & Nicholas Anderson in collaboration with steering committee members Mario Gooden, Paul Lewis, & Lyn Rice.
RL JOINS US ARCHITECTS DECLARE AS A FOUNDING SIGNATORY
04/22/20
Rice+Lipka has joined, as a founding signatory on this Earth Day 2020, the US Architects Declare, part of a global movement of architects confronting the interlinked crises of climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, & social inequity. Meeting the needs of our society without breaching the earth's ecological boundaries demands a paradigm shift in our behavior in the building sector - a true transformation in the way we teach, practice, & build. Together with our clients and collaborators, we must design buildings, cities, and infrastructures as indivisible components of a larger, constantly regenerating, & self-sustaining system.
RL RESPONDS TO COVID-19
03/13/20
As part of the global effort to lessen the impact of COVID-19, R+L will operate as a remote workplace to help protect our staff & community effective Friday, March 13. All team members are reachable by email, mobile phone and via various digital platforms. We join our clients & consultants in finding ways to creatively adapt and remain productive during this uncertain time. Foremost, R+L wishes everyone and their families the best in their personal and collective efforts to minimize the transmission of the virus.
DESIGN BY TIME OPENS AT THE GREGG MUSEUM OF ART & DESIGN
01/28/20
Please join us for the opening of the exhibition, Design By Time, Thursday, January 23, 6pm at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design in Raliegh. The exhibition explores how temporal issues can be generative for, and encoded within, a range of textile, ceramic, lighting, fashion, object and furniture works. R+L designed the exhibition, devising a modular series of lightweight tables that enables the show to easily tour. Organized by Pratt Manhattan Gallery and curated by C2/Ginger Gregg Duggan & Judith Hoos Fox. The exhibition is on view Jan 24 - May 17, 2020.
CARRIAGE HOUSES FEATURED IN PUBLIC WORKS EXHIBITION
01/10/20
Please join us at the Center for Architecture on Thursday, January 16th to celebrate the opening of Public Works: Reflecting on 15 Years of Project Excellence for New York City. Since 2004, DDC has made a formal commitment to pursue an ambitious public works program in partnership with a diverse group of creative and experienced design professionals. Reflecting on this program over the past 15 years, the exhibition will highlight projects by world-class architects. A focused look at selected projects, including R+L's Carriage Houses & Grounds, unpacks the enduring, accessible, and community-oriented spaces that shape the city
AIANY NEW FELLOWS SALON THIS WEEK AT RL
12/03/19
Join us for AIANY's New Fellow Salon this Thursday at RL. The event is part of AIA New York's newly founded series of Salons, providing an opportunity for guests to learn more about the work of, and to get a behind-the-scenes look at, the studios of the Chapter's new Fellows. Register here for the event, which is set this Thursday, 12/5, 5pm-7pm at our studio, 40 Worth Street, 8th floor.
LYN RICE FEATURED BY AIANY
09/18/19
Lyn Rice is this month's AIANY Featured Architect. His feature is part of a series celebrating the members of the American Institute of Architects/New York Chapter who are elevated to the AIA College of Fellows, an honor awarded to members who have made significant contributions to both the profession and society. The online series highlights RL work & includes an interview touching on architectural education & urban challenges.
RL LISTED IN TOP 10 GREEN ARCHITECTS IN NY
09/12/19
New York City Architects has placed R+L in the top 10 of the organization's list of The Best Green Architects in New York. The list recognizes firms that have shaped the metro and its surround boroughs' architectural landscapes with projects that champion energy-efficiency, eco-friendly materials, and sustainable methods.
ALL TOMORROW'S LIBRARIES CATALOG RELEASED
07/11/19
The catalog for All Tomorrow's Libraries, has been published by the Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia, Kultura, Gazteria eta Kirolak Departamentua in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. The Euskara-Español/English book features RL's illustrations inspired by Borge's The Library of Babel and exhibited as a series of large scale prints at the the Koldo Mitxelena Kulturenea. Texts by curator Jorge Carrión along with Eloy Fernandez Porta, Ana Santos Aramburo, & Katixa Agirre. MORE>
PUBLIC DESIGN COMMISSION HONORS ASTRID LIPKA
06/05/19
NYC's Public Design Commission was joined by Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray to celebrate the women who have shaped and defined our city with outstanding design. Astrid Lipka was on hand at the Ford Foundation last evening for the 37th Annual Awards For Excellence in Design and was recognized as part of the Women-Designed NYC, a tribute intended to inspire young women entering the field of public design. Two of R+L's projects, the Bomb Squad Building & the Carriage Houses were featured.
DESIGN BY TIME OPENS AT KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART
05/07/19
Design by Time, an R+L designed exhibition that explores how temporal issues can be generative for a range of contemporary designers, will open at the Knoxville Museum of Art this Friday, May 10, 7pm as part of the institution's Kick-Off to Summer event. The exhibition's modular, lightweight table series enables the show to easily tour to its six planned venues. DBT runs through Aug 4 in Knoxville.
RL PARTICIPATES IN CFA'S GUESS-A-SKETCH
04/04/19
Astrid Lipka joined Suchi Reddy; Rob Rogers and Adam Yarinsky at the Center for Architecture to charcoal-sketch dozens of iconic buildings in real time to help raise funds for K-12 design education programming for schools, kids, and families. The March 7th Guess-A Sketch event was the 7th annual pictionary-style competition sponsored by the CFA and asks philanthropic teams to guess building's identities as they are being drawn. This year's tournament, hosted by Marc Kushner, raised over $110k for the cause.
AIA ELEVATES LYN RICE TO COLLEGE OF FELLOWS
03/06/19
The American Institute of Architects has selected Lyn Rice to join its College of Fellows, one of the Institute's highest honors. The award recognizes members who have who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession and made a significant contribution to architecture and society. AIANY will host a presentation/reception for newly-elevated Fellows on Mar 12 at the Center for Architecture in New York and a formal Investiture Ceremony will be held at the national AIA Conference on Architecture in Las Vegas, on June 7. MORE>
DESIGN BY TIME TO OPEN AT PRATT MANHATTAN GALLERY
02/08/19
Please join us for the opening of the exhibition, Design by Time, Thursday, February 21, 6-8 PM with a special performance by Bartholomäus Traubeck at 7 PM, at Pratt Manhattan Gallery. The exhibition explores how temporal issues can be generative for, and encoded within, a range of textile, ceramic, lighting, fashion, object and furniture works. R+L designed the exhibition, devising a modular series of lightweight tables that enables the show to easily tour. Organized by Pratt Manhattan Gallery and curated by C2/Ginger Gregg Duggan & Judith Hoos Fox.
RL PARTICIPATES AT CAA CONFERENCE
02/06/19
Andrea Lipps, Judy Fox and Lyn Rice will speak at the 2019 CAA (College Art Association) Annual Conference in NYC on Feb 16, 2019. The talks focus on evolving curatorial approaches and exhibition design and are part of Design Exhibitions & Exhibition Design: Curating Process, Object and Experience, a session organized by Leda Cempellin with an introduction by Sarah Lawrence & panel discussion led by Yelena McLane.
BABEL FEATURED IN KOLDO MITXELENA KULTURENEA EXHIBITION
01/17/19
Upcoming exhibition, All Tomorrow's Libraries curated by Jorge Carrión, will feature R+L's The Library of Babel illustrations, originally created for the Design Observer"™s ongoing series Fairy Tale Architecture curated by writer Kate Bernheimer and architect Andrew Bernheimer. Alongside a Julien Prévieux video, the exhibition opens with six large format prints of R+L's drawings based on the Borges text. Feb 13-Jun 1, 2019, at the Koldo Mitxelena Kulturenea, Donostia-San Sebastián.
RL NAMED ONE OF TOP 4 US DESIGN FIRMS
11/08/18
Rice+Lipka has just been named as one of the top four design firms in the US. Architect, the Journal of the American Institute of Architects, ranks R+L #4 in their 2018 list of Top 50 Firms in Design. The juried selection for design excellence is portfolio-based with supporting measures of research, design awards, mentoring & pro bono work.
THE KITCHEN SELECTS R+L FOR BUILDING RENOVATION
09/14/18
The Kitchen, the storied multi-disciplinary performance space, has selected R+L for a major renovation of their Chelsea building. The project will enhance the capabilities and capacity of the venue which supports emerging and established artists across disciplines, ranging from dance, music, performance, and theater, to video, film, and art, in addition to literary events, artists' talks, and lecture series.
CARRIAGE HOUSES WIN NEW YORK STATE AIA DESIGN AWARD
08/10/18
AIA New York State has announced that R+L's Carriage House & Grounds have been selected for a 2018 design award. Designed for the Staten Island Historical Society, the project program includes exhibition zone, restoration space, and multi-purpose space for education programs and events. Taken as a whole, the project forms a collections campus, opening up programming and shaping a new identity for the SIHS. The award will be conferred at the AIANYS 2018 Design Awards Luncheon in White Plains on Nov 8. MORE>
AIA'18 OPEN STUDIOS AT R+L
06/12/18
Join R+L in our studio for drinks and a look around as part of the the AIA's Open Studios program of the AIA Conference on Architecture 2018. Email office manager Hayley Harrington to reserve a spot - see you Tue, June 19 from 5pm - 7pm, 40 Worth St, Suite 828!
FISH PARK LIBRARY WINS PDC DESIGN EXCELENCE AWARD
05/24/18
The NYC Public Design Commission and the Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio last night presented R+L with its 36th Annual Award for Excellence in Design for the NYPL Hamilton Fish Park Library Branch at a ceremony at City Hall. The award recognizes outstanding public projects selected from the hundreds of submissions reviewed by the PDC this past year. Designed for the New York Public Library, the existing 1959 modernist structure will be transformed with a new open plan, windows, landscaping, entry, and community facilities. MORE>
CARRIAGE HOUSES WIN NYC X DESIGN AWARD
05/22/18
The 2018 NYCxDESIGN Award winners were announced last evening in a Pier 17 ceremony hosted by Interior Design and ICFF - R+L's Carriage Houses & Grounds won the top award in the Government/Institution category. The three linear steel arch-span structures, planned with zones for exhibition, restoration, and multi-purpose educational programs, are arrayed on site to frame a series of exterior spaces to sponsor the frequent outdoor events of the Staten Island Historical Society. MORE >
MAKING CENTER & CARRIAGE HOUSES WIN 2018 SARA AWARDS
05/21/18
R+L is pleased to announce that both the Parsons Making Center and the Staten Island Historical Society's Carriage Houses & Grounds have been selected by the Society of American Registered Architects to receive 2018 SARA/NY Design Awards. The awards will be conferred at the Design Awards Gala on June 19th at Battery Park Gardens.
RL PROJECTS NAMED FINALISTS FOR NYC X DESIGN AWARDS
05/14/18
Interior Design & ICFF have announced that three R+L projects are finalists for the 2018 NYCxDESIGN Awards, which celebrates outstanding talent across a diverse range of design disciplines. The NYPD Bomb Squad Building, Parsons Making Center and the Carriage Houses & Grounds designed for the Staten Island Historical Society are the cited projects. Winners and honorees will be announced on May 21 at 6 p.m. EST during a ceremony taking place at South Street Seaport.
GSAPPXX HOSTS R+L PARTNERSHIPS TALK
03/27/18
Columbia University's GSAPP chapter of ArchiteXX (a national women's organization aimed at bridging the gap between academia & practice), GSAPPXX presents Partners in Partnership at 7pm this evening at the GSAPP. Astrid Lipka and Lyn Rice will speak along with Untapped Cities partners, Michelle Young and Augustin Pasquet followed by an open discussion examining practice through the lens of both personal & professional partnerships.
RL SELECTED TO DESIGN ARVERNE LIBRARY EXPANSION
02/22/18
Queens Library & NYC's Department of Design & Construction has selected R+L for its expansion project at the Arverne Library located just a block away from Rockaway Beach. Since the 1964 modernist building suffered heavy damage in Superstorm Sandy, its circulation has quadrupled and R+L will comprehensively rethink the library's program organization in both existing & new space, along with providing resiliency measures in this flood prone zone. The project is part of NYC's Design Excellence program which promotes innovation in public buildings with a focus on equity, sustainability, resilience & design for healthy living.
BAGGAGE CLAIMS OPENS AT THE WEATHERSPOON
01/08/18
Baggage Claims, an exhibition exploring the meaning of baggage, both physical and psychological, in the context of globalization and its impact on cultural identity, opens this Saturday, Jan 27 at the University of North Carolina's Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro. R+L developed the exhibition's display concepts with curators C2 (curatorsquared) and exhibition organizer the Orlando Museum of Art. A director's preview & curator's talk will be held Fri, Jan 26 at 5:30-8:00pm in WAM's galleries. MORE >
PARSONS MAKING CENTER WINS AIANY DESIGN AWARD
01/08/18
Rice+Lipka is pleased to announce that the Parsons Making Center at The New School, has been selected for a 2018 AIA New York Design Award. The 26,000sf multi-disciplinary facility supports the most advanced practices in digital technology & physical craft in a raw, unprecious working environment. As universities increasingly assign pedagogical space, the Center subverts the norm with a physical & programmatic openness that informally brings thinker-creators together with over half of its space dedicated to not being dedicated. The award will be conferred at the 2018 AIANY Design Awards presentation on April 20. MORE >
PARSONS SCHOOL OF ART, MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY OPENS
10/29/17
Parsons School of Art, Media & Technology has moved into its new 15,400sf studio facilities and administrative hub at Fifth Avenue & 13th Street. R+L stripped away decades of wall-building to open-up the floor and reveal substantial masonry perimeter walls and arched ceilings. Communications Design, Data Visualization, Design & Technology, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration and Photography share the space that includes design studios, digital studios, open collaborative workspaces and a large multi-function shoot studio/event space with flexible draped bays for Parsons"™ photography program. R+L wrapped the school"™s group meeting spaces around the existing U-shaped lightcourt, consolidating private programs to maximize the flexibility & openness of the academic spaces. MORE >
LINCOLN CENTER LPA UPDATE NEARS COMPLETION
09/27/17
R+L's upgrade of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' lighting infrastructure is nearing completion. The $1.2m project at Lincoln Center replaces/enhances the Bruno Walter Auditorium's architectural and theatrical lighting, adds new exterior architectural canopy lighting (adjacent to the Vivian Beaumont Theater), and re-illuminates exterior graphics at the Amsterdam Avenue entry.
WORLD ON THE HORIZON OPENS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
08/31/17
World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean opened to the public today at Krannert Art Museum on the campus of the University of Illinois - it is the first major traveling exhibition dedicated to the arts of the Swahili coast. R+L created a series of simple, directionally cantilevered pedestals that privelege the works within and define the show's six curatorial sections. R+L merged two permanent galleries by overlaying a third, rotated room that organizes the contents of the 5,200sf exhibition on new axes. Running through Mar 24, 2018 at KAM, WOH will travel to the new National Museum of African Art/Smithsonian Institution, and the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
PARSONS SCHOOL OF CONSTRUCTED ENVIRONMENTS NEARS COMPLETION
08/09/17
Construction is nearing completion for Parsons School of Constructed Environments, situated atop their Greenwich Village campus complex. R+L created a series of striated island meeting-boxes around which studio, faculty, and administrative spaces are organized. The active center of the school is the Skyroom, which serves as a sky-lit venue for guest lectures and student presentations in SCE's Architecture, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Lighting Design, & Product Design programs.
RL TO DESIGN PRATT GALLERY EXHIBITION
07/09/17
Organized by Pratt Manhattan Gallery and curated by C2 (curator squared), a new exhibition Design By Time will explore how temporal issues can be generative for, and encoded within, a range of textile, ceramic, lighting, fashion, object and furniture works. The exhibition will bring together works from both known and emerging designers, and is scheduled to open Feb 21, 2019 at PMG and will tour through 2020. Image: EDVH, detail from Morphodynamics installation.
PARSONS MAKING CENTER IS COVER STORY FOR CP&M
06/23/17
R+L's Parsons Making Center is featured as the cover story for the June issue of College Planning & Management Magazine. At a time when universities increasingly focus on maximizing assigned pedagogical space, the Making Center subverts this norm with open spaces dedicated to not being dedicated. The Center is also featured in Prototyping the Future, part of Oculus Magazine's Spring 2017 issue, Educating the Architects of Tomorrow. MORE>
MARX CUTS RIBBON TO OPEN NYPL’S WOODSTOCK BRANCH
05/15/17
We are proud to announce the opening of the R+L designed Woodstock Library in the South Bronx. In a ceremony held this morning at the branch, New York Public Library President Tony Marx praised the design of branch with its new accessible sloped floor entry, open grand stair, outdoor garden and generous reading and activity spaces dedicated to teens, kids and adults. MORE>
DESIGN COMMISSION AWARDS BOMB SQUAD HQ FOR DESIGN EXCELLENCE
05/11/17
The NYC Public Design Commission and the Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio today recognized R+L's NYPD Bomb Squad Building with the Commission"™s 35th Annual Award for Excellence in Design in a ceremony at City Hall. Located near Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, the building will serve as a headquarters, training & technical, and apparatus facility for the specialized NYPD unit. The building elevates critical infrastructure above the floodplain and is designed to meet the City"™s OneNYC 80x50 greenhouse gas reduction goal. MORE>
CADENA & MCNALLY-ANDERSON PROMOTED AT R+L
04/15/17
We are pleased to announce promotions for Benjamin Cadena and Taylor McNally-Anderson. Cadena has been named Design Director, having overseen project design in the studio since 2008. McNally-Anderson, with R+L since 2014, is now Associate, having successfully led three projects in as many years for The New School/Parsons School of Design. Congratulations to Benjamin and Taylor!
RL TO WORK WITH C2 ON BAGGAGE CLAIMS
04/02/17
R+L has been selected to work with curators, C2 (curatorsquared) to develop exhibition concepts for Baggage Claims, a touring exhibition exploring the meaning of baggage, both physical and psychological, in the context of globalization and its impact on cultural identity. The exhibition is scheduled to Sep 15, 2017 at the Orlando Museum of Art. Avery Lawrence, Arranging Suitcases, video still courtesy C2.
LIPKA TO SPEAK AT PARSONS
03/03/17
As part of Parsons School of Constructed Environments Architecture & "X" lecture series, Astrid Lipka will present Architecture & the Public, a survey of how R+L's diverse current works invest in civic issues. Her talk is scheduled for this Tuesday, Mar 7 at noon in the R+L designed SCE Hub Skyroom, 2W13th Street.
DAVIS MUSEUM TO REMOVE IMMIGRANT ARTWORKS
02/16/17
The Davis Museum at Wellesley College, in protest of President Trump's proposed travel ban, has removed 120 artworks from their galleries as part of the their larger "Art-Less" initiative which demonstrates the critical role that immigrants have played in the arts. According museum director, Lisa Fischman, the speed of the action was made possible by the three year research effort for the recent re-installation of the permanent collection. R+L designed the galleries which opened just last November. Through Feb 21, the works will be identified only be the empty space and a tag stating whether the work was immigrant made or donated. ARTSY> RELEASE>
RICE SPEAKS AT KOREAN SYMPOSIUM ON PUBLIC DESIGN
11/18/16
As part of the International Academic Symposium for the Improvement of Public Design of Jeju Island's Natural & Cultural Heritage, Lyn Rice, along with Danish landscape architect Kristine Jensen and historian Yoo Hong Jun, will lead discussions on issues of preservation & tourism at Jeju's UNESCO World Natural Heritage Sites. Rice will lecture on how subtly disrupting normative conditions can deepen individual and collective experience. His talk, Doing Nothing with Absolute Precision, will take place this Thu 11/24 at 2:40pm at the Jeju Welcome Center, 23 Seondeok-ro, Jeju City, Republic of Korea. The symposium, Nov 23-25, is organized by the Seoul-based Arumjigi Culture Keepers Foundation.
RL SELECTED TO NYC DESIGN EXCELLENCE PROGRAM
10/17/16
Today Commissioner Feniosky Peña-Mora of the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) announced the list of 26 practices selected to design upcoming civic works in the City's five boroughs. We are thrilled to be selected - it is the third round of NYC's Design Excellence Program in which R+L has been honored to participate since the program's founding in 2005. The new group, as part of Design and Construction Excellence 2.0 Program, will have exclusive access to design public projects in the City with an estimated cost of up to $50 million through 2019.
OHNY TOURS PARSONS MAKING CENTER THIS WEEKEND
10/10/16
For two days each October, the annual Open House New York Weekend unlocks the doors of New York"™s most important buildings, offering an extraordinary opportunity to experience the city and meet the people who design, build, and preserve New York. Tour Parsons"™ new Making Center hub, a spacious 26,000sf multi-disciplinary facility designed by R+L. These studio spaces bring together creative disciplines & their tools from around the university. Lyn Rice & Astrid Lipka will be guiding tours on Sun, Oct 16 at 11am & 1pm. [SOLD OUT]
DAVIS MUSEUM OPENS NEW PERMANENT GALLERIES
09/28/16
Opening tonight after nearly three years in the making, this momentous transformation of the Davis Museum at Wellesley College represents a milestone of "rediscovery." R+L designed the galleries, exhibition sequence & extensive new exhibition casework in a collaborative process that included Davis curators, conservators, scholars and specialists. Over three floors, the new Davis galleries tell stories of collecting at Wellesley College, presenting the global breadth and strength of its encyclopedic holdings. This major project more than doubles the previous number of works of art available for the public to experience.
TEEN CENTER NAMED BEST LIBRARY IN NY BY ELLE DECOR
09/26/16
Elle Decor selected R+L's Hamilton Grange Teen Center as the best library in the state of New York in this listing of The 50 Best Libraries in the United States. The 09.26.2016 list cited the Teen Center, designed for New York Public Library, for its energy, its bright, sprawling layout and for providing un-programmed hang-out space for teens. MORE >
PARSONS MAKING CENTER OPENS AT THE NEW SCHOOL
08/29/16
Kicking off the new academic year, The New School opened the R+L designed, 26,000 sf, multi-disciplinary Parsons Making Center on August 29th. The Center supports the most advanced practices in digital technology and physical craft in a raw, unprecious working environment. Stitching together spaces in two existing buildings, R+L conceived of the Center as a de-siloed making place where design students from Parson"™s broad range of creative disciplines can work side-by-side. For the first time, the exploratory making & prototyping facilities of Parsons' diverse programs, are brought together in a single space accessible to the entire New School community. Photo :Michael Moran.
WORLD ON THE HORIZON AWARDED NEH GRANT
08/18/16
Krannert Art Museum's exhibition, World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean, has been awarded a major implementation grant the National Endowment for the Humanities. Designed by R+L and co-curated by KAM curator of African Art, Dr. Allyson Purpura, and University of Illinois Professor of African Art History, Dr. Prita Meier, World on the Horizon will be the first exhibition organized in the US dedicated to the visual arts of this dynamic transoceanic region. NEH cited the project as "exemplary" for its cutting-edge scholarship and innovated museum experience. The exhibition is scheduled to open late 2017 at KAM and travel to the new National Museum of African Art/Smithsonian Institution, and the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
ART MILL SELECTS R+L AS FINALIST FOR COMPETITION
04/21/16
Today the short list was announced for the designer of the Art Mill in Doha, envisioned as one of the world"™s leading cultural centers. R+L is thrilled to have been selected as one of the eight practices chosen from four continents (and 489 submissions) to progress to the third and final stage of the competition. R+L is the only US team among the finalists, which include Atelier Bow-Wow, Elemental, Junya Ishigami, & Renzo Piano. The project involves the redevelopment of a spectacular waterfront site at the heart of an emerging cultural quarter of the city. It adjoins the park around I.M. Pei"™s Museum of Islamic Art, near Jean Nouvel"™s forthcoming National Museum of Qatar. See press release HERE >
PARSONS CELEBRATES EMERGING VOICES IN DESIGN
02/08/16
Parsons School of Constructed Environments and The Architectural League of New York will celebrate those featured in the new book, 30 Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance, at an event on Thursday, February 11, 2016, 6-9 p.m. at The New University Center"™s Starr Foundation Hall, UL102. Emerging Voices at Parsons SCE: Transforming Models and Practice will feature a Pecha Kucha-style talk with Lyn Rice, Parsons SCE faculty and alumni, as well as a panel conversation on emerging disciplinary and hybrid models of practice moderated by Alan Brake, U.S. Editor at Dezeen. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
RL AWARDED NYPD TRAINING FACILITIES MASTER PLAN
01/14/16
As part of NYC's Design Excellence program, NYPD has selected Rice+Lipka to master plan its 48 acre Firearms & Tactics Section at Rodman's Neck peninsula, situated in Eastchester Bay. R+L, with our tactical & landscape consultant team, will analyze the compound's potential to sponsor dynamic tactical operations in indoor/outdoor facilities designed to replace and/or enhance the site's 21 buildings & six shooting ranges. Organized by NYC DDC, this significant project will provide the world's largest police force with a new vision for training excellence in a premier facility for cadets & in-service personnel.
SEATTLE AIA HONOR AWARDS LIVE EVENT ON NOV 16
11/01/15
Join jurors Astrid Lipka, Juhani Pallasmaa, Toni Casamor and moderator Gundula Proksch in a discussion of AIA Seattle's 2015 Honor Awards winners & the jury process. The program celebrates all who contribute to the evolution of practice, whether through the creation of buildings, installations, or concepts and caps a three-day selection process. The live event program starts at 7:00pm, Nov 16 at Benaroya Hall in downtown Seattle.
RL NAMED FOR NW ARKANSAS DESIGN EXCELLENCE PROGRAM
10/10/15
The Walton Family Foundation has selected R+L for the 2015 Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program. The program promotes the highest level of design in the development of future public buildings and spaces in Arkansas"™ Benton and Washington counties. We are pleased to be a part of this five year program that privileges issues of sustainability, human scale and high quality design.
STEREOTYPE TO OPEN AT PARSONS' KELLEN GALLERY
09/07/15
StereoType: New Directions in Typography presents works by an array of 14 established and up-and-coming designers from the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, France, the United States, Israel, The Netherlands, Germany, and Australia, and will open Tue, Sep 29, 6-8pm at the Anna-Maria & Stephen Kellen Gallery at Parson's Sheila Johnson Design Center in New York. Operating at the intersection of technology and design, this new breed of artists is expanding the boundaries of traditional typography and integrating elements from the fields of animation, craft, performance, nanoscience, and graffiti. The R+L designed, C2 curated exhibition runs through Dec 15.
RL LONG-LISTED FOR ART MILL DESIGN COMPETITION
08/17/15
The global search for the designer of the Art Mill in Doha, envisioned as one of the world"™s leading cultural centers, today announced the list of 26 architects, chosen from a field of 489 submissions. We are thrilled that R+L has been selected as part of the international group that will to go forward to the competition's second stage. The project involves the redevelopment of a spectacular waterfront site at the heart of an emerging cultural quarter of the city. It adjoins the park around I.M. Pei"™s Museum of Islamic Art, near Jean Nouvel"™s forthcoming National Museum of Qatar. See press release HERE >
EMERGING VOICES OPENSTUDIOS AT R+L THIS WEEKEND
07/10/15
This Saturday, in celebration of the publication of 30 Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance, The Architectural League of New York and Open House 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. Downtown studios, including R+L, will be open Saturday, July 11 from 1pm-5pm - Join us at 40 Worth Street in Tribeca!
CARRIAGE HOUSES CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY ON STATEN ISLAND
06/12/15
Construction on the NYC Public Design Commission Award of Excellence recipient, Carriage Houses & Grounds for the Staten Island Historical Society and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs is now underway. R+L conceived of a collections campus of three shed buildings that frame a series of exterior spaces for the SIHS's frequent outdoor events. Off-the-shelf steel arch span structures, lined with pillowed insulation, will be capped by deeply inset event porches and polished, red-hued end walls. MORE >
RL SELECTED TO DESIGN NUYORICAN POETS CAFE EXPANSION
03/02/15
As a performance space for new and unknown artists, and for those often under-represented in mainstream culture, the Nuyorican Poets Café has become an acclaimed forum for innovative poetry, music, hip hop, video, visual arts, comedy and theater. R+L has just been selected, through NYC's Design Excellence Program, to design the organization's East Village expansion project including new street identity, two theaters, rehearsal & educational spaces and integrated bar/cafe zones.
METAMODERN EXHIBITION OPENS AT KRANNERT ART MUSEUM
01/29/15
Curated by C2, curatorsquared, MetaModern opens tonight at the University of Illinois' Krannert Art Museum. The exhibition features works that question the status of once radical, now iconic, mid-century furnishings. R+L's aweless use of sustainable, insubstantial corrugated platforms as substitutes for museum-grade pedestals seeks to support this line of inquiry. MetaModern is open at KAM through March 28. Photo courtesy C2.
STEREOTYPE OPENS AT BOSTON SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS
11/13/14
StereoType: New Directions In Typography opens tonight at the Boston Society of Architects. The Rice+Lipka designed exhibition compiles a selection of designers and artists from around the world who are exploring opportunities at the intersection of technology and design, expanding the boundaries of traditional typography and integrating elements from the fields of animation, craft, performance, nanoscience, and graffiti into their work.
The exhibition, curated by C2, runs through May 25th, after which it will travel to venues across the United States throughout 2016.
RL PRESENTED WITH NYS AIA AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
10/14/14
Astrid Lipka and Lyn Rice were honored last Friday evening with the 2014 AIA New York State Award of Excellence for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), designed in collaboration with James Corner Field Operations. The award was conferred at the NYSAIA's annual design conference in Saratoga. MORE >
RL SPEAKS ON CIVIC & DOMESTIC DESIGN WITH DWELL
10/10/14
Dwell sat down with Lyn Rice & Astrid Lipka this afternoon for the talk/panel discussion Between Civic and Residential Architecture today at Dwell on Design NY. R+L's talk explored the blurred intersection of civic and residential space, addressing both civic work's increasing tendency to incorporate domestic characteristics and urban dwellings' demand for more communal space. R+L was joined on the panel by Vivian Lee of Richard Meier & Partners at 82 Mercer in SoHo where 5,000 members of the design elite gather for innovative installations and onstage discussions centering around public space, urban infrastructure, and more. Photo by Jenna Bascom.
RL AWARDED CHOICIRCIATI CULTURAL CENTER EXPANSION PROJECT
09/15/14
As part of NYC's Design Excellence Program, R+L has been selected to design the expansion of the Choicirciati Cultural Center, a consortium of three New York based non"profit performing arts organizations with productions in theater, dance, music, and experimental works. The addition will create a new lobby and facade at the Center's East 4th Street home in Manhattan. The project will serve the Center's two-theaters & upper level educational programs to accommodate larger audiences and to establish a new street identity for the organization.
ENCOUNTERS WINS UCDA AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
07/30/14
The University & College Designers Association has recognized Encounters:The Arts of Africa, the Krannert Art Museum's new permanant installation of their renowned collection of African Art, with the UCDA's 2014 Award of Excellence. The UCDA Design Competition recognizes the best design work completed for academic institutions nationwide. R+L conceived the exhibition as a series of clinical platforms to contrast the deeply textured African works and collaborated closely with the exhibition's graphic designer, StudioBlue. Encounters will featured at the coming UCDA Design Conference, Sep 20-23 in Long Beach, CA. MORE >
MOCAD WINS 2014 AIA NEW YORK STATE AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
07/02/14
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), designed by the collaborative team of R+L and James Corner Field Operations has been cited for an Award of Excellence by the 2014 AIA New York State Design Awards Jury in the Unbuilt Projects category. The project will be exhibited this fall at the AIANYS's annual design conference in Saratoga, NY. The award, which honors distinguished projects by New York State architects, will be conferred on Friday, Oct 10. MORE >
SECRETARY ALBRIGHT SPEAKS ON DAVIS EXHIBITION
06/18/14
R+L's recently completed exhibition design for the Davis Museum at Wellesley College is in the news this week. The Boston Globe reports that "While former secretary of state Hillary Clinton signed copies of her new book, "Hard Choices," at the Harvard Book Store on Monday, one of her predecessors (and the first woman to hold that office), Madeleine Albright was at Wellesley College, the alma mater of both women, and scheduled to sign copies of her own book, Read My Pins." Astrid Lipka and Lyn Rice were on hand Monday evening for Albright's public dialogue with Wellesley president Kim Bottomly, where she lauded R+L's lucent display design for the exhibition of the same name. Read My Pins, which documents her deft use of pins as diplomatic tools, is open through July 20. Photo : Suzanne Kreiter-Boston Globe. MORE >
RL PARTICIPATES IN UPK DESIGN CHARRETTE
06/16/14
As part of Mayor de Blasio's groundbreaking effort to provide universal, free pre-K for over 73,000 kids in NYC, R+L was invited to participate in the Discovering Synergies between Libraries and UPK Design Charette to uncover the possibilities libraries have as places to host UPK classes. Astrid Lipka and Lyn Rice were both on hand at the AIANY/NYC DDC-sponsored event this past Thursday, June 12 at the Center for Architecture.
NATIONAL DESIGN CONFERENCE WRAPS-UP IN NEW YORK
05/19/14
Astrid Lipka and Lyn Rice co-chaired this year's national American Institute of Architects/Committee on Design (AIACOD) conference here in NYC, which concluded yesterday, May 18. The four-day conference examined the status of urbanism and architecture in New York through an intensive itinerary of on-site talks by 30 leading thinkers, planners and architects at 17 of the city's most significant project & development sites. The conference brought together speakers Stan Allen, Michael Arad, Vishaan Chakrabarti, David Childs, Susan Chin, Craig Dykers, Hugh Hardy, Scott Marble & Karen Fairbanks, Charles Renfro, Lisa Switkin, Marion Weiss & Michael Manfredi, Claire Weisz, Billie Tsien, Mark Wigley, and Tom Wright to name a few. A year in the making, the conference included participants from across the US and culminated with a panel discussion about the future of urbanism in NY moderated by AIANY's Lance Brown. Many thanks to our tenacious committee here in NYC and to national AIACOD chair Steven Alspaugh for making the conference a great success.
HARLEM TEEN CENTER RECEIVES INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARD
04/23/14
The International Interior Design Association and the American Library Association announced today that R+L's NYPL Hamilton Grange Teen Center has been selected as the winner of a 2014 ALA/IIDA LIbrary Interior Design Award - a biennial competition honoring international excellence in library interior design. The award will be presented at the ALA Annual Conference this coming June. MORE >
RL TO DESIGN PARSONS MAKING CENTER & SCHOOL HUB
03/14/14
The New School has selected R+L to design a 45,000sf Making Center and School Hub for Parsons to support the most advanced practices in digital technology and physical craft. The Making facility will house technologies that can alter how and where everything is made, upending notions of supply-chain, local production, craft, micro-targeted production runs, and mass customization. For the first time, the exploratory making & prototyping facilities of Parsons' diverse programs, including fashion, product, art, communication & media design along with architecture and interiors, will be brought together in a single space. In parallel, R+L will design Parsons School Hub, an open, top-floor combined studio, meeting, administrative, exhibition and faculty space for the School of Constructed Environments.
RL RECEIVES GREEN PLANET ARCHITECTS AWARD
01/20/14
We are pleased to announce that Green Planet Architects has named R+L as one of the top 50 sustainable studios worldwide. R+L received the Green Planet Architects Award, which recognizes "outstanding contributions to the development and promotion of sustainability, and visionary approach as a practitioner of sustainable architecture." MORE >
'FAIRY TALE ARCHITECTURE: THE LIBRARY OF BABEL' PUBLISHED IN DESIGN OBSERVER
12/18/13
As part of its ongoing series on fairy tale architecture curated by writer Kate Bernheimer and architect Andrew Bernheimer, Design Observer published Fairy Tale Architecture: The Library of Babel on Dec 16. For the series, Rice+Lipka was invited to explore the intimate relationship between the structure of Borges' fairy tale and the imaginative realm of architecture through a sequence of graphic works. The Library of Babel is a terrifying and beautiful story by Borges, written when he was employed shelving books in the city library. The story describes a non-hierarchical, seemingly infinite series of hexagonal spaces housing all of the books ever written - as well as all those yet to be written. Also see LA Times book critic David L. Ulin's Dec 18 coverage in Imagining Borges' 'Library of Babel'.
'WE BUILD THE CITY' LAUNCHES AT THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
12/11/13
Three Rice+Lipka projects are featured in We Build the City: NYC's Design+Construction Excellence Program, a new book of exemplary infrastructure, public realm and civic building projects developed during New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's administration, under Commissioner David Burney's groundbreaking Design Excellence program. This publication celebrates the idea that great design reinvigorates public space and transforms the way we live. With a foreward by Mayor Bloomberg, the book features R+L's Long Island City Cultural Alliance Wayfinding project, Staten Island Historical Society Carriage Houses, and New York Public Library Woodstock Branch. We Build the City launched Tuesday evening, Dec 10, at the Museum of the City of New York and is available now. MORE >
NYC SELECTS R+L TO DESIGN NEW WATERFRONT BUILDING FOR NYPD BOMB SQUAD
12/04/13
The New York City Police Department and NYC's Department of Design & Construction has selected Rice+Lipka to design a new building situated in Pelham Bay Park on the Eastchester Bay waterfront. The project is part of the DDC's Design Excellence Program and will house educational/training and administrative programs, as well as zones for the Squad's robots, suits and other equipment. R+L is working to maximize the building's openness, capitalize on its dramatic natural setting and views, and protect the facility from future coastal storm surges by lifting the building above the surrounding landscape.
NEUTELINGS TO SPEAK AT COOPER UNION ON NOV 4
11/04/13
As part of the Current Work program jointly sponsored by the Architectural League of New York and by The Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Willem Jan Neutelings will lecture this Monday, Nov 4. Lyn Rice will introduce Neutelings and moderate a discussion afterward. The lecture/discussion will begin at 7pm in Cooper's Great Hall.
'ROUGH CUTS' OPENS AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
10/27/13
R+L's work is being featured in the Syracuse University School of Architecture's 2013 Fall Visiting Critics Exhibition, Rough Cuts, curated by Martin Haettasch. Numerous physical concept/development models from R+L's Museum of Polish History, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Villa 007/Ordos 100, Hamilton Grange Teen Center and the Long Island City Cultural Alliance Wayfinding projects are included. The exhibition opens this Tuesday, Oct 29 at 5pm in the Slocum Hall Gallery and runs through Dec 5.
RICE TO SPEAK AT KRANNERT ART MUSEUM ON OCT 17
10/13/13
As part of Krannert Art Museum and the School of Art+Design Visitors Series, Lyn Rice will speak on the nexus of architecture and exhibition design. His talk, Curating Context, will be this Thursday, Oct 17 at 5:30pm in Krannert Art Museum's, Noel Gallery at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
OHNY TOURS SHEILA C. JOHNSON DESIGN CENTER ON OCT 12
10/07/13
R+L is participating in the 11th Annual openhousenewyork Weekend with a tour of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons the New School for Design. OHNY unlocks the city for New Yorkers and tourists alike with free access to significant architectural sites. Astrid Lipka and Lyn Rice will be guiding the tour, which starts at 1pm, Saturday, Oct 12 in the Center's lobby at 2 West 13th Street.
RICE & LIPKA TO LECTURE AT SYRACUSE ON OCT 3
09/20/13
As part of Syracuse University's School of Architecture Fall Lecture Series, Astrid Lipka and Lyn Rice will speak at 5pm, Thursday, Oct 3 at Garrison Architects' Slocum Hall in Syracuse. The lecture, Side Effects, traces the intended and sometimes unintended aspects of R+L's work. Rice is currently serving as the Richard Gluckman Visiting Critic in the Syracuse NYC program.
DDC AWARDS HAMILTON FISH PARK LIBRARY TO R+L
09/17/13
As part of NYC's Design Excellence Program, Rice+Lipka has been selected to design a new library entry and interior spaces for New York Public Library's 1959 classic modernist Hamilton Fish Park Branch, designed by Kelly and Gruzen. R+L envisions a transformation of the branch that inspires and engages users, maximizes openness and programmatic connectivity and that strenthens the library's urban presence along its East Houston Street site in Manhattan. Design work for the project kicks-off this fall.
R+L TO DESIGN MUSEUM LOBBY & GALLERY FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
08/09/13
Rice+Lipka is set to redesign Krannert Art Museum's public entry lobby and Moore Gallery at the University of Illinois. The project represents Phase 2 of R+L's 2010 KAM Vision Plan which seeks to enhance the public's museum experience, provide state-of-the-art contexts for Krannert's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions, and enhance the museum's exterior surrounds.
RICE TO LECTURE AT THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY ON JUL 17
07/01/13
Lyn Rice will speak at Edward M. Crough Center for Architectural Studies at The Catholic Univerity of America in Washington DC on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 5:30 in Locraft Hall. Rice will respond to the Summer Lecture Series' provocation regarding absence and its potential to create desire in architecture.
AIA SELECTS NYPL TEEN CENTER FOR BIENNIAL 2013 AIA/ALA LIBRARY BUILDING AWARD
06/03/13
The American Institute of Architects and the American Library Association has selected Rice+Lipka's Hamilton Grange Teen Center in New York City to receive one of six national biennial 2013 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards, celebrating the finest examples of library design in the country. The jury cited the project's "engaging" exploratory environment with a "compelling...performative quality". This is Award's 50th year and Lyn Rice will accept the honor for R+L and the New York Public Libary at the ALA's Annual Conference in Chicago on July 1st, 2013. MORE >
RL OPENS UP WITH OHNY DURING OPENSTUDIOS
04/10/13
Rice+Lipka is opening up to the public as a participating studio in openhousenewyork's openstudiosevent on Saturday, May 18. Join OHNY and Rice+Lipka as we celebrate Lower Manhattan as a hub of design creativity and innovation. The event is organized as part of NYCxDESIGN, a new citywide event celebrating NYC as an international design capital. Purchase tickets here and see you on 5/18!
MOCAD WINS MIPIM/ ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW FUTURE PROJECTS AWARD
03/18/13
The redesign of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) building and grounds by Rice+Lipka and James Corner Field Operations has been selected as the 2013 winner of MIPIM / Architectural Review Future Projects Award for the category of "Old & New". The jury cited the design as "an inspirational project that combines past and present in a well resolved and convincing manner. It creates new space for new creativity in a post-industrial city." The Future Projects Awards is an international honor for design excellence in commissioned, unbuilt projects. Lyn Rice and Astrid Lipka were presented the award at a dinner ceremony in Cannes last Wednesday, March 13. MORE >
RICE CHARRETTES WITH THE POST-SANDY TASK FORCE
02/23/13
Lyn Rice participated in a charrette of the Post-Sandy Housing Task Force on Feb 23 at the Center for Architecture. Six interdisciplinary teams of architects, engineers, planners and landscape architects were invited to participate and worked to examine the planning and design implications for various housing typologies associated with rising storm waters. The charette was organized by AIANY at the request of the City of New York.
ARCHITIZER A+ AWARDS HONORS MOCAD
02/14/13
Rice+Lipka and James Corner Field Operations' redevelopment of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) has been honored with a Special Mention in the Architizer A+ Awards for the Architecture+Urban Transformation category. The Architizer A+ Awards honors the designers and firms behind some of the most ingenious contemporary architecture. The design, selected from entrants from 100 countries, reorganizes MOCAD"™s internal spaces; creates better spaces for viewing art and participating in events; provides expanded staff and support space; and activates the exterior by way of new outdoor spaces for museum programming. MORE >
RL SELECTED FOR NYC DESIGN EXCELLENCE PROJECTS
01/07/13
The City of New York has awarded a new contract to Rice+Lipka for building projects citywide as part of the Department of Design and Construction's Design Excellence program. The program is committed to achieving excellence in the design and construction of the City's capital program, and building on the tradition of innovation in architecture that
has contributed to the City"™s prestige as a global destination. The design team includes Robert Silman Associates, Lilker Associates Consulting Engineers, and Accucost.
ART DEPARTMENT HOSTS RICE AT VASSAR COLLEGE ON NOV 28
11/26/12
Lyn Rice will deliver the Margaret McCurry Art Department Lecture this week at the Department of Art at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. The talk, entitled Art Work will focus on the diverse range of Rice+Lipka projects related to the arts, including museum and gallery design, arts master-planning, exhibition design, artist collaborations, and independent speculative work. The lecture will be held at Vassar's Taylor Hall this Wednesday, Nov 28 at 6:00pm.
POST-SANDY, R+L REOPENS
11/04/12
Power has been restored to lower Manhattan and our studio is up and running again in the aftermath of Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record. Our servers and phone service are fully operational this morning and principals and staff are all doing well. Thank you to our clients and consultants for your understanding and patience as we work to minimize the disruption to ongoing project work.
CIVIC ACTION CATALOG LAUNCHED BY NOGUCHI & SOCRATES
10/29/12
The Noguchi Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park have published Civic Action, a compendium to the two-part exhibition Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City presented by the two organizations and featuring collaborative work of artist George Trakas with Rice+Lipka and Amelia Black. The book also documents R+L's participation in the associated waterfront visioning charrette sponsored by the Architectural League New York and held at the Noguchi Museum last June. MORE >
NEW GALLERY AND ENCOUNTERS: THE ARTS OF AFRICA OPEN AT KRANNERT ART MUSEUM
10/18/12
Encounters: The Arts of Africa permanent exhibition opened this past week in Krannert Art Museum's new west gallery space. Both gallery and exhibition were designed by Rice+Lipka and provide precisely machined, clinical platforms that highlight KAM's collection of deeply textured works emergent from African culture. The gallery renovation is part of Phase 1 work of KAM's Vision Plan, with subsequent phase design work starting this winter. Installation view : Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, 2012, photograph: Chris Brown. MORE >
DESIGN BY NEW YORK OPENS AT WEST 4TH ST STATION
10/12/12
Rice+Lipka'sHamilton Grange Teen Center for the New York Public Library is featured in the AIANY's new exhibition Design by New York, which opened this week at the West 4th Street subway station in NYC. The exhibition presents select work of New York Chapter members worldwide. Exhibition open through Nov 4.
RL SHORTLISTED FOR SHELBY FARMS PARK BUILDING PROJECTS
09/14/12
Rice+Lipka has been selected as one of three shortlisted firms for the design of multiple new buildings within Shelby Farms Park, the 4,500 acre urban greenspace master-planned by James Corner Field Operations. The project includes the design for a new Boathouse and Restaurant/Event facilities, along with renewed Visitor's Center and Ampitheater programs. The project represents a remarkable opportunity to expand the Park's programs in a functional, sustainable and adaptable series of park structures characterized by high quality design - works that fully mine the potential of JCFO's site planning and that wholly engage the visiting public.
A GENEROUS MEDIUM EXHIBITION OPENS AT THE DAVIS MUSEUM
09/12/12
A Generous Medium: Photography at Wellesley 1972-2012 opens tonight at the Davis Museum. Mined from the museum's extensive photographic holdings, the Rice+Lipka designed exhibition organizes works unconventionally, by date of acquisition, to allow for serendipitous and revealing juxtapositions. R+L conceived the gallery perimeter as a timeline on which all works are organized in a single, uninterrupted loop. The space is anchored by a 52' custom bench over which floats a gossamer cloud of 42 text excerpts - teasers that point to the intriguing stories behind the works. Through December 16, 2012. MORE >
AFRICAN GALLERY INSTALLATION UNDERWAY AT KRANNERT
09/11/12
Installation of the Krannert Art Museum's new permanent exhibition of African arts is now underway in KAM's fully renovated gallery. Both gallery and exhibition are designed by Rice+Lipka to shape a contemporary context for the 70 artworks of Encounters: The Arts of Africa. The exhibition displays are conceived as hyper-neutral, clinical platforms constructed of high-gloss white powder-coated steel to maximize the contrast against which the rich colors and textures of the works are read. The exhibition opens to the public on Friday, October 12.
DISSONA OPENS R+L DESIGNED CONCEPT STORE IN SHENZHEN
09/08/12
High-end leather goods manufacturer, Dissona, has opened its first concept store for shoes this month in Shenzhen. The project builds on Dissona's handbag concept store prototype that opened in Shenzhen last fall. Weaving together environment and product, a staggered grid of cantilevered light boxes screens the interior at the facade and a high gloss interior wrapper dissolves into mirror at its edges, blurring the store's extents. A third Rice+Lipka designed handbag concept store is scheduled to open next month, also in Shenzhen.
WOODSTOCK FEATURED BY THE CENTER FOR ACTIVE DESIGN
08/20/12
The Center for Active Design has selected Rice+Lipka's design for the Woodstock Library Branch to feature as a case study exemplifying projects that promote good health through design. The Branch, designed for the New York Public Library as part of the DDC's Design Excellence Program, reinvents 10,000sf of a McKim, Mead, and White building by creating an accessible sloped entry lobby and glazed open stair that will encourage people to skip the elevator and burn some calories accessing the library's three main floors. MORE >
BLOOMBERG PRESENTS DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD TO R+L
07/25/12
Last evening, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg presented Rice+Lipka with the Public Design Commission's Design Excellence Award for our site and building design for three Carriage Houses for the Staten Island Historical Society. The award was presented at the 30th Annual Award for Excellence in Design in ceremony and reception held in Gehry's new residential highrise, 8 Spruce Street in lower Manhattan. The project is part of the DDC's Design Excellence Program and is funded through the Department of Cultural Affairs. Pictured from left are R+L principal Lyn Rice, DDC Commissioner David Burney, Design Commission President Signe Nielsen, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
HARLEM TEEN CENTER WINS NEW YORK STATE AIA DESIGN AWARD
07/18/12
Rice+Lipka is honored to announce that NYPL's Hamilton Grange Teen Center has been selected for a New York State AIA design award for 2012. The Center is New York Public Library's first full-floor space dedicated to teens and it challenges the norms of library design to provide a contemporary, more open, social, and technology-rich environment to fully engage neighborhood youth. The award will be conferred at the 2012 AIANYS Design Awards presentation on September 28. MORE >
NYC WATERFRONT CHARRETTE FEATURED IN URBAN OMNIBUS
06/28/12
On June 6th, the Architectural League New York, under the direction of Special Projects Director Gregory Wessner, convened architects, landscape architects and urban planners, including Astrid Lipka and Lyn Rice, to engage in an intense few hours of design thinking and discussion about the future of the Long Island City waterfront. The charrette participants were organized into three teams: Waterfront, Neighborhood / Community, and Transportation / Connection. Urban Ominbus features the event this week and includes a video short. MORE >
DESIGN COMMISSION PICKS CARRIAGE HOUSES FOR DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD
06/04/12
Rice+Lipka is pleased to announce that The City of New York's Public Design Commission is recognizing R+L's site and building design for three Carriage Houses as one of the top nine public projects in NYC with their 30th Annual Award for Excellence in Design. The project is part of the DDC's Design Excellence program and is funded through the Department of Cultural Affairs. The 10,000sf facility will house over 60 historic carriages and frame exterior event spaces for the Staten Island Historical Society at Historic Richmond Town. The award will be conferred at the Commission's awards ceremony on July 24 in Manhattan. MORE >
RL HEX PANELS SELECTED FOR MANUFACTURE BY ALUMAFLOOR
05/15/12
Alumafloor is now offering the Rice+Lipka designed hex-patterned aluminum flooring originally conceived for the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design. R+L proposed the non-orthagonal spatial grid to visually unify the irregular footprint of the Center, to articulate variations in floor level, and to texture-map a group ramp in the skylit campus quad.
NYPL TEEN CENTER WINS 2012 SARA DESIGN AWARD
05/02/12
Rice+Lipka is proud to announce that Hamilton Grange Branch Teen Center has been selected for a 2012 Society of American Registered Architects Award of Merit. The Center is New York Public Library's first full-floor space dedicated to teens and it challenges the norms of library design to provide a contemporary, more open, social, and technology-rich environment to fully engage neighborhood youth. The award will be conferred at SARA's awards event on June 26th. MORE >
CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY FOR KRANNERT ART MUSEUM
04/25/12
The first phase of Rice+Lipka's Vision Plan for the Krannert Art Museum is now under construction and is scheduled for completion later this summer at the University of Illinois. R+L has reorganized access to and circulation through the galleries, which are being reconfigured with new visually floating exhibitions walls that incorporate digital technologies as well as new lighting.
BENJAMIN CADENA NAMED ASSOCIATE AT R+L
04/13/12
Astrid Lipka and Lyn Rice are pleased to announce the naming of Benjamin Cadena as an Associate at Rice+Lipka. Over the last four years, Benjamin has been integrally involved in the conceptualization and development of many of R+L's most significant projects, including current work on MOCAD, ongoing projects for The New York Public Library, and Villa 007 (part of the Ordos 100 project). MORE >
CFA PANEL ON THE NATURE OF CIVIC PLANNING & ARTIST COLLABORATIONS
04/12/12
Tonight, Julie Iovine will moderate a panel discussion with Lyn Rice, Elliott Maltby, and Claire Weiss regarding the nature of architect/artist collaborative models and applications for civic planning. The event will start at 6pm at New York's Center for Architecture.
CHATHAM TOWERS RESIDENCE FEATURED IN TRENDS HOME
03/06/12
Rice+Lipka's Chatham Towers Residence is featured in the March Trends Home Magazine and features photography by Hai Zhang. The eight page spread is part of the magazine's Designer's Home series. MORE >
MOCAD ANNOUNCES SELECTION OF R+L AND JAMES CORNER FIELD OPERATIONS
02/24/12
After a nine month-long search, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) has announced its selection of Rice+Lipka and James Corner Field Operations to plan a building and site renovation that has been funded by a LINC/Ford Foundation Space for Change grant.
The goal of this process is to refurbish MOCAD"™s facility to improve internal spaces and functionality, including temperature and climate control; create better spaces for art viewing and for staff to work; and transform the site to activate the exterior by way of an outdoor space for Museum programming and improved visibility on the building"™s Woodward frontage. MORE >
LYN RICE ARCHITECTS IS NOW RICE+LIPKA ARCHITECTS!
02/23/12
After working together for over 11 years on a range of projects from Dia:Beacon to the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center to NYPL's Teen Center, LRA founder Lyn Rice has convinced co-principal Astrid Lipka to lend her good name to the company. Today we are proud to announce our name change to Rice+Lipka Architects! Most everything will stay the same, though you will notice a few small changes. Our web domain is now RICELIPKA.COM and our email addresses have changed (same except for the new domain). Many thanks to all who have supported us over the years - we look forward to working with you in the future!
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON HOSTS RICE+LIPKA ON FEB 24
02/19/12
Astrid Lipka and Lyn Rice will speak this week at the University of Washington as part of the Department of Architecture's spring lecture series. Lipka and Rice will present recent work and discuss LRA's tactics of embracing and stimulating project constraints as a critical component of innovation. The lecture is this Friday evening, Feb 24 at 6:30pm in Architectural Hall 147.
CHATHAM TOWERS RESIDENCE COMPLETE
01/29/12
LRA reconfigured the apartment's core to simplify the layout and used a palette of whites and grey to create calm, neutral environment that foregrounds views out to the classic New York landscape of towers, bridges, steeples and water tanks. The space, located on the south edge of Chinatown, features custom super-anemone wallpaper, custom oak coat/hat drying rack, and a collaborative artwork prototype, Missed Connections, created by LRA, artist Ben Rubin and graphic designer Lisa Strausfeld. MORE >
BRANCH COAT+HAT RACK PROTOTYPE DEVELOPED
01/13/12
Rice+Lipka has completed a prototype for a simple, natural oak coat+hat+bag rack. Inspired by wall-mounted laboratory tube drying racks, the rack is shallow and provides a full-height backdrop to prevent wet clothes from staining the wall surface behind. A series of branch-like outcroppings stem out from a striated vertical drain board. It is a solid oak, quasi-test-tube-rack-crossed-with-a-George-Nelson-bench. more >
JORINAL'S NEW HEADQUARTERS NEARS COMPLETION
12/01/11
Jorinal has moved into their new 30,000sf headquarters as it nears completion overlooking urban parkland and Shenzhen's Futian Business District. LRA's de-compartmentalized spatial organization takes advantage of the existing narrow floor plate to maximize view and daylight exposure and maximizes shared access to a series of outdoor terraces. LRA minimized the number of private office spaces, reserving nearly 80% of the 700lf glazed perimeter for shared open workspace and informal meeting spaces organized around three glazed showrooms.
DISSONA UNVEILS NEW STORE IN SHENZHEN
10/30/11
LRA is proud to announce the opening of Dissona's new store today in Shenzhen. We worked with Dissona to create a new identity for the brand and conceived of the space in a way that achieves the store's desired product density while amplifying the character of each item individually. Four simple elements define the shop: a series of cantilevered light boxes, faceted wall cabinets, light tables, and a split display island. A white high gloss side wall dissolves into a mirrored surface to visually enlarge the tiny 450sf space. MORE >
BURO HAPPOLD OFFICES IN GREEN BUILDING & DESIGN
10/27/11
LRA's design for Buro Happold's 35,000sf New York offices is featured in the Nov/Dec 2011 issue of Green Building & Design magazine. Suchi Rudra writes that "the prestige and design work involved in Buro Happold's new offices is noteworthy enough that it will surely expedite futher mainstream acceptance of green building and design."
LIBRARY TEEN CENTER OPENS IN HARLEM
10/25/11
New York Public Library's first full-floor dedicated teen space opens tonight in NYPL's Hamilton Grange Branch. The 4,400sf LRA-designed space challenges the norms of library design to provide a contemporary, more open, social, technology-rich environment to more fully engage teens. The Center's cylindrical glazed media room exposes the physicality of NYPL interactive gaming programs and organizes the space around it, including X-Bar computer zone, two lounge area and stepped stacks. A large bleacher provides access to the view and light of high southern windows and a gathering area for live performance and screenings. MORE >
MUSEUM OF POLISH HISTORY EXHIBITED IN NEW YORK, NEW WORK
10/08/11
LRA's proposal for the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw is currently being exhibited in the AIA New York Center for Architecture's New York, New Work exhibition. The show features un-built competition entries, theoretical projects and design research projects globally. MORE >
ALNY BALL SOLD OUT AT BAT!
09/17/11
Tonight's Beaux Arts Ball 2011: Transport, co-chaired by Stella Betts, David Leven, Astrid Lipka and Lyn Rice, is happily sold out. A water ferry will shuttle guests across New York harbor to the event, which is being held at the Brooklyn Army Terminal - a colossal facility with soaring atrium designed by League Founder Cass Gilbert. Leong Leong designed the event with Jiminie Ha - music by ARP & Jon Santos. The Ball is the League's most significant fundraiser and the response has been tremendous - sincere thanks to all who contributed to making it a huge success!
RICE TO LECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA SEP 12
09/05/11
As part of the University of Florida School of Architecture's fall lecture series, Lyn Rice will speak at the School this coming Monday evening, Sep 12. Rice's talk, Twisted Constraints, will focus on LRA's tactics of embracing and stimulating project requirements to produce innovative design solutions.
AT FIFTY OPENS AT KRANNERT
08/25/11
The LRA designed exhibition At Fifty: Krannert Art Museum, 1961-2011 opens tonight at KAM. At Fifty, curated by Michael Rush, marks the Museum's 50th Anniversary by celebrating the extraordinary range of KAM's collection. LRA arrayed two mini-fields of discrete display surfaces in two galleries creating a unified context for a diverse group of artwork. A series of rotating exhibition walls challenge notions of curatorial authority and normative, static relationships between works. The exhibition runs through October 23, 2011.
HB:BX EXHIBITION OPENS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
08/19/11
HB:BX Building Cultural Infrastructure opens tonight at the George Pearl Hall Gallery at the University of New Mexico School of Architecture. LRA designed the original exhibition, graphic identity and exhibition catalog concept for the project's sponsor, the Emerging New York Architects of the AIA New York Chapter . HB:BX surveys the entries from the 2010 international ideas competition exploring the potential of the historic High Bridge aqueduct area linking the Bronx and Manhattan and was first exhibited at the Center for Architecture in New York. The exhibition runs through September 23rd.
SCJDC NAMED ARCHTOBER BUILDING OF THE DAY
07/22/11
As part of Archtober, NYC's first-ever month-long festival of architecture and design activities, programs, films and exhibitions, the AIA New York Chapter has selected the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center as Archtober Building of the Day for Monday, October 10, 2011. Astrid Lipka and Lyn Rice will be leading a noon-time tour of the project that day - see www.archtober.org after September 1 for all the details.
VILLA 007 EXHIBITED AT KUNSTHAUS BREGENZ
07/16/11
Ai Weiwei Art/Architecture opens today at the Kunsthaus Bregenz and features the cooperative project Ordos 100, for which Weiwei devised the master plan and invited LRA, along with 99 other architectural practices worldwide, to design a single family dwelling in Inner Mongolia. A room-scaled model of the project, including LRA's Villa 007, along with images and descriptive text, are installed on Zumthor's 2nd floor gallery.
NYSCF LABORATORIES INSTALLATION COMPLETED
07/01/11
The New York Stem Cell Foundation's Washington Heights laboratories are now open with a new graphic identity defining public/welcoming zones and brighter internal environments for the NYSCF research team. LRA extended the graphic logic of the LRA-designed NYSCF uptown offices (completed fall 2010) to the 6,000sf laboratories to visually/conceptually link the two facilities. A bright red welcome wall, new low-luster, low-VOC resinous flooring, and an array of NYSCF-curated prints of microscopic cell clusters vibrantly asserts NYSCF's presence at the Columbia Medical Center with a gallery sensibility. New lighting, lighter color palette and reflective paint combine to brighten the laboratory spaces within.
IT'S YOUR WORLD INSTALLATION UNDERWAY IN HARLEM LIBRARY
06/28/11
A full wall graphic is in production now for installation at the New York Public Library's 125th Street Branch in Harlem. A mini-menu of potential life paths, from fireman to philosopher, spans the depth of the children and teen floor as part of LRA's space concept project for the Branch. The project, situated in the historic McKim Mead & White designed branch, is scheduled to open this July.
CONSTRUCTION KICKS OFF ON LIBRARY TEEN CENTER
05/01/11
The New York Public Library starts construction this week on the Hamilton Grange Branch Teen Center, designed by LRA. HG Teen is NYPL's first full-floor facility for teens and includes a glass cylinder for interactive digital learning and play, performance area, bleachers, computer and a snack+chat area (also an NYPL first).
IRWIN TO GIVE KEYNOTE LECTURE AT PARSONS
04/01/11
LRA is excited to announce that friend and collaborator, Robert Irwin will be speaking at the LRA-designed Sheila C. Design Center's Kellen Auditorium this evening. Irwin will present "On the Nature of Abstraction", the keynote lecture for the internationally acclaimed AFTERTASTE Symposium, sponsored by Parson's SCE MFAID programs. Talk starts at 6pm.
LRA TO DESIGN JORINAL'S NEW HEADQUARTERS IN SHENZHEN
03/18/11
Jorinal, parent company of the high-end leather manufacturer Dissona, has selected LRA to collaborate with Diller Scofidio + Renfro to develop their headquarters space in the Futian Business District of Shenzhen, just north of Hong Kong. LRA will design the 20,000sf showroom/office space to complement Jorinal's DSR-designed factory/residential complex nearby.
LRA INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN CIVIC ACTION PROJECT
02/03/11
Renowned artist, George Trakas, has invited LRA to collaborate on Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City, an upcoming exhibition and visioning project for The Noguchi Museum in collaboration with Socrates Sculpture Park. More information will be forthcoming about the project, which engages teams of artists, architects, writers, landscape architects and planners, among others to propositionally explore a one mile underutilized section of the Long Island City waterfront.
LRA LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE BY PROJECT PROJECTS!
01/19/11
LRA's new website goes live today! Designed by Project Projects, the site features a four-column organization, new navigation strategies, larger images, news section, and a sortable archive. Thanks to all involved especially Prem Krishnamurthy and Michael Christian McCaddon of Project Projects along with Haewon Cha and Benjamin Cadena of LRA.
THE NEW SCHOOL STUDY CENTER NEARS COMPLETION
01/08/11
The New School's new Student Study Center is nearing completion this week in preparation for the Spring Term. The 10,000sf facility offers two floors of dedicated study space at the prominent corner of Fifth Avenue and 14th Street in New York City.
LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN - NEW DIRECTIONS IN SIGNAGE AND WAYFINDING LAUNCHED
11/22/10
The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and The New School Welcome Center are featured in a new book launched this week by Gestalten, Berlin, that presents the unsung heroes of functional graphic design. Left, Right, Up, Down presents current approaches to design that provide orientation in and around buildings. The book provides myriad examples that combine graphic design and architecture so well that the result elegantly meets the specific navigational needs of the situation. The range of attractive, experimental, low-budget, and flexible solutions make it an inspirational and insightful examination of current possibilities for practical applied information graphics.
RENFRO TO SPEAK AT COOPER UNION ON NOV 22
11/15/10As part of the Current Work program jointly sponsored by the Architectural League of New York and by The Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Charles Renfro will lecture on Monday, Nov 22. Lyn Rice will introduce Renfro and will moderate a discussion afterward. The talk will begin at 7pm in Cooper's Great Hall.
LRA FEATURED IN GREEN BUILDING & DESIGN
11/08/10
Green Building & Design editor Amie Kesler says not to miss the "extraordinary design work" of LRA in the November 2010 issue, which features the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. In "New Spaces for A New School", Daniel Casciato writes that "Lyn Rice Architects' integrative design approach creates mesmerizing public spaces and raises the bar for future students of Parsons The New School for Design".
HIGH BRIDGE: EXHIBITION OPENING PARTY & BOOK LAUNCH
11/05/10
On November 11, 2010, High Bridge: Building Cultural Infrastructure will open with a book launch and party at the AIA New York Center for Architecture. Exhibition design and publication concept was lead by Benjamin Cadena of LRA and features works from the 2010 High Bridge:Bronx (HB:BX) Building Cultural Infrastructure competition. 5:50pm - 8:00pm.
NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION MOVES INTO NEW OFFICES
10/20/10
The upper west side office of the New York Stem Cell Foundation has moved into their new expanded home, even as final work is being completed and furnishings installed. LRA expanded the graphic identity of the Foundation to shape the new space and will start conceptually linked design work on their labs facilities soon!
RICE TO LECTURE AT NJIT OCT 18
10/11/10As part of 2010 the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Fall Lecture Series, Lyn Rice will present "Everyday Rebel" at the School of Architecture on Monday, Oct 18 at 6pm.
ACTAR: TOTAL HOUSING BOOK LAUNCH+DISCUSSION
09/22/10Lyn Rice will participate in FORUM 01 - Total Housing Book Launch, a discussion led by Storefront's Eva Franc on Wednesday, September 29. Other panelists will include Mark Kushner (Founding Partner, HWKN, Founder, Architizer), Elisa Ours (Vice President of Planning & Design Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group), Cassim Shepard (Project Director, Urban Omnibus), Joel Sanders (Founding Partner, Joel Sanders Architects) and Karen Kubey (New York-area Regional Catastrophic Planning Team).
BOOK LAUNCH AND TALK FOR NEW EXHIBITION DESIGN 02
09/03/10LRA's design for the exhibition, Blown Away, is featured in a new book to launch in New York this Friday, September 10 at the LRA-designed Kellen Auditorium at Parsons The New School for Design. Co-editors Uwe J. Rienhardt and Philipp Teufel will talk about the book and trends in exhibition design.
LRA SHORTLISTED FOR NYC VELODROME PROJECT
06/10/10
LRA is pleased to announce our selection as one of four shortlisted firms being considered for the planning and design of a new velodrome to located in New York City. The sports complex is conceived by philanthropist Josh Rechnitz as an inclusive facility that engages the general public while providing a state-of-the-art track for serious riders. The project is guided by real estate consulting firm HR&A Advisors, who are examining possible sites for the project in cooperation with NYC Parks, including an East River waterfront site - part of Brooklyn Bridge Park.
