SO-IL's Party Wall, a set of stairs and vertical garden meant to connect two facing buildings and the street below. http://so-il.org/
Architecture is an infamously rough profession--the saying goes, there's more starving architects than there are starving artists. So for the last six years, the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects has been giving super-young New York firms a leg up, in their New Practices Award, handed out to firms founded in the last six years. This year, 65 firms entered, and seven were tapped this week. On July 15th, they'll all get an exhibition at the Center for Architecture. But in advance of that, here's a sneak peak at some of the firms who might one day be dominating the field.
Pictured here, "CHROMAAesthesiae." a ceiling installation by SOFTlab. The firm specializes in using high-tech fabrication to create interior architecture.
SOFTlab's exhibition design for a show of graduate work at the Pratt Institute.
Words Tacklebox's storefront for Saipua, a tiny flower and soap shop in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Archipelagos 's design for the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
Another of the firm's designs, for an entertainment venue and taxi depot in Queens. (Architecture that helps you find a cab in Queens? Genius.)
Lux Nova,
Easton+Comb 's entry into the P.S.1 Young Architect's competition (which was
won by SO-IL , a fellow New Practices winner).
Easton+Comb's design for the Gyeonggi-do Jeongok Prehistory Museum.
Leong Leong 's boutique for clothing brand 3.1 Phillip Lim, in Seoul, South Korea.
An interior shot.
SO-IL 's design for a wedding chapel. The design was meant to create the most space with the least effort: The chapel is composed of a thin concrete roof atop a dug out portion of ground, and is meant to evoke an oyster buried in sand.
