DESIGN COMMISSION PICKS CARRIAGE HOUSES FOR DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD
05/14/12RLA is pleased to announce that The City of New York's Public Design Commission has selected RLA's site and building design for three Carriage Houses to receive a 2011 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 30th annual awards ceremony on July 24 in Manhattan. more>
NYPL TEEN CENTER WINS 2012 SARA DESIGN AWARD
05/02/12RLA 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
04/25/12The first phase of RLA'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. RLA 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.