03 Sep The Refinery at Domino wins Project of the Year at AN’s inaugural The Faces of Our City awards celebration
After a stacked day of programming at AN’s Facades+ New York City, event attendees, architects, designers, and product manufacturers convened for a ceremony to honor the inaugural winners of The Faces of Our City, our New York City facades awards program.
The Faces of Our City was created to inspire future professionals and projects that will continue to define New York City’s architectural landscape. The New York City facades award program honors and celebrates the facades community who shape our cities through their work. The awards recognize the ambition, innovation, craftsmanship, and dedication that bring New York’s skyline to life.
On stage at the Metropolitan Pavilion in front of an audience of facade-design enthusiasts, AN CEO/creative director Diana Darling and executive editor Jack Murphy recognized all the winners of the four awards categories—Product of the Year, Emerging Professional, Lifetime Achievement, and Project of the Year.
“The double reading of the title of the awards program is intentional: It’s about facades, but it is also about people,” Murphy said. “Facades establish the public faces of our city. When we design, develop, and deliver buildings, we are shaping the city, one piece at a time. Building envelopes serve a dual purpose: providing comfort and health for interior occupants while also shaping the urban experience of millions of street occupants who experience the city and its skyline from the outside.”
The effort to create AN’s facade awards and the wider Facades+ programming is one that seeks to create and uplift the community of specialists who design, detail, fabricate, and install innovative, resilient, and beautiful building envelopes across the continent.
And the Winner is…
While the individuals receiving the Emerging Professional and Lifetime Achievement award were previously announced—along with Product of the Year and the five nominees for Project of the Year—the evening concluded with the crowning of Project of the Year: The Refinery at Domino.
The award recognizes the full project team who delivered the building: PAU, Dencity Works Architecture, Two Trees Management, Silman (now TYLin), Focci Group, Field Operations, Ettinger Engineering Associates, and L’Observatoire International. On stage, Vishaan Chakrabarti, founder and creative director of PAU, remarked that an additional team member who deserved credit is the City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) for its support of the adaptive reuse of a historic factory shell.
Following the ceremony, Chakrabarti shared a statement: “Speaking on behalf of the entire Domino Sugar Refinery team, we are thrilled to be the inaugural Project of the Year winner. Designing the Refinery was one of the great joys of my life, and it is wonderful that it is now acknowledged by Architect’s Newspaper and this esteemed jury as a face of our city. Our fellow nominees are among the best designers in the world, and we are deeply honored to work in this city among such phenomenal peers.”
Below is the full list of award recipients:
Product of the Year:
Emerging Professional:
Kateri Knapp, Arup
Lifetime Achievement:
Robert Heintges, Heintges Consulting Architects & Engineers
Project of the Year Nominees:
El Borinquen Residence designed by Alexander Gorlin Architects
The Refinery at Domino designed by PAU – WINNER
The Gilder Center at American Museum of Natural History designed by Studio Gang
Columbia Business School: The Henry R. Kravis Hall and David Geffen Hall designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Perelman Performing Arts Center designed by REX
Original article can be found here.