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Sunday, July 13, 2014

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HWKN's 'Wendy' installation at MoMA PS1 in 2012 (Photo: Courtesy of HWKN)

New York City’s Most Promising Young Architects

They're not household names … yet, but give them a few years and these eight firms and the innovative names behind them will be helming the field's next revolution

A city is only as good as its architecture, and in a place as fast-paced as New York, it pays to know the architects to watch. The following young architects started innovative firms that don’t yet have the recognition of New York City’s favorite starchitects, but given their impressive work (CODA and HWKN’s inventive public space projects for MoMA PS1′s courtyard and Leong Leong’s head-turning transformation of an old printing house into the Phillip Lim headquarters), it’s only a matter of time. Read one for a look at some the brightest emerging names and faces in architecture today.

Snarkitecture
Snarkitecture’s temporary installation of fashion designer Richard Chai’s collaboration with Palladium boots (Photo: Courtesy of Snarkitecture), inset left: co-founder Alex Mustonen (Photo: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images), inset right: co-founder Daniel Arsham (Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for H&M)
Snarkitecture
Our first architect is actually a duo and their firm’s name, Snarkitecture, embodies the hipness of the borough in which it’s stationed (Brooklyn, of course). Daniel Arsham and Alex Mustonen met at Cooper-Union and established this collaborative art-plus-architecture practice in 2008 aiming to “make architecture perform the unexpected.” A tell-tale example of the firm’s manipulation of traditional structures is a 2012 temporary retail installation of fashion designer Richard Chai’s collaboration with Palladium boots in New York in which Snarkitecture lined the walls and ceiling with mirrors to project to infinity and placed a white inverted cast replica beneath each featured shoe. They also designed a stage of gigantic all-black, volcanic-looking mounds for street-goth label En Noir at NYC’s Milk Studios in 2013. There’s no telling what they’ll do next, but if their recent work is any indication, it’ll likely be effused with downtown cool and completely unpredictable.  snarkitecture.com

CODA's 'Party in the Shade'
CODA’s MoMA PS1 installation, ‘Party Wall’ (Photo: Zachary Tyler Newton), inset: founder Caroline O’Donnell (Photo: Griffin Lotz)
CODA
Caroline O’Donnell established her firm in 2008 in New York City, and it is now based upstate in Ithaca. CODA made a splash when it won MoMA P.S. 1′s Young Architects Program in 2013 with its bold project, Party Wall. As part of the contest, CODA constructed its piece in the PS 1 courtyard for use during the museum’s Warm Up summer concerts. The imposing vertical shade made with a porous eco-friendly material, created shadows throughout the area and created smaller performance spaces. It also incorporated a series of shallow pools. CODA boasts an impressive list of international projects, including the design of a curvaceous cultural center in Hammerfest, Norway, the likes of which would look equally good on NYC soil. co-da.eu

T38 Studio
T38 Studio’s single-family house in Tijuana, Mexico, inset: founder Alfonso Medina (Photos: Courtesy of T38 Studios)
T38 Studio
Alfonso Medina, at the tender age of 30, employs 60 people at his real estate firm and 10 people at his architecture firm T38 Studio, based in both New York and Tijuana. T38 established its name after designing a number of medium to high-density projects in Mexico. The firm is gradually expanding into the States — T38 finished a project in Los Angeles converting a 12,000-square-foot warehouse into a nonprofit space and art gallery. The real estate website Curbed picked Medina as an architect to watch in its 2013 “Young Guns” competition, and Medina told Curbed he plans to make an impact outside of Mexico with more community and arts-related development projects. He already has a foothold: The firm’s work has been exhibited at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in NYC and he’s been an invited critic at Pratt Institute. t38studio.com

Pinkcloud.DK pop-up hotel
Pinkcloud.DK’s design for a pop-up hotel, inset: Eric Tan (Photos: Courtesy of PinkCloud.DK)
Pinkcloud.DK
Eric Tan, an architect still in his 20s, works with both the international firms Gensler and Pinkcloud.DK. Tan has worked on a number of conceptual projects within New York City, including a redesign of a site on Allen Street as part of an “urban makeover initiative” as well as a proposal to develop the Empire Stores in DUMBO. His collaborative firm Pinkcloud.dk also won an award for a design to transform vacant office space in Midtown Manhattan into a pop-up hotel. Pinkcloud.dk was also featured in a MOMA exhibit on architecture that recently ended, and Tan is another Curbed “Young Gun” pick for 2013. This is clearly an architect who wants to put his stamp on the city. pinkcloud.dk

HWKN
HWKN’s Menscience shop in SoHo, inset: co-founders Matthias Hollwich, left, and Marc Kushner, right (Photos: Courtesy of HWKN)
HWKN
HWKN, the collective of Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner, is probably most recognizable for winning the MoMA PS1′s Young Architects program in 2012 with Wendy, a spiky blue installation designed to neutralize pollutants in the air. Like CODA’s Party Wall, it had its day in the courtyard, too. The firm, however, has a long list of work in New York City that’s made waves. Among them, HWKN are the designers behind the uber hip Williamsburg Hotel, now under construction, they designed the Menscience skincare and barber shop in SoHo and they are the recent winners of a proposal to design office space in Lower Manhattan. The breadth of their work definitely makes them a studio to watch. hwkn.com

Leong Leong
Phillip Lim Flagship store in Seoul (Photo: Iwan Baan), inset: Dominic Leong, left, Chris Leong, right (Photos: Courtesy of Leong Leong)
Leong Leong
Brothers Dominic and Chris Leong run this Chinatown-based design company. Leong-Leong is known for the playful and modern designs on display at Phillip Lim showrooms throughout the world. The brothers transformed an old printing house in SoHo into the Phillip Lim headquarters, a bright and spacious showroom and office that is lit by several large skylights. Their work has caught the attention of The New York Times, which dubbed these two “power siblings,” and praised the firm’s use of “simple materials to invert the notion of space” — something space-deprived New Yorkers can definitely appreciate.  leong-leong.com

dlandstudio
dlandstudio’s BQE rendering, inset: founder Susannah Drake (Photos: Courtesy of dlandstudio)
dlandstudio
Susanna Drake’s interdisciplinary design firm, based in Brooklyn, is known for its inventive work in landscape architecture. Dlandstudio won a number of awards for its design of the Gowanus Canal Sponge Park, a landscape designed to improve the quality of the Gowanus Canal, now a Super Fund site, over time. In 2008, the firm put up a pop-up park at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier One, a comfortable and desirable destination created on a small budget and very little time. The firm has also worked on conceptual plans to beautify the stretch of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway that runs through brownstone Brooklyn. What’s more, the Architectural League of New York has already selected dlandstudio as a “2013 Emerging Voice,” and it looks like Brooklyn is Drake’s muse.  dlandstudio.com

SO-LI
SO-IL’s tiNY Housing rendering, inset left: Jing Liu, inset right: Florian Idenburg (Photos: Courtesy of SO-IL)
SO-IL
This Brooklyn-based firm — helmed by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu — is known for its global work, but they’ve got some exciting projects in the works for New York. The New Museum selected SO-IL to design its much-hyped arts incubator/expansion in the adjacent building to the museum. The dynamic space, intended for entrepreneurs and start-up companies, is expected to open in the summer of 2014. The firm also submitted a proposal for the micro-units in NYC’s adAPT NYC Pilot Program. Between its work at the New Museum and tiny living proposal, SO-IL seems to have its finger on the pulse of NYC. so-il.org

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