Announcement

2021 was an exciting year for Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center. After opening to the public in fall 2020, the library continues to be honored with multiple awards in across design disciplines. Most recently, Greenpoint Library received the AIA Tri-State Design Awards Silver Medal, the top award in the Regional and Urban Design category.

Below is a full list of each of the awards and their significance:

AIA Tri-State Silver Medal: Silver Medal, Regional and Urban Design (2021)
The Silver Medal is the highest honor given by AIA Tri-State, which recognizes regional excellence in design and impact on the built environment, considering factors such urban design, regional and city planning, and community development.

 

AIA New York State Design Awards: Institutional Merit Award (2021)
The AIA New York State 2021 Design Awards highlight works displaying architectural excellence, by New York licensed and registered architects. Submissions were selected over nine categories, with 24 total projects as recipients.

 

NYCxDesign Awards (Interior Design): Greater Good: Social + Environmental Impact Category (2021)
The NYCxDesign Awards focus on interior design, awarding projects over a variety of major design areas.

 

Architizer A+ Award: Finalist (2021)
The Architizer A+ Award recognizes the work of top architecture firms worldwide, highlighting architecture and spaces that exhibit great design and demonstrate excellence. Read more.

 

Fast Company Innovation by Design Award: Spaces and Places category Finalist (2021)
The Fast Company 2021 Innovation by Design Award honors the most innovative architecture by evaluating factors such as functionality, originality, beauty, sustainability, user insight, cultural impact, and business impact across 37 categories.

 

ASLA-NY: Merit Award, General Design (2021)
The American Society Of Landscape Architects New York (ASLA-NY) Design Award recognizes projects that demonstrate excellence in landscape architecture. Selections were contingent on design quality, design execution, innovation, community impact, and impact on the profession.

Urban Dove Team Charter School recently celebrated their newly renovated Brooklyn location and brand new gym. It was an honor to see students begin utilizing the new space. We are grateful to have the opportunity to work with this incredible organization from the early phases of strategic planning through construction.

Urban Dove is a sports-based high school for over-aged, under-credited youth that combines a rigorous academic curriculum with a hands-on, real-world vocational program. We partnered with the organization in 2019 to develop a strategic plan for the school to expand across all NYC boroughs and developed the team charter school in Brooklyn as a renovation to an existing building. We continue to work with Urban Dove as they expand and grow. Read more about the work Urban Dove is doing here.

Over the summer, Marble Fairbanks moved our office location from DUMBO to Flatiron. We are grateful to have our team back together working in-person and for the return of client meetings in our new space. If you haven’t already stopped by, please come visit us at our new location or join us for lunch in Madison Square Park.

Our new address is:

27 W 20th St
Suite 1001
New York, NY 10011

Karen was recently elevated to a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) and honored by AIANY’s Women in Architecture Committee (WIA) in recognition of this achievement. The AIA College of Fellows is the organization’s highest membership honor, recognizing excellence in design, preservation, education, literature, and service, that contribute to architecture and society. The College of Fellows noted that “[Karen] shapes vibrant and equitable built environments through her designs for civic, educational and community-based organizations and her leadership in the transformative education of future architects and activists. Congratulations to all of the fellows in the class of 2021!

Read the full AIA College of Fellows June 2021 Newsletter here.

The 2020 SARA NY Design Awards recognized the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture with the NY Design Award of Merit. The annual award recognizes design excellence across a variety of projects from around the world in several categories spanning innovation, excellence, honor, and merit. Read more about the awards here.