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.
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.
We recently kicked off an Enhanced Feasibility Study for the Springfield Armory National Historic Site to help rethink museum collection storage. Springfield Armory was the nation’s first armory and serves as a visitor’s center and museum that interprets and preserves, “the world’s largest historic US military small arms collection, along with historic archives, buildings, and landscapes.” This study is an extension of the MFA’s work with the GSA and Interior Region 1 of the National Park Service to improve museum collection storage facilities throughout the region and conserve, preserve and protect historic artifacts for generations to come.