Marble Fairbanks’ renovation of New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture won The Architect’s Newspaper’s design award for Public Space. View AN’s 2018 Best of Design Award online publication here.
by Spenser Krut
Announcement
Working with Southampton Arts and SUNY Stony Brook, Marble Fairbanks is developing plans for introducing a new Center for Creativity on SUNY’s Southampton Campus. Located within historic Southampton Hall, the Center will support arts programming and initiate future collaborations within and beyond the campus.
Marble Fairbanks has completed the design phase for an expansion to NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. The IFA is located in the historic Duke House and will expand into two floors of an adjacent townhouse. The new space will provide teaching spaces, faculty offices and a new reading room.
Following the completion of a space utilization and workplace analysis for the National Parks Service at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, Marble Fairbanks will now begin design for the historic Hoosac Warehouse which will house the U.S.S. Constitution Museum, a visitor center and NPS offices. The Hoosac Warehouse is on the waterfront adjacent to Freedom Trail and will serve as a entry point to the Navy Yard.
Read more about the project and collaboration between Marble Fairbanks and Local Projects on the Boston Business Journal.
For their eighth year, Archtober has brought together a variety of events including building tours, design lectures, and competitions for the public to participate. On October 8th, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library was selected to be their Building of the Day. Team members from both Marble Fairbanks and the Schomburg Center showed thirty guests around, starting at the Langston Hughes Lobby, then into the Main Exhibition Hall, Media Gallery, Langston Hughes auditorium, Schomburg Shop, then outside to see the newly designed landscape, the updated facade of the building addition, and finally to the historic 1905, restored facade.