We are proud to share that our Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center has been nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize.
Awarded biennially, the MCHAP award aims to “recognize the most distinguished architectural works built in North and South America,” and “to learn from architectural excellence that enriches lives.” Projects are selected from thirty-five countries and are judged on a variety of criteria, especially regarding how they contribute to the betterment and engagement of their surrounding communities.
It is an honor to receive recognition from the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize and to be considered among the tremendous range of beautiful and impactful projects throughout the Americas.
We are happy to announce that we’ve been selected as part of the newest cohort of the Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence program! Since the program’s development in 2015, it has supported 15 projects spanning top cities in the Northwest Arkansas region. We’re excited to work with the selection committee to help create inclusive public spaces in a rapidly changing and growing community.
Jeremy Pate, Senior Program Officer shared, “The Design Excellence Program is unique not only in its focus on America’s Heartland but in its ability to shape and strengthen communities through public spaces. The program’s continued success speaks to the diversity of its talent and its commitment to engaging with those served by its projects.”
We are wrapping up Schematic Design on a fast-moving project with Brown University on a gut renovation and addition to the historic Churchill House, home to the Department of Africana Studies and the Rites and Reasons Theatre. Marble Fairbanks teamed up with Huff + Gooden Architects to work on this exciting project located at the crossroads of a new arts district for Brown University.
Our team recently completed multiple site visits in the Boston area for several projects with the General Services Administration and the National Parks Service. We are continuing work on projects at the Charlestown Navy Yard as well as leading a feasibility study for a regional storage hub for NPS museum collections in the region.
In their last newsletter of 2021, Urban Omnibus named Jason and Acacia Thompson’s virtual tour of Greenpoint Library & Environmental Education Center one of their top articles of the year. Throughout the tour, Jason and Acacia, the Brooklyn Public Library System’s first Environmental Justice Coordinator, discuss the site’s unique history, highlight details of the library’s programming, and discuss the significance of the library within the community as an institution that promotes environmental awareness, education, and activism. Jason noted: “Why we chose certain materials, why we oriented the building a certain way, why we chose the plants that we chose: we wanted to tell a story. In a lot of these cases, there are actually plaques on the walls and on the glass that describe what’s going on, so that people can understand why things were done the way they were done.”