Marble Fairbanks has been selected for the GSA National IDIQ program focused on innovative workplace design for federal agencies around the country. This initiative is part of the GSA Total Workplace Program to design for the next generation workforce that is more flexible, collaborative, and mobile. Marble Fairbanks is one of twelve firms nationwide selected for projects as part of this program.
Tonight we’re hosting the first community design workshop for the new Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center at 6:30PM. Help us find out what’s most important to you in the design of your new library!
We’ve expanded on Re-envisioning Branch Libraries to submit to the Knight News Challenge, “How might we make data work for individuals and communities?“
The Knight Foundation is hosting an open call for for ideas that use data to inform and empower people to make decisions about their lives and their communities, and they are offering grants to the winning submissions. With help from our teammates at METRO, Pratt’s School of Information and Library Science, and Office:MG, we plan to empower librarians to act as data interpreters, curators, and storytellers by extending Data / City tools and training.
Anyone is welcome to provide feedback, be it a comment or a like. We’ll have an opportunity refine our submission based on your ideas and questions. Read about our project here to share your feedback.
30 Years of Emerging Voices is now available! The book documents over 250 of the most innovative North American design firms from the past three decades.
Our work is featured in the 1994-1998 section, following a compelling forward by Thomas de Monchaux. In it he writes, “Marble and Fairbanks—alongside peers like Brad Cloepfield and Tom Buresh and Danelle Guthrie—have meticulously applied computational thinking to the repetitions and inspirations of fabrication (digital and material culture compressed inside a thousand laminations of quivering plywood).”
Get your copy of the book here using the code “VOICES” for a discounted price!
On Saturday, July 11th, The Architectural League of New York and Open House New York will present OpenStudios: Emerging Voices, a remarkable opportunity to visit the studios of over forty of the most inventive design practices working in NYC. Marble Fairbanks is thrilled to be counted as one of them. The event is organized to mark the publication of 30 Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance, a new book which surveys a cross-section of the best American architects of the past three decades.
OpenStudios: Emerging Voices is a self-guided walking tour. Each ticket holder will be given a map of all participating studios at registration and may visit sites in any order during the hours that they are open. Midtown Manhattan and Queens studios will open from 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM, and Downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn studios (that’s us) from 1:00 – 5:00 PM. We will be on hand to answer questions and discuss our firm’s work. All are welcome! Register here.