Architect: Beyer Blinder Belle Location: New York City Completion Date: 2024 New York City–based design firm Beyer Blinder Belle (BBB) has completed the Urban Empowerment Center, a new mixed-use development along Harlem’s 125th Street. In addition to retail, office space, and affordable housing, the building will contain the headquarters of the National Urban League (NUL), a

As the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., is chock full of seats of government, monuments, and civic spaces, all the more monumental when placed at the intersection or terminus of the city’s diagrid of triumphal boulevards, or within one of the many historic parks dating back to the 1791 L’Enfant Plan. Located within Mount Vernon Square, the

Jennie Gwin, AIA Jennie Gwin is a Principal of Beyer Blinder Belle and served as Project Architect in the restoration of the Carnegie Library. Among Jennie’s clients are the National Park Service, Architect of the Capitol, US State Department, Smithsonian Institution, and Peebles Corporation. She is a commissioner on the Historical Affairs and Landmark Review

WE ARE LIVE IN Washington DC October 14, 2021 The Washington Plaza 6 AIA HSW CEUs PRESENTED BY We are back in person! Facades+ Washington D.C., hosted by The Architect’s Newspaper, is an event filled with tailor-made presentations and robust dialogue on high-level detailing of all things building skin. We invited leading specialists to present

Elissa Winzelberg is responsible for overseeing the planning, design and construction of properties leased or owned by Breaking Ground. She analyzes prospective sites, participates in the selection of consultants and contractors, coordinates programming and design based upon targeted populations and oversees the construction process through project start up and post-occupancy. Before joining Breaking Ground in

Should New York’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) support a proposal that continues a 40-year-old design approach by an esteemed architect, even though it’s not what environmentally-sensitive architects would propose today? That was the question was raised during the June 2 LPC hearing, as panel members discussed whether to approve a new south-facing glass wall for

Paul Schulhof, AIA Paul Schulhof is a partner at the architecture firm of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects + Partners (TWBTA). He joined TWBTA in 1999 and became the third partner in the practice in 2013. Paul has been a Partner on a wide range of projects including the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, the