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Starchitecture for Everyone

MAY 13, 2010

Top architects are putting their impressive skills to good use by designing under-the-radar projects that don’t include glass penthouses or sky garages.

Partly due to the influence of David Burney, current head of the city’s Design and Construction Excellence (D + CE) program, the design bar is quietly being raised for public buildings and other non-boldface projects. The city has been encouraging award-winning firms like Asymptote and STV and notable architects like Thomas Leeser and Annabelle Selldorf to lend their design minds to public works.

The next project for the aforementioned Ms. Selldorf (of 200 11th Avenue “Sky Garage” fame) is a recycling center (via Archpaper) on the Brooklyn waterfront in Sunset Park. STV designed the Brooklyn firehouse known as Engine Company 277 which in 2004 received an Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design. Even Richard Meier’s stellar talent is making its mark on the somewhat lesser galaxy of Newark, New Jersey at a housing development designed for middle- and lower-income tenants to be known as Teachers Village (via NY Times), though Meier’s designs for the new residences include many of the sensibilities—outdoor spaces that bring light to interiors, for example—that he is known for bringing to his high-end projects.

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