American-Israeli architect and designer Neri Oxman will open a laboratory at 787 11th Avenue, the 1920s New York building renovated by Rafael Viñoly Architects.
Developers Georgetown Company has announced that Neri Oxman will be one of two anchor tenants for the office project in Manhattan.
Oxman, the director of MIT Media Lab s Mediated Matter group, plans to use her new 36,000-square-foot laboratory to research, design and implement inventions to address complex challenges across product, architectural, urban and planetary scales .
Top: 787 11th Avenue. Above: director of MIT Media Lab Neri Oxman. Photo courtesy of TED Talks
Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly has renovated the building on Manhattan s West Side, adding a glazed extension and a rooftop garden.
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The Georgetown Company has signed a 165,000 s/f long-term
lease with Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine at its new life science hub
at 787 11th Avenue on the Far West Side.
The developer is also creating a 36,000 s/f research
facility for scientist and inventor Neri Oxman which will render the redeveloped
property fully occupied.
“The pioneering work these scientists and physicians perform cannot be done remotely over Zoom,” said Georgetown Company managing principal Jonathan Schmerin.
JONATHAN SCHMERIN
“We believe that we
are only scratching the surface of the demand for life science space given the
strength of our medical institutions and the talent pool in this area and we
Kohn Pedersen Fox plans to build three skyscrapers, linked by vertical planters, at 70 Gracechurch Street in the City of London.
The complex will play host to a mixture of retail spaces as well as a viewing platform.
It is intended as a new voice for London s Eastern Cluster – a group of skyscrapers that also includes KPF s Scalpel tower, alongside RSH+P s Leadenhall Building and Rafael Viñoly s Walkie Talkie. We don t need anymore of these sorts of buildings
Readers aren t sold. Does London really need anymore of these dreadful tall buildings? asked Nigel William Wakeham. Surely when more and more people are working at home we do not need anymore of these sort of buildings.
The HDC s role is merely to give conceptual review (the City Planning Commission has already given its approval). Yet every commission member and witnesses spoke out against the dormitories. Beyond the issue of impacted empty lots on Power Street, the meeting was essentially a gripe session about Brown s imperiousness and lack of transparency.
Complaints centered mostly on the questions of scale, and the inappropriateness of such a massive block (five stories and 80,000 square feet) in an older streetscape. Councilman John Goncalves called the dorms not aesthetically or functionally in tune with the neighborhood. Local resident Lily Bogosian bemoaned that the new buildings will be a dark shadow in our lives.
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