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.