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One Lux Studio collaborated with Gensler to create a bright, open, airy environment for legal firm Akin Gump’s new Dallas offices.

Designed by architects at Gensler, the new Akin Gump office in Dallas, Texas was developed to attract and retain the next generation of attorneys. The space capitalises on the abundant natural light to create an airy, open and inviting feel. This plentiful daylight is complemented and enhanced by an architectural lighting scheme designed by One Lux Studio, which collaborated closely with Gensler.

Read the full article at arc Magazine.

Across the East River from the Lower East Side, the Brooklyn-side shoreline zigzags inward to form Wallabout Bay. This funky stretch of waterfront, once home to Lenape tribespeople and early Dutch settlers, began its modern life as an innovation hub in 1801, when President Adams designated it one of the country’s first Navy yards; during its World War II heyday, it operated six dry docks and employed 70,000 workers. More recently, the since-decommissioned site has been reborn as a hotbed of tech companies and creatives, the home address of healthcare incubators, furniture startups, small-batch juice purveyors, cutting-edge military-gear makers, film sound stages, and the country’s largest rooftop soil farm.

Until now, the majority of redevelopment in the Brooklyn Navy Yard has entailed adaptive reuse of its industrial warehouses. Enter Dock 72, the first ground-up commercial office building to be erected right on the waterfront (and, in fact, one of the largest such structures to be built in the city’s outer boroughs in many decades). The 16-story volume, with base building design by S9 Architecture, sits prowlike on a skinny pier sandwiched between two former dry docks and culminating in a new ferry terminal. In 2015, as construction documents were being drawn up, codevelopers Boston Properties and Rudin Management tapped Fogarty Finger to start conceptualizing interior architecture—from FF&E to art curation—for the entry-level lobby and commissary, second-floor fitness center, and penthouse-level conference center, totaling some 60,000 square feet of amenities.

Read More at Interior Design Magazine.

Photography: Connie Zhou

For the design of the 489-room Arlo Midtown in Manhattan’s Garment District, Meyer Davis cofounder Gray Davis and project lead Shannon Senyk looked to the neighborhood for inspiration, paying homage to the city’s fashion hub in ways both subtle and dramatic. The first such nod happens in the …

Read more at Hospitality Design.

For the renovation of Bennington College’s Commons building, originally built in 1932, Christoff:Finio Architecture (C:FA) transformed the campus’s beloved but dated centerpiece into a contemporary hub for academic and student life.

Read more at Architecture and Design Magazine.

We are pleased to learn that our project with Perkins Eastman, FactSet Research Systems was awarded the 2020 Business Architecture Award of Excellence. Additionally our project ATCO Park with Pickard Chilton was awarded the 2020 Business Architecture Award of Merit.

Congrats to all the winners.

“We’ve added 160,000 square feet of new space, and you can’t see any of it, making it one of our best buildings,” jokes Jay Bargmann, senior vice president at Rafael Viñoly Architects (RVA). He is referring to the firm’s expansion of Rockefeller University, the highly regarded biological- and medical-research institution that occupies a verdant campus along the East River on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Read more at Architectural Record.