NUYORICAN POETS CAFE EXPANSION BREAKS GROUND
03/28/24Today, RL proudly joined executive director Caridad De La Luz La Bruja, council woman Carlina Rivera, & DCLA Commissioner Laurie Cumbo in celebrating the start of construction on RL's $24.1m renovation and rooftop expansion for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on NYC's Lower East Side. The legendary Cafe, which is also celebrating its 50th Anniversary, gives voice to a diverse group of rising poets, actors, filmmakers, & musicians in what Allen Ginsberg called the most integrated place on the planet. This milestone project expands programming to include two performance spaces with integral bar zones, rehearsal, educational, administrative, & support spaces distributed over five floors. more>
PHILMONT SELECTS RICE+LIPKA FOR TWO STRATEGIC SITES
12/13/23We are thrilled to announce that the two-firm team of Rice+Lipka Architects and Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects has been selected by the Village of Philmont, in coordination with Philmont Beautification, Inc (PBi), to advance designs for two strategic sites in the upstate New York community. The first site, situated on Summit Lake, will rethink public waterfront access, including new landscape, playground, and a community center. The second site reimagines the area around the site of the historic former Aken Knitting Co Mill No 3 as a public plaza providing a new access point to the unique natural features adjacent to the High Falls Conservation Area. RL looks forward to working closely with Philmont, PBi and the community on this significant project. press release>
LIBRARY OF BABEL AT ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY
11/05/23RL's sequence of graphic works exploring the intimate relationship between the structure of Borges' The Library of Babel and the realm of architecture is part of Fairy Tale Architecture, an exhibition now on view at Roger Williams University's Cumming School of Architecture. The exhibition, curated by Kate Bernheimer & Andrew Bernheimer, is an extension of a project created for the public architecture, landscape, & urbanism journal Places, and presents work melding architecture, design, and literary critique. Exhibition on view Oct 25 - Dec 12. more>
