PHILMONT SELECTS RICE+LIPKA FOR TWO STRATEGIC SITES

12/13/23

We 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

11/05/23

RL'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>

 

WOODSTOCK LIBRARY WINS NATIONAL DESIGN AWARD

10/30/23

We are pleased to announce that Woodstock Library, designed for New York Public Library, has received a 2023 SARA National Design Award of Honor from a from a group of international entries. The award was presented this past weekend at the SARA National Design Awards Gala on Independence Mall in Philadelphia. Andrew Carnegie's 1901 gift of over 60 neighborhood branches in New York transformed the idea of the library and Woodstock offers a new model for rethinking these simple, powerful buildings by recovering and enhancing their spatial/organizational strength, and by amplifying their extraordinary character. more>