MASterworks Explorations: 550 Madison

2024 Winner for Best Restoration

This fall, MAS is celebrating design excellence in New York City with our 2024 MASterworks Awards! We have curated a selection of in person explorations and online in-conversations with this year’s honored projects.

On Thursday, November 7 from 10:30-11:15 AM, join MAS for a visit to 550 Madison, 2024 MASterworks winner for Best Restoration. The landmark building in bustling Midtown received an incredible renovation, featuring a revitalized lobby and a new public garden, among other updates. The Olayan Group, who led the renovation, engaged visionary international design firms in the project, including Snøhetta, Gensler, and Rockwell Group to honor Philip Johnson and John Burgee’s creation while reinterpreting the building for the way people live and work today.

When Philip Johnson designed 550 Madison, he drew upon the fundamental principles of classical architecture to create a building that felt monumental, modern, and completely different from what had come before. Snøhetta, Gensler and Rockwell Group worked with Olayan to build on Johnson’s foundation, reinterpreting 550 Madison for the way we live today: bringing in daylight and air, designing a ground floor podium that will become a new destination, and creating a spectacular green scape and amenity offering. Read more about the project >

This event has been rescheduled from it’s previous date in October. We hope you can join us on November 7!

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.

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Thursday, November 7
10:30 AM — 11:15 AM

550 Madison
New York, NY 10022

Tickets:
Free!

2024 MASterworks Honoree: 550 Madison. Photo: Alex Fradkin.

About the MASterworks Awards:

All nominated projects must be located in New York City and have been completed in the previous year. Projects can be nominated in up to two of the following categories:

  • Best New Building for outstanding architectural design
  • Best Urban Landscape for a new or revitalized open space that contributes to livability and resilience
  • Best Restoration for a project that expertly enhances the original qualities of a significant historic building or structure
  • Best Adaptive Reuse for a project that demonstrates exceptional creativity in adaptive reuse of an existing building or structure
  • Best New Infrastructure for distinctive design in public service projects
  • Best New Urban Amenity for an addition to the built environment that contributes to a more livable city
  • Best Environmental Innovation for an exceptional project that enhances the environmental resiliency of the city

2024 MASterworks Jury:

Every year, MAS convenes an esteemed jury of architects, designers, preservationists, scholars, and critics to select the winners of the MASterworks Awards. This year’s distinguished jury is as follows:

Julia Gamolina, Founder and Editor in Chief, MadameArchitect.org
Susan Hinkson-Carling, AIA, LLM, MAS Board of Directors and Principal, Capalino Ventures, LLC
Walter Rodriguez Meyer, PLA, Principal, Local Office Landscape & Urban Design
Roberta Washington, FAIA, Principal, Roberta Washington Architects PC

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