MASterworks Explorations: Pier 57

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2024 Winner for Best Adaptive Reuse

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 Wednesday, October 9 from 5-6 PM, join MAS for a visit to Pier 57, 2024 MASterworks winner for Best Adaptive Reuse. Members of the project team, including John Ambrosini, Senior Property Manager at RXR, Cas Stachelberg, Principal at Higgins Quasebarth & Partners, and Sarah Sher, Associate Partner at Higgins Quasebarth & Partners, will lead the exploration. The team will take attendees all throughout the space, ending at the rooftop park.

The rebirth of Pier 57 is the result of a partnership b/w the Hudson River Park Trust, RXR, Young Woo & Associates, & the pier’s tenants, Google, City Winery, Jamestown, & the James Beard Foundation.Together, this group along with their consultants, blended long-term stewardship, sensitive restoration & design excellence to arrive at an adaptive reuse project that includes a new public rooftop park, commercial office space, a performance venue, a food market, & community spaces. Read more about the project >

NOTE: This event is sold out, but the waitlist is open.

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Wednesday, October 9
5:00 PM — 6:00 PM

Pier 57
25 11th Ave
New York, NY 10011

Tickets:
Free!

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2024 MASterworks Honoree: Adaptive Reuse of Pier 57. Photo: Lester Ali.

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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