MASterworks Explorations: Powerhouse Arts

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2023 Winner for Best New Urban Amenity

This fall, MAS is celebrating design excellence in New York City with our 2023 MASterworks Awards! We have curated a selection of in person explorations and online in-conversations with this year’s honored projects.

On Monday, October 23rd from 11-12:30 PM, join us for an exploration of Powerhouse Arts, 2023 MASterworks Winner for Best New Urban Amenity. Team members from Powerhouse Arts and the project’s design team, PBDW Architects and Herzog & de Meuron, will lead a celebratory exploration of the space. Before transforming in a community hub for artistic engagement and expression, the facility was a power station for the BRT train system. As one of the last historic structures on the nearby canal, Powerhouse retains and fosters ongoing manufacturing and artistic activity in Gowanus.

Powerhouse Arts is a not-for-profit organization committed to creative expression. Housed in a purpose-built facility in Brooklyn, the organization hosts an extended network of art and fabrication professionals and educators who work together to co-create and share artistic practices vital to the wellbeing of artists and the communities to which they belong. Learn more here.

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Monday, October 23
11:00 AM — 12:30 PM

Powerhouse Arts
322 3rd Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Tickets:
Free!

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  • Powerhouse Arts. Photo: Iwan Baan, 2023.
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  • Powerhouse Arts Loft. Photo: Ellie Hayworth.
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  • Powerhouse Arts Lobby and Public Entrance. Photo: Ellie Hayworth.
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COVID Safety Guidelines:
This program is limited to 30 attendees. Masks are not required for outdoor MASterworks Explorations. Should the group ventures indoors, masks may be required, so please be prepared to have one with you.

About the MASterworks Awards:

Established in 2001, the MASterworks Awards pay tribute each year to projects that make a significant contribution to New York City’s built environment. Awards are presented in 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.

Read more about the MASterworks Awards here.

2023 MASterworks Jury:

Wellington Chen, Executive Director, Chinatown Partnership
Wendy Evans Joseph, MAS Board of Directors and Studio Joseph
Signe Nielsen, Founding Principal, Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects (MNLA)
Aniket Shahane, Principal, Office of Architecture (OA) and Senior Critic, Yale University School of Architecture

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