Building Tour
Past Events
Building of the Day: PENN 2
10/31/24, 12pm - 1:15pm
PENN 2
The 1.75 million square foot restoration and expansion of PENN 2 creates the future of the workplace atop the busiest transportation hub in North America – Penn Station. The transformation...
Building of the Day: Din Tai Fung
10/29/24, 11am - 12pm
Din Tai Fung
Din Tai Fung worked with Rockwell Group to develop a fresh and compelling new design narrative that captures the energetic atmosphere of the world’s most renowned theatre district. Each space...
Building of the Day: New York Hall of Science (Group 1)
10/28/24, 12pm - 1:15pm
New York Hall of Science's (NYSCI) Great Hall was designed by Wallace K. Harrison for the 1964 World's Fair and is one of the few structures that remains standing. Harrison's...
Building of the Day: New York Hall of Science (Group 2)
10/28/24, 1pm - 2:15pm
New York Hall of Science's (NYSCI) Great Hall was designed by Wallace K. Harrison for the 1964 World's Fair and is one of the few structures that remains standing. Harrison's...
Building of the Day: Lever House
10/25/24, 11am - 12:15pm
This tour is sold out. Please add yourself to the waitlist. Commercial office design was forever changed with the completion of SOM’s Lever House in 1952 as the first International...
Building of the Day: Grey Art Museum
10/24/24, 12pm - 1:15pm
NYU worked with Ennead Architects to design renovated facilities that highlight the importance of the arts on campus and reshape the visitor experience. Among the major improvements are the Cottrell-Lovett...
Building of the Day: HELP ONE
10/23/24, 10am - 11:15am
HELP ONE, a four-building mixed-use complex, comprises nearly a full city block in East New York, Brooklyn. Phase I of this sustainability-focused project provides affordable and supportive housing for vulnerable...
Building of the Day: One Domino Square
10/22/24, 12pm - 1:15pm
Newly opened in 2024, this 700,000-square-foot, mixed-use development is the third residential building on the historic Domino Sugar Refinery site in Williamsburg. It features two towers atop a shared seven-story...
CANCELED – Building of the Day: W New York – Union Square
10/21/24, 12pm - 1:15pm
W New York - Union Square
This tour has been canceled. In 2000, the historic Beaux-Arts style Guardian Life Building insurance building was adapted into the W New York – Union Square by Rockwell Group. The...
Building of the Day: Triangle Fire Memorial
10/18/24, 11am - 12:15pm
The Triangle Fire Memorial honors the victims and legacy of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire—a pivotal event in US and labor history. Its textured, stainless steel “ribbon” on the...
Building of the Day: Institute for Studies on Latin American Art
10/17/24, 11am - 12:15pm
Institute for Studies on Latin American Art
A new downtown home for the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, the project is the culmination of two years of close collaboration between the architects and ISLAA to...
Building of the Day: Nine Chapel
10/16/24, 4pm - 6pm
This tour is sold out. Please add yourself to the waitlist. Development firm Tankhouse and architecture firm SO-IL have collaborated to introduce Nine Chapel, a new Downtown Brooklyn condominium building...
Building of the Day: Domino Sugar Refinery
10/14/24, 12pm - 1:15pm
This tour is sold out. Please add yourself to the waitlist. The Domino Sugar Refinery is the lone remaining historic building within a 19th century industrial complex. The historic shell...
Building of the Day: Far Rockaway Library
10/12/24, 10am - 11:15pm
The Far Rockaway Library in Queens is designed as a collaboration between Snøhetta and Brooklyn-based contemporary artist José Parlá to reflect Far Rockaway’s diversity and dynamism. Clad in fritted, colored...
Building of the Day: 425 Grand Concourse
10/10/24, 12pm - 1:15pm
425 Grand Concourse, designed by Dattner Architects and developed by Trinity Financial and MBD, is one of the largest Passive House projects in the country. This mixed-use development includes 277...