Newsday

Camera Obscura Reopens!

Designed as part of the Mitchell Park project in 2003 by Manhattan-based SHoP Architects, the camera obscura is one of about 50 remaining in the world and five nationwide, village officials estimate. “I call it the Victorian IMAX theater. It really creates a very vivid, three dimensional experience,” said SHoP founding principal William Sharples. Mitchell Park was the first project for the firm, which also designed the Barclays Center and redesigned Nassau Coliseum. Sharples said designing the camera obscura was a “cutting-edge moment” since it was built using digital, 3D modeling rather than traditional blueprints. Instead, 1,487 wood and metal parts were fabricated off site and put together using visual instructions akin to putting together Legos or a model airplane.

Tayo Aina Films

Inside the Botswana Innovation Hub

This is Botswana’s $60 million dollar innovation hub and it has one of the most fascinating building designs I have ever seen anywhere in the world.

Architectural Digest

SHoP Featured Twice in List of NYC’s Most Iconic Towers

Two recent SHoP supertalls, The Brooklyn Tower and 111 West 57th Street, take their place alongside the Empire State, Chrysler, Metropolitan Life, Seagram and Woolworth buildings in this curated list of timeless New York City classics.

YIMBY

Facade Installation Nears Completion at FIT

Facade installation is nearing completion on Fashion Institute of Technology‘s ten-story New Academic Building at 220 West 28th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan. Designed by SHoP Architects, the 110,000-square-foot structure is engineered to LEED Gold standards and will yield classrooms, administrative offices, review and exhibition spaces, and a student quad illuminated by skylights.

SF Yimby

Youtube HQ Underway In San Bruno

SHoP Architects has done several projects for Google, including the conceptual Charleston East plan and collaboration with the Downtown West master plan. The firm writes, “the YouTube Headquarters is designed to be an anti-icon, a building that puts people first.”

CoStar

Hudson’s Site: Most Significant Detroit Project in Decades

Hailed as the most significant development in the city of Detroit in decades, the redevelopment of the Hudson’s site into a mixed-use development earned the project a 2023 CoStar Impact Award for commercial development of the year in Detroit, as judged by a panel of local industry professionals. The real estate firm founded by billionaire Dan Gilbert is in the process of remaking the site on Woodward Avenue into a 1.5 million-square-foot mixed-use development complete with offices, destination retail, event spaces, public rooftop amenities, an activated public plaza and a soaring tower that, at 685 feet, would be the second-tallest in the state.

The Creative Factor

Pier 17, a 12-Year, 168-Person Project

Recently, the team at SHoP Architects responsible for Pier 17 in New York City—the award-winning reimagining of the South Street Seaport neighborhood—sat down to discuss their 12-year effort from idea to full build. They are all still at SHoP and have become project leaders across the organization. The team includes Angelica Trevino Baccon, Scot Teti, Andreia Teixeira, Sean Bailey and Clinton Miller.

The Architect's Newspaper

Uber HQ Wins 2023 AIANY Design Award

The AIA’s oldest chapter has announced the winners of the 2023 AIANY Design Awards. While all the submitting architects are members of the New York chapter of the professional organization, not all of the projects are located within the five boroughs, the Empire State, or even North America.

Lens

Celebrating Eight of Melbourne’s Great Buildings

In the context of financial pressures to maximise floor areas and without any legislative impediment to do otherwise, Collins Arch has still achieved a level of civic contribution and quality that is disappointingly rare in contemporary city development. The scheme optimises its occupation of a whole city block to address each street differently, setting up localised responses suited to different scales, contexts and uses. The strategy delivers true ground-plane porosity, creating multiple public routes throughout the site, and a variety of dwell spaces that cleverly navigate a major level change from Collins Street down to Flinders Lane.

CTBUH

Collins Arch: Best Tall Building in Australia

The groundbreaking complex in downtown Melbourne, comprising a hotel, residences, workplaces and an active network of new public spaces, was celebrated with several major awards—among them Best Tall Mixed-Use Building in the world and Best Tall Building in Australia—by the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the international authority on all things skyscraper.