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Here are some top picks for this year's Open House New York Weekend

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Here are some top picks for this year's Open House New York Weekend

As part of Archtober, New York City’s architecture and design month, Open House New York (OHNY) is presenting the 15th annual edition of Open House New York Weekend, a two day–long tour series that celebrates architecture and urban design in the five boroughs.

The event, which runs from October 14 to 15 this year, lets New Yorkers be tourists in their own city. Along with old OHNY Weekend favorites like the Pantheon-inspired Gould Memorial Library at Bronx Community College and the Masonic Hall in the Flatiron District, visitors can step onto the skybridge at SHoP’s American Copper towers on Manhattan’s East Side, or see Jacques Garcia’s interiors for the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, a group within the French Embassy’s U.S. outpost that encourages arts-based cultural exchange between the two countries. For those willing to hop aboard the tram or ferry, there will be tours of The Bridge at Cornell Tech, Weiss/Manfredi’s R&D incubator on Cornell’s new Roosevelt Island campus. On Governors Island, Liggett Hall, a brightly trussed gymnasium, will be open to the public for the first time.

This year, OHNY partnered with the New York City Department of Design and Construction to show off some of the structures built under the agency’s Design and Construction Excellence Program, an initiative that allows select firms to bid on city projects. On Staten Island, OHNYers can tour Sage and Coombe Architects’ Ocean Breeze Track and Field House, while in Brooklyn, Selldorf Architects’ Sims Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility will be open to the public.

In collaboration with AIA New York’s New Practices committee, OHNY is showcasing work by the city’s emerging architects. Design enthusiasts can peek at Family New York’s Fool’s Gold Records store (pictured above), G TECTS’ Bridge Golf Learning Center, WORKac’s Kew Gardens Hills Library, Young Projects’ Gerken Residence in Tribeca, as well as Büro Koray Duman’s Design Within Reach Flagship Store.

Thanks to OHNY’s partnership with over 400 arts organizations, cultural groups, architects, city leaders and others, there are over 200 sites across New York City. All site visits are free, except for ones that require advance registration. Starting October 4, information on all sites and tours will be available at ohny.org, while advance reservations begin October 5 at 11 a.m.


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