Young Projects Announced as a Winner of The Architectural League of New York's Emerging Voices Award
NEW YORK, NY – Young Projects was named one of this year's recipients of The Architectural League of New York's annual Emerging Voices award. Every year the Architectural League announces eight rising firms as the winners of their Emerging Voices award. The award highlights firms based in North America with distinct design voices that have the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape design, and urban design. The work of each Emerging Voice represents the best of its kind, and addresses larger issues within architecture, landscape, and the built environment. Each of the winners will present their work as part of the Emerging Voices lecture series in New York during the month of March.
Two juries of architects and design professionals selected the winners in a two-stage portfolio competition; each jury reviewed significant bodies of realized work and considered accomplishments within the design and academic communities as well as the public realm. Paul Lewis, jury member and president of the Architectural League, describes the winners’ work: “Individually, each of the winners of this year’s Emerging Voices was selected for the coherence of their creative body of work. Collectively, the range of the work of the eight winners—from material-intensive explorations, to the nuanced production of community and urban identities, to innovative buildings realized with tight economic and environmental constraints—speaks to the diverse challenges found in the architectural discipline today.”
In addition to Young Projects, this year's other Emerging Voices award winners are Blouin Orzes architectes, Dake Wells Architecture, Escobedo Soliz, Mork Ulnes Architects, Olalekan Jeyifous, Peterson Rich Office, and PORT.
Emerging Voices is organized by League Program Director Anne Rieselbach and Program Manager Catarina Flaksman.
Young Projects LLC is a design studio founded by Bryan Young in New York City in 2010, whose work includes buildings, interiors, objects, material prototyping and furniture. Geometry, pattern, texture and spatial complexity play a significant role in creating an ambiguous architecture. The studio explores a variety of methods: breaking traditional techniques for fabrication, hand pulling plaster, growing crystals and burning things, to name a few.
Current projects include a 30,000sf ground-up Hospitality Retreat in the Dominican Republic, a five story 50,000sf mixed-use project in Brooklyn with two floors of co-working space and a museum as the anchor tenant, multiple houses, gut renovations and arts-and-crafts projects for children. In 2018, Noah Marciniak became a partner in the office, bringing a unique dedication to researching construction technology and a new consideration of material detailing.
Young Projects’ work has been widely published and has received numerous awards including The Architectural League of New York’s League Prize in 2013, a Progressive Architecture (P/A) Award from Architect Magazine for Glitch House in 2018, an Architizer A+ Award for the 2014 Times Square Heart installation, a “Best of Design” award from The Architect’s Newspaper in 2015 for the Gerken Residence, a “New Practices New York” award from AIA NY in 2016, an AN Award for the MALI Museum proposal in 2017, and an Azure Award for "Best New Interior Product" for the pulled plaster panels in 2017. In 2018 and 2019, the firm was included in AN Interior’s annual list of the top 50 interior architects.
As part of the Emerging Voices program, Bryan Young, Founder and Co-Principal of Young Projects will speak about the office’s recent and upcoming projects in New York on March 12, 2020 at 7 pm at the Scholastic's Big Red Auditorium, 130 Mercer Street. More details about the event, as well as tickets, can be found here.
