urbanCLOUD

At last week's annual AIANY's Heritage Ball at Chelsea Piers, the New York City Department of Buildings and AIANY announced three finalists in the urbanSHED International Design Competition. As you may recall, the competition, which is also being sponsored by the New York Building Congress, among others, seeks to create a new standard of sidewalk shed design that both improves the pedestrian experience and simultaneously incorporates sustainable design principles that comport with PlaNYC and New York City safety standards. The competition received 164 designs from across the world; the three finalists are: “urbanCLOUD" by New York City-based KNEStudio, "Urban Umbrella" by Young Hwan Choi of the University of Pennsylvania, and "Tripod" of Brookline, Massachusetts' XChange Architects.