The Ornamental Metal Institute of New York

01/26/2024

Join us Tuesday for a lecture by Kersten Geers at The Cooper Union

The Ornamental Metals Institute of New York Lecture | Kersten Geers: Architecture and Everything Tuesday, January 30, 2024, 6:30 - 8:30pm Add to Calendar Office365 Google iCal Image "Public Library," OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, photo courtesy of Bas Princen. This event will be conducted....

05/06/2022

https://www.facadetectonics.org/events/forum-nyc22
Join us May 11 at NYC's Club 101 for "Carbon Crisis: Leveraging the Façade System for Carbon Reduction in Buildings"
Use code ominy22guest at checkout for complimentary admission. 4.0 AIA (HSW) and PDH credits

The topic of the Forum is Carbon Crisis: Leveraging the Façade System for Carbon Reduction in Buildings

01/31/2022

Two weeks left in the 2022 Design Challenge -- finalize your vision now for a chance to win $15K!

Balancing occupant comfort with lifecycle carbon performance The Metals in Construction magazine Design Challenge 2022 is an ideas competition involving the design of an innovative curtain wall system for a new, site-specific office building. featuring. The system must be capa...

07/02/2021

Remembering an important member of the architecture community today

The editor of ArchNewsNow (ANN) helped architects, architecture buffs, and fellow architecture writers keep tabs on what was happening around the world.

06/11/2021

From our friends at the Facade Tectonics Institute--please share!: On Monday morning at 10:00am Pacific, Katie Gould from the Facade Tectonics Institute will post on LinkedIn about the call for abstracts (speaker proposals) for the 2022 World Congress. If you have a LinkedIn account and can join us, please look for the post by searching for "Facade Tectonics" and click like and leave a comment. Please write responses to other comments. Consider sharing the post. We are trying an experiment to see if we can make the post go viral. https://www.linkedin.com/company/10323925/admin/

The more people that comment and reply to each other, the better our chances of increasing exposure.

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11/02/2020

The Steel Institute of New York has launched its 2021 competition, "Gaining Urban Space: Solving NY's Affordable Housing Shortage:

The Metals in Construction magazine 2021 Design Challenge is a competition to generate ideas for creating an environment suitable for affordable rental housing over a portion of NYC’s Sunnyside Yard si...

11/15/2019

Have you checked out our 2020 competition design brief? Give and aging office tower a new identity in NYC and your team could win the $15,000 grand prize.

IntroductionSeventy-five percent of New York City’s high-rise office buildings are more than a half a century old. Most will still be standing in 2030, a milestone year on the city’s roadmap to carbon neutrality. Since buildings alone account for mo...

02/08/2019

Urban environments are becoming overly reliant on automobiles. But the use of landscaped, elevated thoroughfares that encourage foot travel instead can reduce congestion and improve the overall experience of urban life. Across the world, cities have transformed underused roadways and abandoned railr...