We are honored to have received 2 Design Awards of Honor from the NY Council of the Society of American Registered Architects (SARA) at their awards gala held at the fabulous TWA Hotel! The projects honored were: MPCA – a new 8 floor mixed-use building for a non-profit school in Harlem serving at-risk children. Still in the design phase, the project uses design thinking to tackle the spatial and economic challenges of designing and developing
The Design Corps was named a Finalist in the prestigious international Architizer A+ Awards in the “Architecture +For Good” category. Soluri Architecture principal Andre Soluri is one of the co-founders of the Design Corps, and this award is the result of a group submission by all the co-founders including NYC EDC, AIANY, Design Advocates and NYCxDESIGN. The Design Corps was launched in the summer of 2020 as a platform for the architecture and design community
The Design Corps ha been named a winner in the prestigious 2021 NYCxDesign Awards in the “Outdoor Dining” category! The award is the result of a group submission by all of the co-founders including NYC EDC, AIANY, Design Advocates and NYCxDESIGN. The Design Corps was launched in the summer of 2020 as a platform for the architecture and design community in NYC to provide pro-bono services to restaurants and other small business struggling to survive
For the third year in a row, Soluri Architecture has been named a Finalist and Honoree in the NYCxDesign Awards! This year, our work-in-progress submission for the mixed-use building we are currently designing for MPCA in Harlem has been named an Honoree in the “Work on the Boards – Commercial” category! MPCA is a non-profit school in Central Harlem that teaches disadvantaged, at- risk children who require specialized attention not possible in typical schools. Our
We’re excited to see our outdoor dining project for Pro Thai in East Harlem featured on social media feeds by NYCxDESIGN and the New York City Economic Development Corporation’s (NYC EDC). The posts include photos of the pro-bono project that Soluri Architecture (SA) completed through the Design Corps which was also co-founded by SA’s principal Andre Soluri. The Design Corps is a plaform for the architecture and design community in NYC to come together and
The New York City Economic Development Corporation is featuring Soluri Architecture’s outdoor dining project for Pro Thai in an article about the Design Corps as part of their NYCEDC Stories series on their website. The article highlights the work and mission of the Design Corps as well as the background of why Pro Thai needed help and how Soluri Architecture and the Design Corps helped her. The article outlines the many challenges presented by the
Construction of our first pro-bono Design Corps project has been completed – the outdoor dining build-out for Pro Thai in East Harlem. The completed project is truly the result of a team effort and a great example of how the architecture, design and construction industries are coming together to help small businesses survive during this pandemic – epitomizing the goals and ideals of the Design Corps. The key challenge at Pro Thai was the steep
In partnership with the AIANY and the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS), Soluri Architecture and a team of industry professionals streamed a webinar called “Back to the Workplace – Practical Ways to Reopen your Office” which is the first in a series on helping small businesses survive this pandemic. The webinar, which was hosted by SBS, is an industry-wide presentation with 10 presenters including architects, interior designers, engineers and change management specialists. The
Construction has been completed at CCM’s new Manhattan mental health clinic. This 4,200sf facility was designed pre-pandemic and was built during the pandemic. This is the 2nd clinic (and 3rd project) that Soluri Architecture has done for CCM, allowing them to expand and continue serving at-risk families during the pandemic by enlarging a network of support that promotes healthy, stable, and enriched lives for their clients and communities. CCM is a Brooklyn based non-profit organization
Many thanks to the Architecture Masterprize for an Honorable Mention in the “Residential Architecture – Multi Unit” category for this year’s award program! The Masterprize is a highly regarded international awards program that attracted over 1500 submissions from 65 countries to this year’s program. The Vidro is our recently completed new building in Harlem containing six-units that demonstrates how small urban infill sites can help solve NYC’s housing crisis by using design-based solutions to add-value,