Preservation Conference: New Design + Old Places
The Historic Districts Council is the citywide advocate for New York’s historic neighborhoods. For more than forty years HDC has worked to ensure the preservation of significant historic neighborhoods, buildings and open spaces, to uphold the integrity of the Landmarks Law and to further the preservation ethic.
Friday, March 7, 2014
HDC Design Awards Ceremony and Opening Reception
6:00-9:00pm
Steelcase
4 Columbus Circle
Southwest corner of West 58th Street and 8th Avenue, Manhattan
$35/person/ $30/person for Friends of HDC, Students, Seniors
New Design + Old Places
The Historic Districts Council is pleased to launch a new program in 2014, the HDC Design Awards, which is the centerpiece for this year’s conference.
The purpose of the awards program is to celebrate projects broadening perceptions of the possibilities of design in historic settings. Historic buildings and districts change over time: an important part of HDC’s mission is to encourage changes of high quality. To that end, our Public Review Committee monitors proposed alterations to designated neighborhoods and individual landmarks and testifies at every Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing. The Design Awards will showcase the best of what has been done, including alterations within historic districts and to historic buildings wherever in the city they may be, and thereby encourage more high quality design.
The Conference will expand this discourse with lectures and panels, including presentations and discussion by Design Award winners, critics, architects and advocates. In the end, all attendees should come away better-informed about the convergence between new work and historic buildings and how it can produce exciting, appropriate and coherent entities.
The Conference consists of two morning presentations and panel discussions. The Design Awards Ceremony and Opening Reception will take place the previous evening, and HDC has organized related tours and special programming throughout the year.
During the Conference, attendees will also hear directly from local advocates who are working directly on neighborhood-based preservation campaigns, including those impacting new design. Selected groups will present relevant projects and programs as part of HDC’s Annual Preservation Fair in the gallery adjoining the Conference auditorium throughout the morning.
HDC Design Awards Ceremony
The inaugural HDC Design Awards will be presented by jury chair James Stewart Polshek, FAIA. The ceremony will be followed by a reception where attendees can meet the awardees and view their projects.
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Saturday, March 8, 2014
Conference and Preservation Fair
New York Law School
185 West Broadway at Leonard Street, Manhattan
$35/person/$25/person for Friends of HDC, Seniors* Free/student* (with valid school ID)
*Includes continental breakfast
Conference Panels
8:30-9:30am
Registration, Coffee, and Preservation Fair
During the coffee and registration hour attendees will meet with civic and community-based groups who are working on neighborhood-based preservation campaigns. More than a dozen organizations will present their current efforts, including posters, images, postcards, petitions, brochures and other educational and advocacy literature. Come meet your fellow preservationists and learn about efforts to preserve our city.
9:30-11:00am
HDC Design Awards Presentations
Following the previous evening’s award ceremony, attendees at this panel will hear from the award winners themselves about their projects. Awardees will discuss the design challenges, strategies and solutions for each case. An ample question and answer period will allow for a full discussion with the audience on the specifics of projects and design philosophy, allowing the lessons of each project to be considered by communities across the city. This panel will be moderated by Alan G. Brake, executive editor, The Architect’s Newspaper and an HDC Design Awards juror.
11:00-11:30am
Break and Preservation Fair
11:30am-1:00pm
What is “Good” Design? Appropriateness and Context
Taking the ideas generated from the HDC Design Awards presentations and applying them citywide, a distinguished group of critics, architects and advocates will examine the specific issue of appropriateness and contextual design in New York City’s designated historic districts and beyond. Understanding how new design fits in an old neighborhood, panelists will present some of their favorite (and least favorite!) examples of contextual design and discuss the idea of “appropriateness” and its applicability. Speakers for the panel include Matt Chaban, Real Estate Editor of the New york Daily News; Stephen Byrns, partner at BKSK Architects, a former NYC Landmarks Preservation Commissioner and chair of the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy; and Mel Wymore, community activist and former chair of Manhattan Community Board 7.
SPECIAL PROGRAM!
In a repeat of last’s year popular program, HDC will offer a free walking tour of the Tribeca neighborhood adjacent to the New York Law School immediately following the conference. This short tour will examine the changes over time in Tribeca, focusing on both new construction within the designated historic district and as well as looking at some areas that were excluded from the original historic district designations. Tribeca was one of HDC’s 2013 Six to Celebrate. Meet for the tour in the front lobby of New York Law School. Space is limited.
Related Conference Programs:
Walking Tours
Meeting times, locations and directions for tours will be provided upon registration. Tours generally begin between 11am and 1pm and last approximately two hours.
Brooklyn Academy of Music as New Design
Sunday, March 9, 2014, 11am
Join HDC and 2013 HDC Landmarks Lion recipient Hugh Hardy, as we visit several Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) interiors and exteriors, which were renovated, restored and reused under the guidance of Hardy, an architect of many theatrical spaces. Attendees will see the award-winning and unusual interior renovation of the BAM Harvey, discuss the exterior restoration at the Gilman Opera House and have a chance to view the new flexible theater spaces at BAM Fisher, itself an adaptation of a landmarked building. The tour will be followed by a discussion with Hardy and Sharon Lehner, archivist of BAM, about the history and evolution of the BAM cultural campus.
$25/person/$20 for Friends of HDC/Seniors/Students
Additional tickests may be available call 212-614-9107 or email [email protected] to find out
Modern Interventions in Park Slope
Sunday, March 30, 2014
While there is rarely room in Brooklyn’s Park Slope Historic District for an entire new building, that doesn’t mean there are not a myriad of examples of modern additions and alterations to historic structures. Join tour leader Matt Postal as he highlights some of the contemporary responses in this largely residential community, both inside and outside the designated historic district.
$10/person/$5 for Friends of HDC/Seniors/Students
Brooklyn Heights Historic District at Nearly 50
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Brooklyn Heights was the very first historic district in New York City, designated in 1965. In the decades since, this largely residential enclave has seen numerous additions and alterations to its diverse stock of row houses, distinguished churches and cultural landmarks. Join our guides, urban historians Francis Morrone and Liz McEnaney, to explore what new design looks like among the bricks and brownstones of New York’s oldest historic district.
$10/person/$5 for Friends of HDC/Seniors/Students
Douglaston’s New Designs
Saturday, April 26, 2014
The Douglaston Historic District is one of the preeminent examples of suburban-style housing with large, free-standing homes in a range of architectural styles. The houses are made more impressive by their sizable lots and mature greenery. The arcadian and expansive nature of the community has allowed for many new buildings to be constructed while still maintaining the historic character of the neighborhood. Join Kevin Wolfe, an HDC adviser and the architect of numerous new buildings within the district, as he presents some of his own landmarks-approved projects and discusses what appropriateness means in Douglaston.
$10/person/$5 for Friends of HDC/Seniors/Students
Conference CO-SPONSORS & Neighborhood Partners
Addisleigh Park Civic Organization
Alice Austen House Museum
The All Faiths Restoration & Beautification Program
American Planning Association, New York Metro Chapter
Art Deco Society of New York
Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District
Auburndale Improvement Association
The Battery Conservancy
Bay Improvement Group
Bay Ridge Conservancy
Bay Ridge Historical Society
Bayside Historical Society
Beachside Bungalow Preservation Association
The Beaux Arts Alliance
Bedford Barrow Commerce Block Association
Bedford-Stuyvesant Society for Historic Preservation
Beverly Square East Neighborhood Association
Beverly Square West Association
Bicycle Transportation Action
Boerum Hill Association
Bowery Alliance of Neighbors
Bowne House Historical Society
Bridge Plaza Civic Association
Broadway-Flushing Homeowners Association
Bronx Historical Society
Bronx Landmarks Taskforce
Bronx Parks 125 Anniversary Committee
Bronx Shepherds Restoration Corporation
Brooklyn Borough Historian Ron Schweiger
Brooklyn Heights Association
Brooklyn Historic Railway Association
Brownstone Revival Coalition of New York
Carnegie Hill Neighbors
Carroll Gardens Association
Carroll Gardens Landmark Committee
Caton Park Neighborhood Association
Central Queens Historical Association
Central Village Block Association
Chester Court Block Association
City Island Historical Society
Citizens of Agate Court
Citizens for Cambridge/Oxford Historic District
Citizens Defending Libraries
Civic Association of Mid-Manhattan
Civitas
Clay Avenue Historic District
Cobble Hill Association
Committee for Environmentally Sound Development
Committee to Save the New York Public Library
Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights
Concerned Citizens of Laurelton
Council of Chelsea Block Associations
Council Member Vincent Gentile’s Preservation Committee
Crow Hill Community Association
Crown Heights North Association
Decker Avenue Civic Association
Defenders of the Historic Upper East Side
Design Trust for Public Space
Ditmas Park Association
Ditmas Park West Neighborhood Association
Docomomo US
Douglaston/Little Neck Historical Society
The Drive to Protect the Ladies’ Mile District
Duffield Street Block Association
DUMBO Neighborhood Alliance
East 7th Street Block Association
East 12th Street Block Association
East 60s Property Owners Association
East 79th Street Neighborhood Association
East 83rd/84th Street Block Association
East 84th Street Neighborhood Association
East 86th Street Merchants/Residents Association
East Elmhurst-Corona Civic Association
East Harlem Historical Organization
East Harlem Preservation
East Midtown Coalition for Sensible Development
East Village Community Coalition
East Village History Project
Families United for Racial and Economic Equality
Fine Arts Federation
Fiske Terrace Association
Flatbush Development Corporation
The Floyd Bennett Field Task Force
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Conservancy
Forest Close Association
Fort Greene Association
Fort Independence Park Neighborhood Association
Four Borough Neighborhood Preservation Alliance
Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries of Staten Island
Friends of Abe Lebewohl Park
Friends of Brook Park
Friends of First Avenue Estate
Friends of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans
Friends of the Lamartine Place
Friends of the Lower East Side
Friends of the Lower West Side
Friends of Petrosino Square
Friends of Sunset Park
Friends of Terra Cotta
Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct
Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts
FROGG: Friends & Residents of Greater Gowanus
Fulton Ferry Landing Association
Fund for Park Avenue
Glendale Civic Association
Gramercy Neighborhood Associates
Gramercy Park Block Association
Greater Astoria Historical Society
Greater Woodhaven Development Corporation
Greenwich Village Community Task Force
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
The Green-Wood Cemetery
Halsey Street-Arlington Place Progressive Block Association
Hamilton Heights-West Harlem Community Preservation Organization
Harlem Preservation Foundation
Henderson Place Historic District Association
High Bridge Coalition
Highlands Historic Preservation
Historic House Trust of New York City
Historic Landmarks Preservation Center
Historic Neighborhood Enhancement Alliance
Historic Park Avenue
Historic Richmond Town
Historic Wallabout Association
Hope Community
Independent Friends of McCarren Park
Institute of Classical Architecture & Art
Jackson Heights Action Group
Jackson Heights Beautification Group
Jackson Heights Garden City Society
Juniper Park Civic Association
Kew Gardens Civic Association
King Manor Museum
Kissena Park Civic Association
Landmark West!
Lefferts Manor Association
Liberty Park Homeowners Association
Long Island City Alliance
Long Island City Interblock Association
Longwood Historic District Community Association
Louis Armstrong House Museum
Lower East Side Business Improvement District
Lower East Side Preservation Initiative
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
The Maple Grove Cemetery
Merchant’s House Museum
Metropolitan Historic Structures Association
Metropolitan Museum Historic District Coalition
Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
Middle Village Owners & Residents
Midwood Park Homeowners Association
Modern Architecture Working Group
Morningside Heights Historic District Committee
Mott Haven Historical Society
Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association
Mud Lane Society for the Renaissance of Stapleton
Municipal Art Society
Murray Hill Neighborhood Association
Museum of the City of New York
Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City
Neighborhood Preservation Center
Newtown Historical Society
The New York Landmarks Conservancy
New York Marble Cemetery
New York Preservation Alliance
New York Preservation Archive Project
93rd Street Beautification Association
97th Street Block Association
NoHo Manhattan
NoHo NY Business Improvement District
The North Shore Waterfront Greenway
Ocean on the Park Block Preservation Association
Olinville Taxpayers & Civic Associations
122 Block Association
138th Street Block Association
Park Slope Civic Council
Parkway Village Historical Society
Parkway Village Landmark Committee
Place Matters
The Poppenhusen Institute
Pratt Area Community Council
Pratt Center for Community Development
Preservation Greenpoint
Preservation League of New York State
Preservation League of Staten Island
Preserve & Protect
Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council
Prospect Park South Association
Queens Civic Congress
Queens County Farm Museum
Queens Historical Society
Queens Jewish Historical Society
Queens Preservation Council
Red Hook Civic Association
Rego-Forest Preservation Council
Richmond Hill Historical Society
Ridgewood Property Owners & Civic Association
Roebling Chapter, Society for Industrial Archeology
Roosevelt Island Historical Society
Sandy Ground Historical Society
Save America’s Clocks
Save Coney Island
Save the Landmarks
Save the Pennsylvania Hotel
Sea View Historic Foundation
Senator Street Historic District
Society for the Architecture of the City
Society for Clinton Hill
Society for the Preservation of Weeksville & Bedford-Stuyvesant
SoHo Alliance
South Midwood Residents Association
South Village Landmark Association
St. George Civic Association
St. Mark’s Historic Landmark Fund
Staten Island Historical Society
Staten Island Museum
Stockholm Street Block Association
Stuyvesant East Preservation Action League
Stuyvesant Park Neighborhood Association
Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance
Sunset Park Landmarks Committee
Sustainable South Bronx
Sustainable Yards
Sutton Area Community
10th & Stuyvesant Streets Block Association
Tottenville Historical Society
Tribeca Community Association
Tribeca Trust
Trust for Architectural Easements
Tudor City Association
Turtle Bay Association
22 Street East Block Association
23rd Street Association
29th Street Neighborhood Association
Two Bridges Neighborhood Council
Union Square Community Coalition
Van Cortlandt Manor
Van Duzer Street Civic Association
Victorian Society New York
Village Alliance Business Improvement District
Vinegar Hill Neighborhood Association
The Waterfront Museum
Weeksville Heritage Center
West 15th/16th Street Association
West 54th-55th Street Block Association
West 80s Neighborhood Association
West Brighton Community Local Development Corporation
West Brighton Restoration Society
West Cunningham Park Civic Association
West End Preservation Society
West Midwood Community Association
West Village Committee
Westerleigh Improvement Society
Westsiders for Public Participation
Williamsburg Greenpoint Preservation Alliance
Woodhaven Cultural & Historical Society
World Monuments Fund
Yorkville/Kleindeutschland Historical Society
The 20th Annual Preservation Conference is co-sponsored by HDC’s Neighborhood Partners, more than 500 community-based organizations across the city. Support is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional support is provided by City Councilmembers Margaret Chin, Inez Dickens, Daniel Garodnick, Vincent Gentile, Sara Gonzalez, Stephen Levin, and Rosie Mendez.
Support for the HDC Design Awards is provided, in part, by The Architect’s Newspaper, Steelcase, Leo Blackman & Ken Monteiro, Francoise Bollack & Tom Killian, and Anna May & Tim Feige
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