The New York Times Guest Essay by Vishaan Chakrabarti
Practice for Architecture and Urbanism lays out a plan to add more than 500,000 homes—enough to house more than 1.3 million New Yorkers—without radically changing the character of the city’s neighborhoods or altering its historic districts.
Behind the Project: Refining a Brooklyn Sugar Factory for Today’s Office Market
At Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Refinery a complex redevelopment process harmoniously blends a building’s past with its future.
InterOculus proves to be design for all seasons
Read The Republic’s Editorial hailing the decision to keep the PAU-designed InterOculus up permanently after serving as a striking focal point for an event dedicated to advancing community involvement and thoughtful design.
PAU-designed InterOculus from Exhibit Columbus to remain downtown
City officials and local residents vote to keep the popular community gathering place permanently downtown.
Sweet Spot: After nearly two decades dormant, the Domino Sugar Refinery reopens its doors on the Brooklyn waterfront
Architectural Record highlights PAU’s transformation of the long-shuttered industrial landmark into an all-electric commercial office building featuring a dramatic vertical garden and myriad amenity spaces.
Vital City: A One City Solution
Contributor and PAU Founder and Creative Director Vishaan Chakrabarti on how New York City can model coexistence at a time of intense Jewish-Palestinian tension.
Vishaan Chakrabarti’s reimagining of the old Domino Sugar refinery in Brooklyn is the building New York didn’t know it needed
Read Paul Goldberger’s review of PAU’s latest project, calling it “the best piece of new architecture along the New York waterfront right now, and, arguably, the most important”.
Creating Joyous Cities | Bloomberg Philanthropies
PAU founder and creative director Vishaan Chakrabarti discusses how to create joyous cities and argues that the best cities must be designed for sustainability, equity and inclusion at Bloomberg CityLab 2023.
PAU’s rock & roll hall of fame expansion breaks ground on I.M. Pei glass pyramid site
Designboom reports on the groundbreaking for the expansion that will build upon Pei’s iconic 1995 glass pyramid design while nearly doubling the museum’s size and maintaining its identity as a Cleveland landmark.
Architect discusses plans for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame expansion
Spectrum News 1 reporter Jenna Jordan sits down with PAU founder and creative director Vishaan Chakrabarti at the groundbreaking to discuss expansion plans that will improve the iconic I.M. Pei structure and help music’s legacy play on for future generations.
Dome sweet Dome: PAU’s InterOculus makes unity go ’round downtown
Read The Republic piece highlighting the Exhibit Columbus street dance that attracted a pluralistic, partying throng that organizers felt blurred the lines of ethnic, occupational and other differences under one inclusive dome.
Architecture Review: Light-Drenched Offices Fill the Shell of Domino Sugar
“A great work of architecture—and that’s what this is—mediates between history and future, between a past we value without wishing to bring it back and a horizon we can’t map yet want to be ready for.” Justin Davidson, New York Magazine.
PAU-designed The Refinery at Domino reopens Brooklyn’s most iconic building to the modern workplace
Archinect details the project which is one of just a few net-zero large buildings to grace the New York commercial market post-Covid.
Inside the Domino Sugar Refinery’s $2.5 billion renovation
Fast Company details PAU’s new building within a building that has been transformed into a light-filled office building with a triple height atrium lobby, floor plates as large as a Manhattan office building, bike parking, an indoor pool, and a spectacular glass vault on top.
Former sugar refinery transforms into office space
Spectrum NY1’s Roger Clark walks the reimagined, PAU-designed landmark building that is the centerpiece at the 11-acre Domino Sugar Factory site.
With ‘Public by Design,’ Exhibit Columbus Sharpens its Focus on Community
Architectural Record explores this year’s exhibits headlined by PAU’s InterOculus, located at the crossroads of downtown Columbus where the installation served as the centerpiece for an opening weekend community fete.
A Renewed Colossus: Within 10 Years, Let’s House 10 Million New Yorkers
Vital City Contributor Vishaan Chakrabarti on forging a path forward and how to make the next decade New York’s decade of home construction.
PAU to expand I.M. Pei’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with monumental wedge
Dezeen covers PAU’s plan to integrate the new wing directly into the original museum’s glass pyramid and add a new entry lobby, exhibition spaces, offices, an education center and a 6,000-square-foot multipurpose venue.
Process as Project
The Architect’s Newspaper explains why this year’s Exhibit Columbus raises the bar for design expositions looking to partner with local communities.
PAU’s addition to I.M. Pei’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to break ground in Cleveland
The Architect’s Newspaper covers the highly anticipated-50,000-square foot expansion to I.M. Pei’s original glass pyramid design from 1995 that will be PAU’s first built museum project.