Last night, Architizer—an online architecture network for professionals and dabblers by alike—hosted its inaugural A+ Awards gala at New York City’s Cedar Lake. And, according to the site’s CEO Marc Kushner, the event not only aimed to honor talents like Richard Meier, who won the lifetime achievement award, but also to make architecture more approachable for those in other creative realms. "We designed an event to help break architecture out of the echo chamber, so that other people can jump in and relate to it," Kushner told Style.com. Last night's accolades honored a total of eighty-seven buildings in more than fifty two categories—including Jaklitsch/Gardner's cubic Marc Jacobs flagship in Tokyo and THEVERYMANY's Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama pop-up store at Selfridges in London.
"What they do is really amazing—it's a great resource," said attendee Joseph Altuzarra, one of many fashion designers present (Thom Browne and Yigal Azrouël also stopped by). Altuzarra offered that he has his own unique tie to architecture. "We have this factory in the north of France that does jersey—it was designed by Le Corbusier. Everything was done so carefully, it's really beautiful.”
—Nick Remsen
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