Metals in Construction Magazine and a jury of architects and engineers have announced the winners of the ?Reimagine a New York City Icon? competition. The 2016 Design Challenge, which was sponsored by Metals in Construction magazine and the Ornamental Metal Institute of New York, called for submissions from architects, engineers, students, and designers from around the globe to reimagine the cladding of 200 Park Avenue (formerly the Pan Am Building, now the MetLife Building), with a ?resource-conserving, eco-friendly enclosure? that simultaneously creates transparency and preserves the building?s original aesthetic.

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Metals in Construction Magazine and a jury of architects and engineers have announced the winners of the ?Reimagine a New York City Icon? competition. The 2016 Design Challenge, which was sponsored by Metals in Construction magazine and the Ornamental Metal Institute of New York, called for submissions from architects, engineers, students, and designers from around the globe to reimagine the cladding of 200 Park Avenue (formerly the Pan Am Building, now the MetLife Building), with a ?resource-conserving, eco-friendly enclosure? that simultaneously creates transparency and preserves the building?s original aesthetic.The competition was inspired by the President?s Climate Action Plan and the Architecture 2030 Challenge. ?The competition was conceived to explore ways of retrofitting existing facades for high perfor...