Local architecture studio Beyer Blinder Belle has created a Harlem headquarters for the National Urban League, which houses the "first Civil Rights Museum" in New York.
Civil rights advocacy organisation The National Urban League is relocating from their Lower Manhattan office at 80 Pine Street to historic West 125th Street in Harlem.
The headquarters replaces a redeveloped state-owned parking garage adjacent to the Adam Clayton Powell, Jr State Office Building and stands 17 storeys tall.
Beyer Blinder Bell has created a Harlem headquarters for advocacy organisation the National Urban League
The building features the first Civil Rights Museum in New York, a conference centre, and office spaces for mission-aligned non-profits including Studio Museum Harlem, the United Negro College Fund, and Virginia Union University. The remaining floors will contain 171 100 per cent affordable housing units, including 51 units for youth ageing out of foster care, and retail space for a Trader Joe's grocery, Pandora, Sephora, and Target.
The building houses the first Civil Rights museum in New York, a conference centre and office spaces
With a building of such varied occupancy, Beyer Blinder Belle (BBB) used differentiated facade treatments to organise and signify the varied uses and programs.
"The Urban Empowerment Center was designed with a rational architectural expression that belies the complexity of its highly diverse mixed-use program and its collaboration between mult...