American-Israeli architect and designer Neri Oxman will open a laboratory at 787 11th Avenue, the 1920s New York building under renovation by Rafael Viñoly Architects.
Developers Georgetown Company has announced that Neri Oxman will be one of two anchor tenants for the office project in Manhattan.
Oxman, the director of MIT Media Lab's Mediated Matter group, plans to use her new 36,000-square-foot laboratory to "research, design and implement inventions to address complex challenges across product, architectural, urban and planetary scales".
Top: 787 11th Avenue. Above: director of MIT Media Lab Neri Oxman. Photo courtesy of TED Talks
Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly is currently renovating the building on Manhattan's West Side, adding a glazed extension and a rooftop garden. The two-storey glazed extension will sit atop the eight-storey art deco-era building.
The other anchor tenant, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, will build a healthcare facility in the building, which was constructed in 1927 by American architect Albert Kahn for the Packard Motor Company.
787 11th Avenue was built in 1927 by Albert Kahn
The medical school plans to use the 165,000-square-foot it is leasing to open research facilities studying genome sequencing and 3D organoid technology ? where stem cells are grown in vitro to study how cells respond to disease.

Oxman's husband, billionaire investor Bill Ackerman, bought 787 11th Avenue with Georgetown Company in 2015. Ackerman al...