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SARA | NY Design Awards 2020

2020 SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS

Innovation and Sustainability Award

Statue of liberty Museum

by FXCollaborative

Merging building and landscape, The Statue of Liberty Museum lives up to its ideal of celebrating “access for all”. The experience of walking in, around, and on top of the building with its landscaped hill like roof allows for front row seating of the Lady Liberty and the city beyond. The Museum is designed with resiliency to adapt to the marine climate while being a beacon for cultural integrity. Congratulations to FXCollaborative for the 2020 SARA special award for outstanding design in Innovation and Sustainability.

Civic Architecture Award

Moynihan train hall station

by SOM

The Moynihan Train Hall is the new home of Amtrak in New York City and is a world class-station for a world-class city. With its opening In January early this year, this state-of-the-art transportation facility will be the busiest train station in the Western Hemisphere. The adaptive reuse of the McKim, Mead & White’s 1913 Beaux-Arts James A. Farley Post Office respects the site’s historically significant as well as it social, economic, and environmental impact. Congratulations to SOM for the 2020 SARA special award for outstanding design for Adaptive Reuse in Civic Architecture.

Aerial photos by Dave Burk & Aaron Fedor © Empire State Development | SOM. Photo of the interior by Dave Burk © Empire State Development | SOM.