Launched in 2018 and conferred each spring at the Open City Benefit, the Open City Award honors the team behind a newly opened or opening project that makes a sizable contribution to quality of place. These are the singular projects, often born from visionary aspirations and years in the making, that embody the spirit of openness, access, and connectivity that are essential to New York’s continued growth and preeminence.
2024
North Javits: Rooftop Pavilion and Farm
Recognizing the design-build team behind the North Javits expansion led by
Lendlease Turner, WXY Studio, TVS, Moody Nolan, Stantec, Magnusson Klemencic Associates, and Jaros, Baum & Bolles. The award will be accepted on behalf of the project team by Alan Steel, President and CEO of the New York Convention Center Development Corporation.
2023
Powerhouse Arts
Recognizing the Design and Development team, led by
Powerhouse Arts, Gemini Arts Initiative, Herzog & de Meuron, PBDW Architects, Urban Atelier Group, Buro Happold Engineering, and Silman.
2022
Moynihan Train Hall
Recognizing the Design and Development team, led by
Empire State Development
Vornado Realty Trust
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Skanska USA
2021
Governors Island
Recognizing
The Trust for Governors Island
2019
TWA Hotel
Recognizing
MCR and MORSE Development
With
Beyer Blinder Belle
INC Architecture & Design
Lubrano Ciavarra Architects
Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects
Stonehill Taylor
2018
Cornell Tech Campus
Recognizing
Cornell University
With
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
James Corner Field Operations
And
Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Center | Architects: Morphosis Architects; Engineers: Arup; Construction Manager: Barr & Barr
Tata Innovation Center | Developer: Forest City New York; Architects: Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism; Engineers: Thornton Tomasetti, Jaros Baum & Bolles; Construction Manager: Turner
The House at Cornell Tech | Developers: Related Companies, The Hudson Companies; Architects: Handel Architects; Engineers: BuroHappold; Construction Manager: Monadnock Construction Inc.
Previous OHNY Honorees
2016
Scott Stringer, New York City Comptroller
Kathy Goldman, Food Bank for New York
2015
Carl Weisbrod, Chair, New York City Planning Commission, and Director, Department of City Planning
John Edelman, Design Within Reach
Marc Kushner and Matthias Hollwich, Architizer
2014
Gale Brewer, Manhattan Borough President
Cindy Allen, Interior Design Magazine
Barry Bergdoll, Museum of Modern Art
2013
David Burney, NYC Department of Design and Construction
Susan Henshaw Jones, Museum of the City of New York
Frank Sciame, Sciame
2012
Christine Quinn, New York City Council
Joshua David and Robert Hammond, The High Line
Tim Tompkins, Times Square Alliance
2011
Leslie Koch, Trust for Governors Island
Red Grooms, Artist
Hugh Hardy, H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture