Centered on an open work area with the latest digital modeling and fabrication equipment, the Makerspace @ Columbia is a creative workshop and forum that encourages exploration and collaboration through cross-disciplinary research, prototyping, and discussion. SYA’s design enhances the “learn by making” model, an essential and growing component of the curriculum at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.

We are proud to announce that Stephen Yablon has been elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects! The Fellowship is the highest membership honor for exceptional work and contributions to architecture and society.

“I am incredibly honored.” said Stephen, “This is also a recognition of our amazing clients, excellent collaborators, and talented staff who work together to create architecture that enhances people’s lives.”

Congratulations to all the other new Fellows!

We are thrilled to celebrate our 25th Anniversary this year! It’s been a great ride!

SYA is proud to have enhanced the lives of so many people and their communities since 1995. Our work has included over 70 projects for more than 50 non-profit, public, and private clients. Happily, this work has been widely recognized with over 40 awards and numerous publications, exhibitions, and lectures.

This would not have been possible without fantastic partnerships with our wonderful clients, superb consultants, and excellent staff. We’re looking forward to many more years of creating great architecture to help people live better in our time!

Opening this Thursday! SYA’s Chelsea District Health Center is among one of the featured projects at “Public Works: Reflecting on 15 Years of Project Excellence for New York City.” The exhibition, presented by the Center for Architecture, highlights buildings that serve New York and inspire pride as lasting community assets. Register here!

A 25,000 sf workplace will establish a new office design direction for this leading global alternative investment firm – an environment that is considerably more open and flexible. We are delighted to continue our relationship with Angelo Gordon; a relationship that has spanned almost 18 years and resulted in bespoke offices in Europe and the U.S.

SYA is thrilled to assist Pace University in creating a new home for its distinguished Department of Psychology and Thomas J. McShane Center for psychological services, the training clinic for their well-established psychology program. The new facilities will support cutting-edge research and clinical training, dramatically enhance therapy services for its community, and encourage collaboration between students and faculty in an uplifting environment.

We are thrilled that our Chelsea District Health Center won The Architect’s Newspaper’s Best of Design Award for Healthcare Interiors! The annual international awards honor excellent architecture and product design. Proud to be among this esteemed group - congrats to all the other winners!

SYA’s award-winning Chelsea District Health Center will be open for tours on Saturday, October 19th as part of the annual Open House New York Weekend! Open House New York provides audiences with unparalleled access to the extraordinary architecture of New York, celebrating the best examples of design and planning throughout the five boroughs.

SYA’s Chelsea District Health Center is featured in this month’s issue of Healthcare Design. The renovated LEED Gold building “offers a fresh new take on a public health clinic, strengthening ties to the surrounding neighborhood.” Read the full article here!

Houzz highlights SYA’s South Carolina Guest Pavilion in “Modern Homes Mix Coastal Resiliency with Outdoor Living,” for its innovative approach to coastal design. The article takes a close look at how architects have effectively incorporated flood-proofing into their designs.

We are excited to announce that Stephen Yablon will speak about SYA’s recent healthcare work at this year’s Stanford Medicine X | Change in September! The conference brings together innovators throughout the globe who are leading change in healthcare, technology and digital health.

Excited about Stephen Yablon’s op-ed, “Architecture for a Multicultural Society,” in the Summer issue of Oculus, AIA New York’s quarterly publication. Check out how growing diversity might affect architecture!

Our collaboration with Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design for Angelo Gordon’s Twin Brook Capital Partners in Chicago was recognized for its excellence and originality in lighting design with the Lumen Citation Award! The unique lighting creates a refined and comfortable work environment while maximizing the stunning city views.

We are proud to announce that Stephen Yablon was a finalist for Interior Design’s HiP Award in the Design Leader: Greater Good category! The award honors industry people and innovative products.

We are thrilled to announce that SYA’s Chelsea District Health Center won the NYCxDESIGN award for Healthcare! Inspired by its unique park location, the renovation and restoration of the Chelsea District Health Center created a LEED Gold, state-of-the-art, free sexual health clinic.

And to top it off, our recently completed Mount Sinai Doctors, Ansonia was a finalist in the same category! SYA’s design of the new Mount Sinai clinic was influenced by the original interiors of the historic Ansonia.

SYA’s Chelsea District Health Center was also selected as a finalist for the NYCxDesign awards! Inspired by its unique park location, the transformation of the Chelsea District Health Center created a LEED Gold, state-of-the-art, free sexual health clinic that supports New York City’s ambitious goals to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS.

We are excited to share that two of our projects, including our recently completed Mount Sinai Doctors, Ansonia, were selected as finalists for the NYCxDesign Awards! Winners will be announced on May 20th. Located in the landmarked Ansonia Building, one of the most iconic Beaux Arts buildings in New York City, Mount Sinai’s new clinic provides a grand setting for its signature leading-edge care.

We are excited to announce that our renovation of the historic Chelsea District Health Center received LEED Gold certification! The new health center serves as a model for how to sustainably reinvent and reuse historic and obsolete medical buildings.

We’re thrilled to start construction for a new Innovation Hub for Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. The project is centered on an open work area with the latest digital modeling and fabrication equipment, inspiring cross-disciplinary research and design, creative prototyping, and open discussion of ideas. SYA’s design will enhance the “learn by making” model which is an essential and growing component of the engineering curriculum at Columbia University.

Located in the landmarked Ansonia Building, one of the most iconic and historic structures in New York City, this new clinic provides a grand setting for Mount Sinai Health’s leading-edge care on the Upper West Side. The interiors are a contemporary interpretation of the building’s historic interiors, featuring a black and white palette with brass accents. SYA’s design takes full advantage of the building’s unique features, including its street courts and corner turrets, to provide a variety of uplifting patient spaces.

We are happy to share that SYA’s Chelsea District Health Center is a finalist for Interior Design Magazine’s Best of Year awards – winners will be announced on November 30th! Commissioned by the Mayor’s Design Excellence Initiative, SYA transformed the historic, outdated Art-Deco era public health center into a state-of-the-art ambulatory care facility inspired by a park pavilion.

The art of engineering is the theme of the gallery-like Columbia University Engineering Headquarters. Images of new materials from electron microscopes are exhibited throughout the entire suite, showcasing the intricate beauty of engineering. The new offices are open and inviting, conveying Dean Mary C. Boyce’s vision for fostering interdisciplinary collaboration within the engineering school and with other university departments. 

Spectacular city views and a sleek aesthetic form a lively Midwest hub for Angelo Gordon’s Twin Brook Capital Partners, located in the Loop along the Chicago River. The new 28,000 sf offices feature an impressive meeting and event area as well as a wide variety of work and social spaces that contribute to productivity and wellness.

The Leona Baumgartner District Health Center in Chelsea reopened on Thursday in a grand ribbon cutting ceremony. Joining SYA and NYC DOHMH in the festivities were activists and elected officials including City Council Speaker Corey Johnson. Transformed into a state-of-the-art Article 28 medical facility, this welcoming and soothing center encourages patient use and expresses that the highest level of health care is available to all city residents.

We’re always excited when a long-time client asks us back to help them grow. Due to the success of Angelo, Gordon Europe’s offices since opening in 2014, SYA is designing a new expansion to increase their space by fifty percent. Located on London’s Savile Row and serving as a hub for European operations, this project is expected to open May 2018.

SYA won an Honor Award with Distinction in the 2017 AIA QUAD Design Award competition for Planned Parenthood Queens. The jury praised on the “serene yet upbeat use of color… the celebration of the stairs and the pops of color inspire wellness.” We are thrilled the project continues to be recognized, winning nine design awards to date.

The Inspirations Awards recognize a commitment to social responsibility in commercial interior architecture and design. We’re thrilled that our client, Planned Parenthood of NYC, will receive a $3000 grant from award sponsor Tarkett as part of the award!

We are excited to announce that SYA has won an AIA New York Honors award in the Interiors category for Planned Parenthood Queens! We are especially proud to stand with Planned Parenthood by creating an uplifting, inviting environment for their patients and staff.

We’re excited to be selected by NYU Langone Health to design their new facility in Midtown Manhattan. The 15,000 sf space will house the Occupational and Industrial Orthopedic Center and Initiative for Women with Disabilities.

We’re thrilled to announce that Stephen Yablon has been selected to serve on the National AIA’s Academy of Architecture for Health 2017 Design Awards Jury.

We’re excited that Angelo, Gordon & Co. selected SYA to design their new 28,000 sf office in Chicago which will house the headquarters of their Twin Brook middle market direct lending business. This is the latest project in our fifteen year relationship with the esteemed alternative investment company, which includes the design of multiple offices in New York and their European headquarters in London.

For its new presence on the Upper West Side, Mount Sinai Health System has engaged SYA to design a new 16,000-square-foot space for ambulatory care, internal medicine, and dermatology services.This location, on the second floor of The Ansonia, is Mount Sinai’s first in this part of Manhattan and is intended to completely rethink the patient experience.

Following the success of its new Queens building, Planned Parenthood of NYC retained SYA to create a masterplan to upgrade its facilities citywide. The plan, which will be implemented in phases, will help ensure a consistent patient experience and aesthetic identity that aligns with the organization’s mission throughout NYC.

We’re proud to announce that SYA has been named a winner of the International Interior Design Association Healthcare Interior Design Competition, which honors outstanding originality and excellence in the design and furnishings of healthcare interior spaces. SYA was recognized in the category of Ambulatory Care outpatient Clinics for Planned Parenthood Queens. View a gallery of all award winners here.

The American Institute of Architects and its Academy of Architecture for Health awarded Stephen Yablon Architecture a National Healthcare Design Award for Planned Parenthood Queens. The jury praised the design’s contextual response, clear execution, and orchestration of color and details, saying “the project achieved a high level of consistency and sophistication.”

Presented by Interior Design Magazine and ICFF at MoMA, Planned Parenthood Queens won a NYCxDesign Award in the Health and Wellness category. See the complete list: http://bit.ly/1ZS2KMR

The Guest Pavilion and SYA are featured on Architonic, the Swiss-based online design showcase and magazine.

We’re happy to announce we have been selected to design the Dean’s Suite for Columbia’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering. The new spaces will provide a welcoming and open environment that conveys Dean Mary C. Boyce’s vision for fostering collaboration and discovery between departments and across the university in educating tomorrow’s innovators.

Angelo, Gordon Europe and Planned Parenthood Queens are on display at the Center for Architecture’s “New York New Design” exhibition.

We are thrilled to be assisting the Brooklyn Museum in creating a new home for its very busy and vital Education Division. The Education Division is central to the Museum’s mission, and the new spaces will provide a welcoming environment which will help visitors of all ages form meaningful personal connections with art. The facility will incorporate new state-of-the-art studios, a multimedia program space, a gallery, and offices.

The $8M renovation of the historic Carroll Street Building, which includes the expansion of the Athletic Center, is the first phase of a $22M multi-phase major renovation of the entire 145,000 sf building. SYA prepared the master plan for the dramatic transformation of the building which includes major renovations, new infrastructure, and the creation of a new, more welcoming entry elevation.

Joining PPNYC and SYA in celebrating the completion of the new facility were Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer, Assemblymember Catherine Nolan, U.S. Representatives Carolyn Maloney and Joseph Crowley, other elected officials, donors and community partners. Completed in May, the light-filled, state-of-the-art health and education center expresses the future of Planned Parenthood and offers an uplifting experience for patients and staff through its youthful, sleek, and joyous architecture. To learn more, watch Even More Care in Queens and Diane L. Max Health Center Ribbon Cutting.

“The ‘North Star’ for the rest of the Federation!” Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Angelo, Gordon & Co.’s new London offices evoke their excellent reputation in alternative investments and embrace the surrounding Savile Row streetscape throughout. Designed as a hub for their European business, the bright and spirited offices are flooded with natural light and incorporate Angelo Gordon’s preference for openness and transparency. White walls, bold color accents, warm materials, and distinctive art create a welcoming and crisp environment.

SYA has been selected to design a new academic and administrative center for CUNY Lehman College’s Department of Social Work. Attuned to rapidly evolving societal challenges, the new facility will enable the department to expand their faculty and student body and prepare new social workers to be leaders and innovators in addressing social problems in the 21st century.

We are thrilled that construction of Planned Parenthood of NYC’s newest health center in Long Island City, its first in Queens, is nearing completion. A dramatic transformation of a lumber warehouse, it includes a new exterior which is a sleek, well-scaled addition to the neighborhood. The bright spacious interiors, with strategic color accents throughout, are shaping up and feel cheery, calm, and uplifting. SYA is proud to assist Planned Parenthood in creating a first class reproductive health facility for all residents of Queens!

SYA’s “Yona on the Beach,” a new vision for sustainable coastal living and one of the winners of a MOMA/PS1 competition, has been selected for the long list of the World Architecture News 2014 Urban Design Award. The project was selected from 90 entries worldwide and will proceed into the next phase of jury deliberations.

In June, construction began on the new Planned Parenthood of New York City center in Queens, the first in the borough. The project, an adaptive reuse of a lumber warehouse, will create a calm, reassuring and safe state-of-the-art reproductive health and education center. SYA is proud to contribute to ensuring that all Queens residents, regardless of income, have access to high-quality healthcare.

The City University of New York has engaged SYA to renovate the Performing Arts Center, MAC Theater Arts Playhouse, and Theater Arts Studio at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn. The upgrades will strengthen the college’s performing arts programs and enhance an important community venue.

SYA is thrilled to announce that Andrew Miller, LEED AP, has been promoted to Associate Partner. Mr. Miller has been responsible for a number of SYA’s award-winning projects including Chelsea District Health Center, the Guest Pavilion in South Carolina, Angelo, Gordon Europe offices in London, Central Harlem Health Center, and Enterprise Community Partners.

Commissioned through NYC’s Design Excellence Program, construction has begun on the transformation of this historic New Deal era public health center. Once completed, the updated exterior facade and new, airy, state-of-the-art health care clinics will engage Chelsea residents and inspire healthy, active lifestyles. The project will be LEED Gold certified.

SYA’s “Yona on the Beach” was one of 25 winning schemes in MoMA PS1’s “EXPO 1: New York, Rockaway Call for Ideas”, a competition for creative visions for the future of the coastal New York community that is still recovering from the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy. Members of the jury included PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach, PS1 curator Peter Eleey, MoMA curator Barry Bergdoll, and independent curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. The winning entries are currently exhibited at MoMA PS1’s new venue, VW Dome2, and is part of a programming series which addresses some of the ecological and sociopolitical challenges impacting contemporary life with art installations, lectures and a film program. To see SYA’s video submission, click here.

SYA is one of 6 firms shortlisted for the University of Pennsylvania’s Pennovation Center. The $22M project is the first phase of the transformation of a former DuPont paint testing plant across the Schuylkill River from UPenn into a new “Innovation” campus that will foster collaboration between the university and entrepreneurs. This scope includes creating the new identity for the campus as well as the adaptive reuse of abandoned factories, landscape design, storm water management, environmental remediation and site way finding.

SYA transformed a former industrial building on the Westside of Manhattan into a new ambulatory care facility that will enhance medical center’s presence in a developing residential neighborhood. SYA’s contemporary, warm, and crisply detailed interiors express the world class care offered by NYU Langone Medical Center.

The United Nations International School has selected SYA to transform and expand their K-8 school in Queens and create an inviting and energetic green campus. Our approach will be guided by their mission to provide “an international setting that fosters understanding, independence, interdependence, and cooperation.”

The City University of New York has engaged SYA to complete a master plan for the 166,000 square foot Carroll Building, one of the main buildings on the campus of Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. The plan will identify strategies for updating the building to better serve the diverse academic and student life activities housed in the building, including a new athletic center.

Planned Parenthood of New York City has commissioned SYA to design a new health center in Queens, New York. The 10,000 sq ft + facility will be the 90 year-old organization’s first in the borough, and will provide essential affordable reproductive health care and educational programs to the Queens community regardless of age, income, or circumstance.

The project is one of six from around the world on the WAN healthcare sector / unbuilt awards shortlist. Emphasizing how a “healing environment can be created with a sense of play and excitement,” the panel praised SYA’s reuse of an historic building and design to LEED Gold standards.

SYA has recently been engaged by NY Presbyterian Hospital to create two new facilities that will evoke its world class brand as a premier teaching hospital: the new Department of Radiology which includes classrooms and offices, and Workforce, the general health care facility for all NY Presbyterian employees.

Central Harlem STD Clinic and Chelsea District Health Center have both been selected to go through the longlist for the WAN Healthcare Award 2012. 32 built projects and 25 unbuilt projects have been selected for the longlist from around the world and are featured on WAN’s website.

Washington University in St Louis presented SYA partner Stephen Yablon with the 2012 Award for Distinction for work that is “open, light-filled, carefully detailed, responsive to context, and focused on spaces that encourage social interaction.”

NYU Langone Medical Center has engaged SYA to design a new healthcare facility that will extend their brand to a developing residential area in Manhattan’s West Side. Located in a former garage space, the adaptive re-use project will include physicians’ offices, exam rooms, GI procedure rooms and a recovery suite.

SYA was awarded an Architectural Design Services Requirements Contract with The City University Construction Fund for services for their 23 academic institutions.

SYA’s Guest Pavilion in Sullivan’s Island, SC and the Central Harlem STD Clinic, New York, NY have been awarded Design Excellence Awards from the New York Chapter of the Society of American Registered Architects.

Stephen Yablon Architect’s Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina Guest Pavilion “Sunscreen” has been awarded a Grand Award from Custom Home Magazine. The project will be profiled in the May/June 2011 edition.

Columbia University has selected SYA as the designer of the renovation of the Heyman Center for the Humanities. The Center brings together the various departments in the Humanities at the University presenting events open to students and the public.

The Central Harlem Health Center has received a Full Circle Award from 3form as part of the 5th Annual People’s Choice 3Form Installation Awards.

SYA Principal Stephen Yablon led a jury that presented six AIA Honor Awards to Detroit area firms. Speaking at the awards ceremony, he stated “the winners elevated humble, sometimes overlooked projects to inspiring architecture.” The distinguished jury included Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, Robert Frasca, FAIA, and Wendy Evans Joseph, FAIA.

The Central Harlem Health Center has received an Award from Contract Magazine as part of the Healthcare Facilities Design Awards Competition. The project will be exhibited at HEALTHCARE.10 in November, 2010.

SYA’s Central Harlem Health Center has received a Design Excellence Award from the Boston Society of Architects as part of their Healthcare Design Awards.

Columbia University has selected SYA as the designer of the new Center for Student Advising in Alfred Lerner Hall. The Center for Student Advising is a brand new department which will unify advisors currently spread throughout the campus.

SYA’s Enterprise Community Partners has been awarded a Design Excellence Award from the New York Chapter of the Society of American Registered Architects.

SYA’s Betances Community Center and Boxing Gym has won a Design Merit Award from the New York Chapter of The American Institute of Architects.

Columbia University has selected SYA as the designer of the new Center for Student Affairs in Alfred Lerner Hall.

SYA’s Betances Community Center and Boxing Gym has been awarded the Best Of Adaptive Reuse Award from New York Construction magazine.

SYA’s Betances Community Center and Boxing Gym has won a Design Merit Award from the New York State Chapter of The American Institute of Architects.

SYA has won second place in an international competition sponsored by the Royal Institute of British Architects for a corporate headquarters in Preston, England. Six finalists were chosen from over 50 entries. Competition guidelines called for an ‘exceptional piece of architecture’, with a strong visual presence and the highest quality office environment. Visit RIBA’s website at riba.org for more information.

The Department of Design and Construction of the City of New York has selected SYA and 23 other award-winning design firms for the second round of the highly prestigious Mayor’s Design and Construction Excellence Initiative. Selected from 139 submissions based solely upon design excellence and experience in public projects, the City of New York will use these architects through 2008 to design libraries, fire stations, health care facilities, and cultural centers throughout the five boroughs. SYA was originally selected in the first round of firms for this program in 2005 and is one of only 11 that were re-selected in the second round.

SYA designed the winning scheme for the Jefferson Art Walk development, a 12-block neighborhood of abandoned industrial buildings and historic 19th century hat factories. Located in the Central Valley neighborhood of Orange, New Jersey, along the train line to New York City, this development will use the arts as the engine for urban revitalization. The plan done for the designated developer team, will include more than 500 condominiums, 75 artist live/work spaces, art galleries, retail shops, restaurants, a renovated vintage workingmen’s tavern, and a public greenway along a resurfaced stream.

SYA was awarded first prize in a national design competition for the Boston Harbor Park Pavilion, expected to be the first building on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in downtown Boston.