ABOVE THE FOLD represents a diverse roster of international talent & firms with a focus on the built environment. Curating design teams and promoting precedent-setting projects, our work helps clients, communities and cities access contemporary design. The agency was founded by John Patrick — a student of economics with a passion for architecture, cities and real estate — in New York City in 2012 and relocated to Detroit in 2015.
Proactive, collaborative and curious, ABOVE THE FOLD has advised on 70+ public and private projects in manmade and natural contexts on six continents. Focusing on realizing their potential, the agency’s insight, methodology, strategy and service advance the profiles, practices and portfolios of emerging and established architects, landscape architects, urban designers, interior designers, photographers, creatives, and entrepreneurs.
In Detroit, definitive projects to emerge through ABOVE THE FOLD include True North, The Shepherd, Little Village, The Canopy, Building in a Building, and Glass Mural. International organizations and media that have recognized their contribution to revitalizing multiple neighborhoods in the city include the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), the National Association of Minority Architects (NOMA), Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art, Cranbrook Academy of Art, ARCHITECT, The Architect’s Newspaper, Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, The Art Newspaper, Artforum, Artsy, AZURE, Bloomberg, Cultured, Curbed, The Detroit News, Detroit Metro Times, DETAIL, Dezeen, Fast Company, The Financial Times, Forbes, Galerie, The Globe and Mail, Great Lakes by Design, HOUR, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Metropolis, Monocle, The New York Times, Outlier, PBS, The Plan, The Spaces, Surface, TIME, and World-Architects, among others.
Nationally and globally, ABOVE THE FOLD’s depth of experience includes houses and private estates; Pomona College Studio Art Hall in California; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, RIMOWA and PERROTIN in New York City; The Paper Log House at The Glass House in Connecticut; Clyfford Still Museum in Colorado; housing and hospitality projects in Oregon; C294 Apartments and Scenic Garden in Mexico City; Oasis Hotel Downtown, Kampung Admiralty and Design Orchard in Singapore; UP! Berlin in Germany; and Atlassian Central, a net-zero commercial tower in Sydney, among others.
WHAT WE DO
Increase visibility for talent & firms, projects, clients, communities and cities
Research and build multidisciplinary teams for RFQs, RFPs and competitions for public and private projects
Curate design teams for clients to increase access to a wide range of talent & firms for public and private projects
Organize single- and multi-user architectural photoshoots
Strategize and secure press/media placements (interviews, features, profiles, awards, speaking engagements, conferences, exhibitions, books, collections, events, and special projects)
Creative direction for authentic brand identity and storytelling for companies and projects
Monitor and direct time-based social media and management tools to advance ongoing engagement
WHAT WE DELIVER
Insight and access to the global AEC industry
Integrated creative direction, business development, and public relations
Multidisciplinary design teams for projects of all types, scales and budgets that challenge the status quo
Professional photography for local, national, and global marketing & communications of the highest caliber
Intentional public relations across milestones and platforms
Tools & templates for efficient, effective business development and public relations
Qualitative, quantitative and value across short-term collaborations and long-term engagements
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Brooklyn-based architect Keith Burns commences first commercial project in Detroit.
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HOUSE by Shigeru Ban wins a 2025 Future House Award.
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Julia West House set to open as Oregon's tallest mass timber building in September.
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Rafael Gamo photographs the Y-shaped Lakeside House in Detroit's leafy suburbs.
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Glass Mural, one of the agency's project collaborations, makes an appearance at Global Citizen NOW: Detroit.
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World Architecture Festival reveals the 2025 award finalists including the NYPD 40th Precinct photographed by Rafael Gamo.
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Rafael Gamo photographs RIMOWA's newest and largest flagship in America.
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Archinect reports on Shigeru Ban’s temporary structures being given new life through museum acquisition and reuse.
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Learning Unlocked: Taubman College's Studio Reassembled featured in Detroit Design's summer issue.
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WoodWorks reports on Julia West House in Portland as case study for building cost-effective affordable housing with mass timber.
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Michan Architecture wins The Architect's Newspaper's Best of Practice Award in the Architect-Small Firm (Mexico) category.
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T+E+A+M receives honorable mention in The Architect's Newspaper's Best of Practice Awards in the Architect-Small Firm (Midwest) category.
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announces the acquisition of Shigeru Ban's Paper Log House.
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Shigeru Ban in conversation with Michael Kimmelman and other architects at Aspen Ideas Festival.
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Designs by Michan Architecture, PARALX, and Shigeru Ban Architects are featured in CTBUH's Vertical Urbanism highlighting 25 unbuilt tall buildings around the world.
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Architectural Record's 'Design Vanguard' issue reports on the 2025 Osaka World Expo including the Blue Ocean Dome.
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Designboom features The Warehouse "designed to be a generative engine of sound" by T+E+A+M and stock-a-studio at Dartmouth College.
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Keith Burns' carefully considered apartment with an art studio addition featured in The Architect's Newspaper.
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T+E+A+M selected for 2025 Design Vanguard showcasing the world's leading young firms and individual practitioners.
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Architectural Digest profiles "17 Famous Architects Who Shaped the World as We Know It."
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AN Interior features Keith Burns' warm and efficient design for LIC Residence in Queens, New York City.
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Coen+Partners' Thomas Doyle to serve as judge into the International Competition Association's (ICA) 2025 un Design Award.
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FRAME reports on how The Warehouse at Dartmouth College "enables users to 'play' the architecture like an instrument."
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The Met's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing re-opens after a nearly 10-year transformation.
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Taubman College’s Studio Reassembled named 2025 Architizer A+Award finalist.
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Great Lakes by Design features The Canopy in their 'Custom Build' issue and 'Living' spotlight.
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The Warehouse at Dartmouth College, T+E+A+M's first university project, featured in Interior Design.
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Economist Impact interviews Shigeru Ban about Blue Ocean Dome and its future after the 2025 Osaka World Expo.
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Grueter Residence by StudioHAU recognized with Merit Award from the SARA California.
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Blue Ocean Dome by Shigeru Ban Architects opens for 2025 Osaka World Expo with three interconnected domes.
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Rafael Gamo returns to Detroit to photograph residential, commercial, and landscape projects.
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Shigeru Ban Architects' Dean Maltz to participate in a panel about biophilic design at the Zak World of Façades conference in Miami.
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Taubman College's Anya Sirota to present Detroit Cultural Center Planning Initiative at the 2025 Alliance of American Museums conference.
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Cast Iron House by Shigeru Ban Architects reviewed in Oculus Magazine's 2025 AIANY Design Awards spring issue.
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World-Architects interviews Isaac Michan about C294 Apartments as part of being featured as 'World Building of the Week'.
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Shigeru Ban Architects' team serving on juries for the Architizer A+ Awards and World Architecture Festival Awards.
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AN Interior publishes Keith Burns' "tactical" split-level townhouse conversion with an art studio addition in East Williamsburg.
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The Real Deal features House by Shigeru Ban as sales launch with Fredrik Eklund in Miami's Upper Buena Vista.
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The Architect's Newspaper's 'Arts & Culture' March/April 2025 issue features Scenic Garden by Michan Architecture on the front page.
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Yo Hakomori presents and exhibits "Terra Firma and the Imprint of Architecture" at the University of Southern California.
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Edwin Chan attends Museum Summit 2025 in Hong Kong, themed "Going Beyond" in tourism, technology, sustainability, and wellness.
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Shigeru Ban Architects moderates a new session on mass timber in higher education at the International Mass Timber Conference.
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World-Architects.com features The Canopy in Detroit by EC3 as "Building of the Week."
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Michan Architecture's C294 Apartments longlisted in the 'Architecture - Adaptive Reuse' category as part of AZURE's 2025 AZ Awards.
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Adam Fure of T+E+A+M presents "You Build, We Build: Community Builds, DIY, and Other Forms of Collective Labor" as part of Taubman College's Studio Reassembled Lecture Series.
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Cast Iron House by Shigeru Ban Architects featured on the cover of Traditional Building's April issue.
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Architectural Record features C294 Apartments by Michan Architecture in the Multifamily Housing March 2025 issue.
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MA-MA, a sister-led design studio designing at all scales, joins ABOVE THE FOLD's roster.
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Isaac Michan Daniel leads a panel discussion about adaptive reuse at Zak World of Façades in Mexico City.
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Taubman College professor Andrew Herscher's new book, Under the Campus, the Land, published by University of Michigan Press on March 12.
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ABOVE THE FOLD joins Edwin Chan/EC3 for Guggenheim Bilbao site visit to see sustainable upgrades as the building nears its 30th anniversary.
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Coen+Partners completes the first phase of Sports Boulevard, set to become the world's largest linear park.
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USC Architecture shares how StudioHAU's latest residential design offers lessons after Los Angeles wildfires.
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Taubman College and the University of Michigan are rethinking the traditional studio model to bring back studio culture.
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Edwin Chan interviewed by Frieze ahead of the contemporary art fair's Los Angeles opening on February 20.
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Madame Architect interviews Lauren Hood from Taubman College, speaking about radical shifts, lived experiences, and shaping our future.
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Michan Architecture joins Architizer's list of the 30 Best Architecture and Design Firms in Mexico.
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Edwin Chan gives a presentation about global museum architecture and design to Kenyon College's Museum Studies seminar.
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Shigeru Ban Architects joins the Walton Family Foundation's Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence Program.
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Łukasz Stanek presents "Race, Time, & Architecture: Dilemmas of Africanization in Cold War Ghana, 1951-66" at Princeton University on February 6.
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Blue Ocean Dome designed by Shigeru Ban Architects set to open for the 2025 Osaka World Expo in April.
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A new country house—designed by Keith Burns Architect in collaboration with Oana Stănescu—in a nature preserve is set for completion in 2025 in Ontario, Canada.
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StudioHAU's first floor redesign is under construction at the Berkshire Museum in Massachusetts, set for completion in late 2026.
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Dezeen names Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral as the most significant building of 2013.
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Shigeru Ban Architects receives an Honor Award in Architecture for Cast Iron House in the 2025 AIANY Design Awards.
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AZURE describes The Canopy as "an American Hutong" in a story about the project's first phase with five duplexes volumes built.
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Dezeen features the transformation of an abandoned, 17,000-square-foot lot into a tree-filled residential complex with EC3's second project in Detroit.
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Shigeru Ban says "good architecture is something to amaze people by space" in an interview with the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
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SIMOSE featured as a top travel destination in PaperCity's Extraordinary Travel issues in Dallas and Houston, U.S.
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The second phase of The Canopy, a 1.1-acre, 28,000+ square foot housing development and public space, advances construction in Detroit.
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Taubman College's Jonathan Massey and Dean Maltz at Shigeru ban Architects to serve as judges for the 2025 WAF Awards in Miami.
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Julia West House, a permanent supportive housing development for houseless elderly and BIPOC individuals, opens.
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Construction set to begin on EC3-designed mixed-use buildings in Idaho's Treasure Valley.
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The Los Angeles Times: "A stunning Brutalist concrete home in L.A. rivals its neighbor, the Hollywood sign."
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Michan Architecture completes major adaptive reuse of commercial building into new housing in Mexico City.
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Coen+Partners receives Cultural Landscape Award from The Cultural Landscape Foundation for Peavey Plaza.
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The Earth & I interviews Dean Maltz from Shigeru Ban Architects about building tall and new typologies with wood.
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Keith Burns' design process profiled in Dwell's The Deep Dive: Anything Goes, showcasing LIC Residence in Queens.
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Meredith Miller speaks about Post Rock at Renew/Reuse/Regrow summit hosted by The Architect's Newspaper.
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ABOVE THE FOLD attends "Opening Doors," hosted by Mass Timber at MSU in Muskegon, Michigan.
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Scenic Garden named Expansión Magazine's 2024 Building of the Year in the Innovation category.
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Shigeru Ban Architects receives the 2024 Praemium Imperiale in Architecture and Prix Versailles for SIMOSE.
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In Detroit, The Canopy's first phase opens with phase two set for completion in fall 2025.
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'Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log House' on view at The Glass House for the historic house museum's 75th anniversary.
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Piquette Flats, an adaptive reuse of an auto factory into light-filled housing, opens in Detroit.
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Keith Burns' first single-family home in Queens featured in Dwell's Sep/Oct "Dream Big" issue.
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Post Rock, a "marble-like building material [that] is actually recycled plastic," is published in Fast Company Design.
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Architect interviews Edwin Chan, architect of True North in Detroit, about tips and perspectives for delivering projects on time.
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StudioHAU completes an experiential cliffside residence for international collectors in Los Angeles.
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BridgeDetroit interviews Lauren Hood of Taubman College about her vision for the Institute for AfroUrbanism.
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Post Rock's first mock-up is featured in an exhibition at Craft Contemporary, "Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design."
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The Glass House hosts Shigeru Ban and Naomi Pollock for an evening conversation and dinner.
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The New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation honors Shigeru Ban at their annual 2024 "Lunch at a Landmark."
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Shigeru Ban gives 2024 YC Foundation Lecture at The Cooper Union, free and open to the public on September 26.
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Coen+Partners celebrates the opening of Discovery Walk as part of the Discovery Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota.
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Shane Coen joins 25 global landscape CEOs to commit to making landscape architecture a zero emissions profession by 2040.
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SBA presents "Timber in Architecture" in book talk as part of The Skyscraper Museum's Tall Timber series.
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Texas Architect features two reviews of Shigeru Ban's work using paper tubes and wood in building design.
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Rafael Gamo lands the cover image for Architectural Record's new September Record Houses issue.
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Oculus/AIA New York reviews Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log House at The Glass House in their summer issue.
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Urban Land features PARALX's "suspended" underground parking solution in Beirut's Digital District.
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Coen+Partners' landscape-led design wins award from the 2024 King Salman Charter for Architecture and Urban Design.
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Part museum, part garden villas, SIMOSE by Shigeru Ban Architects wins a 2024 Chicago Atheneum Award.
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The Aspen Times catches up with Shigeru Ban ten years after designing the Aspen Art Museum.
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Shigeru Ban honored at ArtCrush and celebrates Aspen Art Museum's 10th year in their SBA-designed building.
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The Skyscraper Museum hosts a cardboard and paper tube craft class inspired by "Shigeru Ban Builds a Better World."
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Shigeru Ban gives a talk for the 2024 Mass Timber Group Summit at the Denver Art Museum.
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StudioHAU-designed Grueter Residence sets the stage for KeshYou x Snoop Dogg's music video.
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Dwell interviews Antje Steinmuller and Sharon Haar about Taubman College's longtime focus on housing and Detroit.
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The Guardian features Michan Architecture's Z53 Social Housing design—the firm's first built project—as one of the world's best.
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Philip Jodidio and Justin Davidson profile "Shigeru Ban's Dazzling Architecture of Time" in Curbed.
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Shigeru Ban Architects-designed Cast Iron House featured in "Owning Manhattan" on Netflix's series about NYC real estate.
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StudioHAU recognized as Best Sustainable Architecture Research Studio in California by BUILD Magazine.
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The Eames Institute's new KAZAM Magazine features Q&A with Shigeru Ban in the firm's Tokyo office.
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The Shepherd—with ABOVE THE FOLD-curated design team—featured in The Art Newspaper's "Building Projects" as new cultural district taking shape in Detroit.
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'Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log House' draws people in at The Glass House's 75th Anniversary Summer Party.
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Rafael Gamo receives top prize in Photography Studio category as part of the Architect's Newspaper Best of Practice Awards.
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World-Architects, Architectural Record, and The Architect's Newspaper visit "Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log House," on view from April 15 – December 15, 2024.
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The Shepherd and Little Village open as ABOVE THE FOLD's first curated design team for an arts district.
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AIA New York/Center for Architecture hosts Shigeru Ban Architect's for "Timber in Architecture" book talk.
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The New York Times publishes a first look at Shigeru Ban Architects and Cooper Union's collaboration at The Glass House.
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Dezeen, Wallpaper*, and Archinect announce the opening of "Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log House."
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Madrid-based ROOM Diseño features Urban Tree House in New York City in issue 43.
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Aspen Art Museum featured in "The World's 15 Most Incredible Buildings Made Entirely of Wood."
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Taubman College and the University of Michigan announce Antje Steinmuller as new Architecture Chair with coverage in The Architect's Newspaper and Architect.
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PARALX receives honorable mention in Small Architecture Firms in the West category as part of the Architect's Newspaper Best of Practice Awards.
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AIA International invites Shigeru Ban Architects to present "Designing in Timber: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Decarbonization."
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Topos Magazine publishes an article about Detroit's challenges with poverty, researched and written by Taubman College.
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SHOUTOUT Los Angeles publishes an in-depth interview with Edwin Chan about his international career.
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HOUR Detroit profiles Patrick Ethen, Midwest light artist and designer based in Detroit.
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Metropolis interviews Antje Steinmuller about "wanting to get the housing question right" and more.
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Architizer recognizes Michan Architecture as one of the top architecture firms in Mexico.
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Untapped interviews Edwin Chan about transitioning from Gehry Partners to founder at EC3 in Los Angeles.
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Shigeru Ban Architects presents "Design in Timber" at the AIA Colorado's 2023 Practice + Design Conference.
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Williamsburg Loft by Keith Burns Architect featured in Curbed's Great Rooms column.
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The Architect's Newspaper and Dezeen feature a school designed by an integrated team at Taubman College.
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The Open Project and Shigeru Ban Architects present their work and a book at Telluride Art + Architecture.
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ABOVE THE FOLD tops Detroit Design's Top 20 List for fully experiencing the city's art, architecture and beauty.
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EC3 longlisted for the transformative exhibition and urban realm projects at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio.
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ABOVE THE FOLD represents three of the seven US architecture firms qualified for Grand Paris express.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Edwin Chan as design partner
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Patrick Ethen submits for a site-specific permanent artwork inside of a public cultural building in Austin, TX.
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ABOVE THE FOLD builds design team for a new academic art museum in the Southeast U.S.
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Atlassian Central wins 'Project of the Year' in the Unbuilt category in NOMA SoCal's awards.
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True North receives honorable mention in the Built category at NOMA SoCal Annual Awards.
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ABOVE THE FOLD leads the press campaign for the School at Marygrove Elementary.
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Tiffany & Co. reveals a new Shigeru Ban-designed facade in Palo Alto.
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EC3 interviewed for Toledo Museum of Art's interior and gallery transformation project.
Edwin Chan’s portfolio includes PMA © Hall+Merrick Photographers
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ABOVE THE FOLD represents architect selected to create a food-anchored, multi-tenant retail & event space.
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ABOVE THE FOLD represents Detroit's Best Commercial Architecture Firm.
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Jeddah Rose, an integrated hospitality and landscape project, tops out as PARALX's largest project in the city.
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Michan Architecture awarded in an invited house design competition for first project in the Middle East.
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T+E+A+M profiled in Wallpaper*'s American Midwest x Next Generation survey and completes Northwood ADU.
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EC3 longlisted for the Williams College Museum of Art's new ground-up building in Massachusetts, U.S.
Edwin Chan’s portfolio includes Weisman Art Museum
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Dezeen, Yuzu Magazine, Designboom, Archello and ArchDaily feature Northwood ADU
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John Patrick appointed to the Neighborhood Advisory Council for the $155 million redevelopment of the Fisher Body Plant 21 in Detroit.
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ABOVE THE FOLD's design team curation lays foundation for real estate developer's design-forward trajectory.
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ABOVE THE FOLD represents one of the finalists for the Atlantic Beach Boardwalk design competition.
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ABOVE THE FOLD advises architecture firm on producing a RFQ for a $60 million museum expansion in Canada.
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Turkey-based Yuzu Magazine features T+E+A+M's Northwood ADU, one Ann Arbor's highest performing buildings.
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AD India features the Rubin Museum of Art's Mandala Lab, an unusual spiritual and creative experience .
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ArchDaily, Archello, AZURE, Designboom and Urbanize feature Northwood ADU for expanding residential possibilities in Ann Arbor.
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ABOVE THE FOLD advises an architecture firm on producing a RFQ for a landmark arts building in the UK.
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Michan Architecture leads team in winning design competition entry for Scenic Garden in Chapultepec Park.
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John Patrick gives "Authenticity & Exposure" presentation to students at Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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T+E+A+M's first built project prioritizing energy efficiency and affordability featured in Dwell.
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The Sydney Morning Herald interviews architect Edwin Chan about designing world-class museums.
Design partner for Guggenheim Bilbao
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Rafael Gamo photographs the Mandala Lab for a collaborative opening press campaign with the museum.
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Library Street Collective commissions Peterson Rich Office to conceptualize Parkview Street Live Work in Detroit.
Repeat collaboration initiated by ABOVE THE FOLD
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Rafael Gamo photographs of Briarcliff are featured in international press campaign led by ABOVE THE FOLD.
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Artist Mario Moore's creative space at True North in Detroit featured in PBS News Hour interview.
Architecture by EC3 and custom light by Patrick Ethen
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The New York Times features how the Rubin Museum of Art "teams up with Buddhism" to change your life.
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The Architect's Newspaper, Dezeen, design boom and other media feature Mandala Lab's new design.
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VENÜ Magazine features Mandala Lab in "an interactive space where emotions can turn to wisdom."
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Crystal Barn, anchor building in Orchard Park, featured in Idaho Statesman, BoiseDev, The Architect's Newspaper and BoiseDev.
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EC3 reveals design for Crystal Barn, showcasing Idaho's regional talent in purpose-built mass timber building.
Architectural model © EC3
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The Globe and Mail interviews Charcoalblue about the $184-million transformation of Massey Hall.
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ABOVE THE FOLD co-leads the press campaign for a Public Housing Design Report focusing on New York City.
Support from the Regional Plan Association © PRO
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ABOVE THE FOLD leads the press campaign for a competition-winning design for a new resort in the desert.
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Rafael Gamo photographs The Row's retail space in Nordstrom at Fashion Valley in San Diego.
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Rafael Gamo photographs L.A. Dance Project in the Los Angeles Arts District.
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ABOVE THE FOLD leads the press campaign releasing the design of Wesleyan University's new art center.
Completed in 2024 © Rafael Gamo/ATF Images
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Michan Architecture selected to design a progressive house in the desert.
Represented by ABOVE THE FOLD
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ABOVE THE FOLD curates landscape design team for a hospitality-driven condo development on Cass Lake.
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Edwin Chan participates in an "art storage building" studio visit at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).
Design partner for FLV in Paris © Emile Dubuisson
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The Mandala Lab is featured in FRAME's March/April 'Wellbeing' issue featuring projects around the world.
Press coverage while under construction
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Architectural Record features Valley in special section about "Tall Buildings on the Rise" around the world.
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ABOVE THE FOLD mentioned in "Should You Hire a P.R. Firm?" published in ARCHITECT.
Agency’s global experience stands out
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ARCHITECT profiles a rising architecture firm on ABOVE THE FOLD's roster as next progressives.
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Cultured features Peterson Rich Office on their 'Young Architects' list for a creative approach to adaptive reuse.
Agency helps grow the firm’s body of work © PRO
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The Business of Fashion, Wallpaper*, Superfuture, FRAME, and other media feature RIMOWA Flagship by MA-MA
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ABOVE THE FOLD collaborates with RIMOWA on the press campaign for SoHo Flagship designed by MA-MA.
© Rafael Gamo/ATF Images
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Canada's The Globe and Mail features EC3's design for True North in a story about modern prefab housing.
© Chris Miele
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Urbanize share details about EC3's design for Prince Concepts' largest housing development in Detroit.
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EC3 reveals preliminary design for housing around a landscape spine in Detroit's Core City neighborhood.
Firm inspired by global and local precedents © EC3
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ABOVE THE FOLD leads the press campaign for an adaptive reuse shopping mall to headquarters in Berlin.
10+ international placements and awards © HG Esch
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Library Street Collective announces East Village arts center with ABOVE THE FOLD-curated design team.
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2020
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EC3 completes the reference design for a 39-story, net-zero tower around Sydney's Central Station.
To be the world's tallest hybrid-timber building © EC3
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MVRDV's team gives talks at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Fast Company's Innovation by Design.
© Barbra Verbij
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EC3 commissioned by repeat client Prince Concepts to design a two-phase ground-up housing development.
Builds on the success of True North © EC3
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Detroit's Core City Park featured on the cover of the ASLA's Landscape Architecture Magazine.
© Chris Miele
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Hospitality Design features MVRDV's latest flagship design for a French lingerie brand.
© Ossip van Duivenbode
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Rubin Museum of Art and Peterson Rich Office reveal the new Mandala Lab designed for the third floor.
© Peterson Rich Office
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Metropolis reviews MVRDV's new art storage building in advanced of the public opening.
© Ossip van Duivenbode
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Architectural Digest reports on the world’s first public art depot to give access to 151,000 artworks.
© Ossip van Duivenbode
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Wallpaper* calls Glass Mural "a love letter to Detroit" following design team curated by ABOVE THE FOLD.
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MVRDV reveals design for the firm's first project in the American Midwest in Detroit's Eastern Market.
Represented by ABOVE THE FOLD © MVRDV
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The Wall Street Journal shares an architect's story about designing Courtyard House for his family.
© NO ARCHITECTURE
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Departures commissions MVRDV and other visionaries to depict what comes next for the spaces we inhabit.
Special about living after the COVID-19 pandemic
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The Architect's Newspaper catches up with Peterson Rich Office, profiles several of the firm's projects.
© Rafael Gamo
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T.W. Ryan featured in Architectural Record's Record Houses issues for the first time with Three Chimney House.
© Joe Fletcher
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Madame Architect interviews Miriam Peterson about her architectural career in "Peaceful Satisfaction."
Notes experience at Princeton’s Andlinger Center
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ABOVE THE FOLD advises Dror and a multidisciplinary team on media approach and strategy for Supernature.
2019
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Library Street Collective commissions ABOVE THE FOLD's curated design team for a new arts district in Detroit.
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T+E+A+M commissioned to design first multifamily residential, workforce housing project in Detroit
Includes 4-, 8-, and 12-unit mixes
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Facades+ invites MVRDV's Fokke Moerel to deliver keynote talk at the annual Los Angeles conference.
© Ossip van Duivenbode
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Upper West Side Apartment by Frederick Tang Architecture featured in AD Spain.
© Gieves Anderson
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Archinect interviews Peterson Rich Office on "rethinking the value (and values) of a small architecture practice."
Founding principals profiled on their approach
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Prismatic Bay Townhouse published in 'On Location' feature in The New York Times' Real Estate section
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T+E+A+M commissioned to study the feasibility of a ground-up house in a national historic district.
Firm’s first house project in Detroit
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Dezeen features Prismatic Bay Townhouse by Peterson Rich Office
© Devon Banks
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ABOVE THE FOLD represents MVRDV in shortlisting for the National Pulse Museum & Memorial in Orlando.
Firm’s first U.S. shortlist in several years
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Through design team curation, ABOVE THE FOLD represents MVRDV in winning new project in the U.S.
Glass Farm sets a precedent for Detroit’s Glass Mural
2018
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WOHA's Kampung Admiralty wins Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival.
© Patrick Bingham-Hall
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EC3 designs exhibition for the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art's fashion capsule collection at The Bass
© Jeremy Bittermann
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ABOVE THE FOLD turns Peterson Rich Office's public relations around with the opening of Glossier Flagship.
Firm named in 10+ publications © Jason Schmidt
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ABOVE THE FOLD's final placement for WHY profiles why Kulapat Yantrasast loves "making good spaces."
Firm represented 2013-2018 © Graham Waiter
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True North is one of six projects in North and South America shortlisted for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize.
© Chris Miele
2017
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ABOVE THE FOLD's first curated design team for a project completes True North in Detroit.
PBS News Hour features artist Mario Moore's space
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2016
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ABOVE THE FOLD advises the winning team for the Rockefeller Wing Redesign at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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ABOVE THE FOLD leads ROSSETTI's press campaign for the second phase of the USTA's campus master plan.
© Rafael Gamo/ATF Images
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Rafael Gamo photographs the Arthur Ashe Stadium's new retractable roof and improved campus during the U.S. Open.
© Rafael Gamo/ATF Images
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ABOVE THE FOLD leads the opening press campaign for WHY and Speed Art Museum in Kentucky, U.S.
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2015
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ABOVE THE FOLD represents an integrated design team shortlisted for Pershing Square in DTLA.
Design proposal by WHY + Civitas
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ABOVE THE FOLD represents an architecture firm shortlisted for two major cultural projects in New York City.
Speed Art Museum © Rafael Gamo/ATF Images
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2014
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ABOVE THE FOLD collaborates with Pomona College on Studio Art Hall press campaign in Claremont, U.S.
© Iwan Baan
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2013
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Architectural photographer Rafael Gamo joins ABOVE THE FOLD's roster
Z53 by Michan Architecture © Rafael Gamo
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ABOVE THE FOLD represents the integrated design team selected for a mixed-use district in Bogota, CO.
© Preston Scott Cohen, Inc.
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2012
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ABOVE THE FOLD establishes first workspace in Brooklyn to explore new approach to representing architects
© ABOVE THE FOLD LLC
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ABOVE THE FOLD leads Allied Works' press campaign for the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, U.S.
© Jeremy Bittermann
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Diana Balmori's eponymous firm joins ABOVE THE FOLD's roster as first landscape design practice
© Iwan Baan
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ABOVE THE FOLD spearheads an architecture firm's foray into governmental projects.
UMMA by Allied Works © Jeremy Bittermann
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