For Fifth Consecutive Year, Kramer Levin is Major Sponsor of Archtober 2015

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP is pleased to announce that for the fifth consecutive year, the firm is serving as a major sponsor of Archtober 2015, a month-long festival of activities, programs and exhibitions presented by The Center For Architecture, AIA New York Chapter and The Center for Architecture Foundation throughout October. The event celebrates architecture and design excellence in New York. The festival features tours, lectures and exhibits that explore and celebrate the confluence of urban living and architecture and design. 

Kramer Levin views its sponsorship of this annual event as synergistic with its representation of some of the City’s most notable development projects. The firm’s Land Use practice has served in a lead capacity in securing approvals for some of the most significant architecture in the city, in collaboration with the extraordinarily talented architects who headquarter their practices here: Foster & Partners (551 West 21st Street and 50 UN Plaza); CookFox (150 Charles Street and 300 Lafayette Street); Christian de Portzamparc (One57); Jean Nouvel (51 West 53rd Street); Renzo Piano (Whitney Museum at Gansevoort Street); Diller & Scofidio (Lincoln Center 65th Street Redevelopment and Culture Shed); Morris Adjmi (837 Washington Street and 71 Laight Street); SHoP (111 West 57th Street and South Street Seaport Redevelopment); Robert A.M. Stern (30 Park Place and 15 Central Park West); Goldstein, Hill & West (808 Columbus Avenue); Beyer Blinder Belle (Whitney Townhouses); Pelli Clarke Pelli (15 Penn Plaza); Ennead (NYU Langone Medical Center Kimmel Pavilion); Rafael Moneo (Columbia Northwest Science Building); Handel Architects (170 Amsterdam Avenue and Dream Downtown Hotel); Cooper Robertson (Columbia School of Social Work); S.O.M. (International Gem Tower); KPF (One Hudson Yards); Rafael Vinoly (432 Park Avenue and 22 Thames Street); and Richard Meier (former Con Edison sites on East River). 

The Center for Architecture will host unique programs every day in the month of October. The festival culminates in the Heritage Ball fundraiser on October 22 at Chelsea Piers. Kramer Levin is a benefactor and lead sponsor of three Archtober Programs: the October 7 lecture titled “Co-working and the Future of Architects”; the October 14 Rosenblatt Lecture, featuring Moshe Safdie, FAIA; and the October 19 Heritage Ball Honoree program honoring David Rockwell, FAIA. 

“We are pleased to continue our long commitment to the AIA and its partners as a key sponsor of Archtober programs,” said Michael T. Sillerman, co-chair with Paul D. Selver of the Kramer Levin Land Use practice. "These month-long cultural events are a great way to celebrate New York's wealth of architectural talent."