Metals in Construction International Design Challenge, New York City, Manhattan Architecture
Metals in Construction Design Challenge
Mar 12, 2020
63 Madison Avenue New York City
Architects: WilkinsonEyre
Location: New York City, NY, USA

WilkinsonEyre are delighted to receive first prize of in the international The Metals in Construction magazine 2020 Design Challenge, in a team including façade consultants Eckersley O’Callaghan and facade contractor Josef Gartner GmbH.

This is an ideas competition only, intended to promote ideas of sustainability and technological advancement in the area of facade design. 63 Madison Avenue, the building chosen for this exercise has a planned upgrade program under its current owners.
The international ideas competition invited design proposals to upgrade an aging, energy-inefficient high-rise office building at 63 Madison Avenue to comply with NYC?s Green New Deal goals and create a more desirable space for companies competing for highly skilled employees. The challenge addresses how to transform New York City’s high-rise office buildings, most of which are now more than a half a century old, but will still be standing in 2030, a milestone year on the city’s roadmap to carbon neutrality. The brief was to use a cladding solution to half the building’s energy consumption, bring daylight deeper into the building and give better access to the outside.
The WilkinsonEyre scheme, called Second Skin, employed the conce...