Beaux Arts Ball 2015: Threshold

The Architectural League of New York will hold its annual Beaux Arts Ball on Friday, September 18, 2015 at the Knockdown Center, a former doorframe factory turned artist/performance space in Queens. This year’s theme, Threshold, celebrates the building’s specific industrial history, while nodding to the Ball as a kick-off to the cultural year, not only for The Architectural League, but for the entire New York design community. Inside the restored factory’s 50,000 square foot, 40-foot high spaces, the design offices of Alibi Studio, MODU, and Moorhead & Moorhead will create site-specific “threshold” installations. Since the League’s revival of the event in 1990, the Beaux Arts Ball has become the premier annual party of the architecture and design community in New York with over 1,000 architects, designers, artists, and their friends attending. Located each year at a different venue of architectural importance somewhere in the five boroughs of New York, the Ball hosts installations, performances, or other engagements with designers and artists. The Beaux Arts Ball helps support the programs of The Architectural League. BEAUX ARTS BALL 2015: THRESHOLD Friday, September 18, 2015 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. Knockdown Center 52-19 Flushing Avenue Maspeth, Queens Installations by: Alibi Studio, Catie Newell MODU, Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem Moorhead & Moorhead, Granger Moorhead and Robert Moorhead Co-chairs: Vishaan Chakrabarti and Maria Alataris Beaux Arts Ball Event Committee: Sarah Berman, Jared Della Valle, Alexander P. Lamis, Nat Oppenheimer, Elisa Orlanski Ours, Bradley Samuels, Dan Shannon, and Billie Tsien Drinks and dessert. Music by pazel. Tickets are $100. To purchase tickets and for more details, visit archleague.org/2015/09/2015-beaux-arts-ball-threshold/