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We have staged architectural design competitions since our founding in 1894. Our design archive is a rich window to a century’s worth of programs that have nurtured generations of architects and urban thinkers. Click around below to view a selection of past programs, or all of our 2,000+ archived objects. If you need more information, please email us at archive@vanalen.org.

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Archive Design — Beautiful Company, Fuchs Borst
Archive Development — Helios Design Labs
Project Management — Chloe Stagaman, Anne Guiney, Clara Gross

Van Alen Institute gratefully acknowledges support for the first iteration of this digital archive, completed in 2009, from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Stephen A. and Diana L. Goldberg Foundation. DISCLAIMER: Works featured on this website are for educational purposes only. These works are believed to be: in the public domain, works for which Van Alen Institute owns the copyright, or works that the Institute has permission to display or otherwise use. For permission to reproduce or use displayed these works please contact Van Alen Institute.

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A Skating Rink

Year

1940

Program Type

Design Competition

Part Of

33rd Lloyd Warren Fellowship, Paris Prize in Architecture

Paris Prize in Architecture

1940s