Wilkinson Eyre has won an ideas competition for the sustainable retrofit and upgrade of a 1960s office block in New York.

The practice, working with Eckersley O’Callaghan and German façade specialist Josef Gartner, beat teams including SOM to take the $15,000 prize.

The 2020 Design Challenge, run by a US magazine called Metals in Construction, was chosen to generate ideas to repurpose New York’s ageing single-glazed high-rise office buildings so that the city can reach carbon neutrality. A “Mad Men-era” building on Madison Avenue was chosen for the competition.

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