URBAN URGE AWARD

Urban Urge Awards Winners

The Boone Room by Amanda Schachter and Alexander Levi of SLO Architecture in collaboration with the Bronx River Art Center and Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School won the Urban Urge Award in the fall of 2014.

The Boone Room is a multi-stage project to unlock and share the architectural and urban strength rooted in Bronx Street Art. The Boone Room carries forward, communicates, and amplifies the freewheeling spirit of collaborative street art known as the “Meeting of Styles” originally encouraged by local property owners to adorn blocks of blank industrial walls along Boone Avenue in the South Bronx. Current Development of the Compass Apartments, the largest single neighborhood rezoning in the borough since Co-op City, calls for the wholesale demolition of Boone Avenue and its art this summer.