11.23.2023
New Domino Square Building structure tops off in Brooklyn.
10.12.2023
Redesign of the original Masa cafe near completion. The design reorients the existing space to the street with expanded terraces defined by a new perimeter wall made of repurposed water ducts.
01.15.2023
Domino Square Park building construction is underway
in Booklyn’s waterfront.
5.15.2022
Studio Cadena completes new space designed for
Fernadez Fernadez in Bogota
03.01.2021
Studio Cadena is included in Cultured Magazine’s inaugural
Young Architects List
11.15.2020
Studio Cadena takes part in “Re-Source”, Storefront For Art and Architecture’s first in-person exhibition since the lockdown. Drawing upon its material and social resources, the exhibition invited 26 architects and designers to create new works with leftover and surplus items from Storefront’s office, gallery, and storage spaces.
On view at Storefront for Art and Architecture Nov-Jan 2021
06.15.2020
Studio Cadena joins the Neighborhoods Now initiative. Organized by Van Alen Institute and Urban Design Forum to provide pro-bono design work to help develop safe and effective reopening strategies in four NYC neighborhoods that have been hard hit by the pandemic.
05.01.2020
Studio Cadena is awarded the 2020 Architecture Honor award from
the AIA New York
08.22.2019
Our project for Masa in Bogota has been selected by
TIME Magazine for its list of the World's 100 Greatest Places of 2019
This annual list—culled from editor and expert nominations from around the world—recognizes 100 destinations that are breaking new ground, leading industry trends and offering an experience that’s unlike any other.
In print and online at www.time.com
06.20.2019
Benjamin Cadena takes part in Urban 95 Workshop in Istanbul organized by Superpool and supported by the Bernard van Leer Foundation
06.19.2019
Studio Cadena is long-listed by Dezeen for Emerging Architect of the Year and for an architecture award for the design of Masa’s new flagship building
in Bogota.
More details on the awards at Dezeen Awards 2019
06.12.2019
"Alone Together & Somewhere In-Between"
A three-part series of panel discussions delving deeper into the way we work, collaborate, and shape practices in contemporary architecture.
The series is curated by Benjamin Cadena and Ryan Brooke Thomas.
"Alone" June 12th, "Together" July 18th, "Somewhere In-between" Aug 14th
6-8pm at the Center For Architecture in New York
05.29.2019
Benjamin Cadena is awarded a Prix Versailles Special Continental Prize
from UNESCO and the IUA in Paris. The Jury included Kazuyo Sejima, David Adjaye, Ferran Adrià, Iris Van Herpen, Philippe Starck, Alondra De La Parra and Francesco Bandarin
03.06.2019
Studio Cadena has been selected by the editors of Architect’s Newspaper and AN Interior magazine for their annual “Top 50” list recognizing the fifty most innovative and influential architects and designers in the US today.
More details in the March 2019 issue of AN Interior
www.aninteriormag.com
12.31.2018
Archinect interviews Benjamin Cadena
11.23.2018
Happy, a Temporary pavilion designed by Studio Cadena opens at the Flatiron Plaza in New York and will be on view through January 1st 2019
Dezeen, Architecture Newspaper,
Archinect, BLOUIN ARTINFO, Arquine, Archdaily
11.20.2018
”Paramitos” a proposal for an elevated pocket park opens as part of “Odeón o de la Contingencia”, an exhibition at Espacio Odeon in Bogota, Colombia.
1:1 fragments built inside the galleries are on view Dec - Feb 2019
11.19.2018
A new building for Masa Cafe & Bakery is completed and opens to the public in Bogota, Colombia
The projects has been featured in
Dezeen, Frame, Wallpaper*, Designboom, Archinect, Curbed, Azure,
Interio, Architectural Digest, Design Milk, Revista PLOT
10.15.2018
Happy by Studio Cadena is selected as Winner of the Annual Flatiron
Public Plaza Design Competition in New York City
The project calls to design and build a highly visible temporary landmark at the heart of the Flatiron District. Happy is sponsored by the Van Alen Institute and the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership, and developed in collaboration with Silman engineers and Youngbuk Art Services
This site specific installation opens Nov 19th at the public plaza in front of the iconic Flatiron Building on 23rd St. & 5th Ave. It will be on view through Jan 2nd.
More information can be found here
09.25.2018
PIN–UP Magazine documents 24X24x24 in 35mm
09.22.2018
Masa nears completion in Bogota, Colombia
09.20.2018
Benjamin Cadena presents a lecture on recent work as part of the
Innovations in Architecture lecture series at Arup, New York
06.21.2018
24 Architects x 24 Seats x 24 Hours
at Storefront for Art and Architecture.
Making the most of the longest day of the year, 24x24x24 brings together 24 designers to shape a day of programming and contribute a seat for a collective gathering during the summer solstice. From dawn until dusk, 24x24x24 is an experiment in collective production in design, action, and thinking. 24x24x24 is collectively curated by a group of architects who will be taking over Storefront for Art and Architecturefor Art from 7pm on June 20 to 7pm on June 21. Organized by
Studio Cadena, Buro Koray Duman, Leong Leong, Kalos Eidos, and Peterson Rich Office
Abruzzo Bodziak Architects, Buro Koray Duman, Charlap Hyman Herrero,
Chen Chen & Kai Williams, Formlessfinder, GRT Architects, Jerome Haferd & Brandt Knapp, June14 Meyer-Grohbrügge and Chermayeff, Kalos Eidos, Katie Stout, Kyle May Architect, Laida Aguirre, Leigha Dennis + Kin & Company,
Leong Leong, McEwen Studio, NILE, Part Office, Peterson Rich Office, Ramona Albert Architecture, Studio Cadena, Studio Christian Wassmann, T+E+A+M, TheLab-lab, Ultramoderne. Graphics by Studio Lin
www.pinupmagazine.org
www.architecturaldigest.com
03.12.2018
Works progresses on the new building for Masa in Bogota. Cast in place structural walls are rising!
11.09.2017
New Local/Manufacturing, an event that Benjamin Cadena has co-organized with Miriam Peterson of P.R.O, to explore the future of manufacturing in cities and what new typologies can allow making to mix, hybridize, and co-exist as an integral part of neighborhoods.
One of a three-part series titled New Local: Finding Ground within Global Uncertainty, sponsored by AIANY's New Practices Committee in collaboration with Arup, A/D/O, MINI Living, and Pratt Institute. Examining locality and its conditions, the series bring together designers, engineers, policy makers, community leaders, entrepreneurs, developers, housing advocates, and engaged citizens to exchange and generate ideas to shape the future of making in New York City.
10.21.2017
The installation "Over The Line" has been completed and will be on view for two years at the Art OMI in upstate New York as part of series of interventions taking on the fundamental elements of architecture.
Join us for the Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 21 from 1-3 PM at Art OMI
09.07.2017
Studio Cadena takes part in Connecting the 41⁰ Parallel: New York – Porto Exchange a roundtable bringing together emerging firms from Porto and New York.
07.11.2017
"Open Wall" on view now through October at the Center for Architecture as part of the 5x5: Participatory Provocations Exhibition.
www.metropolismag.com
www.archdaily.com
www.architectmagazine.com
06.01.2017
"Tall Garden" Project in Pidgin's Flora & Fauna Issue
02.10.2017
Masa project in Surface Magazine's
February Issue No.34
02.01.2017
Three Room Loft in AN Interior Magazine
01.02.2017
Benjamin joins the architecture faculty of Columbia Univesity’s GSAPP
10.03.2016
5X5 exhibition opens at RISD
09.20.2016
Benjamin lectures on recent work at the
Guatemala Architecture Biennale
09.01.2016
Benjamin is interviewed by EXCLAMA magazine and talked about space, practice and recent projects
08.31.2016
Benjamin is invited to participate on the jury to select a design for the new Astronomical Observatory of Guatemala OAG
06.15.2016
Studio Cadena is featured in AXXIS magazine
05.21.2016
Studio Cadena is featured in leading Colombian newspaper EL TIEMPO
05.12.2016
New Practices New York 2016 Exhibition featuring the work of Studio Cadena opens at the Center for Architecture
Opening and round table on Thursday, May 12 from 6-8 p.m. The exhibition is on view through August 1st
03.23.2016
Studio Cadena will be sharing recent work in conversation with
Jing Liu from SO–IL as part of the 2016 New Practices New York 2016 Award Winners lecture series.
When: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23
Where: Cosentino Showroom | A & D Building, 150 E 58th Street, Suite #399
more info and rsvp here
02.15.2016
Studio Cadena’s project Open Wall is included in the 5X5 exhibition at the Illinois School of Architecture.
5×5 : Participatory Provocations is a traveling exhibit of 25 architectural models by 25 young American architects organized and curated by OriginalCopy, the
editors of CLOG.
www.5x5exhibit.com
01.21.2016
Studio Cadena wins AIANY New Practices 2016 competition.
AIA New Practices Award, is a biennial competition that serves as the preeminent platform in New York to recognize new and innovative architecture firms that have undertaken unique and innovative strategies.
The exhibition will open at the Center For Architecture May 12th, 2016, details to follow.
www.aiany.org
www.blog.archpaper.com
www.npny-aia.org
01.16.2016
5×5 : Participatory Provocations is a traveling exhibit of 25 architectural models by 25 young American architects organized and curated by OriginalCopy, the
editors of CLOG.
www.5x5exhibit.com
10.08.2015
Studio Cadena has been shortlisted as a finalist in the International Competition for the design of the Center for Architecture, Design and Education (CADE) in Chicago. The design will be exhibited at the Chicago Architecture Foundation
during the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial
Oct 8, 2015 - Jan 3, 2016
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