The World Around Annual Dinner

The World Around, the global platform for architecture and design, warmly invites you to our third Annual Dinner, hosted at the award-winning Refinery at Domino, a striking new landmark on the Brooklyn waterfront designed by PAU. This special evening will include On Water, a dynamic and thought-provoking conversation with OMA partner Shohei Shigematu , the architect of Miami's new Reefline project; acclaimed multidisciplinary designer Yves Behar; internationally celebrated curators and critics Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn (Design Emergency), and Young Climate Prize alumni, water activist and winner of 2025 Global Citizen award, Joshua Ichor. 

The conversation will be followed by a seated dinner with our global design community, in celebration of ideas, innovation, and meaningful dialogue.

All Table and Ticket holders automatically become members of The World Around Circles, gaining year-long access to our much-loved membership programs as well as exclusive content, priority seating, behind-the-scenes tours, and invitations to special events.

Venue

The World Around Annual Dinner will be held at The Refinery at Domino — an original 19th-century brick factory that is now Brooklyn’s most recognizable landmark, and one of the city’s most prominent and exciting new green buildings.

Visionary architect and The World Around board member Vishaan Chakrabarti and his firm PAU were commissioned in 2017 to adapt the historic sugar-factory shell into a luminous, glass-sheathed office and event space—nesting a contemporary structure within the aged brick walls in what critics have described as a “bottle in a ship.”

Chakrabarti’s sensitive adaptive-reuse design not only preserves the building’s industrial heritage, but also creates a luminous, sustainable environment that bridges Brooklyn’s past to its future.

Evening Agenda

6PM — Welcome cocktail hour with hors d'oeuvres
7PM — Conversation "On Water" featuring:

Shohei Shigematsu, OMA
Yves Behar, FuseProject
Paola Antonelli & Alice Rawsthorn, Design Emergency
Joshua Ichor , Young Climate Prize

chaired by Beatrice Galilee

8PM — Seated Three-Course Dinner by Comparti