Department of Homeless Services, Prevention Assistance and Temporary Housing (PATH)
We created an accessible, secure, dignified and private environment that responds inventively to the city’s progressive and innovative approach to tackling homelessness. Todd Schliemann, Design Partner The design for this safe haven promotes physical and psychological comfort by choreographing a spatial sequence that supports a non-threatening, orderly and dignified evaluation and assistance process. Throughout the […]
Queens Borough Public Library, Flushing Regional Branch
Transparency is employed as a metaphor for universal accessibility: the architecture demystifies the library experience by making the facility’s collections, functional organization and user activity visually accessible from the street, facilitating public access to information and learning. The design emphasizes the asymmetrical qualities of its triangular site. The Main Street façade is a glass membrane: […]
Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant
The largest of the City’s wastewater treatment plants, Newtown Creek exemplifies the enlightened collaboration of a public agency, architects and engineers to achieve both community acceptance and design excellence for a utilitarian project type. Richard Olcott and James S. Polshek, Design Partners The design and planning framework for Newtown Creek employs a “kit-of-parts”: structures and […]
The New York Botanical Garden, Garage and Intermodal Facility
The materials – precast concrete and channel glass with a metal trellis infill – visually link the facility to buildings within the Garden proper, carrying the Garden’s identity and mission beyond its walls and into the community. In creating a vital transit intersection for commuters and visitors to the Garden, we designed the exterior walls […]
Staten Island Courthouse, St. George
A powerful symbol of the judicial system, the building itself makes a statement about justice in civil society. We have used transparency to connote fairness, openness, and democracy of law. Susan T. Rodriguez, Design Partner Housing the New York State Supreme Civil and Criminal Courts, lower Criminal Court and related agencies, the facility fulfills the […]
New York City Fire Department, Rescue Company 3
Designing a facility that was comfortable and efficient twenty-four hours a day was paramount. While the site is small, the reach of the project is large; it was an honor to design for those who keep our city safe. Todd Schliemann, Design Partner This high performance, durable, logistically efficient, maintainable “machine” is the first new […]
The New York Times Printing Plant
Expanses of glass expose the inner workings of the plant. Views of the presses and papers threading through the building harken back to the paper’s original facility in Brooklyn where the public could view the complete printing, collating and folding operations. Richard Olcott, Design Partner The site is in a bleak industrial area adjacent to […]
Shanghai Children’s Library
The Shanghai Children’s Library is the first step in a larger comprehensive plan that merges architecture and landscape to create a visionary indoor-outdoor learning environment — a “Reading Park”. Building upon the library design’s merging of building and landscape, this master plan envisions strategic, episodic updates, additions, and revisions that catalyze the park’s existing potential […]