Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University
Just as the site itself offers a window into the earth’s deep past and the devastation of mass extinction, the highly sustainable, carbon net-zero building looks to the earth’s future and the critical importance of planetary stewardship in the Anthropocene. Thomas J. Wong, AIA, Design Partner https://player.vimeo.com/video/626669388?autoplay=0&loop=0&byline=0&title=0&portrait=0 The museum is situated within an active dinosaur […]
Omaha Performing Arts, Steelhouse Omaha
“Beginning with the Holland Center, it has been our great pleasure to work together with O-pa to create a campus that expresses the richness and breadth of their mission and share it with an even wider audience. Steelhouse Omaha, working in tandem with the Holland, will accommodate the future needs of touring performers, arts organizations […]
Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Campus Expansion Master Planning and Architectural Design Competition
An identifiable core completes the institution’s historic quad and integrates the campus and its activities with adjacent neighborhoods, effectively enhancing the Academy’s influence as a creative force, as an engine for art and as a cultural and creative hub for the city and region. The massing, scale and proportions of the new academic core building […]
Museum of the City of New York
We worked to generate a progressive, forward-looking image to symbolize the viability of the institution that is the Museum of the City of New York – an important learning resource and a neighborhood catalyst for change. Richard Olcott, Design Partner Based on the Museum’s Strategic Plan and completed in 1989, a new Master Plan outlined […]
Brooklyn Museum Entry Pavilion and Plaza
The temporal collision between past and present allowed us to celebrate change and newness, and to help the institution recast itself as an open and accessible public place and a Museum for the twenty-first century. James S. Polshek, Design Partner The glass entry pavilion and new plaza create a revitalized public identity for the Museum […]
American Museum of Natural History, Rose Center for Earth and Space
The new Rose Center brings us face to face with something commensurate to our capacity for wonder… this is a mature modern building, a structure unafraid of revealing the deep roots from which modern architecture arose. Herbert Muschamp, Architecture Critic The building is designed as a visible expression of the science it contains. Transparency of […]