Branksome Hall Innovation Centre and Studio Theatre
Located at Branksome Hall’s East Campus, across Mount Pleasant Road from the West campus, the Innovation Centre and Studio Theatre (ICAST) will serve as a gateway that connects the two halves of the campus and sponsors performing arts, innovation, and collaboration. An existing bridge over Mount Pleasant Road will connect into the ICAST, creating a […]
The International Performance Center
Shenzhen is a place of rapid transformation and incredible energy. When we conceived the design for this city, we wanted to create something emblematic of its vitality that is celebratory and welcoming – the two ‘jewels’ are both expressive of the creative power of performance, and reflective, engaging with the civic life outside. Stephen P-D […]
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 […]
Shanghai Astronomy Museum
https://player.vimeo.com/video/573218601?autoplay=0&loop=0&byline=0&title=0&portrait=0 In linking the new Museum to both scientific purpose and to the celestial references of buildings throughout history, the exhibits and architecture will communicate more than scientific content: they will illuminate what it means to be human in a vast and largely unknown universe. Thomas Wong, Design Partner The monumental new museum creates an […]
Stanford University, Bing Concert Hall
The design of Bing Concert Hall was imagined from the beginning as a “clearing in the woods” – a place apart, at some remove from the hubbub of the main campus, a place to be discovered, a place to come together. Richard Olcott, Design Partner A beacon above the trees, the concert hall drum draws […]
University of Michigan, Biological Sciences Building and Museum of Natural History
In an unprecedented coupling of an academic biological science program with a museum of natural history the Michigan Biological Science Building opens up the world of science to the world via the intertwining of the public and the academic sciences. The building was designed to put science on display and encourage collegial interactions between science […]
Yangtze River Estuary Chinese Sturgeon Nature Preserve
https://player.vimeo.com/video/321529960?autoplay=0&loop=0&byline=0&title=0&portrait=0 A complex program includes a series of interior and exterior pools for breeding and raising both species mimicking their natural migration into waters of varying size and salinity, as well as facilities dedicated to their research and reintegration to their natural habitat. The project makes the important work of the institution visible to visitors […]
Peabody Essex Museum Expansion and Renovation
Designed to clarify and strengthen the Museum’s current programming, the new wing will enhance the older sections of the museum while providing new gallery spaces dedicated to the presentation of the museum’s extensive collection, creating a new, unified sequence throughout. Richard Olcott, Design Partner Founded in 1799 as a repository for “curiosities” discovered by the […]
Jing’An Innovation Galaxy International Cultural and Creative Park
The project combines both existing structures and new buildings to support a variety of business typologies and scales. The goal is to create a district which can support a diversity of entrepreneurs, allowing new start-ups and established businesses to operate side-by-side, creating opportunities for interaction and symbiosis between a range of businesses. This project creates […]