Yale University Art Gallery Renovation and Expansion
Above all, it is about enhancing the experience of viewing art. The design prioritizes sequence, pace and context to orchestrate a smooth progression through the galleries, while leaving room for the unexpected discovery of works resurfaced. Richard Olcott, Design Partner For the first time in its history, the Gallery occupies all three buildings – Street […]
Natural History Museum of Utah
https://player.vimeo.com/video/326676101?autoplay=0&loop=0&byline=0&title=0&portrait=0 Utah’s natural environment memorializes the story of how human beings interpreted their world and their land over one thousand years ago. The material quality of the building’s exterior roots it in its context, recalling the importance of landscape in Utah’s human and natural history. Todd Schliemann, Design Partner Utah’s singular landscape and the ways […]
The Mercersburg Academy, Burgin Center for the Arts
Subtler interventions, none of which rely upon the stagnating reuse of historical architectural form, are occasionally needed to contribute to the evolving hierarchy of meaning and memory in traditional campus contexts. Todd Schliemann, Design Partner The building defines the eastern edge of the central open green space on this arcadian campus, which includes an historic […]
The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, Academic Building and Library
The renovation and expansion joins two early twentieth-century residential buildings with narrow footprints and stringent landmark regulations into one modern building. Behind the restored historic brick and limestone Beaux Arts façades the buildings are stripped to the structural steel, two additional floors are added on top and into the rear yard. A new brick, copper […]
Yale University Art Gallery, Kahn Building Renovation
The restoration is more than an aesthetic improvement. It is also the fulfillment of a responsibility to architectural history. Mark Alden Branch, ’86 Yale Alumni, Executive Editor of Yale Alumni Magazine Acclaimed for its bold geometry, daring use of light and space and its structural and engineering innovations, Louis Kahn’s first significant building houses Yale’s […]
Sarah Lawrence College Monika A. and Charles A. Heimbold Jr. Visual Arts Center
The structure provides a flexible framework for an intensive and creative world, one that can transform to provide for a wide variety of approaches, personalities and teaching methodologies over time. Susan T. Rodriguez, Design Partner The building is integrated into the topography of its hilltop site adjacent the two-story, fieldstone President’s house: on the south […]
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 […]
William J. Clinton Presidential Center
Our design explorations led to a crystalline bridge, with formal and material qualities that resolve the inherent tension between monumentality and physical and intellectual accessibility. Richard Olcott and James S. Polshek, Design Partners The main body of the Center is elevated off the ground plane, allowing the new park to flow uninterrupted underneath and emphasizing […]
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre for Manhattan Theatre Club
In 1999, Barry Grove, Executive Producer of the Manhattan Theatre Club, contacted me to help them find a Tony-eligible Broadway venue. Standing outside at the intermission of The Iceman Cometh, I looked across 47th Street and saw the shuttered Biltmore Theater. I knew instantly it was perfect for MTC. Duncan Hazard, Management Partner Moving the […]
Smith College, Brown Fine Arts Center
For the architect of a transformational project, the opportunity to create a new life out of an old one is like discovering an architectural fountain of youth. There is a reassurance in utilizing the past to create a future, particularly when it is appropriate to substitute new imagery for old. Susan T. Rodriguez, Design Partner […]