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 […]

The Santa Fe Opera

The design is contextual, yet evocative of distant times and places: its roof form subtly echoes the profiles of the surrounding mountains and evokes the billowing tents associated with itinerant festivals appropriate to opera’s origins and Santa Fe Opera’s summer season. James S. Polshek, Design Partner The waved roof of this formally-striking, technically-sophisticated and enlarged […]

The Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA

My conceptual approach to the design envisions the theater as a playful assemblage of forms, which actively choreographs the theater experience and expresses the energy and spirit of the multi-cultural arts community. Todd Schliemann, Project Designer The tension between purely architectonic concerns and social ones is expressed in the design of this flexible, state-of-the-art public […]