Perspective Model of Queens Museum of Art concept.  For more information, contact:  info@hanrahanMeyers.com.

hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) were one of four architectural firms selected to redesign the Queens Museum of Art in New York City.  hMa's design is focused around the idea of building a new shell around the existing building that brought light into the existing building.  The shell also incorporated screens that could be cut, bent and formed to create apertures for displaying art and events happening inside the museum on the building's new exterior skin.

Queens Museum of Art: Site Plan.  Contact:  info@hanrahanMeyers.com.

The site plan above shows hMa's building concept, of creating a building that reads in a series of layers as visitors walk from north to south, starting with a new free-standing paviling located at teh north end of the parking lot, through the lot, which is designed to incorporate planting as part of the layering of the building experience and the site experience, with the layering continuing as visitors walk through the building.  the linear bands on the plan represent new 'light tubes' that would be installed on top of the existing building, to add gallery space, and to bring light through new roof top skylights into the building below.  The site is the location of the 1964 / 65 World's Fair in New York City.

Perspective View:  Queens Museum of Art, hanrahan Meyers architects.  Contact:  info@hanrahanMeyers.com

Bird's Eye View:  Queens Museum of Art, hanrahan Meyers architects.  Contact:  info@hanrahanMeyers.com

hMa's design for the Queens Museum was featured on the cover of Concept magazine (No. 37) as the most innovative solution for the museum from the competition entries.  For more information about the Queens Museum of Art, visit http://hanrahanmeyers.com.