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In Construction: Digitial Water Pavilion: Battery Park City Community Center
aerial overview of the Battery Park City Community Center in construction in lower Manhattan
Battery Park City Community Center in construction : plaza view looking South
view from path below plaza next to future glass arcade wall : Battery Park City Community Center in construction Click here to view all photos of the Battery Park City Community Center project at hanrahanMeyers.com
Digital Water Pavilion: Battery Park City Community Center is a new 60,000 square foot platinum LEED-rated building situated at the base of two new residential towers (not yet built) in Battery Park City’s North Neighborhood. The primary feature of the new center is a 550-foot long wall of glass, a Musical Membrane, facing West Street, just north of Ground Zero. The Musical Membrane is a collaboration between the architects and New York sound artist Michael J. Schumacher whose ‘tidal movements’ composition will be etched on the glass as a frit pattern / bar code. Visitors to the ballfields east of the center will walk along a promenade that passes in front of the Musical Membrane. A recording of the ‘tidal movements’ score will be played in three courtyards along the glass façade. Visitors will be able to walk along the wall and see and walk through the ‘tidal movements’ composition visually, and also hear it at the three courtyards which include sound installations of the composition.
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Art on Air Radio’s Will Corwin InterviewsVictoria Meyers of hanrahan Meyers architects
Victoria discusses Infinity Chapel (above), a project currently under construction in Greenwich Village, NYC
Victoria Meyers recently sat down for an interview with Art on Air Radio host will Corwin. They talk about hMa's design philosophy and current projects. Click the player below to listen to the full interview (35 min).
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Infinity Chapel in Construction : Curved Wallssacred spaces; chapel design, modern church design; minimalist architecture
view of chapel from mezzanine; Infinity Chapel by hMa, August 2009
detail of curved walls under construction, August 2009
view of mezzanine and curved wall; Infinity Chapel by hMa
Click here to view all photos of Infinity Chapel at www.hanrahanmeyers.com
Shown above are in-progress photos of Infinity Chapel designed by hanrahan Meyers architects. The chapel design evolved out of conversations between the Architects and the members of the Church: Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist.
The clients requested a minimalist chapel design that included dyanmic curves and that was in touch with Nature. The final design for the Chapel reflects research by the Architects into hypercubes and other advanced mathematical forms. The Chapel interior is a cube, deformed by light.
hanrahan Meyers architects specialize in the design of public buildings that connect to light and to nature. The Chapel's windows look out into a public meditation garden which will be the focal point of members sitting in the pews during sermons. The garden is planned to have plantings including a background of Ilex and ivy, with Japanese Red Maples in the foreground. The garden design is a collaboration between hanrahan Meyers architects and GRDN: www.grdnbklyn.com.
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Farm Sanctuary’s Walk for Farm Animals is October 4, 2009 in Central Park
an image from Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, NY
Farm Sanctuary was founded in 1986 to combat the abuses of factory farming and to encourage a new awareness and understanding about "farm animals." Every year, hMa contributes a portion of their earnings to Farm Sanctuary to help them take care of their many rescued animals.
For more than two decades, Farm Sanctuary’s annual Walk for Farm Animals has helped spread the word about the treatment of animals on factory farms and raised vital funds for our rescue, education and advocacy work. New York City is holding its Walk for Farm Animals on October 4th at 10am in Central Park.
Date: October 4
Registration Time: 10 a.m.
Walk Time: Noon
Location: Merchant’s Gate in Central Park
Contact: Robyn Lazara and Ruth Santana
Email: nyc@walkforfarmanimals.org
Special Attractions: Join us for eats, treats and an awesome raffle with great prizes. This year’s speaker line-up includes Farm Sanctuary President and Co-founder Gene Baur, Jane Velez-Mitchell, author and host of HLN’s “Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell,” New York State Assembly member Linda Rosenthal, and Shawn Sweeney of the Jane Goodall Institute. Special musical guest Joy Askew will also be performing, so don’t miss it!Read more about the Farm Sanctuary
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Glamour : Making it Modern Book Signing Sept.23rdfeaturing NY Apartment Design by hMa; minimalist design
Metropolitan Home Editor-in-chief Donna Warner will be signing copies of Glamour: Making it Modern at the Ted Boerner showroom in the New York Design Center.
Wednesday, September 23rd from 6-7pm at the New York Design Center located at 200 Lexington Avenue.
The book features hMa's Ash 4 Ways / White Space apartment. Completed in 2005, Ash 4 Ways is a Manhattan apartment where ash is used in four different states of finish within a minimalist white envelope.
hMa's Ash 4 Ways apartment – the desired overall effect was to create a space of calm where the large pieces of free-form ash from ancient trees could float. This wood is in reference to the Nature in Central Park, which the apartment overlooks
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Award winning Sustainable Architecture : Hyper-Practice (as slow as possible) contemporary ideas in architecture; sustainable design
Just as a hyper-cube has ever changing facets, hMa aspires to have a ‘hyper-practice’. Even with its infinite folding and unfolding - the hyper-cube is a unique and singular object. Even as it incorporates, time and infinite possibilities of form and information, the hyper-cube retains its ability to be recognized.
hMa has a similar image of their practice which they see as a unique figure intellectually joined to a hyper-spherical object. As a ‘hyper-sphere’ – hMa is a generative practice that grows, stretches, and morphs over time, without losing its original form. Idea diagrams for hMa's most recent project, 'Infinity Chapel', are presented below, relating Infinity Chapel to the shape of an infinity sign, as well as the three-dmensional shape of a hyper-cube. Infinity Chapel is designed as a minimalist chapel with the form of a perfect cube, deformed, through time, by light. This deformation process pushes Infinity Chapel into the form of a hyper-cube.
hypercube diagram
If we could, hMa would leave the planet with our own architectural version of John Cage’s musical composition, Organ² / ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible) – currently being played over 639 years by its interpreters in Germany. Cage’s piece is an all-encompassing time-piece that touches the earth lightly. Using a similar approach to our architecture, hMa hopes to achieve a similarly powerful impact, using minimal means.
Infinity Chapel represents hMa's overall concept of buildings that move and transform, over time. The Chapel is dynamic in form and self-sustaining.
Infinity Chapel by hanrahan Meyers architects
hMa sees their practice as a sustainable approach to creating buildings and places of beauty. John Cage’s engagement with the world made an impact on people’s lives through works that were often silent, but powerful. hMa strives to impact human life through a similar relationship between art and beauty by building projects that respect the environment and occupy the planet with minimal impact.
To see hMa’s version of an ‘infinite unfolding over time’, visit our website, www.hanrahanMeyers.com. Pass through the site’s main portals by hitting: ‘hMa blog’; ‘Cultural Conversations’; and ‘hMa Research’. These three portals keep hMa engaged in the world in a way that changes, in reaction to time, just as you would expect a hyper-practice should.
left: John Cage; right: the bellows for the custom-made organ currently playing Cage's "ASLSP" in a performance in Halberstadt Germany scheduled to take 639 years to complete
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Hollywood Hills House, Los Angeles, Ca.: hanrahanMeyers architects; How to work with an architect; Residential architecture; Modern Architecture; Los Angeles Architecture
hMa were hired to design a renovation and addition to an existing house in the Hollywood hills. The house is at the top of a hill, and the edge of the site has commanding views of Los Angeles. The client hired hMa based on their award-winning design for the Holley House, in Garrison, New York. The client admired hMa’s handling of the site, and integration of nature outside and inside the house.
We are presenting initial design studies presented to the client, to give a sense of how hMa works with clients. hMa begins projects with working models, as well as 3-D renderings to capture the overall feel for the design. hMa also has a reputation for Green Design. As the Master Plan Architects for Battery Park City's North Neighborhood, hanrahan Meyers presided over the development of over 1 million square feet of green construcion, including the first ever built LEED certified residential high-rise building, the Solaire.
pool view: hMa's Holley House in Garrison, NY
‘starting point for design: new living room, looking toward proposed pool / spa
Looking back toward existing house, at edge of site
bringing water into the house – the hot tub enters the new study, adjacent to the new living room
overlooking Los Angeles, at edge of proposed pool
These images are just partial materials for the design process, which includes a model, as well as plans and other drawings. James Ackerman once said: ‘to view an architect’s drawings is to look inside the architect’s mind, and understand how they think about design’.
Click here to view all images of Holley House on hanrahanMeyers.com
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Conversations about DesignArchitecture and Philosophy; Shinzo Fukuhara
Below are photographs by Victoria Meyers that have been a meaningful design influence on hMa's work:
Great Salt Lake, Utah
Haystacks in Colorado
And a photograph by Shinzo Fukuhara:
The Inland Sea, Tomanoura, 1934
All of these photographs have been used in hMa design conversations.
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Green Design : Reducing your Eco- FootprintNatural Architecture; Ecology and Architecture; Green Architecture
Would you like to leave a smaller eco-footprint with your daily life?
If you want to leave a smaller eco-footprint, hMa implements Green systems in ways that minimize their clients' eco-footprints. hMa's Green systems do not increase costs or construction time and let hMa clients feel good about their impact on the planet.
hMa is known for architectural solutions that incorporate Nature into award-winning designs.
pool view : hanrahan Meyers architects' Holley House in Garrison, NY CLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL PHOTOS OF HOLLEY HOUSE ON WWW.HANRAHANMEYERS.COM
Do you need award-winning design to distinguish your business or organization?
If you need award-winning design to distinguish your business or organization in the marketplace, hMa has a track record of producing award-winning designs that brand their clients spaces. hMa clients get award-winning designs that are unique in their Natural solutions to architecture.
view of glass arcade : Digital Water Pavilion by hanrahan Meyers architects CLICK HERE TO ALL IMAGES OF DIGITAL WATER PAVILION ON WWW.HANRAHANMEYERS.COM
Do you wish your home was more connected to Natural light and materials?
It is possible to live in extraordinary residences that receive international attention for unusual solutions to Nature and light. hMa provides a full range of services to support the design of unique award-winning Natural homes.
Ash 4 Ways Apartment by hanrahan Meyers architects features custom-made 'floating' free-form ash slabs (shelf, stair and table top in photo) from local artisan Hisao Hanafusa of Miya Shoji and Interiors CLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL PHOTOS OF ASH 4 WAYS ON WWW.HANRAHANMEYERS.COM
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Exhibition Design”Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation” at the American Craft Museum; Art Gallery Design; Art + Architecture
In 2002, hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) collaborated with the Museum of Arts and Desgin (formerly the American Craft Museum) in the design of their exhibition 'Changing Hands : Art Without Reservation'. 'Changing Hands' was the first in a series of three exhibitions to focus on and celebrate Contemporary Art created by the native peoples of the United States (including Hawaii) and Canada.
Click here to see more of the exhibition on hanrahanMeyers.com
exhibition view : Changing Hands : Art without Reservation (formerly the American Craft Museum)
second floor gallery : hMa's Pratt Pavilion, Post: Victoria Meyers architect
hMa is dedicated to promoting the arts through their architectural practice. In 2007, hMa’s Pratt Design Center opened to international acclaim. Pratt Design Center’s public face is hMa’s Pratt Pavilion, a 10,000 square foot building featuring a new gallery on the second floor and a sculpture garden on the ground floor. Pratt Design Center is located on Pratt Institute's main campus.
hMa's Arts International Headquarters, NYC; Post: Victoria Meyers architect
In 2000 hMa’s Headquarters for Arts International received international notice, opening to reviews from publications in the U.S. and Europe. The project received design awards from the American Institute of Architects and Architectural Record magazine, which gave the project awards for it’s design ideas, as well as its use of sustainable and recycled materials. Arts International includes a 7,000 square-foot space for arts installations as well as performance. Founded by Noreen Tomassi, Arts International sponsored arts exchanges between the United States and other countries. Noreen Tomassi is currently the Executive Director of the Mercantile Library in New York City.
hanrahanMeyers architects practice began in 1987, when the firm came to international attention for their winning entry for the Chattanooga Nature Interpretive Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee. hMa also produced competition winning designs for the Queens Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC in 2002 in addition to several other arts related projects.
hMa is a woman-owned business. Their practice is known for award-winning Nature-based design, and their portfolio includes Platinum LEED rated projects, as well as several projects for clients in the arts, including custom homes for arts collectors. For more information about hMa, please visit our website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com. hMa maintains a blog featuring several of hMa’s collaborative partners in the arts, www.culturalconversations.com.
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