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Pratt Pavilion in Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture
hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) are honored to have the Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion featured in the recently published Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture.The following is an excerpt from the book:
"This pavilion, a new focal point for the Pratt Institute campus in Brooklyn, NY, is used by the students and faculty to exhibit the work of (the) institute’s students. Clad with stainless steel and suspended between two existing industrial loft buildings on the main Pratt Institute campus, the project includes a glazed entrance lobby for the pavilion and the adjacent Steuben Hall and Pratt Studios. Behind the Juliana Curran Terian Design Center Pratt Pavilion, which includes the glass entrance and a new circulation bridge to the south, a new courtyard makes an outdoor room for informal meetings and classes in warm weather. The building is clad with hand-finished stainless steel panels, and the glazed north-facing facade looks towards the institute’s main quadrangle, with screens that pull down to darken the space for slides or videos. To the south, the pavilion bridge ramps east and west, creating a circulation zone which connects the Pratt Pavilion, Steuben and Pratt Studios. The courtyard and pavilion are designed to work together as a ventilation system. Windows on the south facade open to bring air from the courtyard through the pavilion, and out through windows on the north facade."
Second-floor gallery in the Pratt Pavilion; Pratt Institute main campus; Brooklyn, NY
click here to view or purchase the "Phaidon Atlas" on Amazon.com. To read more about hanrahan Meyers architects, visit our website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com.
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Victoria Meyers to participate in the first “Sustainable Cities Design Academy”
North End Avenue in Battery Park City's North Neighborhood for which hMa were Master Plan architects (photo: Paul Warchol); click here for more about this project on hanrahanMeyers.com
Victoria Meyers has been invited to participate as a Resource Team Member for the first Sustainable Cities Design Academy, a conference that is being hosted by the American Architectural Foundation. Ms. Meyers was chosen as a Resource Team Member based on the expansive experience that her firm, hMa, has in the area of complex, Green and Sustainable Master Plans, as well as Landscape Designs.
Since 1997, hMa have been the official Master Plan Architects for Battery Park City’s North Neighborhood. In that capacity, hMa has overseen the development and written guidelines for the design of the first Green high-rise residential development building in the United States. When Battery Park City is built out it will include four million square feet of sustainable construction, with even its parks maintained without fertilizer. In 2003 hMa were part of the team receiving an Environmental Excellence Award for the green planning and design which has set standards for green construction and planning throughout the United States.
Other master plans that hMa have overseen as designers include the design of Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York, as well as Pratt Institute’s Main Campus redesign. At Pratt hMa was part of the team that redesigned the campus, and hMa also designed the first building that implemented the new master plan: the Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion. This building marked the first piece of a major redesign and rethinking of the Pratt campus.
Read more and see photos of hMa's Master Planning projects at hanrahanMeyers.com/masterplans
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Thomas Hanrahan in the Wall Street Journal article: “A Decade’s Most Remarkable Homes”
hMa's HOLLEY HOUSE, 2005Thomas Hanrahan was featured as a panel judge for the Wall Street Journal's "A Decade's Most Remarkable Homes" article featured in the Real Estate section of the December 25th, 2008 issue.
Their list of the top 5 "Most Remarkable Homes":
1. MAISON À BORDEAUX, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Bordeaux, France, 1998.
2. VilLA NM, UNStudio, Kenoza Lake, N.Y., 2007.
3. TYLER HOUSE, Rick Joy Architects, Tubac, Ariz., 2000.
4. VISITING ARTISTS HOUSE, Jim Jennings Architecture, Geyserville, Calif., 2003.
5. PICTURE WINDOW HOUSE, Shigeru Ban Architects, Shizuoka, Japan, 2002.Commenting on VilLA NM, by architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, Thomas Hanrahan is quoted, "[it] takes the glass box and ties it in a kind of spatial knot. It's a test case as to what's possible when you apply the computer to architecture."
The panel included Mr. Hanrahan as well as Barry Bergdoll, chief curator of architecture and design,
Museum of Modern of Art; Denise Scott Brown, principal, Venturi Scott
Brown and Associates; Deborah Berke, principal, Deborah Berke &
Partners Architects; Marianne Cusato, principal, Marianne Cusato
Associates; Kenneth Frampton, professor of architecture, Columbia
University; Gisue Hariri,
principal, Hariri & Hariri Architecture; Steven Holl, principal,
Steven Holl Architects; Robert Ivy, editor in chief, Architectural
Record; Karrie Jacobs, founding editor in chief, Dwell Magazine;
Michelle Kaufman, founder, Michelle Kaufmann Designs; Tom Kundig,
principal, Olsen Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects; Thom Mayne,
principal, mOrphosis Architects; Annabelle Selldorf, principal,
Selldorf Architects; and Jennifer Siegal, principal, Office of Mobile
Design.click here to read the full article on Wall Street Journal.com
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Architecture + Energy
BATTERY PARK CITY COMMUNITY CENTER, NYC
hMa’s Battery Park Community Center is designed to meet the standards for a Platinum LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating. hMa believes that good buildings should have the efficiency of the best hybrid cars.
hMa has experience designing buildings using passive energy systems including solar panels, geo-thermal energy, and other sustainable sources. We hope to achieve zero carbon footprint in 2009. hMa was part of the team that drafted the original Green Guidelines for Battery Park City. We’ve used our experience and expertise from multiple projects to create green standards that we apply to all projects.
We look forward to 2009. hMa supports Farm Sanctuary, and the Nature Conservancy, as part of the firm’s ongoing commitment to ecologically friendly construction practices in architecture.
BEST WISHES FOR 2009!hanrahanMeyers architects
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Project Update : Won Buddhist Training Center
hMa's Won Buddhist Training Center is a future spiritual retreat located in rural Claverack, New York. The property gently slopes toward the west, offering views of the Hudson Valley and the Catskill Mountains. The project is scheduled to enter construction in May 2009. The Won Buddhist Center will feature all wood-frame buildings made with local materials to sympathize with and reflect the Center's natural surroundings.
AERIAL PERSPECTIVEGUEST RESIDENCES
GUEST RESIDENCE COURTYARD
MEDITATION HALL
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Sound Sculpture, Art Installation : Vox Harbour in Queens, NY
hMa sound research : Vox Harbour
conceptual installation
collaboration with Jane Philbrick and Bob BieleckiSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK : SOUND FIELD DIAGRAM
Vox Harbor proposes three body-sized bandshell sound booths that will enable participants to communicate across three banks of the East River, connecting the distinct but proximate communities of the Sculpture Park, Roosevelt Island, and Astoria Housing in a sidewalk-type dialogue. Conversations will be sampled and play back, referencing the sound of the ocean in a seashell, but here the din will comprise the soundscape/urban landscape of New York’s most diverse, polyphonic borough.
The soundtrack will also include a spoken word panorama recorded by the artist in situ at each of the three Vox Harbor sites. Bracketing the river in these formally parenthetical structures, Vox Harbor invites and celebrates the diversity of discourse that constitutes New York’s dynamic voice, where world-wide street talk is at home in Queens.
SOUND BOOTH DIAGRAM
To read more about Vox Harbor on our website, click here, www.hanrahanmeyers.com.
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The Museum of Women : Green museum design / Women and Culture
A Woven TexthMa used research into women’s voices to weave a rich text that weaves itself into a building that is itself a fabric. This woven fabric creates a fresh and relevant approach to the design of a Museum of Women. The fabric is woven from collected ‘testimonials’, as well as from a considered investigation into the life of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other women active in the fight for women’s rights.
Sustainable FabricThe skin of the Museum of Women uses weaving and layering to make an environmentally sensitive enclosure. The Museum will be a transparent building covered in a ‘woven fabric’. This fabric will be a series of sun shades and rain catches that make the building an ecologically sensitive ecosystem. The skin is an important part of that ecosystem, and keeps internal temperatures and humidity levels controlled with a minimum use of fossil fuels. This layered or woven skin is environmentally appropriate and fosters the use and application of sustainable technologies.
To see more about hMa's Women's Museum design, visit our website, www.hanrahanMeyers.com. hMa specializes in desigining public buildings with unique design concepts that incorporate cutting-edge green technologies.
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hMa research : material + form, sound + light
research
Many of hMa's projects develop from specialized areas of research into natural phenomena and the way in which they shape material and form. Research topics have included the shaping of space for sound and light with curved and faceted surfaces. Advanced methods of construction including prefabrication have informed hMa's materials research, emphasizing those methods of building that accomplish the most with the least means.
WAVELINE : LATIMER GARDENS COMMUNITY CENTER
QUEENS, NYPREFAB HOUSE
EASTON, PAINFINITY CHAPEL
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART (COMPETITION)
QUEENS, NYRelated articles
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Architecture + Ecology:Ecological Design; Battery Park City Community Center; Chattanooga Nature Interpretive Center; Sustainable Design; Platinum LEED building design
ecological form
By integrating nature and minimalism into their work, hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) accomplish the most with the least means: extensive natural light, buildings set within the natural topography of the site, and energy supplied using locally available renewable energy sources and materials. hMa’s practice began when partners Victoria Meyers and Thomas Hanrahan came to international attention after designing the winning entry in the design competition for Chattanooga Nature Interpretive Center. hMa’s winning entry was arguably the first Green museum in the world (with a zero-carbon footprint), and set the tone for their practice and their ongoing dialogue between nature, art, and minimalism.
BATTERY PARK CITY COMMUNITY CENTER RENDERING BY BHCH, LLC
NEW YORK, NYAbove is hMa’s design for a new Platinum LEED Community Center – the ‘Digital Water Pavilion’ – for Battery Park City, in New York. The project is in construction and scheduled for completion in January 2012. Since 1996, hMa have been the Master Plan architects for Battery Park City’s North Neighborhood. hMa wrote all of the Green Guidelines for the North Neighborhood buildings, streets, and parks. hMa’s work as the BPC Master Plan Architects has been recognized through awards and publications for their extraordinary efforts in creating a cutting-edge Green urban environment. At Battery Park City, New Yorkers live in state-of-the-art Green Buildings and experience Nature in acres of sustainably planted and maintained Green Streets and Parks. In June, 2010, Battery Park City’s North Neighborhood was selected to receive a 2010 Heritage Award from the Urban Land Institute in recogntition of the project’s extraordinary contribution to the movement toward creating Green environments in the United States and worldwide. Urban Land Instititute also gave a Design Honor Award to the Visionaire, a Platinum LEED residential tower, where hMa wrote the Green design guidelines.
CHATTANOOGA NATURE INTERPRETIVE CENTER MODEL PHOTOGRAPH BY ESTO
Chattanooga Nature Interpretive Center was one of hMa’s earliest projects, and gave the firm international attention in 1987. The project featured a large Solar Panel array which doubled as the building’s entry canopy. The building incorporated wind turbines and geo-thermal heat and cooling, and created ‘Zero Carbon Footprint’ on its site. hMa’s Chattanooga Nature Interpretive Center was arguably the world’s first Green museum.
DUNE HOUSE
Dune House is a ‘Zero Carbon Footprint’ house hMa designed for clients on an ecologically sensitive site in East Hampton, New York. The house featured Solar Panels to reduce electrical loads so that the house used less electricity than it generated. All materials specified for the house were recycled or FSC wood. The house used state-of-the-art Water Recycling technologies, with low flush toilets, washing machines, and faucets. Grey water from the house was recycled for toilet flushes and site irrigation. The house was designed to have a ‘zero carbon footprint’ on its site.
To read more about hMa and their ecologically sensitive solutions to design, visit their website: www.hanrahanmeyers.com, and visit our ‘Green’ section, under ‘Projects’.
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Green Office Design : hMa in Oculus Magazine Fall 2008
hMa is proud to be featured in the Fall 2008 Issue of AIANY's Oculus magazine. The article focuses on the recent renovations of both hMa's office in NYC and the office of the firm NBBJ.
Following is an excerpt from the article by Lisa Delgado:
"Victoria Meyers, AIA, partner of hMa, focused on boosting efficiency and interaction in a renovation of her firm's Chelsea office last year. Before, the 2000sf space was divided by a conference room that had very little natural light; the firm's then eight employees were scattered on either end of the space, away from each other. In such a small tight-knit office, the separation felt unnatural… 'Now, in terms of the workflow of the space, we're much more efficient', Meyers observes. 'Everybody's in the same space; everyone can see what everyone else is doing.' Adds partner Tom Hanrahan, AIA, 'We tend not to make or design anything that doesn't get scrutinized by everybody in the office, so it's better that everything's out in the open. It makes for a messy but dynamic environment.'
Featuring energy-efficient flouorescent lighting and recycled nontoxic materials, the new space is also a better showcase for the firm's strengths in sustainable design."
HMA'S CONFERENCE ROOM FEATURING THE 'TOPO TABLE' DESIGNED BY VICTORIA MEYERS
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