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hMa in Hampton Style Magazine
hMa's Holley House; completed in 2005 in Garrison, NY
hMa is pleased to be featured in the July 11, 2008 issue of Hampton Style Magazine. hMa is recognized along with other established architects and designers who work in and around the Hamptons in the the article The Who's Who of Making of Making Your House a Home.
The following is excerpted from the article :"July 19 marks the opening of the much-anticipated Hamptons Showhouse in Sagaponack, and accordingly we present a list of the men and women who toil in the fields of interior design and architecture. Some of them span both fields, and all of them excel at their craft. Working in concert, they create the homes that draw us out to the Hamptons every summer. Borrowing the brainpower of many of them, we have also compiled a Hamptons-based resource guide for compelling decorative elements and furniture." To view this issue online, visit : www.danshamptons.com.
Dune House
hanrahanMeyers architects (hMa) are included in the Hamptons guide to architects and interior designers in recognition of the firm’s national reputation for award-winning design. hMa are one of the internationally known firms included in the ‘Houses at Sagaponac’ group of architects. hMa is in the process of designing the Dune House, a new residence in Amagansett, including state-of-the-art green features: geo-thermal heating and cooling, solar panels, and renewable, sustainably harvested materials. The firm’s researches into light can be viewed in Victoria Meyers’s 2006 book, ‘designing with light’. The firm’s reputation for design includes internationally known projects including the Holley House in Garrison, New York, featured in a monograph published by Architectura Viva.
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hMa’s Holley HouseArquitectura Viva (No. 127, 2007)
hMa’s Holley House was featured in AV Monographs (No.127) for 2007 (published summer 2008) as part of the publication’s focus on The Natural House
“The 650 square meter house in the town of Garrison, New York is planned around the contrasting spatial experiences of landscape walls and horizontal decks and roofs. Two parallel walls extend in the direction of the access path and separate the two living pavilions, made of horizontal decks that cascade up and down following the slope of the site. These walls seem to emerge directly from the ground to create a sequence of interior spaces, bathed by the light proceeding from precise openings that also frame the views of the landscape.”
“When crossing the house from east to west the itinerary begins at the master bedroom, descends through a flight of stairs until reaching a space delimited by two solid walls that accommodate the guest bedrooms, and extends the views towards a small pond. From the north down, the itinerary would begin at the road, continue through the guest bedroom wing and end at the swimming pool that is detached to the south. The point of intersection of these two itineraries marks the position of the main entrance. The house is constructed from steel and wood framing, thinly cut limestone blocks, cedar siding and maple flooring and millwork.”
To contact hMa, call our New York office: 212 989 6026. For more information about hMa please visit our website at www.hanrahanmeyers.com.
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Public Building DesignhMa Archive : Red Hook Center for the Arts
In 2004 hMa’s Red Hook Center for the Arts opened to the public. The building is located in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn.
In the design of public buildings it is often the small details that make the building. Red Hook CFA is a building with a series of surfaces brushed with light. Featured below are a series of vignettes from the building’s entry sequence, demonstrating the building’s unique relationship to natural light.
hanrahanMeyers is a New York based architectural firm specializing in modernist, minimalist buildings that incorporate nature and light. hMa is currently designing a new platinum LEED certified building adjacent to Ground Zero.
If your organization is looking for sophisticated, cutting edge design that incorporates green technologies, hMa is a fully staffed architectural firm with a reputation for designing award-winning buildings utilizing state-of-the-art green technologies. In today’s environment, not-for-profit organizations as well as for-profit businesses are searching for ways to bring the latest green technologies to their projects for practical as well as philosophical reasons.
To contact hMa, call our New York office: 212 989 6026. For more information about hMa, please visit our website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com.
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Battery Park City Community Center
Bird's eye view from above
Glass arcade at dusk
Walking Along the Glass Arcade, BirdSong to Right
Detail view of stair
Entry Lobby
hMa is pleased to share these newly developed renderings of the Battery Park City Community Center.
About the Battery Park City Community Center project:The primary architectural feature of the new platinum LEED-rated Battery Park City Community Center is a 500-foot long glass ‘Wall of Light’ situated at the base of two new residential towers in Battery Park City’s North Neighborhood immediately north of Ground Zero. The wall will feature an installation of LED lights designed by hanrahanMeyers architects with Tillotson Design Associates, illuminating a sound composition by New York composer Michael Schumacher. The wall is a public promenade and demonstration of the passive energy systems fueling the new Community Center. Facing inside the center, the wall unifies a diverse program of swimming pools, a gymnasium, theater, classrooms, and recreation and dance spaces, while bringing natural light into all of the primary spaces. It is scheduled to be completed by 2010.
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Photos : Spring hMa Client Event
hMa held the third 'Client Only' event last night in our office. We want to thank our presenters for the evening Joe Amrhein and Susan Swenson of Pierogi Gallery and all of our guests for attending:
Ronald + Frayda Feldman and Martina Batan from Feldman Gallery, Christopher Vroom from Artadia, James Pittman from Wayne William Creative, Peter Friedman from Dado Woodworking, LLC, David Gauld of David Gauld Architect, Igor Goschinsky from IGX Construction, Ken + Lynn Roberts, Jonathan T.D. Neil and Franklin Boyd of Boyd Level, and Susan Gosin, founder of Dieu Donne Papermill + her son Henry.
L TO R: VICTORIA MEYERS, TOM HANRAHAN, LYNN + KEN ROBERTS
L TO R: SUSAN GOSIN, PETER FRIEDMAN, JAMES PITTMAN, JOE AMRHEIN
PICTURED: FRAYDA FELDMAN AND CHRIS VROOM; ARTWORK BY JOE AMRHEIN
ON THE RIGHT FROM BACK TO FRONT : IGOR GOSCHINSKY; SUSAN SWENSON; DAVID GAULD; RONALD FELDMAN; AND CHRIS VROOM
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New hMa Website
hanrahanMeyers architects is pleased to announce the launch of the new hMa website.
Please visit the site at www.hanrahanMeyers.com and let us know what you think!
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Upcoming : hMa Spring Client Event
PICTURED: JOE AMRHEIN'S WINKING ANACHRONISMS; COVER OF 'PIEROGI PRESS,' EDITED BY SUSAN SWENSON
hMa is hosting their third event for hMa clients. Selected clients are invited to hMa's office meet artists, artisans, and specialty consultants who collaborate on hMa projects. This soirée will feature painter Joe Amrhein and writer Susan Swenson who together own Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn and a wine tasting featuring organic selections from Union Square Wines. Our in-house kitchen consultant Cara Fitzpatrick will prepare a selection of hors d'oevres.Invitations are in the mail today, we hope you can join us!
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hMa : White Space / Ash 4 WaysNew York City Apartment Design; Nature and Minimalism; Victoria Meyers Architect
hanrahan Meyers architects believe that abstract and minimal form is part of an ongoing transformation of design as a global practice of universal forms, as well as a local practice that values essential human experience by accomplishing the most with the least means.
Recently, photographer Jordi Miralles traveled from Spain to photograph hMa's White Space / Ash 4 Ways apartment located in Manhattan, NYC designed by hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa). His images will be featured in an upcoming book: 150 New York Loft Ideas published by Loft Publications.
All Photos copyright Jordi Miralles for Loft Publications, Spain.
White Space / Ash 4Ways is an award-winning minimalist loft apartment in Manhattan overlooking Central Park. The apartment has won numerous awards, including the American Woods Award, as well as a New York Chapter AIA Design Award, and is featured in books worldwide. White Space was featured on the cover of hMa partner Victoria Meyers' book: 'designing with light', published by Abbeville Press in the United States, and Laurence King worldwide. For more information about White Space, visit hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com.
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Teardrop Parkwalking tour; master plan architects; Battery Park City Master Plan; natural architecture
Bob Gelber is hosting a tour of Battery Park City's North Neighborhood where, since 1997 hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa), have been master plan architects. As Battery Park's Master Plan Architects hMa were responsible for achieving several milestones in the development of one of the most forward-thinking urban master plan in America. Battery Park City’s ‘Green Guidelines’ set the standard for green guidelines for all other city agencies in the City of New York, and for communities throughout the United States.
view through the trees at Teardrop Park in Battery Park City's North Neighborhood; click to view more photos of the neighborhood at hanrahanMeyers.com
Teardrop Park, a major green feature and landscape design in BPC's North Neighborhood, is a project that hMa participated in from its beginning stages. The design team for the Park included hMa; artist Ann Hamilton; and Michael Van Valkenburgh, Landscape Architect. As Design Team members, hMa celebrates how Teardrop Park, a highlight of Mr. Gelber's tour, brings elements of the landscape of upstate New York and the original landscape of Manhattan, to Battery Park's North Neighborhood. The infusion of Nature into a high-rise residential neighborhood celebrates and embraces the values that h Ma places on bringing elements of Nature into their architectural and master plan designs. To read more about hMa's architectural designs and their master plans and landscapes, go to the hMa website.
Join Bob Gelber, founder of Walkin’ NY, for a tour of the North Neighborhood and take in lower Manhattan’s open spaces, waterfronts and environmentally friendly commercial, residential and retail buildings. Visit a model apartment in the Riverhouse, and gain special access to the photovoltaic grid on the building's roof, courtesy of the Sheldrake Organization. Tickets for the walk benefit Open House New York (OHNY).
Tour will begin at 10:30 am on Saturday, May 3. Purchase tickets here and learn more about OHNY on their website.
Teardrop Park in Battery Park City's North Neighborhood
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Mathematics, Waves, and Birdsongsnatural architecture; green architecture; sustainable architecture
hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) is a unique architectural practice with partners, Victoria Meyers and Thomas Hanrahan, collaborating with artists from the New York area to create uniquely conceptual buildings. ‘We believe that architecture is an art, and that buildings should be three- dimensional renditions of ideas.’ (Victoria Meyers).
hMa’s conceptual approach to design involves the study of forms from Nature that the firm subjects to a critical analysis. hMa analyzes each project that comes into the office and works with the clients to discover an element that gives each project a unique direction. These interpretations are always tied to phenomenal interpretations of the natural world.
Infinity Chapel, in construction in downtown Manhattan, was originally inspired by the clients. The clients requested a chapel that was formed out of complex curve forms. hMa responded by constructing 3-dimensional klein bottles and moebius strips. The final form is based on a moebius strip. Infinity Chapel is scheduled for completion in September 2008.
INFINITY CHAPEL; KLEIN BOTTLE, INSET
WaveLine, a new multi-purpose pavilion in Queens, was designed based on natural wave forms. hMa collaborated with acoustic engineer Yasuhisa Toyota of Nagata Acoustics. hMa used physical models of wave forms, as well as computer simulations to determine the final building shape. The wave-form shaped roof is clad in Galv-alum.
WAVELINE AND SOUND MODELS
For Battery Park City Authority’s North Neighborhood site adjacent to the ballfields, hMa designed a new Platinum LEED certified Community Center. The building’s east facing facade is a 550-foot long arc of glass orienting visitors who walk along the façade toward Ground Zero, which is across the street from the site. New York Composer Michael Schumacher collaborated with hMa writing a ‘Birdsong Composition’ that will be etched on the glass facade, as a bar code. The visual image gives the visiting public access to the Birdsong both visually as well as aurally. The Birdsong will also be present aurally, through speakers mounted in exterior courtyards along the façade, and became the primary organizing feature for the building.
BATTERY PARK CITY COMMUNITY CENTER
view of arcade glass wall; composer Michael Schumacher's 'Birdsong' score, inset
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