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Digital Water Pavilion: DWiP featured in ASHRAE Journal and the New York PostBattery Park City Community Center; Sustainable Design; Interactive Wall Design
hMa's Digital Water Pavilion is featured in November 2010's ASHRAE Journal, 'Wall of Light' for Lower Manhattan, and also the December 7th NY Post, Downtown by Design. Both articles focus on the visionary design and high Green standards of the project.
"Even those that are simply passersby will be drawn to the curving 550-foot long outer glass arcade wall that runs along-side two ball fields and a soccer field facing West Street just north of the World Trade Center"
-NY Post, Downtown by Design
Above: NY Post article Downtown by Design (click image to zoom in and read), inset with a current construction photo of the 550-ft glass Interactive Wall
"'The Wall of Light'" is the standout architectural and sustainable feature of the Battery Park City Community Center"
– ASHRAE Journal, 'Wall of Light' for Lower Manhattan
"The community center project itself was designed by Hanrahan Meyers with the goal of the highest environmentally friendly Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) platinum certification being overseen by Atelier Ten… Stalco construction, which is building the community center, said that while some companies find LEED work challenging, they found it 'enticing'…from air quality to debris removal, we are under strict guidelines."
-NY Post, Downtown by Design
Read more about Digital Water Pavilion: DWiP at hanrahanmeyers.com
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hMa / Myonggi Sul collaboration: Won Buddhist Retreat in Claverack, NY
Won Buddhist Retreat site – southwest view
hMa's latest Green project, designed in collaboration with Myonggi Sul, is the new Won Buddhist Retreat compound to be located in Claverack, New York. This is to be a Green community designed with a zero carbon footprint.
Ms. Sul brings great strengths to the hMa / Sul collaboration (hMa/S). Ms. Sul was formerly the Director of Interior Design at Gatje, Papachristou and Smith Architects, and an Associate at GN Associates. Currently, Ms. Sul is a Professor at Pratt Institute's Interior Design Department.
Ms. Sul's clients have included: Samsung Corporation; JP Stevens; Westinghouse Corporation; Kolon Corporation; Random House; Chemical Bank; kNBC;and GE Medical Systems; in addition to private residential clients.
Click here to read more about the Won Buddhist Retreat on hanrahanmeyers.com
Meditation Hall interior looking west
At the Buddhist Retreat in Claverack, Ms. Sul brought great strengths to the project, with insights into the interior design of every room in the project. Ms. Sul designed most of the project interiors, and was instrumental in the high level of discussion that occurred throughout the project. This includes the powerful manner in which the team linked interior spaces with the exterior views to Nature.
Guest Residence #1 – courtyard view
The Won Buddhist Retreat is a retreat in rural, upstate New York for spiritual reflection and discussion. The property gently slopes toward the west, offering views of the Hudson Valley and the Catskill Mountains. The buildings for the center, which include permanent and guest residences, an administration building and a large meditation hall, are placed in the northern end of the site, set back from the highway. The buildings are all oriented towards the west and south to maximize view and light, while each building is organized around an internal courtyard.
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hMa’s Bridge-Studio in Easton, PA: Update
Bridge-Studio in construction Fall 2010 Click here to view more photos of this project at hanrahanmeyers.com
A centered breezeway that connects two private studio spaces features a fireplace and looks out toward the Delaware River Click here to view more photos of this project at hanrahanmeyers.com
Bridge-Studio is a new artist studio building designed for artist couple Joe Amrhein and Susan Swenson. Bridge-Studio will house a painting studio for Joe on the East side, and a writing studio for Susan on the west. Bridge-Studio features a breezeway in the center, between the two studios, with an outdoor fireplace. The new studio is entered by walking up a bridge, into the open breezeway, overlooking the Delaware River, approximately 100 feet below the edge of the site.
The outdoor fireplace hearth houses a flue for a second fireplace in Susan's writing studio, and for a third fireplace, in the open outdoor area below the 'Bridge'. In addition to producing their own bodies of work, Joe and Susan own Pierogi Gallery in Williamsburg, New York, and regularly entertain artists from their New York gallery at their home in Pennsylvania. The couple's desire for an appropriate setting to entertain artist friends created part of the program for the new studio building.
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Battery Park City Master Plan – North Neighborhood design by hanrahan Meyers architects – + the Visonaire win Urban Land Institute Awards : Urban Waterfront Design
hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) are proud to announce that the firm's Battery Park City Master Plan project has won a Heritage Award for Excellence from the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Since 1997 hMa have been the Master Plan Architects for Battery Park City's North Neighborhood. In that capacity, the firm has been a Leader in applying Sustainable Design practices. One of the firm's achievements includes writing the Green Guidelines for the Solaire - the world's first Green Residential high-rise Tower.
In addition to hMa's Green Master Plan winning a coveted Heritage Award, Battery Park City's Visionaire was also honored with a 2010 Award for Excellence from the Urban Land Institute. The Visionaire is a high-rise residential tower that received the top design Award from the ULI as 'America's Greenest Residential High-Rise Tower' - one of only 10 buildings in the Americas - and the only building to be recognized for Green Design in New York. The Visionaire received the US Green Building Council's highest rating for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED Platinum).
ULI Awards for Excellence define the standard for real estate development practice worldwide. In its 32nd year, the awards program is the centerpiece of ULI’s efforts to identify and promote best Green practices in all types of real estate development.
aerial view of North Neighborhood, Battery Park City Master Plan. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
In 1997 hMa was hired as the Master Plan Architect for Battery Park City Authority’s North Neighborhood, the most forward-thinking Green urban master plan in the United States. The North Neighborhood is the location of the first Green high-rise residential tower in the United States (Green Guidelines by hMa) and is the first Sustainably designed high-rise neighborhood in the world (Green Guidelines by hMa). When the Master Plan is complete in 2012 it will include a total of 5 million square feet of sustainable buildings, an array of new technologies and operating practices and a unique integration with the spectacular natural features of New York's waterfront.
hanrahan Meyers Architects' configuration of the North Neighborhood buildings emphasizes the area's engagement with nature by creating an interweaving grid of outdoor spaces – including 4 major parks – with 11 residential and public buildings including Stuyvesant High School. Individual buildings are designed to complete the urban blocks by aligning with lot lines up to the 11th and 14th floors, after which towers are placed up to the 25th and 32nd floors in a complex pattern of offsetting alignments to open up view corridors to the Hudson River, and bring light and air into the parks below.
Read more about the ULI Awards competition and view other award winners at http://www.uli.org. Read more about hMa and their master plan designs by visiting our website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com, and go to: 'Master Plans and Landscapes'. To see more of hMa's cutting edge Green Designs go to 'Green'.
diagram : environmental standards for BPC Master Plan (click image to enlarge)
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The Architectural League of NY + hMa Present a Tour of Infinity Chapel on Tuesday 9/21/2010
photo by Michael Moran.
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Group Tour: Infinity Chapel (Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist)
Thomas Hanrahan and Victoria Meyers
Tuesday, September 21
5:30 p.m.
Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist
171 MacDougal StreetVictoria Meyers architect, principal of hanrahanMeyers architects, will lead a tour of the recently finished Infinity Chapel for the Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist on September 21st, 2010. Clients John Ryan and Andrea McCormick and lighting designer Lana Lenar of zeroLUX Lighting Design will join the tour of the sanctuary, reading room, and Sunday school.
Reservations are required and limited to members only. To make a reservation please email anderson@archleague.org. For more information, click here.
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Work in Progress: Bridge-Studio by hanrahan Meyers architects
Bridge-Studio: in construction August 2010 click here to see more of Bridge-Studio at www.hanrahanmeyers.com. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
Bridge-Studio is a new artist studio building designed by hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) for artist couple Joe Amrhein and Susan Swenson. Bridge-Studio will house a painting studio for Joe on the East side, and a writing studio for Susan on the west. Bridge-Studio features a breezeway in the center, between the two studios, with an outdoor fireplace. The new studio is entered by walking up a bridge, into the open breezeway, overlooking the Delaware River, approximately 100 feet below the edge of the site.
Amhrein Swenson Bridge-Studio: Fireplace facing breezway, looking toward Delaware River. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
Amhrein Swenson Bridge-Studio: looking toward masonry fireplace wall, inside Studio. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
Click here to see more of Bridge-Studio at www.hanrahanmeyers.com
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Architecture and Windows: Duchamp, Cage and Contemporary Architectural Production: Exploring the Window; Architecture, Scientific Determinism + Artistic Production
hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) are great fans of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, and bring their enthusiasm for these two giants of the artistic avant-garde forward in time through hMa's on-going collaborations and conversations with contemporary avant-garde artists including Michael Schumacher, Bruce Pearson, Monica de la Torre, Roxy Paine, Joe Amrhein, and Susan Swenson, and including several other artists who we work with, mostly from the New York area.
Reunion by John Cage, featuring John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, and Teeny Duchamp playing chess. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
What hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) love about Cage, Duchamp, and our contemporary friends in the arts, is how the most intelligent works in the fine arts foster on-going discussions about science, technology, and culture. Great artists look at culture as a whole, and create visual and sound interpretations of the technological changes of that period in time. This discussion places viewers and listeners into that conversation, through an incisive and intellectually challenging presentation of ideas.
hMa's architecture incorporates contemporary discussions into buildings and space design. hMa does this by bringing on-going discussion with artists who are making some of the most challenging contemporary art into the firm's design process. hMa invites artists whose work poses challenges beyond the ordinary to incorporate their works onto and into hMa's buildings.
three early versions of the 'WATER' score frit pattern by NY composer Michael Schumacher in collaboration with hanrahan Meyers architects. For information contact: info@hanrahanMeyers.com. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
As part of hMa's ongoing discussion with the arts, they are developing an interactive glass wall for their Digital Water i-Pavilion (DWi-P): Battery Park City Community Center in collaboration with Michael Schumacher. The facade will be activated so that Visitors passing by the building will be able to wave cell phones at the building's facade and receive sound samples of Michael's 'WATER' score, depicted on the facade as a bar-coded frit pattern.
The DWi-P collaboration takes the idea of the 'normal' glass window which has been 'altered' by being selected for interpretation by the artist (and – in this case - by the architects) and uses that otherwise mundane and everyday piece of the built fabric to generate an architectural armature that works as a building - but also as in interactive work of art.
scale mock-up of the frit pattern seen on-site of the Digital Water Pavilion: Battery Park City Community Center, with WATER composition shown as a bar code. For information contact: info@hanrahanMeyers.com. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
Above, we are showing a full scale mock up of the glass - fragments of a future 550-foot long glass wall – in our office for on-site installation - at the building site at DWi-P. hMa will keep Visitors to the blog updated on progress with the WATER score / glass installation. DWi-P is scheduled to receive a Platinum LEED rating.
More to come….
for more information about the hMa / Schumacher collaboration, visit our website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com. Contact: info@hanrahanMeyers.com
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Infinity Chapel and Won Dharma Center win Faith & Form Design Awards for 2010
hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) are pleased to announce that two hMa projects have won awards in the 2010 Faith & Form / IFRAA International Design Awards Program for Religious Art and Architecture. Infinity Chapel has won an Honor Design Award in the Religious Architecture – Renovation category and Won Dharma Center won a Merit Design Award in the Unbuilt Work category.
These and all winning entries will be published in the Winter 2010 Awards Issue of Faith & Form magazine. Read more about the awards program, Faith and Form magazine, and the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture here.
detail: Infinity Chapel by hanrahanMeyers architects click here to see more images of the Chapel at hanrahanMeyers.com. Post: Victoria Meyers architectThe Infinity Chapel for the Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist features a cubic sanctuary deformed by light. The new sanctuary is a place where the sacred geometries of squares, golden section rectangles, and ‘spheres of light’ will surround worshipers. Three curving walls – one from the south, one from the north and one from the east – suggest the large spheres. These forms evoke the shape of a ‘Klein bottle’ or moebius strip, simple figures that suggest infinity by having no beginning and no end.
view of Meditation Hall: Won Dharma Center by hanrahanMeyers architects click here to see more images of Won Dharma Center at hanrahanMeyers.com, Post: Victoria Meyers architect
hMa's latest Green project for a spiritual group is the new Won Dharma Center compound to be located in Claverack, New York. This is to be a Green community designed with sensitivity to Nature and issues of Sustainable design.
The Won Dharma Center will be a retreat in rural, upstate New York for spiritual reflection and discussion. The property gently slopes toward the west, offering views of the Hudson Valley and the Catskill Mountains. The buildings for the center, which include permanent and guest residences, an administration building and a large meditation hall, are placed in the northern end of the site, set back from the highway. The buildings are all oriented towards the west and south to maximize view and light, while each building is organized around an internal courtyard.
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Urban Renewal and the Current Downturn: Levi’s leads the WayLevi’s ‘Ready to Work’ campaign; Levi’s ‘Go Forth’ campaign; urban renewal in Braddock, Pa.
Post by hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) principal, Victoria Meyers:
I often travel from New York City to Baltimore on Amtrak. Whenever I take that train ride, I look out at an urban landscape that I refer to as the: ‘Amtrak Urban Corridor’. It starts at Trenton, New Jersey, and continues right through Baltimore, Maryland: an unbroken corridor of urban decay and poverty.
abandoned factories and warehouses: the Amtrak Corridor. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
This landscape is an urban map that describes many of the things that have gone wrong in American society. What is really concerning, first and foremost, are the empty and abandoned warehouses and factories. In between the abandoned and ruined industrial buildings, are blocks and blocks of neighborhoods that are half abandoned, where the residents are obiviously impoverished, and could use the jobs that have left from those factories. This country could reuse and recycle these warehouses to build up a new industrial base for the 21st Century. What happened to the American spirit? How could we have allowed this to happen? If one of us is impoverished and in need, all of us feels that condition. We are all without.
What is needed here is a plan. An Urban Corridor Master Plan! A Master Plan that links new 21st Century start-up businesses with abandoned places. A Plan that links unemployed people with jobs.
People in these neighborhoods need the jobs that these factories could create if some smart or philanthropic investor would provide the start up money, coupled with a smart entrepreneur with new technologies to be assembled. America needs to rebuild. Our Cities represent who we are and define us. Abandonment is not a pretty legacy.
abandoned brick row houses: Baltimore, MD.
President Obama has led the thinking on a lot of the innovations in urban renewal, with his push for a new ‘Green Economy’, with a new, post-industrial jobs base building the components we need to develop Solar, Geo-Thermal, Wind-Power, and Bio-Fuel technologies. In the 21st Century, the country that solves the current energy crisis is the country that will emerge as a super-power. The consequences of not changing the United States' energy-based economy to sources other than oil is evident right now in the Gulf of Mexico.
There was a very interesting article in the June 23, 2010 New York Times, titled: ‘Levi’s Features a Town Trying to Recover’ – that deals with many of these issues. Levi’s has ‘adopted’ the town of Braddock, Pennsylvania: a town trying to pick itself back up after losing its industrial base. Levi’s is doing a great thing by doing this, and deserves credit for their foresight. Levis is making a difference not just in the lives of the people in this small American town, but also in the overall recovery and re-invigoration of the American psyche and Vision. The campaign slogan: 'Ready to Work' – is a tagline for America in the current downturn. The campaign also states: 'we are all workers'.
Braddock, Pa.: Levi's 'Go Forth' campaign and urban renewal
We all could use the Vision that Levi’s is bringing to their ‘Go Forth’ campaign. I encourage anyone reading this blog post to visit the Levi’s campaign website, and watch some of the film clips there: http://www.levistrauss.com/news/press-releases/levis-proclaims-we-are-all-workers-launch-latest-go-forth-marketing-campaign. The campaign shows many images similar to the ones I've been describing along the Amtrak corridor, and includes some very smart film clips by very talented filmmakers, including one short that won an award at Sundance Film Festival this year. I have just one complaint. If Levi's is really sincere about this campaign - they'll also renovate one of the abandoned factories in Braddock, and install a new Levi's factory. (Levi's - I'm throwing down my glove).hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) is an internationally known design firm with experience designing sustainable master plans and landscapes for urban centers (hMa are the Master Plan Architects for Battery Park City's North Neighborhood, winner of the 2010 Heritage Award from the Urban Land Institute); small town centers (hMa designed a 550-acre zero-carbon footprint site plan and master plan in Claverack, New York), as well as private, residential landscape design (Holley House landscape layout and design).
Battery Park City, North Neighborhood: Teardrop Park. Master Plan design by hanrahan Meyers architects. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) is a full service Master Planning and Design firm. We bring expertise and experience to landscape and master plan projects. hMa has successfully laid out site topography, overviewed the installation of site services, including electrical, water, sewage, and gas. hMa has advanced expertise in integrating high-energy use, traditional site planning with the latest sustainable ideas and services, to create an integrated approach to achieving LEED certified design goals, and Zero-Carbon Footprint site designs.For more information about hanrahan Meyers architects, and their innovative and green ideas for cutting edge 21st century Master Plans and Landscapes, visit hMa’s website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com; go to ‘Projects’: ‘Master Plans and Landscapes’.
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Battery Park City Master Plan wins Urban Land Institute Heritage Award : Urban Waterfront Design
hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) are proud to announce that the firm's Battery Park City Master Plan project has won a Heritage Award for Excellence from the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Since 1997 hMa have been the Master Plan Architects for Battery Park City's North Neighborhood. In that capacity, hanrahan Meyers have been Leaders in applying Sustainable Design practices to Master Plan and Landscape Design. One of hMa's achievements includes writing the Green Guidelines for the Solaire - the world's first Green Residential high-rise Tower.
In addition to hMa's Green Master Plan winning a coveted Heritage Award, Battery Park City's Visionaire was also honored with a 2010 Award for Excellence from the Urban Land Institute. The Visionaire is a high-rise residential tower that received the top design Award from the ULI as 'America's Greenest Residential High-Rise Tower' - one of only 10 buildings in the Americas - and the only building to be recognized for Green Design in New York. The Visionaire received the US Green Building Council's highest rating for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED Platinum).
ULI Awards for Excellence define the standard for real estate development practice worldwide. In its 32nd year, the awards program is the centerpiece of ULI’s efforts to identify and promote best Green practices in all types of real estate development.
North Neighborhood, Battery Park City Master Plan, hanrahan Meyers architects. Post: Victoria Meyers architectIn 1997 hMa were hired as the Master Plan Architects for Battery Park City Authority’s North Neighborhood, the most forward-thinking Green urban master plan in the United States. The North Neighborhood is the location of the first Green high-rise residential tower in the United States (Green Guidelines by hMa) and is the first Sustainably designed high-rise neighborhood in the world (Green Master Plan by hMa). When the Master Plan is complete in 2012 it will include a total of 5 million square feet of sustainable buildings, an array of new technologies and operating practices and a unique integration with the spectacular natural features of New York's waterfront.
diagrams showing park spaces, green roofs and green landscapes – Battery Park City North Neighborhood Master Plan, hanrahan Meyers architects. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
hanrahan Meyers Architects' configuration of the North Neighborhood buildings emphasizes the area's engagement with nature by creating an interweaving grid of outdoor spaces – including 4 major parks – with 11 residential and public buildings including Stuyvesant High School. Individual buildings are designed to complete the urban blocks by aligning with lot lines up to the 11th and 14th floors, after which towers are placed up to the 25th and 32nd floors in a complex pattern of offsetting alignments to open up view corridors to the Hudson River, and bring light and air into the parks below.
Irish Hunger Memorial – Battery Park City North Neighborhood Master Plan, hanrahan Meyers architects. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
When the Master Plan is complete in 2012 it will include a total of 5 million square feet of sustainable buildings, an array of new technologies and operating practices and a unique integration with the spectacular natural features of New York's waterfront.
Read more about the ULI Awards competition and view other award winners at http://www.uli.org. Read more about hMa and their master plan designs by visiting our website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com, and go to: 'Master Plans and Landscapes'. To read more about hMa's Green Designs, visit our website, http://www.hanrahanMeyers.com, and go to: 'Green'.
Teardrop Park – Battery Park City North Neighborhood Master Plan, hanrahan Meyers architects. Post: Victoria Meyers architect
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