Category: Arts and Culture

Architecture and Artarchitecture and nature; art gallery design; award winning residential loft design

October 20th, 2008

trajectories

hMa conceptually integrates architecture and nature by using essential forms and experiences in their works, like such as figures as Carl Andre, Mies van der Rohe and John Cage. This integration is a complex cultural phenomenon belied by the simplicity of forms that are employed, relying on both the abstract and the natural. hMa's work follows these different trajectories where they lead, resulting in project that are both abstract and richly layered in meaning.

ARTS INTERNATIONAL
NEW YORK, NY

SCHROM TELEVISION STUDIOS
QUEENS, NEW YORK

PRATT PAVILION

HOLLEY LOFT
Architecture and Naturenatural architecture; architecture and ecology; nature and residential architecture; waterfall table

October 16th, 2008

nature

hMa's architecture of abstract and minimal form both reveals and opens itself to nature by allowing natural spaces and materials to come into buildings. It also reveals nature by contrast, where the single architectural gesture frames complex topographies and views. In this way, the architecture of hMa both absorbs and measures nature. HOLLEY HOUSE
GARRISON, NY 2006

WHITE SPACE
NEW YORK, NY 2004

WATERFALL TABLE
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 2004

SEE-THRU HOUSE
DALLAS, TEXAS 2008
hMa Archive : Inside-Out House

October 2nd, 2008

WATERCOLOR SKETCHES FOR INSIDE-OUT HOUSE; LEFT: MAIN ENTRY; RIGHT: BIRD'S EYE PERSPECTIVE

This project, a summer lake house, was commissioned for a location in Starlight, Pennsylvania just south of the New York border. The house is a cube, which has been subjected to the action of carving. This action has created a new space, which becomes at once interior and exterior. Inserted into the exposed surfaces of the original solid are objects that mediate between the remaining cubic volume and the new inside/out space. These mediating elements act as conduits for communication between interior and exterior spaces of the house; they also become accoutrements, or exterior furniture for the new inside/out space. This project was commissioned in 1993 and received a P/A Design Award and an AIA NYChapter Award the same year.

The materials for the house are concrete block and concrete slab, with painted steel and interiors which are sheet rock with a skim-coat of plaster.

See more of Inside-Out House on hanrahanMeyers.com

LEFT: INSIDE-OUT HOUSE MODEL, PHOTO : ESTO; RIGHT: SECTION / MASSING DIAGRAM
Battery Park City Community Center on Dwell.com

September 12th, 2008

hMa is pleased to have been featured recently on a Dwell.com design blog. Here is what Dwell blogger Jamie Waugh had to say about the project:

Approaching 9/11, New York's unspoken heart is in Battery Park. Relevant, then, is the community center Hanrahan Meyers is developing immediately north of Ground Zero. It's condo central in those parts, and the community center will be the base of two new residential towers; but the North Neighborhood structure will be a public works project drawing modernity and peacefulness to the area that once knew hideous chaos.

The structure's highlight is a public 500-foot long glass "Wall of Light" with an LED light installation the firm designed along with Tillotson Design Associates, illuminating a sound composition by New York composer Michael Schumacher. It will bring to light the passive energy systems fueling the Community Center: a program including swimming pools, a gym, a theater, classrooms and recreation and dance spaces. Completion date: 2010.

Visit Jamie's blog on Dwell.com

Battery Park City Community Center : view of arcade looking north
New Orleans Economic Incubator (NOEI)

September 9th, 2008

NOEI : perspective view

The New Orleans Economic Incubator is a proposal by hMa for a new facility for experimental entrepreneurial endeavors. The project will provide an economic incubator in a single production and exhibition complex. hMa designed a new 'wall' building that makes a façade in front of a rehabilitated warehouse building. The wall building is a gallery for the display and sale of articles produced by the entrepreneurs who work in the Incubator. The Warehouse will be renovated as a large interior work place.

hMa is proposing this project at the edge of the Lower Garden District and the western part of the Warehouse district. Entrance to the NOEI is toward the southwest corner under a new elevated bridge and conveyance system. From the lobby, entrance to the gallery is to the east. A display and projection screen is suspended on a steel truss at the second floor gallery. Exit from the new building is under the outdoor bridge at the first floor, or through it at the second floor. The bridge links the two parts of the complex at the second floor. The courtyard is a primarily private space that all interior spaces share, except on the occasion of public shows. There is a paved market space that is primarily public for temporary outdoor stalls, also for the display of new entrepreneurial concepts by persons linked to the Incubator.

Read about and see more pictures of the NOEI on www.hanrahanmeyers.com

NOEI: model view of courtyard
Holley House on Wallpaper*.comMinimalist House Design; Glass and Stone House; Green House Design; contemporary residential architecture

September 4th, 2008

Holley House exterior photo by : Paul Warchol

hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) are honored to have the Holley House featured as an interactive floor plan on Wallpaper*.com, the online version of Wallpaper Magazine. The interactive plan features exterior, ground, and first floor plans with corresponding photographs that pop-out throughout.

Holley House is a sustainably designed residence, using green materials and green technologies to achieve superior performance with regard to energy use and a non-toxic approach to every day living. To read more about hMa and their approach to Green Architecture and Green Design, visit our website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com.

The following is excerpted from Wallpaper*.com :

A remote upstate getaway is now de rigueur for the modern Manhattan urbanite, and Hanrahan Meyers architects have crafted a sophisticated sanctuary for one such client. As a place where crowds, noise, and a lack of privacy are all part of the hectic routine of urban life, the nature of the city provides the architect with a formula for its perfect antithesis: solitude, quiet, and privacy. Far removed from Manhattan lofts, The Holley Residence, situated on a picturesque site near Garrison, New York, embodies the modern country retreat…

Click here to jump to the interactive plan on wallpaper.com

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New on hMa Website : hMa Research

August 18th, 2008

The new hMa research section of hanrahanMeyers.com features examples of the firms research into cutting-edge materials and technologies while providing insight into the idea process.

Wave Structures: A graph from one of several researches by hMa into wave forms. Wave research was applied to WaveLine performance pavilion in Queens, NY.

Architects Design Music: A collaborative performance at The Kitchen, NYC in 2004. hMa's investigations into sound and form are part of the firm's ongoing investigation into natural phenomena, space, and materiality.

Infinite Structures: Klein bottles, moebius strips, and infinity signs were researched and turned into space at hMa's Infinity Chapel, NYC.
hMa in Hampton Style Magazine

August 1st, 2008

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.

Original model for Sagaponac House; now in re-design
Photos : Spring hMa Client Event

June 13th, 2008

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
Upcoming : hMa Spring Client Event

May 13th, 2008

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!