Thanks to the Architectural League, for posting this podcast of Tom Hanrahan's lecture on the Juliana Curran Terian Design Center on June 7, 2007!
View this project on the hMa website .
Category: Green Design
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hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) are hosting a series future events for hMa clients. Selected hMa clients will be invited to hMa’s office to meet artists, artisans, and specialty consultants who collaborate on hMa projects. We are excited to announce the first of these events.
Clients will be offered hor'dourves prepared by Cara Fitzpatrick, hMa's in-house Kitchen and Catering Consultant. Cara is a professional chef with specializes in whole and gourmet foods from regional sources.
At our first event, clients will meet natural woodworker Hisao Hanafusa of Miya Shoji Showroom (17th and 6th in NYC). Hanafusa has collaborated with hMa on several projects including Infinity Chapel. Clients will also meet artist and hMa collaborator David Teeple.
Invitations coming soon!
CHEF CARA FITZPATRICK'S NATURAL, ORGANIC, LOCAL FOOD
DAVID TEEPLE'S "IN REFLECTION" - INSTALLATION VIEW
DETAIL OF TABLETOP BY MIYA SHOJI
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WaveLine photographed in May 2007 by Michael MoranWaveLine, a 6,000 sqaure-foot pavilion designed by hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) of New York, is a steel and masonry building of subtle but powerful vision, with modest dimensions. The building is located in Queens, New York, and was commissioned by the New York City Housing Authority. WaveLine does not try to blend in with its neighbors – twenty-story public housing towers built during the 1950’s, but instead uses the contrast of its contemporary materials and graceful form to define a new place for performance and sport within an existing public housing complex. hMa worked closely with sound and environmental consultants to design the building to reflect wave formations. The building has a 20-foot high ceiling, and was designed with excellent acoustics so that it can be used for performance as well as sport.
The pavilion is 6,000 square feet, and the adjacent community center is 20,000 square feet. WaveLine finished construction in June 2007, and is expected to officially open by November 2007.
view WaveLine on John Hill's archidose: a weekly dose of architecture
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A Well-Grounded Loft
Met Home of the Month for Steven Holley's home north of New York City hanrahanMeyers Architects transferred the openness of Philip Johnson's glass house to the rugged landscape.
Written by Fred A. Bernstein Photographed by Antoine Bootz
Produced By Linda O'KeeffeWhen Steven Holley, a prominent Manhattan lawyer, decided to build a weekend house north of the city, he knew just where to turn. In the 1990s, Holley bought a loft not far from his Lower Manhattan office. It had large rooms, high ceilings and abundant windows at both ends. But it was in "disastrous condition," Holley says.
"I was worried there would be a million problems if I bought it," Holley says. Luckily, his real estate agent knew a pair of young architects who were teaching at Columbia University while establishing their own practice…
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Visit hMa's website and turn up your volume to hear New York Composer Michael Schumacher's 'Birdsong,' Commissioned by hMa, 2007.
(Shumacher's 'Birdsong' notation pictured below)
Prior hMa-Schumacher collaborations include Architects Design Music. Architects and musicians collaborated to design three dimensional sound structures at The Kitchen, NYC, using Michael Schumacher's computer-based matrix (2004).
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Victoria Meyers architect is pleased to announce that the Julian Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion is being featured by the Architectural League of New York.
To visit Pratt Pavilion, take the C train to the DeKalb Avenue Station, and walk to the Pratt Campus. Pratt Pavilion is the first building constructed that follows the Pratt Master Plan redesign of the Pratt Campus. Architects Victoria Meyers and Thomas Hanrahan started the project in 2001, and the building opened in 2007. Pratt Pavilion has been recognized for design excellence, winning awards from the Architectural League, as well as the AIA NYChapter.
For the complete event schedule, visit www.archleague.org .
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The following is an excerpt from Arrive Magazine's May/June issue, pictured above. Click on image to enlarge. Victoria Meyers architect, for hanrahan Meyers architects
Six People Changing the Way We Live
by Kris FrieswickGrowing up surrounded by the wide spaces and light of Abilene, Texas, for half the year, and densely forested, rural Pennsylvania the other half, award-winning architect Victoria Meyers developed a lifelong craving for nature and light. In her work she strives to bring both those elements into the projects designed by her and her partner Tom Hanrahan. A devotee of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Meyers says her modernist, minimalist designs "create spiritual places that put you in direct contact with nature."
Finding a way to do that in urban spaces like Battery Park City or a 1,600-square-foot urban loft in midtown Manhattan may seem impossible, and that's why her work has won so many architectural awards. The firm's latest concept, a 60,000-square-foot community center near Ground Zero, is being designed as a platinum LEED-certified building – the highest designation of environmentally sustainable construction – and will manifest Meyers' design goal. The community center, which is slated for completion in July 2012, boasts a 500-foot-long "Wall of Light" that will pour natural light into all of the building's primary spaces. A preliminary plan also calls for music, based on water, in a piece composed by friend and collaborator, Michael Schumacher. The glass wall will "reach out to the rest of the environment in a very vocal way that says this is a part of what we need to be as a civilization," Meyers says. "Maybe clean water, or a bird species is more important than having 24 different jackets, each of which is disposable at the end of the season."
View the complete issue of Arrive here.
See more from hMa at hanrahanmeyers.com .
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project: See-Thru House
location: Dallas, Texas
client: Urban Reserve
square footage: 3,000 s.f.
project date: scheduled completion 2007See-Thru House is a 3,000 square foot residence designed for the Urban Reserve development in Dallas, Texas. Urban Reserve is a new development with tight design standards, and a roster of selected architects hired by the Developer. hanrahanMeyers are one of two New York firms chosen as architects for the development.
See-Thru House is conceived as a rectangular tube of space open from West to East. Objects placed within this tube create a second floor area for three bedrooms, with kitchen and dining room below. The main view of the house is to the West, looking at the Upper White Rock Creek, a natural preserve and wetlands.
Learn more about See-Thru House and other houses at Urban Reserve at urbanreserve.net .
To see more projects by hanrahanMeyers, visit hanrahanmeyers.com .
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Pratt Institute: Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion by hanrahan Meyers architects
Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion: Gallery Interior: hanrahan Meyers architects
Pratt Institute will hold a public dedication ceremony at its new Juliana Curran Terian Design Center on the Brooklyn Campus at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17, 2007. The event will celebrate the completion of the center's new pavilion and honor Juliana Curran Terian, a Pratt alumna and trustee, for her generous $5 million gift – the second largest gift from a living individual in Pratt's 120-year history-which made the construction of the building possible.The completion of the new building, designed by hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa), marks the first step in bringing together under one roof all of Pratt's design disciplines- interior design, fashion design, industrial (product) design, and communications design- to offer graduate and undergraduate creative minds a modern center where they can cultivate new ideas in a collaborative setting that fosters interdisciplinary research and learning initiatives among the different design programs. To read more about hanrahan Meyers architects and their design for the Pavilion, visit hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com.
Link to full text article in Gateway, the Pratt Institute Newsletter.
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Ash 4 Ways
2005
New York, New YorkDesign awards:
AIA New York Chapter, Merit Award 2005
Wood Design and Building Council, Honor Award, 2005Ash 4 Ways is a Manhattan apartment where ash is used in four different states of finish within a minimalist white envelope. The apartment finishes are primarily ash, with different finishes: white finished, sandblasted ash (wall panels); sand-blasted, acid washed and wire-brush scrubbed ash with high gloss white finish (bedroom furniture); natural finish ash door panels; and natural hand-rubbed, wax finished 5” thick wood from ancient ash trees.
Most of the ash has a white, shop-applied finish, to make the apartment envelope relatively silent. Throughout the project, pieces of old, ash planks with a hand-rubbed finish float within the neutral, white envelope. The white envelope is differentiated on inspection, however, by the varying degrees of wood grain. The painted ash is acid dipped and wire brushed, or sand-blasted, so that the wood grain appears more or less prominently. Painted panels are juxtaposed to natural-finished ash door panels and free-form ash planks from ancient ash trees harvested locally in upper New York State.
The principal materials for the two bathrooms are: natural finished solid ash doors: white-painted sand-blasted ash wall panels; translucent, hand-made glass tiles by MBC studios, a family owned glass atelier in upstate New York, as well as translucent glass panels. One bath makes the eastern edge of the living room, with translucent glass. This bath has a shower. The other bath has a privacy window (painted sand-blasted ash), which can be opened to the adjacent master bedroom.
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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