Tag: new york architects

In Construction : Won Buddhist Training Centercampus master plan; buddhist retreat design; modern campus design

December 3rd, 2009

hMa is pleased to announce that construction has begun on the Won Buddhist Training Center in Claverack, NY. The Won Buddhist Center will be a Green campus designed with sensitivity to Nature and issues of Sustainable design.

Here are some current photos of the Won Buddhist Center campus under construction:

Administration Building : Won Buddhist Training Center in construction click here to view all photos of the Won Buddhist Training Center at www.hanrahanmeyers.com

site view from Guest Residence Buildings click here to view all photos of the Won Buddhist Training Center at www.hanrahanmeyers.com

view through office window : Won Buddhist Training Center in construction click here to view all photos of the Won Buddhist Training Center at www.hanrahanmeyers.com
Victoria Meyers featured on BUILD Blog : “Women Making an Impact”

November 19th, 2009

BUILDblog is a discussion of modern design from the Northwest. It's authored by the team at BUILD LLC who also run a furniture and cabinet shop and keep a modern list of city recommendations.

Victoria Meyers is featured in a November 18th post on BUILDblog as part of their "Women Making an Impact" series. In this post, the 4th in the series, BUILDblog showcases the work of ten women in architecture creating "hot, forward thinking work." Other architects in this series include Amanda Levete (UK), Louisa Hutton (Germany), Momoyo Kaijima (Japan), Anne Lacaton (France), Dorte Mandrup (Denmark), Victoria Meyers, E.B. Min (U.S.A.)., Toshiko Mori (U.S.A.), Patricia Patkau (Canada), and Carme Pinos (Spain).

From BUILDblog:

Victoria Meyers, U.S.A.

"Meyers has a good handle on the ‘everything it needs to be and nothing more’ aesthetic and her work hits all the right chords with us. There is a nice range of challenging projects on her website and she also keeps a blog –big points from team BUILD."

Click here to view the entire post at BUILDblog

Click here to view more of Victoria Meyers' work at hanrahanMeyers.com

left to right: Victoria Meyers, JCT Pratt Design Center Pavilion in Brooklyn, NY and Holley House in Garrison, NY by hanrahan Meyers Architects
How Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger influenced my architecture

July 31st, 2009

Due to its popularity and to an earlier technical error, we are re-posting a lecture made by Victoria Meyers in 2007 at the American Institute of Architect's Spring Lecture in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania called "Design is a frame to Nature." Link to full slide show below.

Bob Dylan is a legend of American folk music

To view the full presentation click the link below:

May 2007 presentation

left: hMa's Hudson River House; right: American Folk singer Pete Seeger
Urban Design: American Campus Design Glass and Steel Building Design – campus master plan design; minimalist building design

July 23rd, 2009

Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion

Phase 5 : Finished Building – Timeline 2007

We are showing the finished Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion. The project is depicted in various states of finish on this blog, where we posted a chronical of the construction process for the building. To see the building in progress, go to posts dated: July 20, 2009; July 10, 2009, and July 6, 2009. Pratt Pavilion opened to international acclaim and attention in the fall of 2007. Pratt Pavilion is a key part of an overall campus planning strategy for the Pratt Institute campus.

Prior to Pratt Pavilion opening, the 'front doors' of the two adjacent industrial loft buildings opened onto DeKalb Avenue, an adjacent street, instead of opening toward the Pratt Campus. hanrahan Meyers architects were part of a larger effort by Pratt Institute to reorient the Institute's buildings toward the Institute's central campus space. In addition to contributing to master plan efforts at Pratt Institute, hanrahan Meyers architects are just finishing their work on Battery Park City's North Neighborhood Master Plan, where hMa have been master plan architects since 1997. At Battery Park City's North Neighborhood, hanrahan Meyers architects wrote all of the design guidelines for several million square feet of sustainable construction, including the design guidelines for the world's first built LEED certified residential tower, the Solaire. To see more about hMa's efforts at Pratt Institute, as well as for Battery Park City, visit hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com. To see more about Pratt Institute as well as hMa's experience designing green masterplans, go to 'projects'; educational spaces / masterplans and landscapes.

Pratt Pavilion acts as a new 'front door' to two larger loft buildings that house several of the Institute programs, including Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design and Interior Design. At the rear of the Pavilion is a new 'bridge' of sloping corridors that connect the formerly disconnected loft buildings together, so that all of the programs are now housed within a single, connected building. The second floor of the Pavilion, above the clear glass entry, houses a gallery to showcase work by Pratt students, faculty and alumni.
Glass and Steel Pavilion: time, distance, form, and architecture Minimalist Architecture; Glass and Steel Design; Public Architecture; Victoria Meyers Architect

July 2nd, 2009

Time : the diagram for Hudson River House as a hieroglyphic

Distance : Digital Water Pavilion facade incorporates a musical score

Form : Pratt Pavillion: a deformed cube floated above a glass entry

hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) is a cutting-edge contemporary architectural office known for their mathematically pure and sophisticated building designs. The illustrations above show details from the design of a house in New York; a new facade for Battery Park City, in Lower Manhattan, where a precisely calibrated facade marks the distance a person travels along an arcing wall leading from a series of parks in Battery Park City, to the World Trade Center site; and the finished steel and glass facade of a new academic building for the Pratt Institute Campus. All three of these projects share a precise crafting of form and space based on ideas from mathematics.

In early modernist architectural thought the clearest thesis that connected the modernist idea of spatial design to geometry was Le Corbusier’s ‘Modulor’ – a small booklet published by Le Corbusier in 1948, describing his method of laying out architecture using the golden section rectangle. More recently, in 1995, Robin Evans' The Projective Cast , a collection of essays, traced mathematical thought as it informs architecture from the Renaissance through modernism.

covers of Le Corbusier's 'Modulor'

Any great architecture stands in recognition of mathematical ideas. Mathematical principles applied to space brings us in contact with:

time : the Cartesian grid; distance : space; and form : geometry.

Through the application of mathematical forms, we are put in touch with great mathematical minds:

Pythagoras, Decartes, Newton, Fibonacci, Euler, And Nash – for example.

It is in this vast reconnection through space and time that architecture can produce a profound revelation for each of us: connecting back through time for thousands of years; and, vice-versa - connecting us to the open-ended future state of human exploration and endeavor.

Projection and its analogues: The Arrested Image, Robin Evans (from The Projective Cast, MIT, 1995)
hMa: Sustainable Design featured on houzz Green Home Design; American Houses; Modern American House

June 2nd, 2009

hMa has been added to houzz, "the Flickr of design idea sites."

Featured projects include Ash 4-Ways, Delmonico-Washburn Residence, Glaser Residence, Holley House, Holley Loft, and Singer Residence. More information about these residences can be found here, at hanrahanmeyers.com.

Singer Residence
hMa Designs Modern American Museum Projects :Jane Philbrick; rammed earth sculpture garden; modern american museum

June 1st, 2009

hanrahan Meyers architects came to public attention in 1987 when the firm designed the winning entry for a new Nature Interpretive Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Since then, hMa has designed several award-winning buildings, and the firm also has forged a strong connection with the arts, collaborating with several artists on public sculpture projects.

In 2007 hMa’s Pratt Pavilion, a sculptural art gallery in the center of Pratt Institute’s main campus opened to international acclaim and attention. The gallery reflected hMa’s firm commitment to working with arts groups, and the final building includes a twenty foot tall public gallery with state-of-the art facilities for show-casing the work of several international designers in various arts who are graduates of Pratt Institute’s many arts programs. Since it’s opening, Pratt Gallery by hMa has showcased the work of internationally famous industrial designers, graphic designers, fashion designers, as well as the aspiring work of Pratt students and faculty.

exterior view, Pratt Pavilion, featuring hand-rubbed stainless steel panels from Milgo Bufkin

left: entrance to hMa's Pratt Pavilion Gallery and Design Center; right: view of hMa's Pratt Gallery on opening day. Click here to view all photos of Pratt Pavilion at hanrahanMeyers.com

An important aspect of hMa’s work on Pratt Pavilion includes their ability to work creatively with local artisans and suppliers of specialty finishes to achieve fantastic results within a limited budget. When Pratt Pavilion’s exterior façade finish was in question due to budgetary constraints, hMa contacted Board member Bruce Gitlin and his company, Milgo Bufkin, to arrange a collaboration to produce the exterior cladding for the building. The resulting panels, hand-rubbed stainless steel panels, are a major factor in the success of the final project.

Jane Philbrick is among the artists who hMa has worked with on past projects, including an installation for Socrates Sculpture Park, Vox Harbour. In addition to working with Ms. Philbrick on Vox Harbour, hMa also produced a Master Plan for Socrates Sculpture Park in 2000. Pictured above: Jane Philbrick's work in progress, "Rammed Earth Sculpture Garden", at the Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden.
White Space / Ash 4 Ways featured in New Publicationminimalist architecture

April 13th, 2009

White Space / Ash 4 Ways

hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) are pleased to announce that their project 'White Space apartment' is featured in a new book published by Loft Publications. The 204-page book feature 30 different projects of contemporary residential designs. The book is written by Ethel Baraona and Lilliana Bollini.

White Space (Ash 4 Ways) is a Manhattan apartment where ash is used in four different states of finish within a minimalist white envelope.

The original space was an apartment that was chopped into many spaces. hMa emptied the space to create a maximum infiltration of light and views of Central Park. The intention was to create a space that replicates the complex beauty of Nature in Central Park. The views extend one’s experience of the natural materials within the apartment into the Park beyond.

The goal was to create space that flows and accommodates the needs for living with a great sense of comfort. Although the space is completely ‘white’, the various textures, tones and materials create and overall sense of warmth. The free-form pieces of ash bring a sense of ‘Nature’ from the Park into the space.

Read more about hMa's 'White Space' apartment here.

View the book at Amazon.com.

White Space / Ash 4 Ways spread
The Museum of Women : Green museum design / Women and Culture

November 11th, 2008

A Woven Text

hMa 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 Fabric

The 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.
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.

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PRATT PAVILION

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