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Architectural Digest Names Pratt Institute Among Top Ten Colleges in US for the Architectural Significance of its Campus

August 15th, 2011

hanrahan Meyers architects' Juliana Curran Terian Design Center (Pratt Pavilion) opened on the Pratt Campus in 2007 click here to view more photos of the Design Center on www.hanrahanmeyers.com post Victoria Meyers architect

Here is an excerpt from the article on Archinect.com, click the link at the end for the full version:

"Pratt recently opened a 120,000-square-foot green academic and administrative building named Myrtle Hall at 536 Myrtle Avenue between Grand Avenue and Steuben Street that houses the college's Department of Digital Arts as well as several administrative offices." This building, along with hanrahan Meyers architects' Pratt Pavilion, which launched the Pratt Design Center in 2007, have reshaped the Pratt campus. Pratt Pavilion was the first project to initiate the redesign and refocusing of the Pratt campus, with buildings facing in toward the campus green, instead of facing out toward the neighboring streets.

second floor gallery interior: JCT Design Center (Pratt Pavilion) click here to view more photos of the Design Center on www.hanrahanmeyers.com Post Victoria Meyers architect

The Juliana Curran Terian Design Center, opened in 2007 was designed by hanrahan Meyers architects to bring together two older loft buildings with a contemporary bridging structure to create a 200,000-square-foot complex. The Center brings together Pratt's design disciplines — interior design, fashion design, industrial design, and communications design — under one roof that allows Pratt designers to better develop their creative processes. hMa principal Victoria Meyers was the lead designer for the project, completed in 2007.

rear courtyard: JCT Design Center (Pratt Pavilion) by hanrahan Meyers architects click here to view more photos of the Design Center on www.hanrahanmeyers.com

The Juliana Curran Terian Design Center has received numerous awards including Building Brooklyn Awards from the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, which recognize construction projects that enrich Brooklyn's neighborhoods and economy.

Click here to read the article in full at www.archinect.com

To view the full list of recogized colleges, please visit Architectural Digest's online slideshow at www.archdigest.com/go/campus
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
Urban Design: American Campus DesignJuliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion; Phase Four : Pavilion Construction – Timeline 2006

July 20th, 2009

hanrahan Meyers architects are showing their Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion in construction. To see the finished building, go to hMa's post of the same project, posted on this blog on July 23, 2009. The Pavilion is designed as a new 'front door' to two existing loft buildings on the Pratt campus. Prior to constructing the Pratt Pavilion, the front doors to the two loft buildings faced out toward the adjacent street. The Pavilion reoriented the entry toward the Pratt Campus.

Pratt Pavilion is phase one of a larger master plan for the Pratt Campus to reorient all buildings from having entry doors that open to the adjacent streets, to having entry doors that open to the Pratt Campus.

To see more about Pratt Pavilion, visit hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com. hanrahan Meyers architects specialize in producing green buildings and green master plans. At this time, the firm is also finishing their work on the sustainable and green master plan for Battery Park City's North Neighborhood. To see more about hMa's Master Plan for Battery Park City, visit hMa's website, or go to their blog posting dated January 9, 2009, or go to the hMa website, and click on 'Master Plans and Landscapes'.
Urban Design: American Campus DesignPhase Three: Experience – Timeline 2005 – 2006

July 20th, 2009

Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion

Phase Three: Experience – Timeline: 2005–2006

Final physical model. – Choosing Materials

Refining the use of natural light, adapting the gallery to art. – Framing Nature, toward the campus

Victoria Meyers architect for hanrahan Meyers architects. Green campus Design

In 2003 hanrahan Meyers architects were hired by Pratt Institute to design the Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion. Pratt Pavilion was commisioned to create a new 'front door' for two existing Institute buildings where Pratt Institute Pratt design programs are housed: Industrial Design, Fashion Design, Graphic Design and Interior Design.

To see more about Pratt Pavilion, go to hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com.

The images above present hMa's working process for designing the building. Images 1 and 2 (starting from the top) show hMa's earlier version of the building massing model. Images 3 and 4 show the final model, where hMa chose the final materials. Images 5 and 6 show hMa's computer model of the final building massing; Images 7, 8 and 9 show hMa's perspectives of the building interiors. Images 10 and 11 show computer images of hMa's final building massing and gallery interior.
Urban Design: American Campus Design Phase Two: Form – Timeline 2005

July 10th, 2009

Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion: Phase Two: Form – Timeline : 2005

hanrahan Meyers architects present their design studies for the Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion. The project opened to international acclaim in 2007. To see the finished building, visit hMa's post on the hMa blog dated: July 23, 2009. To read more about the Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion, visit hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com, click on 'projects' and go to 'educational spaces'.

The studies show the following, starting from the top of the post: hMa's initial water-color / massing study for the building design. This is the building's earliest study presented to the Pratt Institute Board. Next to that are two physical model studies, showing the massing for the building from the front and from above.

Below, hMa's massing study / isometric showing: the entry ramp / building ground plane; adding the stair and infrastructure; and adding the shapes of the two adjacent loft buildings. Pratt Pavilion was designed as a new 'front door' to a larger complex, the new Pratt Design Center. The Design Center connects together the floorplates of two large loft buildings, totalling 200,000 square feet. These buildings house all of Pratt's Design programs including industrial design, graphic design, interior design and fashion design.

Below the isometric are two of hanrahan Meyers' early perspective studies for the Pavilion's exterior and interior finishes. This collection of images were originally catalogued for hMa's winning entry in the Architectural League of New York's competition: Starts and Finishes.

Pratt Pavilion is the first building built on the main Pratt Campus as part of a larger master plan strategy to reorient the front facades and front doors of the campus buildings from neighboring streets, toward the main campus. When Pratt Institute was originally founded by the Pratt family, the central campus did not exist and was bisected by a street with a trolley. In the one hundred years since the Institute's original founding, the original street was de-mapped and removed, and Pratt formed an internal green campus to replace the street, around fifty years ago. Recently, the Institute has embarked on a cohesive master plan strategy to complete the School's orientation toward its central campus by turning the facades of the Insitute's buildings away from the surrounding streets, and toward the campus. hMa played a key role in this planning process, developing the first building to implement the new Master Plan.

To see more about hanrahan Meyers' master planning projects, visit hMa's website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com, and go to: Projects: masterplans and landscapes.
Pratt Pavilion in Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture

February 9th, 2009

hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) are honored to have the Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion featured in the recently published Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture.

The following is an excerpt from the book:

"This pavilion, a new focal point for the Pratt Institute campus in Brooklyn, NY, is used by the students and faculty to exhibit the work of (the) institute’s students. Clad with stainless steel and suspended between two existing industrial loft buildings on the main Pratt Institute campus, the project includes a glazed entrance lobby for the pavilion and the adjacent Steuben Hall and Pratt Studios. Behind the Juliana Curran Terian Design Center Pratt Pavilion, which includes the glass entrance and a new circulation bridge to the south, a new courtyard makes an outdoor room for informal meetings and classes in warm weather. The building is clad with hand-finished stainless steel panels, and the glazed north-facing facade looks towards the institute’s main quadrangle, with screens that pull down to darken the space for slides or videos. To the south, the pavilion bridge ramps east and west, creating a circulation zone which connects the Pratt Pavilion, Steuben and Pratt Studios. The courtyard and pavilion are designed to work together as a ventilation system. Windows on the south facade open to bring air from the courtyard through the pavilion, and out through windows on the north facade."

Second-floor gallery in the Pratt Pavilion; Pratt Institute main campus; Brooklyn, NY

click here to view or purchase the "Phaidon Atlas" on Amazon.com. To read more about hanrahan Meyers architects, visit our website: www.hanrahanMeyers.com.
Podcast of hMa lecture at the Architectural League

July 31st, 2007

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 .
Pratt Institute: Juliana Curran Terian Design Center Dedication Ceremonyminimalist public building design; pratt institute; educational architecture

April 10th, 2007

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.
Best Wishes for 2007

February 12th, 2007

stair

second floor gallery

hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) are pleased to announce the opening of the Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion. Pratt Pavilion is a focal point of Pratt's Brooklyn campus, and forms the focal point of the new Pratt Design Center. The project will be featured in an upcoming issue of Arquitectura Viva,was a featured project on Archidose, and will be featured on Architecture Week's weekly blog. The project is being featured in an upcoming Phaidon Press book on significant new architecture in Brooklyn.

hMa also will start construction on the Infinity Chapel, designed for the Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist congregation. Infinity Chapel is sited on the ground floor of an existing building one block North of Washington Square Park in Lower Manhattan. hanrahan Meyers redesigned the facade of the building with a floor to ceiling clear glass storefront, facing onto MacDougal Street. This project is a significant change for the Christian Scientist congregation, who are pursuing a very open, public image for their house of worship and Christian Science Reading Room. The Church hired hMa after discovering Victoria Meyers' book, Designing with Light, published with Abbeville Press in 2006.

For more details about the above referenced projects, please visit hMa's website : www.hanrahanMeyers.com

hMa donates a portion of the firm's income each year to Nature initiatives. This year, we are donating funds to the Conservation Fund, in support of their Wildlife Corridors initiative. This program creates natural zones through cities and towns, connecting wildlife movement between natural preserve areas.

hMa wishes you a successful 2007.