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2008 Dallas AIA Design Awards

Thom Mayne's Caltran Distric 7 Headquarters, 2004, Los Angeles, CA

MoMA, New York, NY

Foster and Partners' Hearst Towers, New York, NY

Next month, on September 17th and 18th, Victoria Meyers will participate as Juror Chair for 2008 Design Awards Program at The Dallas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. 

 Joining Victoria as part of the Unbuilt Project Jury is Edward Keegan, AIA, Associate Editor of Architect Magazine, and Andres Lepik, curator of contemporary architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne, FAIA, of Morphosis Architects, Rick Clarke, AIA, of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca and James McGrath of Foster + Partners will make up the Built Project Jury.

For more information about the 2008 Design Awards please visit  www.aiadallas.org.  For more information about hanrahanMeyers architects please visit our website at www.hanrahanmeyers.com.

New on hMa Website : hMa Research

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. 

New on hMa Website : hMa Store

The hMa store features hMa's custom furniture pieces for sale by hMa and others.

'Waterfall Table' designed by Victoria Meyers is available through the hMa store.

'Topo Table,' designed by Victoria Meyers and seen here in the conference room at hMa, is exclusively available through the hMa store

hMa in Hampton Style Magazine

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.

hMa has experience working in the Hamptons.  Currently the firm is working on a house in Amagansett, which will include state-of-the-art green technologies, including solar panels, and geo-thermal heating and cooling, and will be built using Forest Certified sustainable wood products.  hMa is also one of the architects chosen to be part of the 'Houses of Sagaponac'.

Dune House

Original model for Sagaponac House; now in re-design

hMa's Holley HouseArquitectura Viva (No. 127, 2007)

hMa’s Holley House was featured in AV Monographs (No.127) for 2007 (published summer 2008) as part of the publication’s focus on The Natural House

“The 650 square meter house in the town of Garrison, New York is planned around the contrasting spatial experiences of landscape walls and horizontal decks and roofs.  Two parallel walls extend in the direction of the access path and separate the two living pavilions, made of horizontal decks that cascade up and down following the slope of the site.  These walls seem to emerge directly from the ground to create a sequence of interior spaces, bathed by the light proceeding from precise openings that also frame the views of the landscape.” 

“When crossing the house from east to west the itinerary begins at the master bedroom, descends through a flight of stairs until reaching a space delimited by two solid walls that accommodate the guest bedrooms, and extends the views towards a small pond.  From the north down, the itinerary would begin at the road, continue through the guest bedroom wing and end at the swimming pool that is detached to the south.  The point of intersection of these two itineraries marks the position of the main entrance.  The house is constructed from steel and wood framing, thinly cut limestone blocks, cedar siding and maple flooring and millwork.”

To contact hMa, call our New York office: 212 989 6026.  For more information about  hMa please visit our website at www.hanrahanmeyers.com.

Public Building DesignhMa Archive : Red Hook Center for the Arts

In 2004 hMa’s Red Hook Center for the Arts opened to the public.  The building is located in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn.

In the design of public buildings it is often the small details that make the building.  Red Hook CFA is a building with a series of surfaces brushed with light.  Featured below are a series of vignettes from the building’s entry sequence, demonstrating the building’s unique relationship to natural light.

hanrahanMeyers is a New York based architectural firm specializing in modernist, minimalist buildings that incorporate nature and light.  hMa is currently designing a new platinum LEED certified building adjacent to Ground Zero.

If your organization is looking for sophisticated, cutting edge design that incorporates green technologies, hMa is a fully staffed architectural firm with a reputation for designing award-winning buildings utilizing state-of-the-art green technologies. In today’s environment, not-for-profit organizations as well as for-profit businesses are searching for ways to bring the latest green technologies to their projects for practical as well as philosophical reasons.

 To contact hMa, call our New York office:  212 989 6026.  For more information about hMa, please visit our website:  www.hanrahanMeyers.com. 

Museum Design (hMa Archive)

Ideogram Perspective Model of Museum Concept

Site Plan

Perspective View

Bird's Eye View

hMa were one of four architects selected to redesign the Queens Museum of Art.  hMa's design created a cutting-edge image for the museum, and was featured on the cover of Concept magazine (No. 37) as the most innovative solution for the museum from the competition entries.  For more information about the Queens Museum of Art, visit http://hanrahanmeyers.com. 

Battery Park City Community Center

Bird's eye view from above

Glass arcade at dusk

Walking Along the Glass Arcade, BirdSong to Right

Detail view of stair

Entry Lobby  

hMa is pleased to share these newly developed renderings of the Battery Park City Community Center.

About the Battery Park City Community Center project:

The primary architectural feature of the new platinum LEED-rated Battery Park City Community Center is a 500-foot long glass ‘Wall of Light’ situated at the base of two new residential towers in Battery Park City’s North Neighborhood immediately north of Ground Zero. The wall will feature an installation of LED lights designed by hanrahanMeyers architects with Tillotson Design Associates, illuminating a sound composition by New York composer Michael Schumacher. The wall is a public promenade and demonstration of the passive energy systems fueling the new Community Center. Facing inside the center, the wall unifies a diverse program of swimming pools, a gymnasium, theater, classrooms, and recreation and dance spaces, while bringing natural light into all of the primary spaces. It is scheduled to be completed by 2010.

Photos : Spring hMa Client Event

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

New hMa Website

hanrahanMeyers architects is pleased to announce the launch of the new hMa website.

Please visit the site at www.hanrahanMeyers.com and let us know what you think!