The 14-story Ambulatory Care Center and Medical Education Building was conceived as a faceted, crystalline form, echoing the Neo-Gothic, stone architecture of the Weill Cornell Medical College campus. The building envelope is a glass curtain wall along the street-facing elevations and a brick and infill […]
Beit Avi Chai is a mixed-use cultural center in the heart of Jerusalem, dedicated to addressing major issues of thought and creativity in Jewish and Israeli Society. This four-story building responds to its location at the juncture of diverse neighborhoods, communities, and cultures with Jerusalem […]
The 165,000-square-foot presidential library, completed in 2004, anchors a restoration of Little Rock’s long-neglected warehouse district, evoking historical bridges across the river. The building is located within a 28-acre city park along the south bank of the Arkansas River. Conceived of as a glass-enclosed bridge […]
This complex intervention to MoMA’s existing midtown building featured 20 wall types and more than 30 types of glass and other finishes, such as black granite cladding and architecturally-exposed structural steel. The grand scale and minimalist aesthetic of the design for the 17-story Yoshio Taniguchi […]
Christian de Portzamparc’s prismatic 23-story LVMH Tower contains more than 45,000 square feet of custom-designed unitized curtain wall and stainless steel storefront. Heintges applied for and was granted the first-ever reconsideration by New York City’s Department of Buildings for integrated vertical fire separation based on an […]
The centerpiece of the Rose Center for Earth and Space exhibition is an 87-foot-diameter, 2,000-ton sphere that houses the Hayden Planetarium. The orb appears to float within a suspended glass cube, surrounded by scale models of planets and stars. The transparent clarity of the cube’s […]
Upon its completion in 1990, I. M. Pei’s Bank of China Tower was the tallest building in Asia, and Architectural Record called it “the most innovative skyscraper since Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building.” The eloquent realization of Pei’s singular design was made possible by […]
