Victoria Meyers : Invisible Buildings

Victoria Meyers to participate in the first "Sustainable Cities Design Academy"

North End Avenue in Battery Park City's North Neighborhood for which hMa were Master Plan architects (photo: Paul Warchol); click here for more about this project on hanrahanMeyers.com

Victoria Meyers has been invited to participate as a Resource Team Member for the first Sustainable Cities Design Academy, a conference that is being hosted by the American Architectural Foundation.  Ms. Meyers was chosen as a Resource Team Member based on the expansive experience that her firm, hMa, has in the area of complex, Green and Sustainable Master Plans, as well as Landscape Designs.

Since 1997, hMa have been the official Master Plan Architects for Battery Park City’s North Neighborhood.  In that capacity, hMa has overseen the development and written guidelines for the design of the first Green high-rise residential development building in the United States.  When Battery Park City is built out it will include four million square feet of sustainable construction, with even its parks maintained without fertilizer.  In 2003 hMa were part of the team receiving an Environmental Excellence Award for the green planning and design which has set standards for green construction and planning throughout the United States.

Other master plans that hMa have overseen as designers include the design of Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York, as well as Pratt Institute’s Main Campus redesign.  At Pratt hMa was part of the team that redesigned the campus, and hMa also designed the first building that implemented the new master plan:  the Juliana Curran Terian Pratt Pavilion.  This building marked the first piece of a major redesign and rethinking of the Pratt campus.

Read more and see photos of hMa's Master Planning projects at hanrahanMeyers.com/masterplans

Read more about AAF and SCDA at www.archfoundation.org

Thomas Hanrahan in the Wall Street Journal article: "A Decade's Most Remarkable Homes"

hMa's HOLLEY HOUSE, 2005

Thomas Hanrahan was featured as a panel judge for the Wall Street Journal's "A Decade's Most Remarkable Homes" article featured in the Real Estate section of the December 25th, 2008 issue.

Their list of the top 5 "Most Remarkable Homes":

1. MAISON À BORDEAUX, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Bordeaux, France, 1998.
2. VilLA NM, UNStudio, Kenoza Lake, N.Y., 2007.
3. TYLER HOUSE, Rick Joy Architects, Tubac, Ariz., 2000.
4. VISITING ARTISTS HOUSE, Jim Jennings Architecture, Geyserville, Calif., 2003.
5. PICTURE WINDOW HOUSE, Shigeru Ban Architects, Shizuoka, Japan, 2002.

Commenting on VilLA NM, by architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, Thomas Hanrahan is quoted, "[it] takes the glass box and ties it in a kind of spatial knot. It's a test case as to what's possible when you apply the computer to architecture."

The panel included Mr. Hanrahan as well as Barry Bergdoll, chief curator of architecture and design, Museum of Modern of Art; Denise Scott Brown, principal, Venturi Scott Brown and Associates; Deborah Berke, principal, Deborah Berke & Partners Architects; Marianne Cusato, principal, Marianne Cusato Associates; Kenneth Frampton, professor of architecture, Columbia University; Gisue Hariri, principal, Hariri & Hariri Architecture; Steven Holl, principal, Steven Holl Architects; Robert Ivy, editor in chief, Architectural Record; Karrie Jacobs, founding editor in chief, Dwell Magazine; Michelle Kaufman, founder, Michelle Kaufmann Designs; Tom Kundig, principal, Olsen Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects; Thom Mayne, principal, mOrphosis Architects; Annabelle Selldorf, principal, Selldorf Architects; and Jennifer Siegal, principal, Office of Mobile Design.

click here to read the full article on Wall Street Journal.com