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THE BARNES FOUNDATION The Barnes Foundation. Originally housed in a Paul Cret gallery in an arboretum in Merion, Pennsylvania, the Barnes Foundation collection is re-located to a 93,000 SF, LEED Platinum building on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in downtown Philadelphia. Conceived as “a gallery in a garden and a garden in a gallery,” the new building honors the NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE Neurosciences Institute. Location: The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Date of Completion: 1995. Program: Theoretical and Clinical Research Campus. Size: 56,000 SF. Sustainability: In 1996 the project was awarded the Energy Efficiency Integration Award from San Diego Gas & Electric. Awards: 1997 AIA National Honor Award, 1997 NYACE AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM The American Folk Art Museum was an idiosyncratic home for idiosyncratic art. A forty-foot-wide, one hundred-foot-long site on 53rd Street was the institution’s home. Completed in 2001, the eight-level building was the first new museum built in New York City in more than three decades. Four upper floors were devoted to gallery

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CRANBROOK NATATORIUM Over a period of twenty-five years, Eliel Saarinen designed the Cranbrook Educational Community. Now a National Historic Landmark, the school selected our studio to design an indoor competitive swimming pool that would integrate quietly with its rich architectural fabric. PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, PHASE 1 Phoenix Art Museum, Phase 1. The Phoenix Art Museum is a composite of several buildings constructed over a period of fifty years. Our project included the renovation and an addition to the existing civic art museum. Sited on Central Avenue, a long, flat thoroughfare which runs the full length of the city, the addition finds its presence from

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THE OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CENTER The Obama Presidential Center will be a campus and resource for collective civic engagement in Chicago’s South Side. Past Presidential libraries have often emphasized story-telling – enshrining past achievements – while the Obama Presidential Center will extend its reaches as a place for story-making. The Center is designed as a campus CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC ACTION The Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College is a gathering place for students, faculty, and professionals on the front lines of public action to confront what it means to make lasting change on the world’s most pressing problems. The site has views of the Green Mountains to the east, the meadow to the north, the pond TOD WILLIAMS BILLIE TSIEN ARCHITECTS The official website for Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects I

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THE BARNES FOUNDATION The Barnes Foundation. Originally housed in a Paul Cret gallery in an arboretum in Merion, Pennsylvania, the Barnes Foundation collection is re-located to a 93,000 SF, LEED Platinum building on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in downtown Philadelphia. Conceived as “a gallery in a garden and a garden in a gallery,” the new building honors the NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE Neurosciences Institute. Location: The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Date of Completion: 1995. Program: Theoretical and Clinical Research Campus. Size: 56,000 SF. Sustainability: In 1996 the project was awarded the Energy Efficiency Integration Award from San Diego Gas & Electric. Awards: 1997 AIA National Honor Award, 1997 NYACE AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM The American Folk Art Museum was an idiosyncratic home for idiosyncratic art. A forty-foot-wide, one hundred-foot-long site on 53rd Street was the institution’s home. Completed in 2001, the eight-level building was the first new museum built in New York City in more than three decades. Four upper floors were devoted to gallery

space for

CRANBROOK NATATORIUM Over a period of twenty-five years, Eliel Saarinen designed the Cranbrook Educational Community. Now a National Historic Landmark, the school selected our studio to design an indoor competitive swimming pool that would integrate quietly with its rich architectural fabric. PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, PHASE 1 Phoenix Art Museum, Phase 1. The Phoenix Art Museum is a composite of several buildings constructed over a period of fifty years. Our project included the renovation and an addition to the existing civic art museum. Sited on Central Avenue, a long, flat thoroughfare which runs the full length of the city, the addition finds its presence from

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THE OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CENTER The Obama Presidential Center will be a campus and resource for collective civic engagement in Chicago’s South Side. Past Presidential libraries have often emphasized story-telling – enshrining past achievements – while the Obama Presidential Center will extend its reaches as a place for story-making. The Center is designed as a campus CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC ACTION The Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College is a gathering place for students, faculty, and professionals on the front lines of public action to confront what it means to make lasting change on the world’s most pressing problems. The site has views of the Green Mountains to the east, the meadow to the north, the pond NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE Neurosciences Institute. Location: The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Date of Completion: 1995. Program: Theoretical and Clinical Research Campus. Size: 56,000 SF. Sustainability: In 1996 the project was awarded the Energy Efficiency Integration Award from San Diego Gas & Electric. Awards: 1997 AIA National Honor Award, 1997 NYACE NEW YORK CITY TOWNHOUSE New York City Townhouse. Location: New York, NY. Date of Completion: 1996. Program: House. Awards: 1998 XI Bienal de Arquitectura de Quito Mención, 1997 Architectural Record Houses Award, 1996 AIANY Architecture Award. Photographer: Michael Moran. This Upper East Side townhouse was designed for an active family life and art collection.

The

SKIRKANICH HALL

This building is both a gateway and a connector. Skirkanich serves as the formal entrance to the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS). Located in the heart of campus, Skirkanich sits between two historic structures by Paul Cret and Cope and Stewardson. The siting of the building creates a formal entry and central courtyard for SEAS. JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Jewish Theological Seminary. Location: New York, NY. Program: Academic and Dormitory Residential Program. Founded in 1886, the Jewish Theological Seminary is one of the premier Jewish institutions in the United States. The spiritual and academic center selected us to design a new building for its historic Morningside Heights campus to both CRANBROOK NATATORIUM Over a period of twenty-five years, Eliel Saarinen designed the Cranbrook Educational Community. Now a National Historic Landmark, the school selected our studio to design an indoor competitive swimming pool that would integrate quietly with its rich architectural fabric. CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC ACTION The Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College is a gathering place for students, faculty, and professionals on the front lines of public action to confront what it means to make lasting change on the world’s most pressing problems. The site has views of the Green Mountains to the east, the meadow to the north, the pond

HEREFORD COLLEGE

These new buildings share Thomas Jefferson's love of the landscape. Hereford College is sited on a hilly, wooded, ten-acre site. It consists of five dormitory buildings housing 525 students, a dining hall for 625 students, a faculty residence and a computer facility. The faculty residence sits at the top of the hill, the dining hill

anchors the

HOOD MUSEUM OF ART

Hood Museum of Art. Location: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. Date of Completion: 2019. Program: Museum. Size: 57,800. Photographer: Michael Moran. Designed by Charles W. Moore and Chad Floyd in 1985, the Hood Museum of Art is home to some 65,000 objects - among the largest and oldest college or university collections in the United States. SLOWLY (IMPROVING) VISION Slowly (improving) Vision. We wrote this essay as a continuation to Slowness in 1999 for the publication 2G. During a recent telephone interview, a student asked me to describe “our architectural vision.”. The question, asked by a person still in high school was so naïve as to be easily dismissed, yet so profound that I realized

it was

ASIA SOCIETY HONG KONG CENTER The Asia Society was founded in New York in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller III and is an educational organization dedicated to fostering understanding of the countries and cultures of Asia and to illuminating global issues that affect all regions. The Asia Society Hong Kong Center was founded in 1990 by a group of local Hong Kong

business leaders.

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NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE Neurosciences Institute. Location: The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Date of Completion: 1995. Program: Theoretical and Clinical Research Campus. Size: 56,000 SF. Sustainability: In 1996 the project was awarded the Energy Efficiency Integration Award from San Diego Gas & Electric. Awards: 1997 AIA National Honor Award, 1997 NYACE THE BARNES FOUNDATION The Barnes Foundation. Originally housed in a Paul Cret gallery in an arboretum in Merion, Pennsylvania, the Barnes Foundation collection is re-located to a 93,000 SF, LEED Platinum building on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in downtown Philadelphia. Conceived as “a gallery in a garden and a garden in a gallery,” the new building honors the AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM The American Folk Art Museum was an idiosyncratic home for idiosyncratic art. A forty-foot-wide, one hundred-foot-long site on 53rd Street was the institution’s home. Completed in 2001, the eight-level building was the first new museum built in New York City in more than three decades. Four upper floors were devoted to gallery

space for

PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, PHASE 1 Phoenix Art Museum, Phase 1. The Phoenix Art Museum is a composite of several buildings constructed over a period of fifty years. Our project included the renovation and an addition to the existing civic art museum. Sited on Central Avenue, a long, flat thoroughfare which runs the full length of the city, the addition finds its presence from

a

CRANBROOK NATATORIUM Over a period of twenty-five years, Eliel Saarinen designed the Cranbrook Educational Community. Now a National Historic Landmark, the school selected our studio to design an indoor competitive swimming pool that would integrate quietly with its rich architectural fabric. SLOWLY (IMPROVING) VISION Slowly (improving) Vision. We wrote this essay as a continuation to Slowness in 1999 for the publication 2G. During a recent telephone interview, a student asked me to describe “our architectural vision.”. The question, asked by a person still in high school was so naïve as to be easily dismissed, yet so profound that I realized

it was

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NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE Neurosciences Institute. Location: The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA. Date of Completion: 1995. Program: Theoretical and Clinical Research Campus. Size: 56,000 SF. Sustainability: In 1996 the project was awarded the Energy Efficiency Integration Award from San Diego Gas & Electric. Awards: 1997 AIA National Honor Award, 1997 NYACE THE BARNES FOUNDATION The Barnes Foundation. Originally housed in a Paul Cret gallery in an arboretum in Merion, Pennsylvania, the Barnes Foundation collection is re-located to a 93,000 SF, LEED Platinum building on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in downtown Philadelphia. Conceived as “a gallery in a garden and a garden in a gallery,” the new building honors the AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM The American Folk Art Museum was an idiosyncratic home for idiosyncratic art. A forty-foot-wide, one hundred-foot-long site on 53rd Street was the institution’s home. Completed in 2001, the eight-level building was the first new museum built in New York City in more than three decades. Four upper floors were devoted to gallery

space for

PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, PHASE 1 Phoenix Art Museum, Phase 1. The Phoenix Art Museum is a composite of several buildings constructed over a period of fifty years. Our project included the renovation and an addition to the existing civic art museum. Sited on Central Avenue, a long, flat thoroughfare which runs the full length of the city, the addition finds its presence from

a

CRANBROOK NATATORIUM Over a period of twenty-five years, Eliel Saarinen designed the Cranbrook Educational Community. Now a National Historic Landmark, the school selected our studio to design an indoor competitive swimming pool that would integrate quietly with its rich architectural fabric. SLOWLY (IMPROVING) VISION Slowly (improving) Vision. We wrote this essay as a continuation to Slowness in 1999 for the publication 2G. During a recent telephone interview, a student asked me to describe “our architectural vision.”. The question, asked by a person still in high school was so naïve as to be easily dismissed, yet so profound that I realized

it was

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THE BARNES FOUNDATION The Barnes Foundation. Originally housed in a Paul Cret gallery in an arboretum in Merion, Pennsylvania, the Barnes Foundation collection is re-located to a 93,000 SF, LEED Platinum building on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in downtown Philadelphia. Conceived as “a gallery in a garden and a garden in a gallery,” the new building honors the POOL HOUSE - TOD WILLIAMS BILLIE TSIEN ARCHITECTS Pool House. Location: Kings Point, NY. Date of Completion: 1988. Program: Indoor Pool Addition. Awards: 1989 AIANY Distinguished Architecture Honor Award, 1989 AIA National Honor Award. Photographer: Michael Moran. An interest in swimming and water therapy led our client to add an indoor pool to their original 1961 home. The

addition, accessed

CRANBROOK NATATORIUM Over a period of twenty-five years, Eliel Saarinen designed the Cranbrook Educational Community. Now a National Historic Landmark, the school selected our studio to design an indoor competitive swimming pool that would integrate quietly with its rich architectural fabric. CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC ACTION The Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College is a gathering place for students, faculty, and professionals on the front lines of public action to confront what it means to make lasting change on the world’s most pressing problems. The site has views of the Green Mountains to the east, the meadow to the north, the pond LEFRAK CENTER AT LAKESIDE In combination with a restored landscape and vastly improved park access, the LeFrak Center at Lakeside has become a destination for the Brooklyn community, New Yorkers, and visitors from out of town. This is the most ambitious project undertaken since Prospect Park first opened in the late 19 th century. It spans more than twenty-six acres

and

HEREFORD COLLEGE

These new buildings share Thomas Jefferson's love of the landscape. Hereford College is sited on a hilly, wooded, ten-acre site. It consists of five dormitory buildings housing 525 students, a dining hall for 625 students, a faculty residence and a computer facility. The faculty residence sits at the top of the hill, the dining hill

anchors the

ASIA SOCIETY HONG KONG CENTER The Asia Society was founded in New York in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller III and is an educational organization dedicated to fostering understanding of the countries and cultures of Asia and to illuminating global issues that affect all regions. The Asia Society Hong Kong Center was founded in 1990 by a group of local Hong Kong

business leaders.

LOGAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS Following a design competition, we were selected as architects for the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago. The building sits at the southern edge of the Midway Plaisance, a green space designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.

ON SLOWNESS

On Slowness. We wrote this essay in 1999 for the publication 2G. In an earlier edition of 2G devoted to Arne Jacobsen, Knud Aerbo, one of his former associates, spoke of Jacobsen’s office: "What we had when we worked with Arne Jacobsen: A drawing table—a 90 x TOD WILLIAMS BILLIE TSIEN ARCHITECTS | PARTNERS

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