Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects LLP is a New York City-based design studio in architecture, urban design, installations and exhibitions, objects and products. Across the United States and abroad, SMH+ has designed public and private projects including museums, parks, transportation terminals, performing arts spaces, privates residences, government facilities, a series of museum exhibitions and installations, as well as furniture and objects.
The studio’s work derives inspiration from an ongoing investigation into contemporary culture, its history, and its complex changing relationship to society and contemporary ideas. The work process is transformative in the way it reinterprets basic programs and negotiates traditional craft with vanguard techniques. The office is a laboratory for speculation and making, for investigation and practice: two strands that are woven together in all of the projects from the initial concept to their final realization.
Projects throughout the U.S. and abroad include the Corning Museum of Glass, the US Land Ports of Entry at Champlain and Massena, NY, The Dillion - an 83 unit residential building in midtown Manhattan, an Emergency Medical Services Station in the Bronx for the Department of Design and Construction, an installation at the Museum of Modern Art, a ferry terminal for Lower Manhattan, and a new private residence in Sagaponac New York. Important cultural projects include The Museum of Women’s History, The Shilla Daechi Building in Seoul Korea, Robert Greenberg’s private residence which includes a collection of Outsider Art, the Frederieke Taylor Art Gallery in Chelsea and The Rotunda Gallery and Slide Registry for the Borough of Brooklyn. SMH+ has produced design proposals for invited competitions for NYC2012 Olympic Village, the Cincinatti Museum of Art, The New York Aquarium at Coney Island, Colorado Springs Academy K-12 School, the Mid-Manhattan Library of the New York Public Library, The American Craft Museum in New York and The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia.
Recent awards include The 2009 Art Commission of New York City Excellence in Design Award for the Bronx EMS Station, The 2008 Art Commission of New York City Excellence in Design Special Recognition Award for the expansion of the Hospital for Special Surgery, The 2008 Design Excellence Citation Award – On the Boards for the Land Port of Entry at Massena New York, The 2008 Chicago Atheneum American Architecture Award for the New York Aquarium of Coney Island, 2007 AIA New York Chapter Architecture Award for 53rd Street Residential Building New York, NY, McGraw Hill Construction Best of 2007 Award of Merit for the Port of Entry at Champlain, PA Design Award for Strategic Open Space: Public Realm Improvement Strategy for Lower Manhattan, an AIA New York Chapter Medal of Honor, The National Academy of Design Canon Prize for The New York Public Library Project, and The Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for Excellence in Art and Architecture.
Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects LLP
305 Canal Street
NYC NY 10013 USA
T 212 966 3875
F 212 966 3877
Laurie Hawkinson, partner
Henry Smith-Miller, AIA, partner
Starling Keene, senior associate
Christian Uhl, senior associate
Sean Gallagher, senior associate
Ruchika Modi
Daniel Reinhard
Lindsay Smith
Scot Teti
Katherine Wilson
Complete List2010
AWARDS
PUBLICATIONS
Chaban, Matt. “Height Issues.” Architect’s Newspaper, February 15, 2010.
Shannon, Kelly and Marcel Smets. “Wall Street Ferry Terminal.” In The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure, 242-243. Rotterdam: NAi, 2010.
2009
AWARDS
Merit Award in residential architect magazine’s Design Awards for the Smith-Miller + Hawkinson House at Sagaponac in the Custom Home, More Than 3,500 Square Feet category.
Art Commission of the City of New York Excellence in Design Award for the Emergency Medical Services Station in the Bronx for the Department of Design and Construction.
PUBLICATIONS
Hawkinson, Laurie. “Inside Outside/Frame and Frameless.” In Engineered Transparency: The Technical, Visual, and Spatial Effects of Glass, ed. Michael Bell and Jeannie Kim, 215-223. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.
“United States Land Port of Entry, Massena, New York.” In 2008 GSA Design Awards: Winning Projects, 50-51. Washington, D.C.: U.S. General Services Administration, 2009.
“House for a Film Producer.” GA Houses: Project 2009, no 109 (March 2009): 144-147.
Gregor, Alison. “Rising from the Rooftop: The Rock of TriBeCa.” New York Times, April 19, 2009, Real Estate section.
Filler, Martin. “Window, Mirror, and Prism.” Magazine Antiques, January 2009.
Shapiro, Julie. “That’s Not Origami, That’s a Tribeca Penthouse.” Downtown Express 21, no. 34 (January 2, 2009).
Drueding, Meghan. “Sagaponac House, Bridgehampton, N.Y.” Residential Architect 13, no. 2 (March/April 2009): 37.
Merkel, Jayne. “Rethinking the Aquatic Advenutre at Coney Island.” Competitions 19, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 20-29, 60.
“A new Face on The East River.” News from Friends of the Art Commission, Summer 2009, 5.
“Aesthetics of Crossing.” Architect’s Newspaper 7, no. 12 (July 8, 2009): 24.
Ouroussoff, Nicolai. “At Border Crossing, Security Trumps Openness.” New York Times, July 27, 2009, C1.
Brake, Alan G. “Sign of the Times?” Architect’s Newspaper 7, no. 14 (September 9, 2009): 10.
Kolbe, Jaffer. “For Security Reasons, We Can’t Tell You the Name of the Country You’re Entering.” Architectural Review, October 2009, 29-30.
Smith-Miller, Henry. “Element: Fireplace.” GA Houses, no. 112 (October 2009): 98-99.
“Pier 11.” In 101 Cool Buildings: the Best of New York City Architecture 1999-2009, Richard McMillan, 2. Charleston, SC: BookSurge, 2009.
2008
AWARDS
Art Commission of the City of New York Awards for Excellence in Design: Special Recognition Award for the expansion of the Hospital for Special Surgery
The Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award for the New York Aquarium at Coney Island Perimeter Vision Design.
U.S. General Services Administration Design Awards “On-the-Boards Architecture” citation for the Land Port of Entry in Massena, New York.
PUBLICATIONS
“Gallaher House.” GA Houses: Project 2008, no. 103 (March 2008): 180-183.
Eeman, Vivian. “Loft New-Yorkais.” Villas, no. 75 (February 2008): Section 10.
“Biblioteca Mid-Manhattan.” Future 10 Arquitecturas, January 2008, 30-31.
“Museo de la Historia de las Mujeres-Centro de Liderazgo.” Future 10 Arquitecturas, January 2008, 70-73.
“Nuevo Exterior para el Acquario de Nueva York.” Future 10 Arquitecturas, January 2008, 156-157.
“Villa Olympica NYC 2012.” Future 10 Arquitecturas, January 2008, 136-137.
McCullough, Janelle, ed. “Manhattan Transfer.” In View from the Top: Grand Apartment Living, 98-103. Victoria, Australia: Images Publishing, 2008.
Wright, Gwendloyn. Modern Architectures in History. London: Reaktion Books, 2008: pp. 237, 238, 242.
Frampton, Kenneth. American Masterworks: Houses of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries. Edited by David Larkin. New York: Rizzoli, October 2008.