The Smith-Miller + Hawkinson design for Louis Greco will be notable not just for its sliver size and scrim facades that are reminiscent of the scrim clouds on the balconies of HighLine 519 on West 23rd Street, but also for its 30-foot high wobbly picket fence on Bond Street
Link to Carter Horsley Article
22 Bond St.
1-28-2010
SMH+ Featured in Retooling Industrial Sites Exhibit
SMH+'s proposal for the Brooklyn Navy Yard Sands Industrial Building is featured in Infill Philadelphia's Retooling Industrial Sites Exhibit. The exhibit runs from February 5 through March 26, 2010.
SMH+'s proposal makes manifest, by design, the rigorous economies required for the production of material in the 21st Century. Inspired by the Navy Yard’s mission to be a national model for sustainable industrial parks and to establish the Yard as an attractive location for green manufacturers and businesses, our proposal offers a template for the future informed by the site and its history.
Link to Exhibit Information
1-26-2010
Hicks St. Apartment Building in AIA Exhibit
SMH+'s multi-family residential building at 322 Hicks Street in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District is featured in an AIA New York exhibit "Context/Contrast: New Architecture in Historic Districts, 1967-2009." The exhibit will run from October 6, 2009, through January 23, 2010.
Link to AIA Exhibit Information
PDF of press release
10-7-2009
Massena LPOE in the Architectural Review
The Massena Land Port of Entry is featured in the October 2009 Architectural Review. The article, by Jaffer Kolb, examines the recent removal of the "United States" signage.
PDF of article
10-7-2009
Louise Nevelson Plaza redevelopment nears completion
SMH+'s redesign of Louise Nevelson Plaza for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation is scheduled to be completed by spring 2010, and the SMH+-designed glass benches are expected to be installed by late November of this year. A mock-up of the benches was reviewed this morning (photo).
9-17-2009
Laurie Hawkinson discusses NY waterfront on Brian Lehrer show
Urban Waterfronts: From Shipping to Shopping
Laurie Hawkinson and Bert Hooijer, professor of applied science at Rotterdam University, discuss waterfront development in their respective cities on the Brian Lehrer radio show, as part of the H209 conference surrounding the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's arrival in New York harbor.
Link to radio clip
9-17-2009
The Architect's Newspaper discusses the recent removal of Massena Land Port of Entry's supergraphic signage.
Link to Article
9-17-2009
MESSAGING OPTIMISM ALONG THE US-CANADA BORDER
Julietta Cheung responds to Nicolai Ouroussoff NYT article “At a Border Crossing, Security Trumps Openness” concerning the removal of 'UNITED STATES' signage at Massena Land Port of Entry and places the argument within the context of SMH+ previous Land Port of Entry project in Champlain NY.
Link to Article
8-25-2009
'UNITED STATES' graphic was removed per Department of Homeland Security request at Massena Land Port of Entry (Border Crossing Campus). See New York Times Article link for reasons of removal. See Massena Land Port of Entry project page for photographs of the building as designed.
Link to New York Times article
Link to Project Page
8-20-2009
Ellen Lupton interviews Michael Bierut on Massena LPOE's graphic design
Ellen Lupton, curator of contemporary design at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, interviews Pentagram's Michael Bierut on the Massena Land Port of Entry's graphic design, and the recent removal of its signage.
Link to interview
8-13-2009
Review of SMH+ Border Station in New York Times
New York Times Architecture Critic reviews SMH+'s recently opened Land Port of Entry in Massena, New York, in the July 27 issue.
Link to Review
7-27-2009
Van Alen Exhibit of SMH+ LPOE Projects
AESTHETICS OF CROSSING: LAND PORTS OF ENTRY / CITIZENSHIP BY DESIGN will be on view at the Van Alen Institute from Wednesday, July 1 through Friday, July 24, 2009. Pairing projects by Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects and Kadambari Baxi and Irene Cheng, the exhibition examines border crossing points and the people who pass through them—provoking viewers to reconsider the physical and aesthetic dimensions of the ways that nation-states regulate and shape individuals’ movements, statuses, and identities.
Please visit the Van Alen Institute Web Site for more information.
7-7-2009
SMH+ honored with NYC Design Commission Award
SMH+’s EMS Station at 501 Zerega Avenue in the Bronx, a project for the Department of Design and Construction, received a 2008 Award for Excellence in Design from the NYC Design Commission. The awards will be distributed during a reception with the Mayor (tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, July 1st) at the New Museum.
Leonard St. "Rock of TriBeCa" in NYTimes.
The 78-80 Leonard Street penthouse was featured in the 19 April 2009 New York Times Real Estate Section.
SMH+ House exhibited in GA Tokyo gallery.
SMH+'s House for a Film Producer is featured in the "GA Houses Project 2009" exhibition at the GA Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. The exhibition runs from March 20 to May 31, 2009.
SMH+ recieves national design award. The Land Port of Entry in Massena, New York, received a citation for "On-the-Boards Architecture" at the biannual 2008 GSA Design Awards. The awards will be presented in Washington, D.C., on March 19.
GSA 2008 Design Awards Web site
6-8-2009
