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Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts / Machado and Silvetti Associates

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 28 May 2015 10:00:15 +0000

Project Siting

The Wellin Museum of Art / Machado and Silvetti Associates

Daniel Sánchez — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Wellin Museum is prominently sited on a corner lot, across the road from the Art History department and across a gracious lawn from the future Theatre and Studio Arts Building. This collection of art buildings around a reconstructed pond, designed with Reed Hilderbrand Associates, will create a new arts quad at Hamilton and help develop visual and pedestrian connections between the two sides of campus, a stated goal of the College. Working closely with the faculty, Machado and Silvetti Associates developed a design, which brings museum visitors directly from campus paths and outdoor sculpture areas through a monumental two-story glass archive hall that showcases the College’s unique collection. The building’s plan and massing follows a clear tripartite diagram, with the “cabinet of curiosities” entry lobby and archives at the center flanked by a gallery wing to the West and a service wing to the East. To put the workings of the museum on display, holding and receiving areas, archive spaces, administrative offices and seminar rooms are all visible through the object-filled glass cases. The richly textured, dark terracotta cladding of the central volume reinforces its key role in the program and composition.

The Chazen Museum of Art / Machado and Silvetti Associates

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 01:00:00 +0000

From the project’s earliest stages, the goal has been to create a strong physical connection and sense of continuity from the existing museum to the addition. Building on this initial concept, two other very important relationships that have been a focus of the project are the connection from outside to inside and from the addition’s entrance level to its main gallery level.

Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life / Machado and Silvetti Associates

Daniel Sánchez — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Center for Academic and Spiritual Life at New York University brings together students and scholars from a wide variety of religious backgrounds into one multi-faith and multi-function building on the NYU campus. This ambitious project, recently completed in January, 2012, provides multi-denominational sacred spaces to be shared by a multiplicity of faiths within a single facility.

Black Family Visual Arts Center / Machado and Silvetti Associates

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The Visual Arts Center marks the eastern entrance to Dartmouth’s campus and formalizes a mixture of significant buildings into a re-envisioned Arts District for the College. The 105,000 square foot building stretches along Lebanon Street where the institution engages the town of Hanover. At this intersection of the College and community, the project provides a formal lawn and hard-scaped Arts Plaza, which invites the public to participate in a renewed focus on the arts at Dartmouth. The Arts Plaza provides a formal entrance from Lebanon Street to the Hood Museum and serves as the centerpiece of the newly defined Arts District.