Smith Kline & French
UPPER MERION TOWNSHIP, PA
Stadtportalhäuser
Design Competition Frankfurt am Main, Germany This unrealized project was located at the intersection of a major boulevard in Frankfurt and the edge of a large international exposition center. The program included an office building and museum for the Bosch Corporation, two speculative office buildings, and a hotel. The design was influenced both by the need to maintain an open park space and by the presence of an existing railroad bridge, road system, and exposition structures. Continue BackEssential to the project’s composition and image were the two similar wedge-shaped office buildings whose facades defined the gate and the dissimilar masses that extended from these facades to either side of the boulevard.
As the first European competition for our office, the scale and complexity of the architectural and urban resolutions represent a learning and research experience. The issues and strategies explored are an excellent resource for future investigations.
The Evans Partnership
Montvale, NY
The Evans Partnership
Paramus, NJ
The Evans Partnership
Parsippany, NJ
The Evans Partnership
Piscataway, NJ
Thomas & Betts Corporation
Raritan, NJ
Triangle Pacific Corporation
Dallas, TX
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Co.
World Headquarters New York, NY This fifty-two-story office tower houses the world headquarters of the international investment banking firm Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Co. Located in midtown Manhattan, the building reflects the aspirations of a traditional skyscraper to present an appropriately scaled public building at the pedestrian base and a strong silhouette on the skyline. Continue BackMorgan Stanley Dean Witter’s interior design includes executive offices, dining and meeting spaces, and boardrooms on the 40th and 41st floors, the main lobby on street level, and dining facilities for five hundred people on the lower level.
Interior Design, September 1996
Citicorp Center
Tower, Public Plaza and Atrium New York, NY The master plan for the landmark Citicorp Center in midtown Manhattan brings a new focus to the building’s image and revitalizes its public and retail spaces. The original entranceways to the Center were confusing, indicating the need for an unambiguous main entrance and improved site planning relationships. The outdoor plaza, for example, was formerly a sunken, unnavigable area composed primarily of steps. Continue BackCITICORP CENTER TOWER, PUBLIC PLAZA AND ATRIUM
New York, NY
The master plan for the landmark Citicorp Center in midtown Manhattan brings a new focus to the building’s image and revitalizes its public and retail spaces. The original entranceways to the Center were confusing, indicating the need for an unambiguous main entrance and improved site planning relationships. The outdoor plaza, for example, was formerly a sunken, unnavigable area composed primarily of steps.
By modifying it and allowing a substantial portion of it to exist at sidewalk level, the architects create a new “front door” to the Center from the Lexington Avenue and East 53rd Street corner. The design solution also enlarges the lobby space by deploying a circular form borrowed from the original geometry of the building. This allows the new plaza to be integrated with the existing lobby space and provides additional room for an open stair and a light well to the lower level, as well as clarified vertical circulation between lobbies.
A signage program was developed to articulate and emphasize the entrances and retail areas. Since the Citicorp Center is a modernist landmark of midtown Manhattan, great care was taken to assure that the revitalization
