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Richard Meier - Latest Building Design Leblon Office Building Richard Meier & Partners image from architects Rio de Janeiro Office Building - 2 May 2012 Richard Meier & Partners is proud to announce their first project in South America. The new Leblon Offices will be a sustainable and state-of-the-art building in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The new office building located in the Leblon neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, will be the iconic new international headquarters for VINCI Partners in Brazil. The design scheme consists primarily of open office spaces and a series of terraces which open up and create a direct connection with the urban artery of Av. Bartolomeu Mitre. 15 Feb 2012 Richard Meier - Latest Building News Teachers Village Newark, New Jersey, USA picture © Richard Meier & Partners Teachers Village Newark Richard Meier & Partners is pleased to announce the groundbreaking of Teachers Village in Newark, New Jersey. The project will be a mixed-use development that will include two school buildings with three charter schools and a daycare center, rental apartments for Newark teachers, and 70,000 square feet of retail space. The project is envisioned to revitalize a large portion of the city’s downtown, create jobs and spur future development. 16 Jan 2012 Richard Meier - Latest Designs Mitikah Office Tower, México City image from architects Mitikah Office Tower The third project designed by Richard Meier & Partners Architects in Mexico. The new Mitikah Office Tower will be a state-of-the-art building in the Delegacion Benito Juarez in Mexico City. This skyscraper building will be part of a mixed use master plan designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and developed by IDEURBAN/IDCity from Mexico. 10 Oct 2011 Richard Meier - Exhibition Richard Meier Retrospective Exhibition New York, October 10, 2011 - Richard Meier & Partners is pleased to announce the opening of Richard Meier Retrospective starting Thursday, October 20th, 2011. photo : Scott Frances-ESTO The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO) presents a retrospective exhibition of some of the most emblematic works of renowned architect Richard Meier. The works on display included in the exhibition make it possible to view his design philosophy as a whole and in depth for the first time, with examples of nearly every type of work. Richard Meier Exhibition Richard Meier - Latest News Richard Meier to receive President's Award at AIANY'S 2011 Heritage Ball New York, October 4, 2011 - Richard Meier will be granted the 2011 President’s Award in honor of his significant influence on New York City. The President’s Award is given by the AIA New York Chapter to an architect whose work has made an important impact on New York City. Past recipients include Philip Johnson, I.M. Pei, and Henry Cobb. Looking northeast at 165 Charles Street and its neighbors 173 and 176 Perry Street, New York, by Richard Meier & Partners Architects: photograph : Scott Frances Richard Meier will be distinguished with three other honorees who have demonstrated a commitment to the importance of design in New York City and beyond. Gary Barnett, President of Extell Development Company will receive the AIA New York Chapter Award; Leslie Koch, President of The Trust for Governors Island will be granted the Center for Architecture Foundation Award, and Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner of New York City Department of Transportation will be honored with the Center for Architecture Award. The award reception will be at the Heritage Ball in New York City at the Chelsea Piers. For more information about the event and for tickets to the ceremony, please visit www.aiany.org/heritageball or contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Richard Meier - Latest Design New Royal Alberta Museum - design, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2011 image from architects New Royal Alberta Museum Richard Meier - Building Award Coffee Plaza, HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany photo : Klaus Frahm, courtesy of Richard Meier & Partners Coffee Plaza Richard Meier & Partners Architects Wins American Architecture Award for Coffee Plaza New York, August 30, 2011 – Richard Meier & Partners Architects has been awarded the American Architecture Award 2011 for Coffee Plaza in Hamburg, Germany. Richard Meier - Design Ana Watch photographs from Richard Meier & Partners Richard Meier Designs New Watch for Projects Watches New York, New York, August 2, 2011 – Pritzker Prize winning architect Richard Meier has designed a new wristwatch in collaboration with the Markuse Corporation. For nearly 30 years the Markuse Corporation/Projects has dedicated itself to celebrating the role architecture and design play in our daily lives. From its very first watches, designed by icons of twentieth century architecture, Projects has brought a new face to the telling of time. This new design with Richard Meier for the Ana Watch becomes part of the prolific collection of objects designed by the architect. The design of the watch adheres to a modernist vocabulary, focusing on proportion, human scale and the manipulation of a strong geometry. “Working on various designs of objects used in daily life, such as watches, I am conscious of participating in a tradition of architects that worked in a variety of scales such as Joseph Hoffmann and Frank Lloyd Wright. In my case, the theoretical point of departure is consistently related to function and beauty,” said Richard Meier. The Ana Watch measures 38mm in diameter (1.50”), and is made of a stainless steel, complimented by either a 20mm (3/4”) charcoal gray or white leather band. The model number of the Ana with Gray band is 6020 L and the model number for the white leather banded version is 6020 W. It is available at most museum stores worldwide and online at www.projectswatches.com Richard Meier - Latest Designs Mutated Panels, Milan, Italy 2011 photograph courtesy of Andres Otero & Saverio Lombardi Vallauri Mutated Panels Richard Meier Model Museum, Long Island City, NY, USA 2011 photo courtesy of Scott Frances Richard Meier Model Museum W Hotels, Mexico 2011- rendering : Vize.com W Hotels Mexico Jesolo Lido Condominium Buildings, Venice, Italy 2011- rendering : DBOX Jesolo Lido Condominium Richard Meier - Recent Buildings Rothschild Tower, Tel Aviv, Israel 2011- rendering: DBOX Rothschild Tower Richard Meier - Key Projects Featured Buildings - Photos, links below photographs © adrian welch Museum of Arts and Crafts Frankfurt; Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art Richard Meier Architects - Building News Buildings by Richard Meier & Partners, Architects LLP added 1 Apr 2010: Jesolo Lido Village, Condominium and Hotel, Jesolo, Italy 2003-10 photo : Roland Halbe Jesolo Lido Village Weill Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA 2001-08 image : Scott Frances, ESTO Weill Hall Cornell University Richard Meier Lecture, USA : UB School of Architecture & Planning Buffalo, NY - 2010 Hans Arp Museum, Bahnhof Rolandsdeck, nr Cologne, Germany 2007 photo : Roland Halbe Richard Meier - Hans Arp Museum Key Richard Meier Buildings Designs, chronological: Smith House, Darien, Connecticut, USA 1964-67 House, Old Westbury, Nassau County, Long Island, New York, USA 1968-71 Douglas House, Harbor Springs, Michigan, USA 1971-73 Shamberg Residence, at Chappaqua, New York, USA 1972-74 The Atheneum, at New Harmony, Indiana, USA 1975-79 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 1980-83 Museum of Decorative Arts, Frankfurt, Germany 1981-84 Westchester House, Westchester County, New York, USA 1984-86 Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain 1987-95 Hague City Hall and Central Library, The Hague, Netherlands 1986-95 The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, USA 1984-97 Richard Meier Buildings (chronological): Hoffman house, Hampton, New York, USA 1967 Giovannitti House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 1983 Siemens Facility, Munich, Germany 1985-95 Canal+ Headquarters, Paris, France 1992 Rachofsky house, Dallas, Texas, USA 1995 173/176 Perry Street, New York, USA 2002 Jubilee Church, Rome, Italy 2003 Ara Pacis Museum, Rome, Italy 2006 Jubilee Church, Rome, Italy: photo : Scott Frances-ESTO Richard Meier - RIBA Gold Medal 1988 Winner Featured Richard Meier Architecture We have text and images online for four projects by American architect Richard Meier - in the USA, Spain, Germany & Scotland Richard is adept at creating sculptural white buildings that pay homage to Le Corbusier but move the Modernist language forward. Richard started out with a large, beautiful houses in the US - such as the Smith House in 1966 - but soon was producing well-respected buildings across the world. I visited his Frankfurt building - Kunsthandwerk Museum - whilst at University and it was a key piece of Modern architecture within our studies: the clash of grids was fresh and attractive and the sophisticated handling of disjuncture of form left other equally famous architects in the shade. The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, USA 1997 Richard Meier & Partners photo © Alice McRae Getty Center Building This project is a well known building, later in Richard's genre, and I think can be seen as a perfection of his style. It has progressed from the earlier house 'studies in neo-Modernism' but unlike larger, later Richard Meier projects - such as at The Hague - it has lost none of the scale and craftmanship of the earlier houses Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain 1995 Richard Meier & Partners picture © adrian welch Richard Meier Building in Barcelona Typical Richard Meier building with rectilinear elements expressed in his trademark white metal panels and key elements expressed in white render as organic forms in plan. Meier has created lyrical forms here and the building appears successful when view from many angles. It could be argued that Richard Meier should have engaged more with the context of Barcelona architecture as the building appears on some levels to be similar to ones he´s designed for other cities. However the pure whiteness is a joy to behold in the scruffy backlands off La Rambla and the importance of the building suggests breaking the texture of Barcelona is appropriate. Frankfurt Museum of Applied Arts, Germany 1985 photograph © adrian welch Kunsthandwerk Museum The Museum of Decorative Arts in Frankfurt, one of Richard's seminal buildings, as he perfected his use of disjuncture in a non-domestic setting, and out of his own country, the result was widely reported and much-visited. Edinburgh Park Masterplan, Scotland 1993- image from developer Richard Meier Masterplan Not a building but a masterplan for what could be termed a business park, but Edinburgh Park is more a landscape with offices than a traditional edge-of-town business zone. This development was masterplanned by Richard Meier Architects (with local assistance by Campbell & Arnott). More projects by Richard Meier & Partners online soon

Richard Meier - Practice Information

Richard Meier & Partners, Architects LLP - Offices

Architect studios based in New York and Los Angeles, California, USA

Richard Meier

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Richard Meier & Partners : Further Information on the architects - Biographies

Richard Meier - Background

Meier was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1934. In 1957 he graduated from Cornell University, USA. Richard worked for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill Architects and also Marcel Breuer Architect. His practice started in 1963.

Meier was a member of the "New York Five", famous for purist white neo-Corbusian architecture.

New York Architects

Richard Meier influence - Marcel Breuer Architect

Richard Meier - Awards

Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1998
American Institute of Architects Gold Medal, 1997

Former Richard Meier practice - SOM : Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Architects

Richard Meier - Pritzker Prize winner 1984

Member of the 'New York Whites', titled in 1969:
Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk, Richard Meier

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