Steven Holl Architect : Architecture Information + Images

Steven Holl Architects has realized cultural, civic, academic and residential projects both in the United States and internationally. Steven Holl Architects (SHA) is a 49 person architecture and urban design office founded in 1976, and working globally as one office from two locations; New York City and Beijing. Steven Holl leads the office with partners Chris McVoy (New York) and Li Hu (Beijing). Most recently completed is the Linked Hybrid mixed-use complex (Beijing, China). Steven Holl is a tenured Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. Designing The Hamsun Centre: A Lecture with the Architect Steven Holl Monday, October 5, 6:30 pm Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue at 38th Street, New York City) $10 The Knut Hamsun Centre opened in Hamarøy, Norway, in August of this year to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Hamsun's birth. Architect Steven Holl, who designed the centre, will delve into the concept behind it: "building as a body; battleground of invisible forces" and the 15-year process of actualizing the building. www.scandinaviahouse.org/events_lectures.html#hamsun New buildings, chronological: Glasgow School of Art Competition, Scotland : Steven Holl Architects wins image from GSA Knut Hamsun Center, Norway image courtesy of Steven Holl Architects Herning Center of the Arts, Denmark image from the architect Shenzhen 4 Tower in 1 Competition Master Plan, China image from the architect Loisium Hotel Alsace, France image from the architects Franz Kafka Society Center : Steven Holl photograph © A. Lhotakova D. E. Shaw Research, Manhattan Linked Hybrid, Beijing picture from the architects NYU Department of Philosophy - interior design, Manhattan photo from the architect Steven Holl Architects : 3 Awards at AIA NY Awards 2008 Hudson Yards New York : Masterplan image courtesy of Steven Holl Architects Swiss Embassy, Washington DC, USA photo © Andy Ryans University of Iowa building, USA photo © Andy Ryans Whitney Water Purification Facility, USA photo courtesy Steven Holl Architects Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA image from SGLA Danish Housing - Ørestad Copenhagen picture © Model - Steven Holl Architects / Photography - Iwan Baan Vanke Center, Shenzhen, China picture © Model - Steven Holl Architects Amsterdam Building - Sarphatistraat Offices, Netherlands photo : Alan Mason Chapel of St Ignatius, Seattle, Washington, USA photo courtesy Marialaura Polignano Pratt Institute Higgins Hall - addition, Brooklyn, New York, USA Princeton University - Design Arts Buildings, New Jersey, USA Loisium Hotel & Spa, Austria Nanjing Museum, China Chengdu Project, China - mixed-use complex to open in late 2010 Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland More projects by Steven Holl online soon Practice Information Steven Holl Architects Steven Holl Architects has realized cultural, civic, academic and residential projects both in the United States and internationally. Steven Holl Architects (SHA) is a 49 person architecture and urban design office founded in 1976, and working globally as one office from two locations; New York City and Beijing. Steven Holl leads the office with partners Chris McVoy (New York) and Li Hu (Beijing). Most recently completed is the Linked Hybrid mixed-use complex (Beijing, China), third on TIME magazine’s list of Architectural Marvels of 2007. Currently in construction are the Nanjing Museum of Art and Architecture (Nanjing, China), the Vanke Center (Shenzhen, China), Beirut Marina (Beirut, Lebanon), the Herning Center of the Arts (Herning, Denmark), Cité de l’Océan et du Surf with Solange Fabião (Biarritz, France), and the large mixed-use complex in Chengdu, China: the Sliced Porosity Block. In 2007 Steven Holl Architects opened the highly lauded Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri) and the Department of Philosophy at New York University (NYU). Recently the office has won a number of international design competitions including Sail Hybrid (Knokke-Heist, Belgium), Meander (Helsinki, Finland), the LM Harbor Gateway (Copenhagen, Denmark) and the new Center for Creative and Performing Arts for Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey). Steven Holl is a tenured Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. Education University of Washington, graduated 1970 Background to the Architect Holl was born in Bremerton, Washington, United States of America in 1947 Steven Holl Architects set up in New York in 1976 Teaching Position Columbia University 1981- Awards Time Magazine, 2001 - 'America's Best Architect' RIBA International Award 2007 - Swiss Embassy + University of Iowa Building European Hotel Design Award 2006 - Loisium Hotel & Spa Comment on a recent Steven Holl building The Simmons Hall building took a regular grid and punctured it with organic voids that added dynamism both to the interiors and to the facade. Colour is a key element in the aesthetic too. For me it reminds me of the postmodern Miami slab block building by Architectonic (?) which punctured slots - rectilinear though - in the regular facade fenestration grid and even included a palm tree in the largest void. Steven Holl Architects - key Buildings, alphabetical: Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, USA 1997 Berkowitz-Odgis House, Martha's Vineyard, Rhode Island, USA 1984-88 Chapel of St Ignatius in Seattle, Washington, USA 1995-97 College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture - Addition, Minneapolis, USA 1996 Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA - D. E. Shaw & Co. Office Building, New York 1992 Fukuoka Housing - Nexus World Kashii : Void Space/Hinged Space, Fukuoka 1989-91 GIADA Shop, New York 1987 Higgins Hall School of Architecture, Brooklyn, New York 1997 Implosion Villa, The Hague, Netherlands 1992 Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland 1993-98 Loisium Hotel, Langenlois, Austria 2003-05 with Irene Ott-Reinisch + Franz Sam Architects Medien-Hafen Buildings, Düsseldorf, Germany - Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Ingenhoven Overdiek, Claude Vasconi, David Chipperfield Architects; buildings coming soon by JSK, Jo Coenen, Fumihiko Maki Nelson Atkins Museum of Art - Extension, Kansas, Missouri, USA 2002-07 Offices, Düsseldorf-Hamm, Germany 1997 Planar House - Cottle Residence, Paradise Valley, Arizona, USA - Pool house & sculpture studio, Scarsdale, USA 1980-81 Pratt Institute Higgins Hall - addition, Brooklyn, New York 2006 Residential Complex, Makuhari 1992-96 Sarphatistraat Offices - Housing Corporation Het Oosten, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1996-99 Showroom Pace Collection, New York, USA 1985-86 Simmons Hall - undergraduate residence, MIT, Boston, USA 2000-03 Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York 1992-93 Stretto House, Dallas, USA 1990-92 Turbulence House, New Mexico, USA - Y House, Catskill Mountains 1997 Steven Holl - Project Museum of Modern Art: Extension New York 1997 MoMA Steven Holl - New York buildings in more detail Storefront for Art and Architecture - 1996 Steven Holl, Architects designed with Vito Acconci Pratt Institute Architecture School – Extension: Higgins Hall - 2005 Steven Holl Architects with Rogers Marvel Architects new building inserted between two 19th Century buildings 22,500 sqft More projects online soon Steven Holl Architects - outside USA Recent Projects include Cité du Surf et de l'Océan, Biarritz, France Steven Holl - contributions to Tom Kundig Houses