This evening at 6 o’clock, Pratt Institute will christen the new Juliana Curran Terian Design Center, a stainless-steel-clad, projecting addition which unites the Pratt Studios and Steuben Hall into one 200,000 complex. Designed by hanrahanMeyers Architects, the $5 million “pavilion” includes a lobby, gallery, lecture space and courtyard. Here’s how the Pratt magazine Folio described the new structure:

The pavilion is an elevated, roughly rectangular volume of stainless steel and glass that floats above a new entrance plaza and projects into the main campus quad to the north. During the day south light enters the building from the courtyard to the south. At night, lighted images are projected onto the pavilion’s northern glass wall, which becomes one of several art installations on campus.

We think this is beautiful. Although one could be forgiven for thinking otherwise, it’s reassuring to see that good modern design is not entirely absent in Brooklyn these days.
Pratt to Dedicate New Design Center [Pratt Folio]
Juliana Curran Terian Design Center [hanrahanMeyers]
Juliana Curran Terian Design Center [Archidose]
30 in 30: #12 [Archidose Blog]
Photo by Archidose on Flickr