New Pratt Design Center Christening Today
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…
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
What is sad is that they say all design deparments are in the new center. NOT TRUE. One dept is in a building that is falling apart.
Fugly…and I went to Pratt.
So much for pride in my Alma Mater…actually, never had any to begin with 😉
That looks like my house.
Fedders box, Pookie? The buildings to the left and right of the new building, which connects them, were respectively built in 1928 and 1925. Have you ever been in the buildings? How ’bout outside the buildings? Anywhere in the neighborhood? Feel free to spout off on topics you seem to know nothing about.
The exterior metal work was done here in Brooklyn 90+ year old architectural metal fabricator Milgo-Bufkin.
Good modern design? That’s an oxymoron.
Box on a Stick!! At least it’s…interesting.
I like this better than Higgins. It has its own identity, allows the two buildings to have theirs, and yet functionally pulls it all together. Higgins is pretty sharp too, especially at night, and I prefer the interior to the exterior. FYI, Hanrahan is the Dean of the School of Architecture.
I love the photos and look forward to checking it out in person. Bravo Pratt — keep up the great work. I also love the connector between Higgins and Adelphi Academy. The bricked walkway is one of the best parts about it, it establishes a visual connection between the two brick building in an unusual way, I also admire the curves and angles of the brick walkway.