Stephen Holl Addition Opens at Pratt
October 4, 2005, Architectural Record — Steven Holl Architects’ new Higgins Hall Center Section opened at Brooklyn’s Pratt Insititute in September. Sandwiched between two landmarked brick buildings, the $10.5 million insertion adds a modern touch to the historic Clinton Hill district. The insertion connects the two wings of the hall, which house Pratt’s architecture school….
October 4, 2005, Architectural Record — Steven Holl Architects’ new Higgins Hall Center Section opened at Brooklyn’s Pratt Insititute in September. Sandwiched between two landmarked brick buildings, the $10.5 million insertion adds a modern touch to the historic Clinton Hill district. The insertion connects the two wings of the hall, which house Pratt’s architecture school.
Holl’s firm was hired for the job soon after a fire in 1996 burned down a building in the same location. The new 22,500-square-foot section is supported by six precast-concrete beams and enveloped in interlocking U-shaped, structural channel-glass backed with translucent white insulation. It joins two buildings whose floor heights are mismatched by an inch on one story and by almost five feet on another. Clear glass windows in the new section intentionally expose this so-called “dissonant zone, showing the ramps which connect the misaligned floor plates.
Another photo on the jump…
Holl Building Opens at Pratt [Architectural Record]
Holl Building Opens at Pratt [Business Week] GMAP
Photo by Brownstoner.
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I had the same reaction, not too interesting during the day, but at night I quite like it with the light shining through.
This building looks really nice at night. In the daytime it looks a little like a stack of freight containers, though.
My daughter (9) immediately saw the possibilities of skateboarding on the brickwork in front.
Roberta