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Located in New York City since
the founding of the practice in 1963, the Polshek Partnership is a
150-person firm known for architectural excellence and for its longstanding
commitment to cultural, educational, governmental and scientific institutions.
Projects have been published internationally and recognized with numerous
awards for design excellence, for their important contributions to
the cultural life of their cities and for the stabilization of their
precincts.
The seven partners proceed from the shared
belief that the most elegant architectural responses are both technically
and socially relevant to their time and place. Characterized by a
collaborative process, the architectural solutions are rooted in extensive
research involving the analysis of context, program, public image
and environmental and construction technologies. This commitment and
the resulting approach have led to the completion of hundreds of projects
that in their typological, geographical and formal diversity authentically
express the individual client's mission.
The firm has demonstrated success in
designing academic buildings, libraries, and museums, as well as the
ability to work in different scales and to integrate the old with
the new. In 1991 the firm renovated Smith College's Sage Hall, expanding
the music center's performance capabilities while maintaining the
integrity of its historic shell.
More recently, the firm's Rose Center
for Earth and Space at the Museum of Natural History in New York was
lauded by the New Yorker magazine as possibly "the most important
building of the decade" and by The New York Times as "an
intelligent design that will also appeal to broad public taste."
Partners Susan T. Rodriguez and James
S. Polshek were design principals for the Brown Fine Arts Center.
Selected buildings, in addition to the
Brown Fine Arts Center:
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American
Museum of Natural History, Rose Center for Earth and
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Brooklyn
Museum of Art Renovation and Expansion, Brooklyn, NY |
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Carnegie
Hall Renovation and Expansion and Zankel Hall, New
York, NY |
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Center
for the Arts Theater at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco,
CA |
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Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Museum, Drawings and Prints, New York,
NY |
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Copia:
the American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, Napa,
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Inventure
Place, Home of the National Inventors Hall of Fame,
Akron, OH |
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Mashantucket
Pequot Museum and Research Center, Mashantucket, CT |
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National
Museum of the American Indian Cultural Resources Center,
Suitland, MD |
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Newseum/Freedom
Forum Foundation Headquarters, Washington, DC |
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New
York Hall of Science Expansion, Queens, NY |
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The
New York Botanical Garden, International Plant Science
Center, Bronx, NY |
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Queens
Borough Public Library, Flushing Regional Branch, Queens,
NY |
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Sarah
Lawrence College, Monika A. and Charles A. Heimbold
Center for Visual Arts, Yonkers, NY |
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Scandinavia
House, The Nordic Center in America, New York, NY |
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Smithsonian
Institution, Arts and Industries Building, Washington,
DC |
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Stanford
University, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual
Arts, Stanford, CA |
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William
J. Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, AR |
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Yale
University Art Gallery Renovation and Expansion, New
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