Piping Via the Fall Foliage, the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape is the latest addition to Olana’s New York State Historic Site: a generous and leafy expanse of rich herbal and eclectic landscape architecture, formerly the Frederic Edwin Church Landscape House (1826 (1826). – 1900). Opening this month in Greenport near Hudson, the Fresh Guest Middle designed through New York’s Office of Architectural Research Studio (ARO), is the first design to be added to the gorgeous resort from its original living owner.
The Middle Reception has been designed to be discreet and enrich visitors delight in their presence at the designated American landmark, which is the painter’s wider domain and his land, which were restored through Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects as a component of a component of a Master Plans Initiative.
The presence of the new construction was designed to feel sensitive from the outside, wrapped in glazing that does not contrast with the herbal backdrop. At the same time, expansive new interiors are directed to the developing public of the Olana site, allowing for orientation and schooling spaces, visiting programs, a café (opening in spring 2025) and others for visitors.
Aro created its design as a mass structure, respecting the surrounding nature and as a wink to the many mature trees that surround the plot. Meanwhile, the expansive glass walls were selected to be friendly with birds and combine through a dark red vertical wood. coating that echoes the context.
Aro, run through Stephen Cassell, Kim Yao, and Adam Yarinsky, founded in New York in 1993 and has a number of projects completed to its credits, several of which are in the public and cultural field, such as Frederic Church Center, but also adding an expanding portfolio of personal spaces such as the Bucks County space in Pennsylvania.
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Ellie Stathaki is the director of Architecture and the surroundings on Tapiz paper *. She formed as an architect at the University of Aristotle in Bessaloniki in Greece and studied the history of architecture in Bartlett in London. Now, established journalist, he has been a member of the Wallpaper team * Since 2006, he visited buildings around the global and interviewing main architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie also participated in trial panels, moderate events, arranged exhibitions and a book contribution, such as the contemporary house (Thames and Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sistig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).