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Quad from within the bark-covered Orientation Center threshold. © Richard Barnes
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Quad from within the bark-covered Orientation Center threshold.
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Tilt-turn windows from 5th Ave/13th St. © Michael Moran
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Window lounge + sliding monitors. © R+L
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Quad ramp + diagrid glazed roof. © Michael Moran
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13th Street entry with cantilevered graphic identity canopy. © The New School
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Custom diagrid glazed roof at campus Quad. © Richard Barnes
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Meeting Niche + Kellen Gallery. © R+L
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13th Street entry + graphic canopy. © Michael Moran
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View of new Mesh elevator enclosure, Meeting Pod, and Quad beyond - all located in a former trash alley. © R+L
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Cantilevered Meeting Pod overlooking the Campus Quad. Pod is located in a former housekeeping closet space. © Michael Moran
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13th Street glazed entry passage. © R+L
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Kellen Gallery tilt-up ceiling. © R+L
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Kellen Auditorium. © Noah Sheldon
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Auditorium pivot-pedestal + wood-glow graphic. © R+L
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Kellen Archives overview. © Michael Moran
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Orientation Center bamboo shell. © Michael Moran
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Street level floor plan. © R+L
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Parsons-City connectivity and sectional diversity diagram. © R+L
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Yellow poplar bark detail. © Richard Barnes
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CNC-milled acoustic/graphic wall detail. © Richard Barnes

SHEILA JOHNSON DESIGN CENTER

The New School/Parsons School of Design, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Proposal 2003
Project 2004-06
Completion 2006-08

The Sheila Johnson Design Center unites the four buildings that comprise the campus of Parsons School Design at The New School and organizes a range of shared spaces around a new urban quad. New entries on Fifth Avenue and West 13th Street connect internally to provide access to the center's new auditorium, galleries. archives center, student critique area, orientation center. and meeting rooms.

Stripped to expose its substantial concrete encased steel structure, the buildings' character provides a raw and varied industrial context for new. more refined architectural interventions. A new transparent facade of deep set windows that wrap 250 feet around the complex's perimeter frames student work within. Made possible through the generous gift of Sheila
C. Johnson, the Center recognizes the urban context of the institution, reflects The New School's commitment to the new, and places on view to the street the innovative work being produced at the University.

Winner of the 2009 International Architecture Award (The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture & Design & The European Centre for Architecture), 2009 National AIA Honor Award, 2009 National Society for College & University Planning (SCUP) Excellence Award, 2008 AIANYS Award of Excellence, 2008 National SARA Professional Design Award of Excellence, 2008 AIANY/Boston Society of Architects Biennial Honor Award, 2008 Municipal Arts Society of NY Masterwork Award, 2009 AIANY Merit Award & the 2008 SARANY Design Award.

Lyn Rice Architects
Principal: Lyn Rice
Associate: Astrid Lipka
Project Manager: Kimberlae Saul; Project Architect (SD): Leif Halverson
Team Leaders: Karl-Erik Larson, Anne-Rachel Schiffmann
Project Team: Kai Hotson, Julie Torres Moskovitz, Pamela Torres, Erik Carver, Jonathan Garnett, Joanna Gulik

Structural: Buro Happold
Geotech: Langan
Environmental: Buro Happold
Facade: Front
Lighting: Richard Shaver Architectural Lighting
Acoustics: Cerami
Audiovisual: Cerami