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December 9, 2020 Awards

The REACH Wins AN Best of Design Award

The REACH at Kennedy Center Named Best Cultural Project of 2020 As a “living memorial” for President John F. Kennedy, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts takes an active position among the great presidential monuments in Washington, D.C. Through public events and stimulating art, the Kennedy Center offers a place where the community can..

October 28, 2020 Awards

Hollander Design Wins Stanford White Award

Hollander Design has won the 2020 Stanford White Award in landscape design from the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art (ICAA) for The Belnord Courtyard on Manhattan’s upper west side. The renovation restores the spirit of one of New York City’s first landmarked landscapes into a jewel of classically inspired garden design. We were so..

August 28, 2020 Press

Architectural Digest Features The Belnord Courtyard

A New Garden Grows Within an Iconic New York City Building Read the article. The Belnord is a stunning turn-of-the-century apartment house designated as a local and national landmark. Re-envisioned as a ‘personal palazzo’ in the midst of Manhattan’s bustling upper west side, this full-block luxury condominium development has been designed by an architectural team..

October 23, 2019 Press

Architectural Digest Profiles The REACH at Kennedy Center

Masterminded by Steven Holl and Edmund Hollander, a thoughtful expansion breathes fresh life into D.C.’s Kennedy Center. The REACH creates new ways to experience the performing arts. A new, 130,000 square foot campus integrates indoor with outdoor, landscape with architecture. We are thrilled to see this landscape design recognized by Architectural Digest, as well as The New..

September 19, 2019 Events

Kennedy Center REACH Tour and Presentation

Chris McVoy of Steven Holl Architects and Edmund Hollander gave a sold-out tour and presentation at the Kennedy Center REACH on October 2 The ICAA Washington Mid-Atlantic and AIA|DC chapter hosted Chris McVoy (Senior Partner and Design Architect for Steven Holl Architects) and Edmund Hollander for a sold-out tour and conversation about the REACH at..

September 13, 2019 Press

New York Times – Fall Architecture Preview on Kennedy Center REACH

The New York Times highlights Kennedy Center REACH as a project that softens barriers between architecture and landscape. Sometimes this means erasing boundaries between indoors and outdoors, buildings and environment. Instead of the man-made and the organic jockeying for position or dominance, they are sharing each other’s territory. And occasionally they seamlessly fuse, each transforming..

September 11, 2019 Press

The Atlantic’s CityLab on Kennedy Center REACH

The Atlantic's CityLab Reviews the REACH at Kennedy Center

August 27, 2019 Press

New York Magazine Profiles Kennedy Center REACH

“A grove of 35 gingko trees pay tribute to the 35th president, and a mahogany deck evokes the one on PT-109, the torpedo boat whose destruction turned Kennedy into a hero of World War II. The indoor spaces start below Stone’s temple and stretch beneath the south plaza. From that buried arm, three fingers poke..

August 15, 2019 Press

Departures Magazine on Kennedy Center REACH

Expansion Fuses Architecture and Landscape “[Stephen] Holl’s firm won a competition to design the expansion in 2013, but rather than keeping to the brief—a single structure adjacent to the main building—he and the firm’s senior partner, Chris McVoy, had a different idea: “Instead of an ‘object’ building,” Holl says, “I thought of pavilions with natural..

May 28, 2019 Press