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Kennedy Center REACH Tour and Presentation

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..
New York Times – Fall Architecture Preview on Kennedy Center REACH

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..
New York Magazine Profiles Kennedy Center REACH

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..
Departures Magazine on Kennedy Center REACH

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..