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The REACH Wins AN Best of Design Award

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..
Hollander Design Wins Three Design Awards from ASLA Illinois

Hollander Design Wins Three Design Awards from ASLA Illinois

A City Rooftop, Waterfront Estate and Cultural Institution Win Design Recognition The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) chapter in Illinois has bestowed three honor awards on Hollander Design recognizing excellence in residential and cultural institution design. City Haven, Honor Award City Haven is the ultimate place of respite and recharge, floating high above city..
Hollander Design Wins Honor Award from ASLA Potomac

Hollander Design Wins Honor Award from ASLA Potomac

Hollander Design won the 2020 Honor Award for Built Design from the ASLA Potomac chapter for The REACH at Kennedy Center landscape design at the chapter’s virtual award ceremony on May 14. The award was the highest award given for a built project this year. Jurors applauded how the landscape, which is nearly all green..
Landscape Architecture Magazine Profiles Kennedy Center REACH

Landscape Architecture Magazine Profiles Kennedy Center REACH

The landscape’s 4.6-acre footprint in­cludes about 130,000 square feet of public gardens and paths, which offers year-round spaces for per­formances, strolling, and lounging, with a seasonal plant palette that be­comes a performance in itself. “This idea of seasonality translates nicely into the idea of the movements of a symphony, where we’re moving from high points to..
Architectural Digest Profiles The REACH at Kennedy Center

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..
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..