 The Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture was created from a 49,000 square foot complex of Norman-style barns which were converted to an educational center, offices, and a restaurant. Originally designed by Grosvenor Atterbury, the barns were built in the early 1930s by Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. near Kykuit, the Rockefeller Estate. The Center is now part of an 80 acre non-profit farm and nature preserve developed by David Rockefeller, Sr., his daughter Peggy Dulany and D.R. Horne &amp; Company. Machado and Silvetti Associates was charged with creating order and cohesion across the rambling complex of buildings and fields on the site. The adaptive reuse includes a number of visitor services elements: reception and gift shop areas, orientation lobby, caf&eacute;, dining patios and a formal restaurant as well as special event, classroom and exhibit spaces within the former barn structures. These spaces were designed to embody and reinforce the Center`s mission to &ldquo;demonstrate, teach and promote sustainable, community-based food production.&rdquo; The renovated spaces within and around the Stone Barns seek to support this mission through their flexibility, material choices and connections to the surrounding landscape. The powerful presence of stone-informed materials throughout the project includes white oak stained to match the original chestnut, stained concrete and slate. Conference and classroom spaces are easily divisible to suit smaller or larger groups, while outdoor spaces can accommodate informal gatherings of students or visitors. New interventions were designed to be light and transparent, with simple, minimal detailing. Most of the interior spaces connect to adjacent exterior ones, while substantial windows allow for views of the surrounding Hudson Valley landscape. The larger landscape and site planning included demonstration gardens, used as part of the Center`s educational mission, and a multi-acre greenhouse, developed with Eliot Coleman, which operates year-round. Although the client elected not to pursue LEED accreditation, many principles of LEED are evident in the project. These include: preserving the existing barn structures, as well as using a palette of natural, durable materials and high-efficiency MEP systems. 

Rockefeller Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture

Aaron Burr promised Latrobe he would win the competition to design NY City Hall in 1802. But, Joseph Francois Magnin &amp; John McComb Jr won the $350 prize, becoming the oldest continuously occupied City Hall in America since completed in 1811.French Renaissance plus Federal equals this massive administrative and legislative structure. It houses the City Council and the Mayor's Office, with New York's first and most beautiful (now former) subway station buried right beneath it.

Mullets Monstrosity, City Hall, Park Row and City Hall Park.&amp;nbsp;The structure on the right is the Manhattan station for the cable cars which ran across the Brooklyn Bridge.  

McComb Architectural Drawing Collection, Collection of the New-York Historical Society

New York City Hall

 At the statue of Nathan Hale in City Hall Park, Kaplan discusses Hale's life and significance, and the history of City Hall. 

An American architect, urban planner and writer. He studied at Yale University, where he was an editor of campus humor magazine The Yale Record After travelling in Europe, he studied architecture at Columbia University and worked in the offices of McKim, Mead &amp; White.

Grosvenor Atterbury

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