Andrew Berman Compilation

 The Stapleton Branch of The New York Public Library, which originally opened in 1907, is located on Canal Street, near the center of Stapleton Village and adjacent to Tappen Park and the Old Village Hall. The graceful, single story, brick and limestone building was constructed with funds provided by Andrew Carnegie. It was designed by Carr&egrave;re and Hastings. It was closed in 2010 for extensive expansion and renovations, and reopened in on June 11, 2013 to great fanfare. Today the Stapleton Branch continues to be a center of community life. The branch serves its diverse neighborhood by presenting programs for all ages, providing access to computer technology and lending books, magazines and other media to inform, educate, and entertain. 

SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit arts institution dedicated to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture. SculptureCenter commissions new work and presents exhibits by emerging and established artists. Their galleries and offices are housed in an early twentieth century industrial structure that was built for the maintenance of locomotives.

Andrew Berman designed a new entry building for ticketing, orientation, a bookshop, facilities, and vertical circulation. This structure will be the nexus between arrival and the galleries. New space for exhibiting work is being created and the existing exhibit spaces are to be improved. An exterior courtyard for exhibiting work is to be formed by bounding exterior space between the new and existing buildings. The galleries in the vault spaces under the main hall will be renovated to become accessible exhibit spaces.

Robust materials that speak to the existing building and industrial neighborhood and natural light used to extend the distinct atmosphere of SculptureCenter.

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For MoMA PS1 Andrew Berman designed a building to be used for entry, ticketing orientation, and art display to be located in and of the first open courtyard of the museum complex. Visitors to the museum will enter in, and then pass through this building out into the main courtyard of MoMA PS1 on their way to the galleries.

The approach to this project was to work from the specific and distilled nature of the site itself; the geometry, materials, and its direct presence. The construction is of cast concrete. Doors are assembled of hot rolled steel and glazed with surface applied laminated glass sheets.

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 Andrew Berman discusses his vision for The Center for Architecture in New York City. 

Andrew Berman Compilation

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