Following our previous visit to San Francisco-based STUDIO BANAA, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to New York this week to explore the work of OLI Architecture.

Founded in 2010 and based in Manhattan, the firm has amassed a portfolio grounded in expertise in civic, institutional, cultural, and museum buildings. The firm describes its approach as to “to investigate the specific nature of each project” with a design process that merges parametric models and computational analyses with local construction practices.

Over on Archinect Jobs, the firm is currently hiring for a Project Architect at their New York City studio. For candidates interested in applying for the position, or anybody interested in learning more about the firm’s output, we have rounded up three landmark projects by OLI Architecture that exemplify the firm’s ethos.

Mu Xin Art Museum, Tongxiang, China

The Mu Xin Art Museum is dedicated to the work of artist/writer Mu Xin, whose work spanned abstract landscapes, paintings, poetry, and literature. The building is inspired by the complexity of the artist’s work and his imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution, as well as the site’s physical context of old canals, streets, markets, courtyards, and bridges. The resulting visitor experience to the museum is defined by an intersection of the built volumes, ‘street’ boundaries, and the water’s edge.

“Taking a cue from the urban fabric of the 1,000-year-old ancient water town of Mu Xin’s childhood, the museum itself is a landscape of intersecting experiences,” the firm explains. “A series of cast-in-place colored architectural concrete volumes in varying sectional relationship to the canal and “street,” house these experiences as singular galleries and program elements inviting visitors to wander through the landscape.”

LX Pavilion, Bedford, New York

Designed to offer a permanent home for Richard Serra’s 'London Cross' sculpture, the LX Pavilion draws on the sculpture’s “intersection of minimal and cerebral, of material science.” Serra’s sculpture, composed of two fifteen-ton weathering steel plates, divides the pavilion into two galleries, with the lower plate running diagonally between two corners of the room. Outside, meanwhile, a charred Accoya timber rain-screen wraps the facade while north-facing skylights bring soft indirect light into the gallery.

“The LX Pavilion was designed not only as a container of Serra’s London Cross (2014) but as an integral component of the artistic experience,” the firm explains. “From the careful siting of the pavilion twenty degrees east of True-North minimizing any untoward shadows through the carefully sculpted sawtooth skylight, to the charred wood rain-screen veiling in anticipating the spatial/temporal tension within, to the specially hydrated-lime walls eliminating construction joints while resisting the movement and rail load of the plates; the pavilion is complex with deceivingly simple results.”

Ascentage Pharma, Suzhou, China

Ascentage Pharma comprises a large modern headquarters and R+D complex for Ascentage Pharmaceutical, with seven campus buildings anchored by a 262-foot-tall R+D and Administration Building. The campus is defined by discrete curvilinear shapes elevated above a glass base and a black granite reflecting pool, designed to symbolize the company’s cutting-edge research in biotechnology.

“Inspired by the benzene ring of the chemical formula used to annotate the planar bonds of the six carbon and hydrogen molecules, each building volume’s façade is carefully designed using the benzene ring hexagon as the source form, which is then engineered to fold parametrically bonding around the seven different building volumes,” the firm explains. “These parametrically modeled facades using adaptive BIM families were then digitally fabricated using Ultra High Strength Concrete panels and anodized aluminum nodes and extrusions affording distinct façade designs for optimal balance of visual transparency and privacy.”

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