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Steven Holl Architects has unveiled a new video highlighting the firm’s designs for a new wing that has been added to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The REACH at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from Steven Holl Architects on Vimeo... View full entry
When you have two concrete parallel walls, like we do in our rehearsal spaces and then in the Justice Forum [an intimate theater space], parallel walls are really bad for acoustics. You get a condition called flutter echo, where you have two sound waves bouncing off two parallel hard surfaces. So we had to break that sound up. What we needed to do was create a random texture which would diffuse and break up the sound. That’s where we came up with crinkled concrete. — CityLab
In a recent interview with CityLab, Steven Holl Architects' senior associate Garrick Ambrose discusses a design solution the firm created in order to mediate acoustics within their newly opened Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts expansion, The REACH, in Washington, D.C. Image ©... View full entry
Five years after breaking ground, The REACH at Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts celebrated its grand opening this past Saturday. Designed by Steven Holl Architects with BNIM, The REACH is the Kennedy Center's first expansion project in its 48-year history. The... View full entry
New preview photos have been released of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' anticipated expansion project, called the REACH. The Steven Holl Architects-designed ensemble of three contiguous pavilions broke ground in 2014 and is scheduled to officially open to the public with a... View full entry
Construction of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' expansion project in Washington D.C. is still underway. Known as The REACH, the new building is the Center's first expansion in its 47-year history. Breaking ground in 2014, The REACH is currently scheduled to open on September... View full entry
In 1959, Edward Durell Stone had envisioned a pedestrian walkway connecting his unbuilt design for the Kennedy Center to the Potomac River, but it was not until this year that Steven Holl Architects gained approval for the bridge, which is part of the firm's larger expansion design for the... View full entry
As the saying goes, history likes to repeat itself. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. broke ground yesterday on the Kennedy Center Expansion Project. The ceremony also celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Center's original groundbreaking in 1964. The event... View full entry
Steven Holl Architects was unanimously selected by the Kennedy Center board of trustees to design the project. Mr. Holl remarked, "It is a great honor to design the extension to the Kennedy Center, a 'Living Memorial.' In that spirit ours is part of a vital architecture, providing much needed rehearsal space, and classrooms with natural light and ventilation." — stevenholl.com
More about this project can be found at The Kennedy Center website. View full entry
