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Client: The Brant Foundation
Date completed: May 2009
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Program: A 9,800-square-foot structure set on 60 acres, including a 1,750-square-foot double-height gallery, a single-story 2,300-square-foot gallery, and a 1,500-square-foot mezzanine gallery.
Design concept and solution: Gluckman Mayner Architects transformed a stone barn—originally built in 1902 as a cold storage facility for local orchards and substantially rebuilt and expanded as a sports facility in 1985—into an art study center for a private foundation. The architects designed a skylight constructed within the wood trusses that extends 88 feet by 25 feet and suffuses the galleries below with natural light. The three galleries include new, white plaster walls, and terrazzo-ground concrete floors that defer to the art on display. The upper-level gallery extends into a clubroom, which serves as a library and exhibition space with wood floors and ceiling, and an existing stone hearth. A new stone, grass, and mahogany terrace connects the building to the landscape and provides seating for an adjacent polo field.
Gross square footage: 9,800 sq. ft.
Site size: 61.76 acres
Architect:
Gluckman Mayner Architects
250 Hudson Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10013
T: 212.929.0100
F: 212.929.0833
info@gluckmanmayner.com
www.gluckmanmayner.com
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