words & images by Shane M Burger
Grimshaw
Fulton Street Transit Center Oculus
Photo of the interior of the Fulton Street Transit Center dome. I spent considerable time on the early iterations of the dome design. Many years and numerous design iterations later, I had my hands on the layout and orientation of the oculus reflectors. Each is tuned to a particular time and day of the year, […]
Queens Museum images
Two images from Halley Tsai, a former Grimshaw co-worker of mine, showing the Queens Museum west facade and LED system I designed.
Natural and Intuitive
In mid-2008, I spent a stimulated series of days working with the founder and chairman of our firm, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, developing a mixed-use tower in a prominent Manhattan location. During the previous weekend, I had made the decision to transfer a number of our design decisions for the tower into a computational model in […]
The Cedar Hull: EMPAC’s Wooden Instrument
The development of the wood enclosure surrounding EMPAC’s Concert Hall was cutting edge in its processes and use of technology from concept to construction. From the very beginning, references to the geometry of musical instruments guided the development of form and space at EMPAC. This reached its culmination on the curving wood enclosure. As part […]