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	<title>Chad Smith Architect</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>American Transfer Company Building</title>
				
		<link>http://chadsmitharchitect.com/American-Transfer-Company-Building</link>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:51:14 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>American Transfer Company Building
Construction 2012
with Mike Jacobs Architecture

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Located in the heart of Manhattan's Meatpacking neighborhood, 22 Little West 12th Street represents a unique approach to adaptive reuse in the transformation of this 103 year-old former industrial building into a new mix of retail, commercial office lofts and entertainment.

As one of New York City's earliest retrofitted reinforced concrete and brick structures, the building was an active participant in support of New York’s meatpacking trade. Originally constructed as a vertical stable to house the Greenwich Stable Company’s fleet of horses, the building’s use paralleled the evolution of the neighborhood, from coal &#38; ice storage, to auto parts manufacturing and until recently, as a parking structure. Its transformation into a mixed use commercial lofts offers the building a new identity, promoting the Meatpacking District’s continued emergence into the current cultural nexus of Manhattan.

The architectural approach for this conversion embraces its historical past while providing new services and carefully designed cores. Original concrete columns and beams and existing brick walls are restored to reveal the architectural character of the structure’s historical past. The ground floor will be shared by a 3,700 sf retail space and an elevator lobby servicing the upper six floors of commercial lofts. A new rooftop addition will support new indoor and outdoor dining with broad panoramic views.

Project Credits:
Mike Jacobs, Leopold Lambert, Forrest Jessee, Biayna Bogosian, Chad Smith.

Project Management: Michael Pilarski, Grant Projects
Structural Engineering: Blue Sky Design
Mechanical Engineering: FMC Consulting Engineers
Landmarks Preservation Consulting: Higgins Quasebarth
Renderings: Neoscape
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		<excerpt>American Transfer Company Building Construction 2012 with Mike Jacobs Architecture    Located in the heart of Manhattan's Meatpacking neighborhood, 22 Little West...</excerpt>

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		<title>Union Square Loft Residence</title>
				
		<link>http://chadsmitharchitect.com/Union-Square-Loft-Residence</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:57:00 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Union Square Residence
Manhattan, New York
construction 2002-3
Designed while at Rogers Marvel Architects

This residence is a block-long loft that is only 25 feet wide.  Partitions are unnecessary: sheer distance does all the work of separating spaces.  Because of this, the design focused on creating territories, the edges of which would separate uses from sound, humidity, or sight.  There were territories for flooring, walls, and ceilings.  The edges were soft, made of glass, cabinetry, and fabric.

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		<excerpt>Union Square Residence Manhattan, New York construction 2002-3 Designed while at Rogers Marvel Architects  This residence is a block-long loft that is only 25 feet...</excerpt>

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		<title>University Of Georgia School Of Art</title>
				
		<link>http://chadsmitharchitect.com/University-Of-Georgia-School-Of-Art</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:11:10 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>University of Georgia School of Art
Manhattan, New York
planning and design 2001-2
Designed while at Rogers Marvel Architects

The School of Art at the University of Georgia was designed to be a $32M, 210,000 s.f. building integrating fourteen fine art departments on four levels.

The design for the new building is driven by north light in all studios, outdoor work space for all departments, cost effective double loaded efficiency floors with 16' high ceilings.  The program connects exterior and interior exhibition space, lecture halls, over 200 studios, and a digital wall courtyard intended to be the focal point of the new East Campus.

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		<excerpt>University of Georgia School of Art Manhattan, New York planning and design 2001-2 Designed while at Rogers Marvel Architects  The School of Art at the University...</excerpt>

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		<link>http://chadsmitharchitect.com/273489</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:19:56 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Chad Smith Architect</dc:creator>
		
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		<description>Tropolism: an architecture blog devoted to uncovering the hidden city.&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/273489/newsletter 1.jpg" width="500" height="376" width_o="500" height_o="376" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/273489/newsletter 1_o.jpg" data-mid="1174794"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;</description>
		
		<excerpt>Tropolism: an architecture blog devoted to uncovering the hidden city.</excerpt>

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		<link>http://chadsmitharchitect.com/273500</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:19:55 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Chad Smith Architect</dc:creator>
		
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		<description>Chad Smith Architect  was founded in 2004.  We are committed to creating sustainable and rich city life through innovative design, materials, and assemblies. Through our work, communities and  individuals are empowered and connected in a culture that is increasingly dispersed, mediated, and digitized.  Our focus is on the careful planning and design of the built environment, both public and private, and new social connections those choices have on the larger city.  We specialize in cross-discipline collaboration and are experienced directing large design teams.

Our mediated culture: the distancing and distraction of communities and individuals from each other, through consumerism, electronic communications, and the scarcity of public space.  This mediated culture is sometimes addressed by a choice between two extremes: resist mediation, or accept it so fully that it becomes invisible to you.  We see this as a false choice for architectural practice, itself long used to integrating mediated experience within itself.  

The questions we investigate are: how do we empower people to master their connectivity, be it mediated or direct?  What devices, interruptions, connections, and aesthetic causes that empowerment?  How and when to resist, and how and when to extend, our culture of mediation?


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Chad Smith
Principal, Registered Architect, LEED AP
Chad Smith has more than 16 years experience designing projects worldwide. His professional experience includes unique, award-winning, and sustainable designs for buildings, master plans, public spaces, and landscapes. He consistently produces innovative design solutions to the unique problems presented by contemporary life. In addition, he is a leader in the public conversation about architecture through his writing online; he is editor-in-chief of Tropolism.com and has been a contributing writer to the USA Network's Character Approved Blog, Curbed.com and The Village Voice.

Prior to founding Chad Smith Architect in 2004, he was an associate at Rogers Marvel Architects.
From 1997-2004 he designed, managed, and built public, commercial, residential, and institutional
projects.

Contact us:
18 West 27th Street, Tenth Floor
New York, NY 10001
+1.212.683.4576
info@chadsmitharchitect.com</description>
		
		<excerpt>Chad Smith Architect  was founded in 2004.  We are committed to creating sustainable and rich city life through innovative design, materials, and assemblies....</excerpt>

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		<title>GVB House</title>
				
		<link>http://chadsmitharchitect.com/GVB-House</link>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:04:20 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>GVB House
San Francisco, construction 2012

This house is located on a rare vacant lot in San Francisco.  The site is narrow and steeply sloped but with breathtaking vistas of the city and bay.  Our design solution was to connect all the disparate experiences of ground together by having the front and rear rooms in a split level relationship, all connected by a bridge like stair between them.  Next to this stair the building volume is carved so the rear rooms of the house can take advantage of the vista.

Project team: Chad Smith, Mike Jacobs, Forrest Jessee, Leopold Lambert, Biayna Bogosian

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		<excerpt>GVB House San Francisco, construction 2012  This house is located on a rare vacant lot in San Francisco.  The site is narrow and steeply sloped but with...</excerpt>

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		<title>Sunnyside Woodside Boys And Girls Club</title>
				
		<link>http://chadsmitharchitect.com/Sunnyside-Woodside-Boys-And-Girls-Club</link>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:56:31 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Sunnyside Woodside Boys And Girls Club
Sunnyside, Queens, New York City
design 2011-2012

This project for a 60,000 sf multi-use community center creates advantages out of an unusual triangular-shaped site.  Sunnyside, Queens is a neighborhood remarkable for its wide cultural diversity as well as the sheer quantity of trees and evenly distributed green spaces.  It is one of the most livable neighborhoods in all of the five boroughs of New York City.

The ground floor is maximized as retail space, so that the center's operating costs are offset by retail rent.  The building has three prominent facades (a rare thing in New York City) and is visible from most points of the neighborhood.  Instead of creating an icon out of the volume of the building, we chose to reveal the interior of the building where the functions are most dense: at the stairs and ramps that connect the floors and all of the spaces.  On a Saturday morning this space will be filled with kids, and the effect will be like a vertical public park, with overlapping activities happening.  In this regard, it is the perfect monument to the tight-knit community of Sunnyside, Queens.

Project team: Chad Smith, Momo Araki, Sofia Krimzi, Mike Jacobs

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		<excerpt>Sunnyside Woodside Boys And Girls Club Sunnyside, Queens, New York City design 2011-2012  This project for a 60,000 sf multi-use community center creates advantages...</excerpt>

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		<title>Atlantic Vista House</title>
				
		<link>http://chadsmitharchitect.com/Atlantic-Vista-House</link>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 11:59:18 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Chad Smith Architect</dc:creator>
		
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		<description>Atlantic Vista House
Fire Island Pines, New York
construction 2008-9

The site for this house is unique: it is one of the few non-beachfront houses in the Pines that can be seen from a distance.  It is on a high dune, surrounded by protected wetlands.

The tasks set forth by the owner were simple: create a distinctive profile and views of the ocean and sunset.

Our solution was to create a higher dune. The roofline gives the house shade as well as its distinctive profile; from some vantages the flat surface of the roof disappears entirely, leaving only the gesture.  Lattice screens are open to the primary views (north-south) and dense to the cross views (east-west).  The grooved siding further accentuates this lattice effect, blurring the line between house and wetland.

At night, the beadboard ceiling is visible from the walks and lit to create a warm lantern visible from afar.

Photographs by David Joseph:
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		<excerpt>Atlantic Vista House Fire Island Pines, New York construction 2008-9  The site for this house is unique: it is one of the few non-beachfront houses in the Pines...</excerpt>

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		<title>Definitions Personal Training Gym</title>
				
		<link>http://chadsmitharchitect.com/Definitions-Personal-Training-Gym</link>

		<comments>http://chadsmitharchitect.com/following/chadsmitharchitect.com/Definitions-Personal-Training-Gym</comments>

		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 11:41:29 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Chad Smith Architect</dc:creator>
		
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		<description>Definitions Personal Training Gym
New York construction 2011-12

Definitions has been a repeat client: we have designed over 10,000sf of gym projects for them.  The Madison Avenue location is the first to be built.  This 2,800sf project is a gut renovation of an existing location.  All our projects explore how to integrate functional training into the gym.  Our solution is to create an infrastructure for functional training that uses lighting, mirrors, custom metal designs, and milled panel fabrication to connect training with the space.  The architecture itself is a workout device.

The primary activity at a gym, as much as exercising, is looking at one’s body and at others.  The scrutiny of our bodies is yet another exercise, and so the nature of the reflections of our bodies is as important as the physical exertion seen in those reflections.  This exercise is usually unremarkable, concealed in flat mirrors and an unspoken rule that the looking should be perfunctory.  This project gives the vision-exercise tools to expand, arouse, and play with the image of our bodies.  In this gym, the mirrors are active participants in these exercises.  The squat rack gets a tailor’s mirror, so that a squatter can see his or her side while facing forward.

Custom-fabricated metal monkey bars are a sculptural addition to a hallway; their complex shape challenges the athlete to negotiate multiple pathways.  A milled screen wall and ceiling veil people coming into the gym, while integrated neon lighting creates an alternate light source.  This light is subtly animated like an artificial sun, again challenging a visitor's perception of something that is ordinarily static.

The effect is kaleidoscopic.

Project team: Chad Smith, Biayna Bogosian, Mike Jacobs, Leopold Lambert, Forrest Jessee

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src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359143/C360_2012-01-02-12-02-17_o.jpg" data-mid="12781377"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;</description>
		
		<excerpt>Definitions Personal Training Gym New York construction 2011-12  Definitions has been a repeat client: we have designed over 10,000sf of gym projects for them.  The...</excerpt>

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		<title>Fabrication And Material Intelligence</title>
				
		<link>http://chadsmitharchitect.com/Fabrication-And-Material-Intelligence</link>

		<comments>http://chadsmitharchitect.com/following/chadsmitharchitect.com/Fabrication-And-Material-Intelligence</comments>

		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 11:41:07 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Chad Smith Architect</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">1359157</guid>

		<description>Fabrication And Material Intelligence

Project team: Chad Smith, Mike Jacobs, Biayna Bogosian


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&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/4.jpg" width="670" height="442" width_o="1991" height_o="1316" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/4_o.jpg" data-mid="14052772"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;
&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/IMGP5406.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/IMGP5406_o.JPG" data-mid="6609219"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/IMGP5397.JPG" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/IMGP5397_o.JPG" data-mid="6609217"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/IMGP5414.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/IMGP5414_o.JPG" data-mid="6609220"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/acrylic wall.jpg" width="670" height="448" width_o="1936" height_o="1296" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/acrylic wall_o.jpg" data-mid="6609206"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/IMGP5428.JPG" width="670" height="445" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/IMGP5428_o.JPG" data-mid="6609224"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/IMG_9334.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/IMG_9334_o.JPG" data-mid="6609213"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/IMG_9341.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="900" height_o="675" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/IMG_9341_o.JPG" data-mid="6609214"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/installation process 1.jpg" width="670" height="505" width_o="2048" height_o="1544" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/installation process 1_o.jpg" data-mid="15416983"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/installation process 3.jpg" width="670" height="1004" width_o="1800" height_o="2700" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/installation process 3_o.jpg" data-mid="15417417"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/installation process 3_13.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/19779/1359157/installation process 3_13_o.jpg" data-mid="15417909"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;</description>
		
		<excerpt>Fabrication And Material Intelligence  Project team: Chad Smith, Mike Jacobs, Biayna Bogosian  </excerpt>

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