Remarkable Real Estate: Polshek Partnership is now Ennead Architects
POLSHEK PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCES NEW NAME: ENNEAD ARCHITECTS
Ennead Lab will be Dedicated to Research, Education and Advocacy
We would not be writing about real estate if there were not architects! Partners Joseph Fleischer, Timothy Hartung, Duncan Hazard, Kevin McClurkan, Richard Olcott, Susan Rodriguez, Tomas Rossant, Todd Schliemann and Don Weinreich and Design Counsel James Polshek announced today that the new name of Polshek Partnership LLP is Ennead Architects LLP.
The name change marks the culmination of a transition in organizational structure and design leadership begun more than thirty years ago. The partnership's identification with a single design leader has evolved to an identity defined by the leadership and collaboration of nine accomplished architects.
Ennead derives from the Greek term for a group of nine and expresses the aspirations and dynamic spirit of the practice as an innovative, collaborative and ever-evolving studio environment at the forefront of contemporary architecture and design.
The partners also announced that they are creating Ennead Lab, a private foundation dedicated to research, education and advocacy. The foundation underscores the partners' conviction that beyond individual, commissioned projects, a vital architectural practice has responsibilities to society to address challenging issues of immediate concern. In so doing, architecture can become an instrument for positive artistic, social, technological and ecological change.
Ennead Architects' work is diverse in type, scale, and location and ranges from new construction to renovations and expansions to restorations and master plans. Clients are principally cultural, educational, scientific and governmental institutions. Building types include: museums, theaters, libraries, visual arts, schools, classroom and other university facilities, laboratories, health care, residential, hotels, urban infrastructure, industrial facilities and offices.
Ennead's current work reinforces the diversity of the firm's portfolio. In addition to the well-known Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History, the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and the renovation of Carnegie Hall, these projects include: Utah Museum of Natural History, Yale University Art Gallery, Stanford University Bing Concert Hall, New York City Center, Cincinnati Music Hall, National Museum of American Jewish History, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of the City of New York, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Education Center, Weill Cornell Medical College Medical Research Building, New York University Langone Medical Center, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York State Supreme Court at St. George, Staten Island, Stanford University Law School, Columbia University Law School, and projects for the State University of New York, City University of New York, and the City of New York Department of Design and Construction and the City of New York Department of Environmental Protection.
The partners lead a 150-person studio located in New York City and recognized internationally for architectural excellence. Projects have been published widely and have received over 150 awards for design excellence, including numerous national, state and local AIA awards. In addition, Ennead (as Polshek Partnership Architects) has been honored with the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award (2004), the President's Medal of the AIA New York Chapter (2003), and the AIA Architecture Firm Award (1992).
