The Sky Reflector Net – an integrated artwork for the Fulton Center, is an artist, architect and engineer collaboration between JCDA, Grimshaw Architects and Arup, commissioned by MTA Downtown Transit Center. The Sky Reflector Net builds upon Grimshaw Architects’ fundamental intent for the central atrium…
World Trade Center 7 was the third building to collapse in 2001 and the first to be rebuilt. JCDA collaborated with SOM on the design of the building’s façade, the external podium lightwall and the building’s lobby, integrating the lower concrete podium with the new…
JCDA led the design for the renovation and expansion of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem deploying light to articulate the visitors’ passage through the campus. The scheme is new construction totalling 95,000 sq ft. It includes the reorganization of visitor circulation and new entrance pavilions. These…
The Dichroic Light Field responds to the planar nature of the setting and appears to trap ambient light on the surface while creating an illusion of depth. It is the winning competition entry for the blank exterior wall of a health club on Columbus Avenue…
The Ice Falls transforms the new Hearst HQ public entrance lobby into an extraordinary threshold by a custom-designed installation of raked cast prisms. The original building’s six-storey façade is retained adding a one-storey high clerestory and glass roof, from which the Foster + Partner’s Hearst…
The Gucci building is a refined prismatic tower wrapped in unique rolled glass that interacts with the sun through refraction and reflection. The façade design for the new seven-storey Gucci flagship store in Tokyo’s vibrant Ginza district is clad in an elegant and shimmering envelope…
The Lens Ceiling is a unique public artwork that is the focal point of the Special Proceedings Courtroom of the new Federal Building and US Courthouse in Phoenix, designed by Richard Meier & Partners. This delicate, suspended cable structure is a spherical form intersecting a…
The design of the Lichthof Façade in the German Foreign Office in Berlin creates a physical and symbolic threshold. Transparent but at the same time a boundary, the ambiguity inherent in using glass as a metaphor for openness is made explicit. Conceived by the architects…
The Plantation Place Galleria is a covered semi-public passageway between two phases of a new office development in the heart of the City of London. The design is a transparent glass roof with a minimal number of structural elements. To achieve this, the glass is…
To match the scale of the enclosed volumes within and restore a sense of the urban street grid, JCDA conceived the largest cable-net wall ever built: its width matching the width of 59th Street. JCDA, working with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, developed a complete scheme…
The Light Portal is a fully-integrated public artwork within a huge infrastructure project using available daylight and light captured from car headlights to connect the pedestrian routes around the site. The new tunnel entrance for the main highway up the Eastern Seaboard creates a void…
The Schubert Club Band Shell is a delicate anticlastic shell designed as a visual landmark for Raspberry Island in the Mississippi River running through the city of St Paul. This delicate roof structure is a double- curvature geometric form composed of glass and stainless steel…