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CURRENT & RECENT WORK of Richard Cameron and Jason Grimes
We draw and paint. We draw and paint a lot. It’s how we explore your design desires and match them with your needs, so that you get exactly what you dreamed of and more. This exploration of design through drawing is what makes Atelier & Co. so different from other firms. Approaching architecture as an artistic discipline isn’t exactly a new thought, it’s one of the oldest. We are collaborators. Our approach extends beyond the studio (hence the & Co) to embrace a wide range of specialty consultants, craftsmen, and vendors–carefully selected through years of work–in both design-build and traditional configurations, to implement design at the highest level. Atelier & Co. grew out of the design collaboration between Richard Cameron and Jason Grimes. Both trained as architects, their interests have given them a wide range of architectural experience from Modern to Baroque and Residential to Collegiate. These days Atelier & Co. also brings its design approach to interior design, graphic design, branding, and identity. Richard and Jason’s design work has recently been awarded The 2012 Stanford White Award for Residential Renovation and Additions, and a Design-Build Institute of America Award of Merit. Collectively, Richard and Jason’s work has been published in numerous books and magazines including: Architectural Digest, The New York Times, House & Garden, Lucky Magazine, and Women’s Wear Daily. Richard is the visionary of Atelier & Co. His wealth of architectural knowledge and history is unparalleled. He is the co-founder of both the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art and The Beaux-Arts Atelier, the Institute’s full-time foundation program. In 2013 he received The Arthur Ross Board of Directors Honor Award from the ICA&A. Jason is Atelier & Co’s Creative Director. While trained as an architect, his years of painting and ceramics inform his visual sensibility and hand crafted approach to the designs he creates. He is co-founder of Atelier and member of the Interior Design Society. We take great pride in our drawings and paintings and the important part they play in our design process, which is why you find so many in our portfolio. Their ability to convey the vision of an eventual reality in the early stages of a project’s evolution is invaluable. For more information, contact us at: 718-624-5255 richard@atelierandcompany.com jason@atelierandcompany.com
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View of the main quadrangle. Washington Univerisity’s new Engineering Quad was designed by Richard Cameron and Jason Grimes for Ariel, the Art of Building, in collaboration with RMJM New York.
The lantern crowning the top of the new hotel makes a virtue of the requisite water tower, enclosing it in a baroque form that recalls Hawksmoor’s London churches and the early skyscrapers of lower Manhattan.
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MIDTOWN TRADITION
Inspired as much by London’s Hawksmoor churches as by the great deco hotels of the 1920’s, this new 20-story boutique hotel aspires to ornament the skyline south of Bryant Park. Opening early 2016. EXTERIOR & INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS BY ATELIER & CO.
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his new 20-story hotel tower for Midtown Manhattan is classically articulated with a Roman triumphal arch form at the base and a 15-story arched bay window for the main block of the building. At the top, a temple fronted loggia crowned with a baroque lantern, intended as a striking addition to the skyline of Bryant Park. Above: A preliminary night-time charcoal sketch of the facade. Right: A watercolor and 3D-rendered view of the street level forecourt. 6
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michelangelo, meet serge mouille
A serene grand salon inspired by Michelangelo’s New Sacristy at San Lorenzo and Hawksmoors Codrington Library at All Souls, Oxford, greets the visitor passing through the front door of the new Atelier & Co designed Jade Hotel Bryant Park. Opening early 2016 8
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Above: Modernized leather wing chairs, sleek English tufted sofas and Mouille floor lamps juxtaposed against Atelier designed grisaille panels and Grand Tour accessories provide unexpected balance to the formal interior architecture. EXTERIOR & INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS BY ATELIER & CO.
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Clockwise from left: Atelier designed Swedish rococo inspired faux shagreen nightstands flank the Atelier designed tufted, rolled arm headboard. Making the most of a small space, built-ins accommodate an armoire and window seat. With its classic black and white marble tile and brass fittings, the Jade Hotel, Bryant Park bathrooms look back to a period when the bathroom was both functional and elegant. Airy high ceilings in the hotel’s gym invite guests to workouts on state of the art equipment.
The combination of natural materials and a subdued color palette complements the Scandainavian inspired design elements--both classical and modern– that lend these guest rooms their understated and comforting charm and elegance.
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EXTERIOR DESIGN BY ATELIER & CO.
old school new hotel
Historic Greenwich Village and lower Fifth Avenue formed the context and provided the inspiration for this new boutique hotel designed by Atelier & Co.
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new Greek revival inspired ‘storefront’ complete with channeled, rusticated brick piers, colored restoration glass windows, a decorative triglyph frieze inspired by Grinling Gibbons, crowning globe finials and pediment, and gas lanterns help create the illusion of an historic Greenwich Village landmark, The new façade leads, via a pair of grand doors with custom designed bronze pulls, to the hotel lobby and the American Georgian hotel tower beyond.
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Above: The orginal Morris Lapidus designed lobby from 1950. Right: The refreshed lobby blends the nostalgic Morris Lapidus style of spectacle and whimsy with a sophisticated palette of materials and finishes found at the beach.
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ne of Moriss Lapidus’ first Miami hotel designs is given a new look inspired by his original design, now much compromised, and a contemporary landscape design that blends the hotel surroundings with the dunes and beach. The guest is left with the feeling of the quintessential Miami beach experience.
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updating a miami classic
A Miami classic is given a retro-refit, bringing it back to its mid-century chic. EXTERIOR & INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS BY ATELIER & CO. 17
Above: A new crushed coquina drive below a sparkling mother of pearl mosaic wall creates the perfect backdrop for the nostalgic signage that once adorned this historic Morris Lapidus hotel. Right: The original organic shaped pool is complimented by a new cabana lined shallow pool and beachside bar within the expanded garden. The expansive clipped lawn can be used for a game of croquet or to host large parties and events.
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Top: The organic shaped pool with pebble lining, set within an expansive teak deck and surrounded by native vegetation brings the beach experience all the way to the hotel’s terraced restaurant. Above: A postcard for the original Biltmore Terrace from1951. 19
american gothic
A new building for the engineering school is conceived as a series of Oxford style quadrangles in the collegiate ‘Gothic’ manner pioneered by Cope and Stewardson Architects work for the original buildings at Washington University in St. Louis. 20
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ashington University in St. Louis was designed by Cope and Stewardson Architects of Philadelphia to recall the great collegiate buildings of Oxford and Cambridge. The style they employed came to be known as American Collegiate Gothic, though it owes more to the Jacobean era than the Gothic. The new 300,000 SF building for the engineering department was designed by Richard Cameron and Jason Grimes for Ariel, the Art of Building in collaboration with RMJM Architects of New York.
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Right: The new bell tower creates a focal point for the quadrangles and marks the intersection of the new quadrangles main axis. The is inspired by notable English bell towers like Magdalene Tower at Oxford. 22
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photo credit: Jeff Tryon
Brauer Hall was the first wing of the new building to be completed, and constitutes, with its yet to be completed quadrangle, the monumental core of the project. It is designed in an English baroque style, and owes much to the work of Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh.
The masterplan is composed as a series of quadrangles in a mixture of historic styles reminiscent of the stylistic blend that is so much a part of Oxford and Cambridge. Washington Univerisity’s Engineering Quad was designed by Richard Cameron and Jason Grimes for Ariel, the Art of Building, in collaboration with RMJM New York.
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A LANDMARK REBUTTAL
An alternate design to the proposed addition to Congregation Shearith Israel’s landmarked synagogue on Central Park West.
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telier & Co. was asked by a member of the Shearith Israel Congregation, the oldest Jewish congregation in the country, to design an alternative to the modernist addition proposed for the adjacent site. The goal was to create a traditional facade that would compliment the surrounding buildings and the synagogue’s elegant 1897 Beaux-Arts building on Central Park West.
Clockwise: Preliminary design sketch for the new building’s entrance on 70th street. Digitally rendered elevation of the synagogue and the proposed addition on 70th street. Elevation of the new building as seen from Central Park West with the Brenner & Tryon designed synagogue in the foreground.
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food for the soane
Graphic mosaic floors and modern furnishings contrast with the traditional Soaneian architechture of this Midtown eatery. Opening early 2016.
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he English regency was an elegant era, and John Soane was its most notable architect. This new restaurant looks to his work for inspiration in creating an atmosphere of refinement and tranquility in midtown Manhattan to complement the superb eating experience. Geometric black and white mosaic floors contrast with the voluminous architecture of the space.
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