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MICHAEL GRAVES ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
WE BELIEVE HUMANISM IS THE SOUL OF DESIGN AND ENABLES TRANSFORMATIVE RESULTS. WE VIEW EACH DESIGN OPPORTUNITY AS AN UNFOLDING STORY – AND THE PERSON OCCUPYING THE SPACE OR USING A PRODUCT – AS THE CENTRAL CHARACTER. BY FOCUSING ON THE INDIVIDUAL, WE HUMANIZE DESIGN. AS A RESULT, PEOPLE EXPERIENCE OUR WORK SPATIALLY, VISUALLY AND EMOTIONALLY.
ARCHITECTURE PLANNING INTERIOR DESIGN PRODUCT DESIGN BRANDING GRAPHIC DESIGN
MGA&D “ DESIGN IS A TOOL WE USE TO TOUCH PEOPLE, ENGAGE THEIR SENSES AND ENHANCE THEIR LIVES.”
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Founded by AIA Gold Medalist Michael Graves in 1964, Michael Graves Architecture & Design (MGA&D) is recognized as one of the leading design firms in the world. Through approaching projects aesthetically and empathetically, MGA&D achieves transformative results for clients. MGA&D offers a full spectrum of architecture and product design services. Architecture projects span the globe, while the firm has brought to market over 2,000 products for clients such as Kimberly-Clark, Stryker Medical, Alessi, JCPenney, and Target. MGA&D is a unique, highly integrated, practice that offers strategic advantages to clients worldwide. For more information, visit michaelgraves.com. The architectural practice has designed over 400 buildings worldwide encompassing many
building types: large-scale master plans, corporate headquarters and other office buildings, hotels and resorts, restaurants and retail stores, facilities for sports and recreation, healthcare facilities, civic projects such as embassies, courthouses and monuments, a wide variety of university buildings, museums, theaters, public libraries, housing and private residences. MGA&D has received over 300 awards for design excellence. MGA&D’s Interiors Studio provides design services for all of its architectural projects and also has a stand-alone practice. MGA&D’s interiors studio has extensive experience in the hospitality industry, including the design of hotel guest rooms, suites, public amenities, conference centers, restaurants and clubs, as well as serviced apartments, luxury suites and penthouses, and villas.
The Interiors Studio often customdesigns furniture and artwork that complement the character of the firm’s architecture and interiors. MGA&D has designed over 2000 consumer products, which include both building components such as lighting, hardware, bath and kitchen products, and a wide variety of consumer products for home, office and personal use. MGA&D’s strategic partnerships include manufacturers such as Alessi, Steuben, Dansk, Disney, Baldinger Architectural Lighting, David Edward Furniture, Glen Eden, Stryker Medical, Drive Medical, Delta Faucet and Progress Lighting, among others, and also retailers such as JCPenney, Target Stores and international distribution companies. MGA&D has designed innovative packaging and graphic identity programs for many of its projects.
WE ARE A MULTIDISCIPLINARY FIRM.
ARCHITECTURE
PLANNING
INTERIOR DESIGN
We believe that architecture is inextricably tied to use, place, client aspirations and cultural traditions. We also believe that the greatest buildings are those that cannot be imagined anywhere else in the world. Thus, it is our mission to provide clients around the globe with highly functional, intuitive design solutions that are sensitive to an ever changing built environment in both scale and context. We bring design excellence to all building types.
We see planning as a vital part of the built landscape, a process that begins with the development of a hierarchical organization of spatial relationships between buildings and the surrounding built or natural context. Our master plans impart a distinct sense of community and place, while establishing a framework for current and future decisions. Throughout the world, we have created award-winning designs that are functional, efficient, site specific and sustainable.
We believe interior design should reflect each client’s culture and communicate their values while meeting both their functional and aesthetic goals. Our projects range from company headquarters to international hotels to interiors for public institutions. Working in conjunction with MGA&D’s product designers, our interior designers often custom-design furniture and artwork that complement the character of the firm’s architecture and interiors.
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PRODUCT DESIGN
GRAPHIC DESIGN
BRANDING
We provide integrated product design services. We are well known for designing products that deliver an inspired balance of form and function. We have brought over 2000 Michael Gravesbranded consumer products to market across all retail distribution channels. Among our branded partnerships are: Kimberly-Clark, Alessi, Target Stores, Stryker, JCPenney, Disney and Steuben.
We provide complete graphic design services ranging from product-specific graphics and marketing collateral to retail planogram layout and environmental graphics for a diverse client base. We have designed everything from watch faces, to restaurant logos, to environmental signage for the world’s largest integrated resort.
We have extensive experience in brand building – beginning with the management of our own consumer brand Michael Graves Design. For our clients, our integrated team of industrial designers, graphic designers and brand managers provide extensive brand building services in the development of standout consumer brands.
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OUR VISION We believe that architecture is inextricably tied to use, place, client aspirations and cultural traditions. We also believe that the greatest buildings are those that cannot be imagined anywhere else in the world. Our mission is to provide clients around the globe with highly functional, intuitive design solutions that are sensitive to an ever changing built environment in both scale and context. We bring design excellence to all building types. Our product design, graphic design and interior design services complete our integrated services mission for our clients.
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ARCHITECTURE GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON MONUMENT RESTORATION SCAFFOLD WASHINGTON, D.C. When the Washington Monument needed major restoration work to combat years of weathering and aging, Graves was selected by a public-private partnership to design the scaffolding that surrounded the Monument for three years as well as the interiors of the observation and interpretive areas. The scaffolding followed the profile of the monument and was embellished with a blue semitransparent architectural mesh fabric attached in a running bond masonry pattern that reflected the Monument’s stone mortar joints at a larger scale. At night, the scaffolding was lit by hundreds of lights incorporated into the design. The project captured the public imagination and was so popular that other cities sought to have similar monuments. With a backdrop of colorful fireworks, the monument was also a highlight of the millennial celebration of 2000.
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION HEADQUARTERS WASHINGTON, D.C. The DOT headquarters, the first executive cabinet-level office building constructed following 9/11, consolidated 5,500 employees in one location. Utilizing a designbuild and leaseback financing arrangement, the architecture commission was based on GSA design excellence criteria. Spanning 2 city blocks, the design for 2 million SF complex creates two separate buildings that complement each other with respect to their size, shape and architectural character. Floor plans and fenestration were designed to ensure that all employees had access to natural light. Soaring atriums, topped by glass skylights, bring natural light to more users of the large buildings.
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FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF DALLAS HOUSTON BRANCH, HOUSTON, TX The Houston Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas is both an operating bank and an office building with extensive conference facilities, food service, library, fitness center and a 300-car garage. The office and operational environment emphasizes security, efficiency and team building, providing superior, well-lit working conditions with access to landscaped terraces. To maximize sustainability, the project incorporates many green building principles, including re-using a Brownfield site, and use of energy-efficient systems and materials. The functional and symbolic organization of the building is evident in the plans, massing and facades. The exterior, communicating both security and openness, conveys the Bank’s key principles, while the materials and details relate to the Houston context. The glazed tile roof creates a visible presence on the skyline from the adjacent Buffalo Bayou.
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ARCHITECTURE CULTURAL
THE DENVER CENTRAL LIBRARY DENVER, CO The AIA/ALA award-winning Denver Central Library, 8th largest in the US and voted “best library in America” several times, is located on Denver’s Civic Center Park. The project, won in a design competition, involved preservation and renovation of a 1956 147,000SF modernist library by Burnham Hoyt, and a 390,000-SF expansion. The expansion is composed as a series of elements to allow the existing building to read as one part of a larger composition. Two public entrances establish an eastwest axis through the Great Hall, a 3-story public room of urban scale. The south-facing rotunda, a signature feature of the expansion, contains special functions such as the reference room, periodicals center and Western History Reading Room. The Reading Room, which houses genealogical materials and special collections of paintings and documents on the American West, is centered on a timber derrick-like structure that figuratively recalls the nation’s westward expansion, rooting the building in this particular city and site.
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MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS MINNEAPOLIS, MN MGA&D designed two additions to the Beaux Arts Minneapolis Institute of Arts, a museum wing and a children’s theater, which also involved extensive renovations to adjacent galleries, the main stage theater and support spaces. The original neoclassical building, designed by McKim Mead and White, had previously been expanded in the 1970s through additions designed by Kenzo Tange. Because of the historic sites approvals, it was thought that MGA&D’s additions needed to be figurative enough to reflect the original building and yet abstract enough to integrate the modern wings into the composition. The Children’s Theater addition features a glassy entrance pavilion through which one sees a heavy timber frame that was reconstructed from a former flour mill on the Mississippi River. The Museum wing, is classically proportioned with a base, middle and attic story. Since the Museum requested that the windows in the museum section be limited, MGA&D created blind niches in the facades to break up the scale and modulate the light across their surfaces.
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ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS PHILADELPHIA, PA Tripling the facilities, Alter Hall is a new business learning center that has energized the crossroads of campus and community.
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TEXAS A&M MITCHELL PHYSICS BUILDINGS COLLEGE STATION, TX The LEED-Silver cutting-edge teaching and research center serves undergraduates and graduate students and attracts research and scholars worldwide.
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KEAN UNIVERSITY THE MICHAEL GRAVES SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN WENZHOU, CHINA The School of Architecture & Design, designed by MGA&D is approximately 15,000-gross square meters in floor area and is part of the phase one main campus planning strategy of the master plan studies.
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ARCHITECTURE MASTER PLAN
RICE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS MASTER PLAN HOUSTON, TX Several master plans over ten years address new buildings and in-fill for the increasing student population and integrate the campus with adjoining institutional and residential neighborhoods.
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ARCHITECTURE HOSPITALITY
RESORTS WORLD SENTOSA SENTOSA, SINGAPORE This 3.5 million-square-foot master plan and full build-out of an “integrated resort” on Singapore’s vacation island includes 6 hotels, casino, 1600 -seat theater and other entertainment venues, convention center, spa, maritime museum, retail, and several theme parks. The 470-room Hotel Michael (left) and the 120-deluxe-suite Crockford’s (right) are two of the six hotels that MGA&D designed at Resorts World Sentosa. Services included interior design of guestrooms, public spaces and F&B outlets, custom furniture, signage and graphics in addition to master planning and architectural design.
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THE NILE CORNICHE CAIRO, EGYPT The distinctive St. Regis Cairo, located on the Nile Corniche, is envisioned to be the most luxurious address in Cairo. To assist with the formulation of the facilities program, MGA&D prepared a comparative analysis of similar branded properties and their sizes, unit mix, amenities and features. MGA&D also created other visual tools, such as colorcoded models, for the developers to use in assessing the allocation of space and facilities in this large mixed-use complex.
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View from along the Corniche
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51º SPA RESIDENCES & HOTEL LOECHE LES BAINS, SWITZERLAND 51º Spa Residences and the Kempinski Hotel create a new paradigm for resort living. By using the famous thermal waters that emerge from the ground at 51º Celsius, luxury and nature combine in ways never before imagined. Replacing a traditional pre-development phase, the architect and a real estate advisor jointly conducted an innovative “envisioning” session with the client, where big design ideas combined with thorough market analysis to create a realistic, economically sound project.
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Surrounded by some of the most picturesquely iced peaks in Switzerland’s famed Valais region, 51º stands at the northern edge of the Leukerbad Valley, on the crest of a gentle grade where the streets of the old town reach a natural open space adjacent to the Lindner Hotel and the historic train station. From this location, the view opens up to the mountain range.
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ARCHITECTURE HEALTHCARE
WOUNDED WARRIOR HOME PROJECT FORT BELVOIR, VA In November 2010, MGA&D was commissioned by Clark Realty Capital to design the Wounded Warriors Home Project. The project calls for the design of single family prototype homes intended to serve the needs of wounded soldiers and their families as they continue to serve on active duty at Fort Belvoir, in Virginia. The design of these prototypes is intended to provide for the needs of a varied group of people who have been injured and/or adversely affected by their military service.
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Freedom Home (left) Patriot Home (right)
STORAGE B114 69 SF
GARAGE B113 651 SF
LAUNDRY BEDROOM
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B115
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MUD ROOM B109 89 SF
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CLOSET
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B111 4 SF
LIVING ROOM B102
MASTER BEDROOM
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POWDER ROOM
B128
B108
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HALL
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MASTER BATHROOM
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B127
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BATHROOM B122
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BEDROOM/THERAPY
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B101
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DINING ROOM B103
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B126
B100
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FOYER
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KITCHEN CLOSET B124
B107 255 SF
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FAMILY ROOM B104 233 SF
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FRONT PORCH
ST. COLETTA OF GREATER WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D.C. St. Coletta of Greater Washington is a nonprofit charter school in the District of Columbia serving individuals with mental retardation, autism, and various physical disabilities. Guided by the philosophy that all children are special, MGA&D addressed formal, functional, social and ecological concerns in the design, and created a facility with such success that St. Coletta promotes it as a national model. The 99,000 sq.ft. school serves 168 students Kindergarten age through young adulthood and has two adult day care programs for 50 participants. The various elements of the building program are distinctly articulated in the plan and on the exterior of the building, where the massing and facades also respond to the scale of adjacent neighborhoods.
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The “Village Green” (right) Light Therapy room (top left) Hydrotherapy pool (bottom left)
YALE-NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE CARE NEW HAVEN, CT Yale-New Haven Hospital offers one of the oldest and most comprehensive geriatric assessment programs in the United States and the hospital’s geriatric services is ranked #18 in US News and World Report’s 2014 Best Hospital rankings. Previously housed on an older med/surg patient floor, the new unit incorporates architectural elements and signage specifically designed to support the care of patients 65 and older. As part of the design, MGA&D developed a unique signage system to alert clinicians and visitors of precautions and protocols that needed to be followed. The signage was designed to be easily maintained to reduce risk of infection.
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YALE-NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT RENOVATION NEW HAVEN, CT The 13,000 SF renovation to the Emergency Department at the St. Raphael Campus of Yale-New Haven hospital will benefit the entire New Haven community. The design was developed in conjunction with clinicians to support a “Split Flow” operational model that streamlines the patient intake, registration and triage process to ensure that higher acuity patients are seen immediately while at the same time reducing the waiting time for lesser acuity level patients. The layout of the new emergency department allows the space to “flex up” or “flex down” to support clinical operations based on patient volume. The design supports immediate assessment upon checkin resulting in significantly reduced waiting times and patient flow congestion. Additionally, patients not assigned to a bed may wait for test results in a comfortable lounge area intended to free up available exam rooms.
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PRODUCTS & GRAPHICS
THE MARKUSE CORPORATION PROJECTS WATCHES For nearly 30 years, The Markuse Corporation has celebrated the role that architecture and design play in our daily lives. The MGA&D/Projects partnership has collaborated on dozens of designs for wristwatches, as well as dozens of other products.
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SLICE PRODUCTS BEAUTY TOOLS MGA&D was commissioned by Slice Products to develop a new collection of tools for the beauty care market. The result of more than 18 months of research, design, and development has yielded an extraordinary collection of personal grooming tools including cuticle scissors, finger-nail clippers, toenail clippers, ceramic nail file, cosmetic pencil sharpener and precision tweezers. The designs, inspired by river-stones, have elevated both functional and aesthetic expectations for products in this category.
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SKYLINE DESIGN SURFACE PATTERN DESIGN In 2010, Skyline Design brought to market a collection of five architecturally inspired glass patterns called the “5+ Collection.� The glass is crafted exclusively by Skyline Design for interior environments. The five initial patterns feature modern abstractions of familiar places and materials and are available in transparent and diffused options to accommodate a range of aesthetics and privacy needs.
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DELTA INDUSTRIES EVO OIL SPRAYER Delta Industries commissioned Michael Graves Architecture & Design to design a spray bottle to fit its special spray nozzle. The nozzle utilizes proprietary pre-compression technology to dispense viscous liquids without the use of aerosol propellants. The bottle design seamlessly integrates Delta Industry’s existing sprayer head with the elegant shape of the new body and sprayer lever. The design team further leveraged the form of the spray lever to become the graphic expression of the brand itself.
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SPRAYS YOUR FAVORITE COOKING OIL AEROSOL FREE REFILL FUNNEL INCLUDED
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JCPENNEY GIFTABLE HOUSEWARES PACKAGING COLLECTION
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NEW JERSEY HALL OF FAME BRANDING Michael Graves was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2011 and with the collaboration of Ralph Appelbaum Associates the design of the mobile museum was born. The 53-foot doubleexpandable trailer is transformed on location to 850 square feet of stunning exhibition space.
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GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE HAMILTON, NJ
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STRYKER PRIME TC TRANSPORT CHAIR Hospitals are constantly evolving to improve patient outcomes, yet a key piece of equipment that is ubiquitous has gone unaltered since it was patented in 1933. And it was never designed for use in the hospital. We’re talking about the wheelchair! Prime TC is the result of a thorough product development process undertaken to transform seated patient transport in the hospital. Discoveries have turned into real solutions to problems that go beyond the patient experience.
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PATIENT ROOM FURNITURE MGA&D and Strkyer, one of the world’s great medical technology companies, came together and formed a design partnership to address “the last frontier in healthcare design, the patient room.” The two companies conducted months of ethnographic research, studying the acute care environment and the way current furniture is being used.
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The result of this joint venture is a suite of patient room furniture that challenges the notion that the design of furniture can’t be instrumental is addressing the three “big” needs facing hospitals today: spread of infection, clinician back strain, and patient falls. The partnership has just launched a new patient transport chair
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C.F. STINSON UPHOLSTERY TEXTILES & PRIVACY CURTAINS Together with textile industry expert CF Stinson, Michael Graves Design Group launched two collections of healthcare focused high performance fabrics between 2012 and 2014. The “Voyages” and “Vistas” collections are so named because Michael Graves drew inspiration for the collections’ patterns and colors from the cities, architectural sites and natural landscapes he has visited around the world.
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FANIMATION The design for the Aniva Bay Ceiling Fan had two main inspirations: the classic pinwheel toy and the legacy of bent plywood in modern furniture design. Down rod mounted with a 52 inch diameter, Aniva Bay is designed to fit seamlessly with the dĂŠcor of any room in which it is specified.
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VIA* BY MICHAEL GRAVES DESIGN FOR KIMBERLY CLARK WALKING STICKS MGA&D and Kimberly-Clark are committed to a common vision intended to celebrate aging for what it really is: filled with spirit, possibilities, and growth. The upcoming collection is rooted in a passion for life and a relentless commitment to challenge design conventions in pursuit of smarter, more beautiful solutions.
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QUICK DRAIN LINEAR DRAIN COVERS When Michael Graves delivered the keynote address at the Healthcare Design Conference, he cited his new linear drain shower as a game changing modification for him. That comment was also a game changer for Quickdrain whose booth was overrun with designers. MGA&D then partnered with Quickdrain to create a collection of drain covers. Available in two patterns, Stream and Cosmo, and two finishes, brushed stainless steel and oil rubbed bronze, our new linear drain covers provide an elevated design detail to a powerful product for accessibility.
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