Barnard College: Diana Center
Architect: Weiss/Manfredi
Owner: Barnard College
Barnard College, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, is a campus of classical brick buildings. For the Diana Center the Board of Trustees worked with Weiss/Manfredi Architects to design a forward looking building that was not 'a space ship' landed on the campus. Weiss/Manfredi challenged the assumption that glass is glossy and reflective and antithetical brick by designing layers of ceramic frit and acid etch to dull the surface of the glass to a matte luster. We worked to represent this novelty of the glass with the falloff of reflections across the facade.
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Barnard College, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, is a campus of classical brick buildings. For the Diana Center the Board of Trustees worked with Weiss/Manfredi Architects to design a forward looking building that was not 'a space ship' landed on the campus. Weiss/Manfredi challenged the assumption that glass is glossy and reflective and antithetical brick by designing layers of ceramic frit and acid etch to dull the surface of the glass to a matte luster. We worked to represent this novelty of the glass with the falloff of reflections across the facade.
Barnard College: Diana Center
Architect: Weiss/Manfredi
Owner: Barnard College
Barnard College, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, is a campus of classical brick buildings. For the Diana Center the Board of Trustees worked with Weiss/Manfredi Architects to design a forward looking building that was not 'a space ship' landed on the campus. Weiss/Manfredi challenged the assumption that glass is glossy and reflective and antithetical brick by designing layers of ceramic frit and acid etch to dull the surface of the glass to a matte luster. We worked to represent this novelty of the glass with the falloff of reflections across the facade.
