Born in Montevideo, the architect garnered praise—and some controversy—for projects including the Tokyo International Forum, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, and 20 Fenchurch Street in London.
To visit Building 337 on the Novartis campus in East Hanover, New Jersey, is to walk through it with awe, something akin to what visitors to Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building must have felt a century ago.
People showSpecSheet(); People Owner MGM Resorts International/Infinity World Architect RV Architecture, LLC 50 Vandam Street New York, NY 10013 Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Rafael Viñoly, FAIA, JIA, SCA Jay D. Bargmann, AIA, NCARB Harold Park, AIA, LEED AP Chan-Li Lin, AIA, LEED AP Jiwoo Park, AIA Architect of record Leo A. Daly Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Leo A. Daly Tom Czech Lamberto Smigliani John Avery Reggie Smith Ysidro Baron Chuck Dixon Associate architect Hamilton Anderson Associates Engineers Structural: DeSimone Consulting Engineers Civil: Lochsa Engineering, LLC Mechanical/Electrical: Cosentini Associates Geotechnical: Terracon
In designing this courts complex, designers Rafael Viñoly Architects and DMJM Harris paid close attention to the image of the courthouse in society—and the acute meaning it holds in the Bronx.