Henry Miller’s Theatre in New York City opens tonight to much fanfare with the first preview performance of “Bye Bye Birdie.” Working closely with the architects, Cook+Fox, C&G Partners created a sign program for this state of the art theater housed behind a restored landmark facade.
Among the many financial services mergers to take place in 2009, the combining of Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney in early summer created an industry-leading global wealth manager with over 1,000 branches in the United States and significant international presence. The debut of this combined financial entity was rolled out with its new brand identity, created by C&G Partners.
The current issue of SEGDdesign, the magazine of SEGD, is a special 25th issue that looks back on the success of the magazine, first launched 7 years ago. Since its inception, the magazine always has showcased the winners of the annual SEGD Design Awards; in the current issue, all those winners appear again in print. C&G Partners is honored that 7 projects led by the people of the firm have won over those past 7 years. Here is a recap.
The Jefferson Library at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC:
The current issue of SEGDdesign Magazine features the firm’s Erie Commercial Slip project, winner of an SEGD Design Award for 2009. Download the article as a PDF here.
Read other Fresh posts about the project, which was led by partner Keith Helmetag, here and here.
Partner Keith Helmetag led the recently installed exhibit in the Miami branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The exhibit covers Floridian financial and economic history in the 20th century, including the Bank’s oversight of Latin American financial exchange. The exhibit also intertwines finance with the indisputable influence of Miami’s rich cultural heritage.
See the winning entry (and the other winners, a great group of projects from around the world) online at SEGD’s site here.
Update and correction: two projects with contributions by C&G Partners have been honored in the Connecticut Green Building Council’s 2009 Design Awards: Darien Library (awarded top honor “Most Intriguing”) by Peter Gisolfi and Associates, for which partner Steff Geissbuhler’s team created the signage; and GE by Perkins Eastman Architects, for which partner Keith Helmetag’s team created installations about sustainability and the GE brand.
The interiors for GE’s Tax and Energy Financial Services headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut have just received the award for the “Most Intriguing” in commercial interiors in the 2009 Design Awards of the Connecticut Chapter of the United States Green Building Council (the CTGBC). (The CTGBC’s “Most Intriguing” is the one top prize in a category. All other honors are simply “Intriguing”.) The project includes a new suite of installations designed by C&G Partners in collaboration with Perkins Eastman Architects. Video production on this project was done by our long-time colleagues RBH Media.
C&G Partners has just completed the sign and architectural graphics installation at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. The project was done in collaboration with Roger Ferris Architects and Hines Interests (with whom we also worked on a project at the headquarters of Gannett / USA Today). The signs and architectural graphics are carefully detailed, with reflective materials reminiscent of the building façade itself.
More images to come. The project was lead by associate partner Amy Siegel with partner input by Keith Helmetag.
A new article by partner Keith Helmetag appears in the current issue of Urban Land, the magazine of the Urban Land Institute, a major nonprofit organization that encourages creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. Helmetag writes that “Revealing history to create a strong sense of place can play a valuable role in urban redevelopment plans.” The article features a variety of projects related to economic development, including two by C&G Partners, Flushing Freedom Mile and Erie Commercial Slip. Download the full article as a PDF here. See another major article on the Erie project here.
The article page by page:
Local fans may not have cheered the final score last Thursday, but the Stadium itself got a lot of attention. Two of the installations conceived and designed by C&G Partners appeared in the sports pages of the New York Times that day in an article about baseball icon Yogi Berra. Berra, famous for his abilities and “Berra-isms” alike, is one of two players featured in a tableau of the “perfect game” that is the centerpiece of the new Yankees Museum.
The fans have begun to make Yankee Stadium their own in the time-honored way: by uploading digital images to Flickr. Here are some of the images fans have been uploading thus far, all of which feature the signage and architectural graphics designed by C&G Partners. In one, the custom wordmark for the stadium itself, which was drawn by the firm, becomes the star of the show, appearing live, even bigger than normal, on the big screen during gametime. All pictures by fans.
A sneak peek video tour of the new Yankee Stadium is currently up in the “video corner” of the Yankee website. Among other things, the tour features the Great Hall banners, museum, large-scale signage, murals and audio programs designed by C&G Partners.
The first baseball game in the new Yankee Stadium will be played tonight, an exhibition game between the Yankees and the Chicago Cubs, and the press is full of images of the new stadium, with signage, architectural graphics and a new Yankees Museum by C&G Partners. Here are a few images from slideshows from the NY Daily News. Stay tuned for more images from all of the opening events.
A new suite of environmental installations designed by C&G Partners for GE’s Tax and Energy Financial Services occupies prominent locations throughout a new headquarters building in Stamford, Connecticut. The new facility is a multipurpose meeting center used by all GE divisions.
The exhibits designed by our team at the Good Housekeeping test labs were featured recently on ABC News Nightline. or you can now see the entire piece on Nightline’s site. The Good Housekeeping project was led by Partner Keith Helmetag.
C&G Partners is working on the signage, architectural graphics and exhibits at the new Yankee Stadium, which opens to the public next month. Although the project is still officially under wraps until the public opening, images of the work in progress have been appearing in various places (see previous post) for a few months and in the Yankees official online photo galleries. Last week, this image of the exterior facade of the new stadium appeared in the New Yorker, in an article by Paul Goldberger. The architectural graphics shown in the image were designed by the firm.
The Yankees project is being led by Partner Keith Helmetag and Associate Partner Amy Siegel.
A C&G Partners team led by Partner Keith Helmetag and Associate Partner Amy Siegel have created the signage and wayfinding program for the new Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York.
The new facility, designed by architects Grimshaw with Davis Brody Bond Aedas, houses performance spaces and artist-in-residence studios.
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The outdoor exhibition/signage installation designed by C&G Partners at the Erie Commercial Slip appear in the current issue of SEGDdesign, the magazine of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design. The three-page article introduces the idea that “a new breed of interpretive graphics is bringing sophisticated museum exhibition design to the great outdoors”.
Read and print the full article in the SEGDdesign online magazine reader, pp. 58-60, or download a PDF.
The Erie Commercial Slip design team at C&G Partners was led by partner Keith Helmetag. Architects: Flynn Battaglia. Landscape Architects: Mathews Nielsen. Historic preservation architects: John Milner Associates. Production and Fabrication: Adirondack Studios, Jan Spoerri & Co., Systeme Huntingdon. Photography by Richard Barnes.
The article page by page:
In what we hope is an ongoing series, here is a fresh image of partner and avid surfer Keith Helmetag in action last week with a Sol Lewitt-inspired surfboard of his own design, at Scripps Pier in San Diego. Surfing / Lewitt enthusiasts: earlier post here.
