Erie Canal Harbor Project SEGD Award Now Online
See the winning entry (and the other winners, a great group of projects from around the world) online at SEGD’s site here.
Category: Signage
Fresh Awards: Two from CTGBC
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.
Fresh Project: RBS
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.
Fresh Press: “Place-Making Exhibits Draw from History”
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:
Fresh Press: Opening Day at Yankee Stadium
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.
Yankee Stadium via Flickr
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.
Yankee Stadium Sneak Peek Video Tour
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.
Fresh Press: Yankee Stadium in the Daily News
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.
Yankee Stadium in the New Yorker
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.
Fresh Project: EMPAC
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.
Read more…
Fresh Press: Erie in SEGDdesign
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:
Fresh Press: EMPAC in Metropolis
EMPAC is featured in Metropolis Magazine this month. C&G Partners worked with architects Grimshaw and Davis Brody Bond Aedas to create the signage and architectural graphics for this precedent-setting project for Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute’s (RPI’s) Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, New York.
Fresh Project: Darien Public Library
The new Darien Library, one of the top 10 small libraries in the nation, opens this Saturday, January 10th, with an all-new identity and signage by C&G Partners. For more information about the opening events, click here.
Fresh Award: Erie wins ASLA/NY
C&G Partners has just learned that the Erie Canal Harbor project, led by partner Keith Helmetag, has just won a 2008 Honor Award from the NY Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), under the category of collaborative design. The award will be presented in New York City in December. Award winners will be posted to the ASLA/NY website in the next few weeks.
Sneak Peek: SSB (Part I)
Next week, on Friday, November 21st, the National Museum of American History will open to the public after a long renovation. The new centerpiece of the Museum will be an exhibit of the Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that Francis Scott Key saw when he was inspired to write the National Anthem of the United States. C&G Partners, in collaboration with Chermayeff & Geismar Studio, has been working on this exhibit, and signage for the Museum overall, for the past 8 years. The project also includes audio-visual final design by RBH Multimedia and interactive final design by Potion. Here is a sneak peek:
Happy Anniversary, Griffith Observatory
Today marks the second anniversary of the re-opening of Griffith Observatory, on November 3, 2006, with exhibits designed by C&G Partners. The Observatory is the most popular public observatory in the world, and one of the most photogenic, playing a starring role in many films.
In commemoration, here is a collection of images of the exhibits at Griffith that C&G Partners designed. The twist: these were not taken by professionals. They are all by the public at large, via Flickr (link to a great Flickr slide show of full-screen images at the very bottom of this post).
There are 360 images total here, which is only a fraction of the Griffith exhibit images available on Flickr. A statue of Albert Einstein is a favorite subject.
Fresh Press: “Yes, they really are serious about it”
C&G Partners is working on signage, architectural graphics and exhibits at the new Yankee Stadium, opening in April 2009. Today the Times ran an image of the main sign being installed (shown here) alongside an article about security at the last game. Caption: “Yes, they really are serious about it…” Photo by Librado Romero.