Thomas Phifer and Partners | Architectural Record

RECORD Discusses Designing Spaces for Art and Community with Architects and Museum Leaders

March 24, 2023

The sold-out Record on the Road symposium featured Thomas Phifer, Shohei Shigematsu, and the directors of three leading New York museums.

Thomas Phifer Designs Pavilion for Richard Serra at the Glenstone Museum

Deane Madsen

June 23, 2022

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The bucolic Maryland museum debuted a four-part work by Serra housed in a bespoke concrete cube.

DESIGN:ED Podcast: Thomas Phifer on Experience, Form, and Light

RECORD Editors

March 30, 2022

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Thomas Phifer joins the podcast to discuss his firm’s design philosophy, starting the Thomas Phifer Fellowship at Clemson University, and the importance of light in architecture.

Mies van der Rohe Redux: The Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design by Thomas Phifer and Partners

Bloomington, Indiana

Michelangelo Sabatino

February 22, 2022

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A 70-year-old unbuilt design by Mies van der Rohe is realized by Thomas Phifer and Partners in Indiana.

Moody Amphitheater and Waterloo Greenway

Austin, Texas

Josephine Minutillo

November 9, 2021

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A revitalized park and new outdoor theater in Austin enhance the city’s cultural offerings.

Cooper Hewitt Announces 2019 National Design Awards Winners

Elie Levine

June 10, 2019

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The 20th anniversary of the awards program honors Thomas Phifer, IwamotoScott, and SCAPE Landscape Architecture, among others, for their excellence in design.

Glenstone Museum by Thomas Phifer Partners

Glenstone Museum by Thomas Phifer and Partners

Maryland

Cathleen McGuigan

September 21, 2018

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Architecture and landscape come together in Maryland for a unique cultural experience. Closed due to the pandemic, Glenstone reopens today, July 23, allowing a limited number of guests to visit at pre-determined times.

Sneak Peek of Thomas Phifer’s Glenstone Expansion

Deane Madsen

May 21, 2018

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A recent visit to the museum in Potomac, Maryland, offered a glimpse at a constellation of new structures, set to open in October.

Corning Museum of Glass Contemporary Art + Design Wing

Corning, New York

Josephine Minutillo

May 16, 2015

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Thomas Phifer and Partners takes advantage of glass's unique qualities with free-flowing galleries inside a light-filled museum.

Lee Hall Addition, Clemson University

Machine for Learning: An architecture school expands into a steel and glass structure that showcases its structural and energy-efficient features.

Suzanne Stephens

November 15, 2013

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Architects don’t often get to design a new building for their alma mater. Yet Thomas Phifer, based in New York City, showed it’s possible to go home again—with success.