https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/2946 en-us http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17947 Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:01:33 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17947-tribeca-residence-by-tm goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17738 Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:17:52 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17738-taylor-and-miller-architecture-takes-a-bold-yet-surgical-approach-in-revamping-a-park-slope-townhouse Both from working-class communities in the middle of the country (Miller grew up in Illinois; Taylor hails from Colorado), the pair share an affinity for hand-tooled architecture with conceptual underpinnings.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14204 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14204-design-vanguard-2009-taylor-and-miller-architecture-and-design Photo courtesy Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design For under $6,000, Taylor and Miller designed, built, and installed this ethereal sculpture in the lobby of a residential tower in New York City’s Harlem. Photo courtesy Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design Photo © Gregory Cherin Photography Photo © Gregory Cherin Photography Photo © Gregory Cherin Photography In their largest built project to date, Taylor and Miller doubled the size of an existing ranch house for an environmentalist and her two children. While an initial design for the project included a new volume nearly separated from the original structure, the architects ultimately opted to largely preserve the house’s facade by simply elongating it axially. Photo © Gregory Cherin Photography This deployable art installation typifies the craft, thrift, and ingenuity often present in Taylor and Miller’s work. Version 3 grew out of an MIT studio project in which Taylor’s professor challenged him to create a purely sculptural object evoking lightness, using only metal. Photo courtesy Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design Photo courtesy Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design A proposed display system for a jewelry designer in Manhattan’s Time Warner Center, these retro-futuristic pods look like a hand-fabricated version of something out of James Cameron’s Alien or Woody Allen’s Sleeper. Made of laser-cut stacked plywood, the cases would have shown off the jeweler’s wares in the upscale mall’s open retail area. Photo courtesy Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design Photo courtesy Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design Photo courtesy Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design “This project was about overpowering the visual chaos” of a bustling Brooklyn beauty salon, says Taylor. The firm finished overhauling the space in 2009; after going through a number of proposed plans, they settled on a cellular scheme organized around a no-frills plywood shelf. By deploying the boxes on nearly every square inch of the store’s walls and ceiling, the design “maintains a very clear architectural form and lets the idea come through,” explains Taylor. Photo courtesy Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design Taylor jokes that tenant improvements are always a challenge because architectural design gestures can get subverted the minute the clients actually start using their buildings. “It’s not like they’re buying Eames chairs,” agrees Miller. (The owner of the Linger Lounge specified that Taylor and Miller’s renovation “would have to work with the Louis XIV furniture,” remembers Miller.) Another constraint, which the pair often grapples with, was the extremely modest project budget. The architects overhauled the lounge’s kitchen and bathroom, performed structural work on the old building, and designed and partially fabricated a stunning, severe chandelier in their Brooklyn workshop. Photo © Gregory Cherin Photography Photo courtesy Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design Miller isn’t quite sure whether or not this proposal for a preschool through middle school should be called an “addition”: The 17,000-square-foot building would be almost double the size of the original structure. The design, which includes classrooms, a library, cafeteria, and multipurpose activity room, would envelop the current building on two sides. The facade’s form and window openings would be partially dictated by the size and shape of the factory-produced Cor-Ten steel sheets cladding it. Rendering courtesy Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design Rendering courtesy Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design