Thomas Phifer and Partners

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Cooper Hewitt Announces 2019 National Design Awards Winners

June 10, 2019

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.

North Carolina Museum of Art

Shedding Light: Thomas Phifer and Partners turns a simple structure into a stunning expansion of the North Carolina Museum of Art.

Josephine Minutillo

July 19, 2010

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Tom Phifer said that he wants his new building for the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA), in Raleigh, to disappear into the landscape.

Upstate New York House

Thomas Phifer and Partners keeps in step with nature by orchestrating a skillful series of moves atop a scenic ridge for its Upstate New York House.

Josephine Minutillo

April 1, 2009

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As you approach Thomas Phifer and Partners’ house in upstate New York, the long, steep climb up a winding country road ends not with a dramatic structure, nor a sweeping panorama; its denouement is merely a prelude to the multifaceted spatial sequence to come.

Raymond and Susan Brochstein Pavilion

Thomas Phifer and Partners floats a Modern temple onto a traditional campus with its Raymond and Susan Brochstein Pavilion.

Beth Broome

March 19, 2009

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You can almost hear the “Pomp and Circumstance March” as you stroll Rice University’s bucolic, 285-acre campus nestled in the heart of Houston, shielded from the hubbub of the city’s six-lane freeways and endless strip development.

Salt Point House

Thomas Phifer's ethereal Salt Point House makes its presence known on the landscape while fading into it.

Beth Broome

January 19, 2008

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For five years, Manhattan residents Cristina Grajales and Isabelle Kirshner rented a rustic former hunting cabin in Dutchess County, New York, for weekend getaways.