Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects LLP is a New York City-based design studio in architecture, urban design, installations and exhibitions, objects and products. Across the United States and abroad, Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects has designed public and private projects including museums, parks, transportation terminals, performing arts spaces, privates residences, government facilities, a series of museum exhibitions and installations, as well as furniture and objects.
Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects ’s work derives inspiration from an ongoing investigation into contemporary culture, its history, and its complex changing relationship to society and contemporary ideas. The work process is transformative in the way it reinterprets basic programs and negotiates traditional craft with vanguard techniques. Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects is a laboratory for speculation and making, for investigation and practice: two strands that are woven together in all of the projects from the initial concept to their final realization.
Projects throughout the U.S. and abroad include the Corning Museum of Glass, the US Land Ports of Entry at Champlain and Massena, NY, The Dillion - an 83 unit residential building in midtown Manhattan, an Emergency Medical Services Station in the Bronx for the Department of Design and Construction, an installation at the Museum of Modern Art, a ferry terminal for Lower Manhattan, and a new private residence in Sagaponac New York. Important cultural projects include The Museum of Women’s History, The Shilla Daechi Building in Seoul Korea, Robert Greenberg’s private residence which includes a collection of Outsider Art, the Frederieke Taylor Art Gallery in Chelsea and The Rotunda Gallery and Slide Registry for the Borough of Brooklyn. SMH+ has produced design proposals for invited competitions for NYC2012 Olympic Village, the Cincinatti Museum of Art, The New York Aquarium at Coney Island, Colorado Springs Academy K-12 School, the Mid-Manhattan Library of the New York Public Library, The American Craft Museum in New York and The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia.
Recent awards include The 2009 Art Commission of New York City Excellence in Design Award for the Bronx EMS Station, The 2008 Art Commission of New York City Excellence in Design Special Recognition Award for the expansion of the Hospital for Special Surgery, The 2008 Design Excellence Citation Award – On the Boards for the Land Port of Entry at Massena New York, The 2008 Chicago Atheneum American Architecture Award for the New York Aquarium of Coney Island, 2007 AIA New York Chapter Architecture Award for 53rd Street Residential Building New York, NY, McGraw Hill Construction Best of 2007 Award of Merit for the Port of Entry at Champlain, PA Design Award for Strategic Open Space: Public Realm Improvement Strategy for Lower Manhattan, an AIA New York Chapter Medal of Honor, The National Academy of Design Canon Prize for The New York Public Library Project, and The Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for Excellence in Art and Architecture.
