Robert A.M. Stern Architects

Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP (RAMSA), is an architecture firm based in New York City. First established by Robert A. M. Stern (as Stern Hagmann Architects) in 1969, it is now organized as a limited liability partnership with 16 general partners. The firm's portfolio includes a variety of building types as well as planning, landscape design, interior design, and product design, throughout the U.S. and internationally.

Houses

RAMSA's residential projects have been documented in many books, including: ''The American Houses of Robert A.M. Stern'', ''Robert A.M. Stern: Houses'', ''Robert A.M. Stern: Houses and Gardens'', and ''Designs for Living: Houses by Robert A.M. Stern Architects''. The firm has frequently been included in ''Architectural Digest's'' list of top residential architects, the "AD 100," and its projects have been featured on the cover of ''Architectural Digest'' five times in four years.

In 1994, RAMSA designed the ''Life'' Dream House, a modest, affordable house with blueprints made accessible to all Americans.

Gallery of houses

File:870 Park Avenue from south.jpg, 870 Park Avenue, altered in 1976—with John S. Hagmann
File:A02009-ESTO-2009A53.411 0.jpg, Bel Air, California, residence

Apartment buildings

RAMSA has designed many high-rise residential buildings built around the world, including: Tribeca Park (completed in 1999 for the real-estate developer Related); The Chatham (built 2001); and many others in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Chicago.

Among the firm's best-known residential buildings is 15 Central Park West, located near the southwest corner of Central Park. This limestone-clad building, completed in 2008, set records in New York for the most expensive apartment sale and achieved over $2 billion in total sales. Designed for Zeckendorf Development, 15 Central Park West began RAMSA's relationship with the developer and has led to other work with the company, including 18 Gramercy Park South, completed in 2012 and 520 Park Avenue.

Gallery of apartment buildings

File:Tribeca Park 400 Chambers Street Battery Park City.jpg, Tribeca Park, 400 Chambers Street, New York City (completed 1999)
File:18 Gramercy Park.jpg, 18 Gramercy Park, New York City, renovated in 2012
File:15 CPW from the southeast.JPG, 15 Central Park West, New York City
File:30 Park Place New York NY 2015 06 10 08.jpg, 30 Park Place, New York City (completed in 2015)
File:220CPS_6Jan_17.jpg, 220 Central Park South, New York CIty (under construction 2017)

Institutional work

Since the mid-1980s, RAMSA has won commissions for institutional projects, the first of which was the Observatory Hill Dining Hall at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia, completed in 1984. In 1993 the firm completed both the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, New York.

In 1992, RAMSA won a competition for the design of the Darden School of Business at University of Virginia and went on to design buildings for two dozen business schools, and many other buildings for colleges, professional schools, and independent and charter schools.

Beginning in 1998, RAMSA won commissions for a series of municipal libraries including the Miami Beach Library, the Nashville Public Library, the Clearwater Public Library, and the Jacksonville Public Library.

In 2001, RAMSA completed the construction of the Spangler Center at the Harvard Business School, designed in the Georgian Revival architectural style. In 2003–2005, it designed the Bloomberg Center of the Baker Library/Bloomberg Center complex at HBS.

Gallery of institutional work

File:Pasadena, California, Police Department Building.jpg, Police Building, Pasadena, CA (completed in 1990)
File:Rockwell museum.jpg, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA (completed in 1993)
File:Brooklyn Law School Fell Hall.jpg, Fell Hall, Brooklyn Law School (completed in 1994)
File:Darden School lawn UVa1.jpg, The Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia (completed in 1992)
File:2013 Main exterior 2.jpg, The Clearwater Public Library (completed in 2004)
File:Jax FL Main Library03.jpg, The Jacksonville Public Library, Jacksonville, FL (completed 2005)
File:WeillHall.jpg, The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Ann Arbor, MI (completed in 2006)
File:International Quilt Study Center & Museum Lincoln NE.jpg, International Quilt Study Center & Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska (completed in 2008)
File:Museum of the American Revolution - Joy of Museums 3.jpg, Museum of the American Revolution (completed in 2017)
File:George W. Bush Presidential Center 07 - jpfagerback - 2013-04-26.JPG, George W. Bush Presidential Center (completed in 2013)

Commercial work

RAMSA designed some of its first office buildings for Hines, a privately owned international real estate firm, including Point West Place, Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1985; 222 Berkeley Street, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1991; and 600 Thirteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC, in 1997. The firm's work for Hines expanded to projects across the globe with the Torre del Ángel, Reforma 350, Mexico City, Mexico, in 2000; Diagonal Mar Entertainment and Retail Center and Residential Development, Barcelona, Spain, in 2001; Torre Almirante, Avenida Barroso, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2004; and Castelo Building, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2008. The firm's most recent work for Hines includes Tour Carpe Diem, La Défense, Paris, France completed in 2013 and One Horizon Center, Gurgaon, Haryana, India completed in 2014.

An extended relationship with Liberty Property Trust, a real estate investment trust headquartered outside of Philadelphia, has led to several high-profile projects for the firm including The Plaza at PPL Center, Allentown, Pennsylvania, completed in 2003 and the Comcast Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, completed in 2008. RAMSA is also responsible for the master plan for the Philadelphia Navy Yard, also commissioned by Liberty, and saw two buildings realized as part of that plan – One Crescent Drive in 2005 and Five Crescent Drive, the headquarters for pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, in 2013.

Gallery of commercial work

File:Comcast_Philly.JPG, The Comcast Center, second tallest building in Philadelphia, PA, completed in 2008

Work for Disney

The firm has completed several projects for the Walt Disney World Resort Company, including the Yacht and Beach Clubs, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, completed in 1991 and the plan for Paris Disneyland in Marne-La Vallée, France, which led to the completion of the Hotel Cheyenne and the Newport Bay Club Hotel. The firm also designed the BoardWalk, built in 1996.
RAMSA's relationship with Disney continued with work for the Walt Disney Company including the Feature Animation Building in Burbank, California, completed in 1994, and the Casting Center in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The Walt Disney Company also commissioned RAMSA to develop the master plan for its planned community of Celebration, Florida, a town encompassing 4,900 acres and about 20,000 residents.

Gallery of work for Disney

File:Roy E. Disney Animation Building.jpg, Roy E. Disney Animation Building
File:Walt_Disney_World_Casting_Center.jpg, Walt Disney World Casting Center (completed in 1989)
File:DisneyBeachClub1.jpg, Disney Beach Club
File:DisneyYacht1.jpg, Disney Yacht Club Resort

References

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American companies established in 1969
Design companies established in 1969
1969 establishments in New York City
Architecture firms based in New York City
New Classical architects