Machado Silvetti

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has awarded Machado Silvetti multiple national design awards for Downtown Cary Park. A collaboration between Machado Silvetti, OJB Landscape Architecture, and the Town of Cary, North Carolina, Downtown Cary Park is a transformative integration of architecture, landscape design, and urban planning. The AIA recognizes the cross-disciplinary excellence of the park’s design by honoring the design team with the AIA Regional and Urban Design Award, and the AIA Small Project Award for the Bark Bar Pavilion.

Project / Downtown Cary Park. Cary, NC
Team
Architects /Machado Silvetti Architects
Landscape Architecture / OJB
Civil / Withers Ravenel
Structural / SGH
MEP / Cosentini
Lighting / LAM Partners
Irrigation / Irrigation Consulting Inc
Water Feature / Fluidity Design Consultants
Signage / Wayfinding / Graphics / RSM Design

Programming and Operational Planning/ Biederman Redevelopment Ventures (BRV)

At the Honan Alston Branch of the Public Library in Allston, Massachusetts, we reconceived of a new civic architecture. Three parallel zones—active, meditative, communal—orchestrate the everyday ritual of reading. Where industrial land becomes gathering place, slate and light compose a public library that earns its honors through clarity of purpose. The project was awarded the 2003 National Honor Award for Architecture.

Machado Silvetti’s latest building is aanother parking structure that refuses anonymity—brick and terracotta meet Downtown Cary’s streetscape, bronze chevrons animate the facade, and an ivory-colored spiral stair tower establishes a presence. The gains not just parking, but a building that reinforces human scale and urban vitality; architecture in service of place.

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Sited on original WTC excavation landfill, Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park in Battery Park City, New Yor rose to embrace the harbor, the Statue of Liberty, the harbor’s memory. Postmodern colossus rendered intimate. Brick pavilions frame the city from within itself—design that acknowledges colossal surroundings while reserving the plaza for the public alone. Winner of the 1998 AIA National Honor Award for Urban Design the Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park in Battery Park City, New York was designed by in partnership with and was critiqued by in the saying: “What is most important is that every aspect of this design emerges from the realities of the park’s surroundings—the waterfront, the Statue of Liberty, the rest of Battery Park City and lower Manhattan—and connects to the imperatives of human use.”

Winner of the 1993 Award for Architecture – a first for Machado Silvetti - the Science and Engineering Quadrangle Parking Structure at University in Princeton, New Jersey is a garage elevated to monument. We asked: what if functional necessity became an exercise in contextual discipline? 410 cars concealed by bronze lattice and masonry—architectural rigor?

Photo by Anton Grassl

We are so thrilled by the Architect’s Newspaper’s incredible coverage of our recent leadership transition news. Yesterday, we announced that Jorge Silvetti and Rodolfo Machado were stepping back after forty years of firm leadership, and that Stephanie Randazzo Dwyer and Jeffry Burchard are the new owners and firm leaders. As Kristine Klein writes, “The Boston-based firm has established itself as a forerunner in adaptive reuse and building in historic contexts, having amassed a robust portfolio of museum, educational, and cultural projects. New leadership will remain active in the realms of architectural education, practice, and technology, as was the case for Machado Silvetti in years past.”

As we embark on this new era, we remain delighted by and grateful for our many partners, valued friends and colleagues, and collaborators.







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Construction continues on Downtown Cary Park a seven-acre, centerpiece collaboration between the Town of Cary, OJB Landscape Architecture, Machado Silvetti, and a host of consultants, community members, and the town’s council and manager’s office. Set within the highly programmed park, the five Machado Silvetti-designed pavilions were conceived in close collaboration with OJB to ensure the seamless correspondence of inside and out, building and landscape.

Downtown Cary Park Construction, Summer Update Project Update

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Benton Museum of Art and the Denver Art Museum featured in The Wall Street Journal’s Best Architecture of 2021!

Both museums opened their doors to the public this past fall.

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