Updates

September 18, 2008

On September 15, NPR’s Morning Edition featured a segment detailing The Museum of Modern Art exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. A conversation with Assistant Curator Peter Christensen covers the rich history of prefabrication and the five full-scale prefab homes, including our Cellophane House™, currently on view…

September 1, 2008

Our renovations at Wellesley College’s Houghton Chapel and Multifaith Center were completed in the spring of 2008. In this article from Wellesley magazine, alumna Jana Reiss discusses students’ dreams for the space, and the hum of activity happening there now. A Chapel for the 21st…

August 6, 2008

How well does a plastic building envelope function in the summer heat of New York City? We attached sensors to the house to collect data on the thermal performance of our SmartWrap™ building skin. With the 53rd Street buildings hovering over the exhibition site, the house…

August 1, 2008

We are thrilled that the Sculpture Building and School of Art Gallery at Yale University have been named among the Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Sustainable Projects. View the ten measures and supporting metrics used to evaluate the entries here, and a comprehensive…

July 28, 2008

Last Friday, the whole KieranTimberlake team piled into two charter buses from our office in Philadelphia and trekked up the New Jersey Turnpike to visit the Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art. This movie was taken with a handheld camera and shows…

June 11, 2008

Completed in 2006, the Yale University Sculpture Building is a 51,000 square-foot studio space for the undergraduate and graduate sculpture programs of the School of Art. The building called for an exceptional quality of light, low energy usage, and operable windows. A climate analysis performed on the site…

January 18, 2007

Peter Curry, manager of our fabrication studio, undertook a study of steel finishes related to our work at the Multifaith Center at Wellesley College. We initiated a study to explore different methods for producing a durable, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective finish for steel fabrications in an interior…