Roche-Dinkeloo
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Company type | LLC |
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Industry | Architecture |
Genre | Architecture |
Founded | Hamden, Connecticut, United States (1966 ) |
Founder | Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo |
Headquarters | , United States |
Area served | International |
Key people | Principals: Kevin Roche AIA FAIA.
Steuart Gray AIA. Wesley Kavanagh AIA. Directors: Eamon Roche, Stephen Metzger, Jerome Boryca, Thomas Frechette, Jason Hickey, and Marilyn Gillon. |
Services | Urban Design & Planning |
Number of employees | 50 |
Website | www |
Roche Dinkeloo, otherwise known as Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates LLC (KRJDA), is an architectural firm based in Hamden, Connecticut founded in 1966. In 2020, it relocated to New Haven, Connecticut, and took the name Roche Modern.
About
The principal designers were 1982
Roche and Dinkeloo both previously worked with
According to the company website:
KRJDA is engaged in major projects throughout the United States, Europe and Asia and provides complete master planning, programming, architectural design, interior design, working drawings, specification and construction administration services. The firm has designed a variety of institutional and corporate projects including 38 corporate headquarters, three hotel/apartment buildings, eight museums, numerous research facilities, theaters, schools, factories, performing arts centers, houses and the Central Park Zoo in New York. For the past 42 years, he has been the architect for the master plan and expansion of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, designing all of its new wings and installing many of its collections.
The firm received the American Institute of Architects 1974 Architectural Firm Award and in 1995 the firm was the recipient of the American Institute of Architect's 25-Year Award for the
Kevin Roche has been referred to as the "first [architect] to see architecture and nature as one."[4]
Projects
KRJDA has completed over 200 projects in the US and internationally. These include 8 museums, 38 institutional and corporate headquarters, 7 research laboratories, conference and performing arts centers, theaters, and campus buildings for 6 separate universities. KRJDA maintains their office in Hamden, Connecticut.
Film
A feature documentary about Kevin Roche and his work, called Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect was released in 2017. It is directed by Irish filmmaker (ex-architecture student) Mark Noonan whose 2015 debut feature You're Ugly Too starred Aidan Gillen and was met with critical acclaim.
Notable buildings
- 1968 – The Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, New York, NY
- 1969 – Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
- 1969 – Administration, Student Union & Physical Education Buildings, RIT, Rochester, NY
- 1969 – The Knights of Columbus Building Headquarters, New Haven, CT
- 1969 – United States Post Office, Columbus, IN
- 1969 – Aetna Life and Casualty Company Computer Headquarters, Hartford, CT
- 1971 – Power Center for the Performing Arts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- 1973 – Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
- 1974 – Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
- 1974 – The Pyramids (Indianapolis) College Life Insurance Company of America Headquarters, Indianapolis, IN
- 1974 – Worcester Plaza, Worcester, MA
- 1975 – ONE UN New York Hotel, New York, NY
- 1978 – John Deere World Headquarters West Office Building, Moline, IL
- 1979 – Denver Performing Arts Complex, Denver, CO
- 1982 – One Summit Square, Fort Wayne, IN
- 1982 – The Corporate Center, Danbury, CT
- 1982 – Moudy Visual Arts and Communication Building, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
- 1983 – ONE UN New York Hotel, New York, NY
- 1983 – General Foods Corporate Headquarters, Ryebrook, NY
- 1985 – Cummins Corporate Office Building, Columbus, IN
- 1985 – DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Williamsburg, VA
- 1986 – Conoco Inc. Petroleum Headquarters, Houston, TX
- 1988 – Central Park Zoo, New York, NY
- 1988 – Bouygues World Headquarters, Saint-Quentin-Yvelines, France
- 1989 – Leo Burnett Building Company Headquarters, Chicago, IL
- 1990 – 750 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY
- 1990 – Metropolitano Office Building, Madrid, Spain
- 1992 – J.P. Morgan Tower, New York, NY
- 1993 – Corning IncorporatedCorporate Headquarters, Corning, NY
- 1993 – Merck & Co. Inc. Headquarters, Whitehouse Station, NJ
- 1993 – Bank of America Plaza (Atlanta) GA
- 1993 – Borland International Corporate Headquarters, Scotts Valley, Ca
- 1993 – Tanjong and Binariang Headquarters/Menara Maxis, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- 1994 – Pontiac Marina Millenia Tower and The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore
- 1995 – Dai-ichi Life Headquarters/ Norinchukin Bank Headquarters, DN Tower 21, Tokyo, Japan
- 1997 – Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
- 1997 – Shiodome City Center, Tokyo, Japan
- 1997 – Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life/ Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University, New York, NY
- 1997 – LucentTechnologies, Lisle, IL/Naperville, IL
- 2000 – Ciudad Grupo Santander, Madrid, Spain
- 2001 – Securities and Exchange CommissionHeadquarters, Washington, D.C.
- 2002 – Bouygues S.A. Holding Company Headquarters, Paris, France
- 2003 – 1101 New York Avenue, Washington, D.C.
- 2005 – Lafayette Tower, Washington, D.C.
- 2009 – David S. Ingalls RinkRestoration and Addition, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- 2010 – Convention Centre Dublin, Dublin, Ireland (2010)[5]
- 2011 – New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 2012 – American Painting Galleries in the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 2014 – Renovations to United Nations Development Corporation
- 2018 – 200/250 Massachusetts Ave Capitol Crossing[6]
- 2020 – Expansion at Museum of Jewish Heritage
References
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
- ^ "Firm". Roche Modern. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
- ^ "Kevin Roche | The Pritzker Architecture Prize". www.pritzkerprize.com. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
- ^ Pelkonen, Eeva-Lissa. Kevin Roche: Architecture As Environment. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2011.
- ^ "The Convention Centre Dublin – Dublin Docklands". www.ddda.ie. Archived from the original on 2011-11-27.
- ^ "Home". capitolcrossingdc.com.
External links
- Firm Website: Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates LLC