Richard Meier Takes Over Interior Design’s Instagram

On Tuesday, October 24, renowned architect Richard Meier will take over Interior Design’s Instagram account. Follow along as the Hall of Fame member shares recently completed projects, sources of inspiration, and insights into his design process. As a bonus, editor in chief Cindy Allen will share some of her favorite Richard Meier projects on her account, @thecindygram. Be sure to tune in!

Tomorrow, legendary architect @richardmeierpartners is taking over our Instagram! Stay tuned as he gives insight into his design process, recent projects, and biggest inspirations. Pictured here is the Leblon office in Rio de Janeiro—his first project in South America—which features vertical gardens that rise to the roof. . . ???? by Roland Halbe @sandow

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I'm Richard Meier, managing partner @richardmeierpartners, and I will be taking over Interior Design’s Instagram account today. Here I am working at my studio at our Model Museum in Jersey City, New Jersey, and as with each of our projects my space is inspired on our architectural philosophy and the importance of natural light as a building material. Photo by Chris Cooper/courtesy @richardmeierpartners #architecture #design

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Richard Meier: Our offices in New York City and Los Angeles employ a multicultural staff of talented professionals that has produced construction documents, and supervised construction, in 20 countries and 16 different languages. Our space in Manhattan reflects our philosophy of order, simplicity, light, the use of sustainable materials, and natural ventilation. Photo by Brett Beyer/courtesy @richardmeierpartners #architecture #design

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ICON: Richard Meier...and he's taking over @interiordesignmag today! Richard will share, from his own words, what inspires him and reveal a few new projects! We were delighted to recently publish @seamarqhotel in Gangneung, South Korea—Meier’s first project in South Korea, first ground-up hotel, and first large-scale commission to encompass architecture AND interiors!!!! “The interiors relate to some of my early houses in the U.S. in terms of openness and transparency,” Meier says. “Many of the cues for the hotel’s design came from the site—its light, its topography.” We are excited to spend the day with Richard Meier. ENJOY this special day! @richardmeierpartners Photos: #Roland Halbe #goforthanddesign

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Editor in chief @thecindygram is also celebrating the work of Richard Meier today! Follow her to see her favorite projects. @RichardMeierPartners: In thinking about the ideas that go into making architecture, one has to think about not just the context, the circumstances of the site, its history, the surrounding buildings, the topography, and the nature of the place in the public realm, but also about what it can be, what it will be, and how it will be meaningful for future societies. Models are a great tool to organize and clarify our ideas and with all of the changes that are taking place in the world today, it is important that architecture continues to move us aesthetically forward, as great architecture always has. Photo by Brett Beyer courtesy @richardmeierpartners #Architecture #Design

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ICON: Richard Meier...and he's taking over @interiordesignmag today, so i'm celebrating alongside! When Italcementi, one of the top con­crete manufacturers in the world, enlisted Richard Meier & Partners Architects to design its new headquarters, iLab, what resulted is rock-solid but startlingly airy, too. Interior Design Hall of Fame member Richard Meier constructed the 250,000-square-foot building, which culminates in an arresting V-shape prow, primarily with a high-strength, low-maintenance reinforced concrete that Italcementi specifically developed for the project. The product reacts with ultraviolet rays to break down harmful automotive and industrial emissions—leading to one of the first LEED Platinum certifications in Europe. (This glassed-in gallery protrudes 20 feet through a precast-concrete screen supported by stainless-steel pipe)! Bravo Richard! Photo: #scott francis/otto @richardmeierpartners @interiordesignmag #goforthanddesign

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ICON: @richardmeierpartners…and he's been taking over @interiordesignmag today, and I’ve been celebrating alongside! Last post of the day, and certainly the luckiest!...introducing the Douglas house, referred to as Lucky number six: This 4,500-square-foot home designed in 1973, the sixth residential commission in Richard Meier’s career, was recently listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the architect’s first project to earn such status. It was 1971 when he began building the steel-reinforced wood-framed structure on 5½ steep lakefront acres in Harbor Springs, Michigan, commissioned by James Douglas, then president of Blue Arrow Douglas trucking company, and his wife after they spied a similar Meier house on a 1968 magazine cover. Outside, Meier and team were careful to spare as many of the site’s conifers as possible. Inside, they appointed the five floors with furniture by Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Meier himself. The current owners did a full-on restoration in 2011. Thanks Richard for moving design forward! ???? by @scottfrancesphoto #goforthandDESIGN

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@RichardMeierPartners: We just completed the Rothschild Tower in Tel Aviv, Israel, and we have several new towers under construction in Honolulu, Mexico City, New York City, Taichung, Taipei and Tokyo. The scale and the relationship to their local context is important on all these buildings and the architectural grid helps to bring all the elements into a rational organization so that all of these elements are interrelated both horizontally and vertically. This influences the structure and the detailing of the buildings bringing everything into a harmonious whole. Photo by Roland Halbe courtesy @richardmeierpartners #Architecture #Design

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@RichardMeierPartners: We are fortunate to have so many projects in unique sites and also adjacent to water, such as the new Cittadella Bridge in Alessandria, Italy. Looking at the context has always been something that is very important in our work. We look at how that project not only fulfills the functional requirements of what it is, but how it responds to where it is and how it enlivens the community. As in many of our buildings, the Cittadella Bridge is a composition of volumes and forms, and at dawn and dusk, and with the change of seasons light will filter through the structure providing for particularly animated light conditions. Photo by Hufton+Crow courtesy @richardmeierpartners #Architecture #Design

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@RichardMeierPartners: Whiteness is one of the hallmarks of our work, yet for me it is not a superficial conceit but rather a guiding principle, used to clarify architectural concepts and heighten the power of visual form. It allows for us to pursue our primary preoccupation, which is the manipulation of light and space. Photo by Scott Frances courtesy @richardmeierpartners #Architecture #Design

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Regram from our editor in chief @thecindygram . . . ICON: @richardmeierpartners…and he's been taking over @interiordesignmag today, and I’ve been celebrating alongside! Last post of the day, and certainly the luckiest!...introducing the Douglas house, referred to as Lucky number six: This 4,500-square-foot home designed in 1973, the sixth residential commission in Richard Meier’s career, was recently listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the architect’s first project to earn such status. It was 1971 when he began building the steel-reinforced wood-framed structure on 5½ steep lakefront acres in Harbor Springs, Michigan, commissioned by James Douglas, then president of Blue Arrow Douglas trucking company, and his wife after they spied a similar Meier house on a 1968 magazine cover. Outside, Meier and team were careful to spare as many of the site’s conifers as possible. Inside, they appointed the five floors with furniture by Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Meier himself. The current owners did a full-on restoration in 2011. Thanks Richard for moving design forward! ???? by @scottfrancesphoto #goforthandDESIGN

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Stay tuned for more takeovers!