Arkell Art Center
Canajoharie, NY

The Arkell Art Center is located on a 7-acre site in the village of Canajoharie, New York. The master plan for the Art Center incorporated building expansion, parking, field house, and open lawns for town gatherings. The site design also explored opportunities to have site elements that were bold and would contrast the setting to announce the Art Center from the adjacent interstate highway. A long site canal was proposed as an organizing element and to recall the Erie Canal that once ran directly adjacent to the site on the south side. Abstracted land forms recalling geological eskers were used to frame views and create a separate landscape setting for art display and civic function.

Collaborators
designLAB Architects
Ann Beha Architects

Photography
designLAB Architects