We are moving! But will still be located in the Southeast Heights of Albuquerque, true to District 6! We are happily located near Sandia National Labs, Kirtland Airforce Base, and the Sunport. We look forward to seeing you in our new location: 2010 Ridgecrest Dr SE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87108.
MAC Sports Bar, Exterior
MCDERMOTT ATHLETIC CENTER
MAC Sports Bar, Interior
The McDermott Athletic Center (MAC) is an addition to its large indoor facilities. This family-oriented outdoor venue is a welcome-addition to the neighborhood where family members of all ages, and their pets, can enjoy the beautiful sunset views. Under a large canopy, multiple large gathering venues can occur during special occasions. These events can spill out into their extensive patio, where this location will be perfect from large sports-viewing, to private functions. Under the canopy, food and drink, and recreational activities are available. This seeks to be a neighborhood spot.
SFCC, Campus Entrance
SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
SFCC, Campus Courtyard
M+Y with Shepley Bulfinch have completed the master-planning efforts on the campus of Santa Fe Community College, the heart of the technology district. This beautifully sited campus faces many important emergent areas of Santa Fe. Its students draw from the city, the state, and the world. In order to meet the next generation’s educational requirements, SFCC underwent an exhaustive process to capture all salient points of the community, to create an expansive and inclusive document that connects its mission to serve its students.
Roosevelt General Hospital, Site
ROOSEVELT GENERAL HOSPITAL
Roosevelt General Hospital, Entrance
Roosevelt General Hospital is critical to addressing regional emergency care. Their leadership, in responding to the growing emergency services to the Southern region of New Mexico, provides much-needed medical attention to all New Mexico citizens. Their addition and renovation will bring confidence to our communities near Portales.
UNM CLARK HALL
Clark Hall was built in 1951, home to the discipline of Chemistry, on the campus of the University of New Mexico. The office of Meem, Zehner, Holien and Associates created this composed and stately building. The placement and site situation of the building represented a significant development of the growing campus. With its large paned windows and expansive classrooms, tall spaces made in concrete, the students of chemistry were ensured good daylight with lots of fresh air and beautiful views surrounding their building. With time, the studies and research needs of chemistry overwhelm this early building scheme. Therefore, a complete renovation of the interior and redress of the main entry, in keeping with its evolving disciplinary importance on campus, were needed. M+Y embarked on a lively discourse of architectural relevance and importance of representation to places of higher learning and research. We are excited to bring our reverence for the architectural structure and framework of John Gaw Meem instituted into the campus of UNM.
RIO RANCHO CAMPUS PARK
Rio Rancho will soon have a new landmark for the community! Be on the lookout for the new SkyRoom on your Eastward descent into the Sunport or during a scenic balloon ride over the city. We hope it may be visible from the air. We invite you to take a visit once its completed and let us know!
FCFC PORTALES
Construction continues! Here we see a nice open view of the Lobby area. The deep overhang shades the glass in the Summer and allows for passive solar gain in Winter, allowing for a convergence of beautiful and functional design!
ENMU GREYHOUND ARENA
Re-roofing of both the ENMU Greyhound arena and main building has now been completed! With its original completion in 1967, the Greyhound Arena has stood the test of time, with major renovations in 1988, 2006, and again in 2012. Considered one of the finest NCAA Division II athletic facilities in the Southwest, the arena is home to the ENMU volleyball, men’s basketball, and women’s basketball teams. More than 4,800 Greyhound Nation fans can watch games in the horseshoe-shaped arena and we’re happy to welcome them back with a newly-renovated roof!
The building is looking good! The next step is landscaping.
DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Looking forward to Del Norte Dragons in Roswell inhabiting their lair. It is a true excitement to see a school built in the community. It represents all the members of the community believing the children deserve to flourish in a representative architecture that fits their contemporary needs while anticipating their growth for the future! We celebrate ROSWELL, its leaders, its bright children. GO DRAGONS!
RENOVATION AT QUINCY HOUSE
The common 1950’s bungalow (900 SF) has been outfitted with a new kitchen, additional bathrooms and bedroom, and a much needed larger living room. The original house footprint, reflecting the needs of a 1950’s family, required an update of powerful lighting, data, wifi, sound, new kitchen amenities, more space in general for growing kids and dogs. The new addition of spaces wrap around the original house, using the elevation drop - to create taller rooms with lots of natural light. Therefore, the hill part of NOB HILL is used to build voluminous rooms while still retaining the scale of the neighborhood.
The basement is cleaned and prepped for new work! The construction team is installing additional framing, new piping, new plumbing, and new duct work.
UNM CLARK HALL RENOVATION
The beloved John Gaw Meem Clark Hall, known as the Chemistry building, is experiencing a complete renovation of its laboratory facilities, student classrooms and auditorium. The original concrete structure revealed here, articulates the 1950’s era framework and slab condition. The coordination of the structure with the very large fenestration system for its time, is a classic expression of structural elegance in a large open space. The renovation work seeks to preserve its proportional clarity and incorporate today’s technical functionality.
NMT BROWN HALL "OLD MAIN"
This wonderful historic building has the opportunity to be renovated. Its initial stone exterior experienced an unfortunate fire in its early existence. Some of the original cornerstones and north entrance facade elements exist today. The image below is its 1939 WPA executed Spanish Mission styled entrance and facade. Today, beautiful trees grace the historic building to create a central figure on the campus of New Mexico Tech.
DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
A new welcome addition to ROSWELL.
DEL NORTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The Del Norte Dragons can look forward to their new school taking shape. This summer, the construction companies, the administrators and hard workers of the community are taking extra care to make sure Del Norte is on schedule and ready for the students. This is a time, we can be grateful for the many people that care so much about education, our students, and the future of Roswell. We are so excited to see DNES be a reality and fixture in ROSWELL, NM!
METROPOLIS MAGAZINE FEATURES UNM SMITH PLAZA!
We are super excited to receive this national attention with our design collaborators: SURFACEdesign and MRWM Landscape Architects. This recognition not only affirms the strength of the design for our beloved UNM, but confirms our commonly held values in the strength of COLLABORATION. We are honored with this moment in the spotlight! We look forward to more opportunities to elevate and uplift the spaces in New Mexico. Our commonly held belief in materiality and its enduring qualities are investments into our culture, place and labor. We seek to incorporate our local traditions with contemporary expressions of architecture.
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
SMITH PLAZA WINS BRICK DESIGN AWARD! →
Thank you Brick Industry Association for this design award! M+Y with Landscape Architects MRWM, and SURFACE DESIGN practice the words of our geist teachers:
“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“Even a brick wants to be something. A brick wants to be something. It aspires. Even a common, ordinary brick... wants to be something more than it is. It wants to be something better than it is.” - Louis Kahn
The humble bricks come together to repeat its own measure, its patterns, with the ever presence to adjust its position. These movements in material bring beauty and elegance to textured space of the outside. The brick is the same but different in its ability to modulate the unit for its fullest expression. The brick is common, but rich and impressive by the artful hand/mind of the craftsperson! The brick aspires to be more, just as all architectural projects aspire to be more. It is our designed intention to take common materials, common circumstances and heighten the architectural potential for all buildings!
CHANGE
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy
Well, we try to do both. In that spirit, we experienced change these weeks in so many ways. We settled into a new reality, if not for the moment perhaps longer, of caution and care for ourselves and our clients over COVID 19. Our world has been made coincidentally larger and overwhelmingly connected AND smaller and forever precious. We are not only our own stewards of health but of the health of others. The compounded crises of our country is an opportunity to reflect upon our individual and collective roles in making the community we desire to see. We see that taking care of ourselves means taking care of and being responsible to our greater selves - our country. Until we see us as the US, we can not confidently move forward. All of us matter and matter greatly. Originally this note was to highlight that we have moved and it is time to be grateful and reflective of all that is ongoing, we are humbled that this is time where we require healing together and create action together to lift up the better parts of ourselves. (Edit: 06.01.2020)
We finally moved our office this last week to 2010 RIDGECREST DR. SE (across the street). We practice fastidiously the values of social distancing but bring our projects and our community closer to us in content, attention and focus. We are constantly seeking change to create a better work environment, better project environment. We anxiously await the change in our culture and community that better leads us to create the change we wish to see in ourselves.
ROSWELL HIGH SCHOOL
New additions to the athletic areas of this high school is greatly anticipated. The students and community have waited a long time for the upgraded field facilities. We hope the Fighting Coyotes are finding their new den to their liking!
UNM CORONADO RENOVATION PHASE 2
Coronado Hall has needed some attention from many years of beloved use. The student Lobos have the opportunities to enjoy the new facilities in the upcoming academic year! We are proud of UNM for their leadership in addressing the issues of washrooms, shower facilities allowing for more privacy and individuality while maintaining everyone’s dignity in student dorm life! @CoronadoHall #GoLobos
NEW POSITIONS @McCLAIN+YU!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! We are expanding our team.
Position: Intern Architect/Interested Educator
McClain + Yu Architecture & Design is seeking a full-time intern architect with interests in architectural education and developing architectural skills in project delivery to join our lively team at the office and to work with principal in the capacity of teaching at the University. Revit knowledge is desirable though not req'd. Educational teaching experience is desirable though not req'd. Pay commensurate with experience. Please submit cover letter (Letter of interest in the office and interest in architectural education), resume, writing sample and abbreviated portfolio of experience. Contact: info@mcclain-yu.com
Position: Architect/Intern Architect (5 + yrs experience)
Are you ready for a change? Ready for an experience that counts? Ready to move your career forward? Ready to learn and contribute on an accelerated level? McClain + Yu Architecture & Design is seeking a full-time architect or intern architect with 3-5 yrs experience to join our lively team. Revit knowledge is desirable though not req'd. Pay commensurate with experience. Please submit cover letter, resume and abbreviated portfolio of experience. Contact: info@mcclain-yu.com
LANTERNS OF STEEL...
Pascetti Steel of Albuquerque has made a video via drone of the Lantern canopies on Smith Plaza.