Conference House Park is located at the southernmost end of Staten Island. A historic farmhouse sits atop a hill overlooking the Raritan Bay towards New Jersey. It was here that American and English forces met in September of 1776 to try to negotiat
 The pavilion was designed to replace one that had fallen into severe disrepair. This previous version was already a copy of one that had been designed decades earlier. The design here intends the pavilion to be a minimalist and contemporary folly in
 Glulam timbers form a regular cadence of structure and through a subtle manipulation of their orientation create a dynamic roof shape that seems to bend and warp as visitors approach and move around it. The timbers are suspended from a arched steel
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