Greatbatch Pavilion at the Darwin Martin House
QRP collaborated with architect Toshiko Mori in designing a Visitor’s Center for the Darwin Martin House in Buffalo, NY. Designed and built between 1903 and 1905, the house and garden is a world-renowned exemplar of Frank Lloyd Wright’s prairie-style architecture. It has been restored to its condition of 1907, its “year of significance”, and upon completion will be a museum.
The landscape is designed to mediate between the restored Wright/Martin gardens and the elegant modern vocabulary of Mori’s glass-walled pavilion. The stone-paved courtyard, canopied by a grid of honey locust trees, serves as a gathering space and an orientation area where tours meet before proceeding onto the historic Martin property. Directing visitors from Jewett Parkway to the Visitor’s Center is a wood wall clad in wisteria vines that echoes a favorite Wright motif for the complex.
Location
Buffalo, NY
Client
Darwin D. Martin House Restoration Corporation
Role
Landscape Architect
Team
Toshiko Mori Architect
