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Graduate students from Parsons design and build pavilion for the town of Margaretville

Parsons The New School for Design celebrates the completion of the latest project of The Design Workshop, the design and construction of a 6,000-square-foot park pavilion for the upstate New York community of Margaretville. In addition to designing a structure that would serve as a community landmark, the students also faced the challenge of devising a design that could withstand its location in a flood plain of the Delaware River.

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Park Pavilion in Catskills Town of Margaretville Is
Largest Design Workshop Project To Date

Exhibition Documenting Project to Open
September 20 with Lecture and Reception

NEW YORK, September 15, 2007 – Parsons The New School for Design will celebrate the completion of the latest project of The Design Workshop, the school’s acclaimed design-build program, with an exhibition and lecture documenting the evolution of this year’s project—its largest project to date—the design and construction of a 6,000-square-foot park pavilion for the upstate New York community of Margaretville. Read More...

Community is invited to celebration in the village park

Village officials, community volunteers and a design/build team of professors and students from Parsons, the New School of Design, will be on hand this Saturday for the premier event at the new Village Pavilion in Margaretville.  A ribbon cutting, a show of classic and antique cars, and dancing to the tunes of Blues Maneuvers are all on tap for the free event, open to anyone who lives in, works in or visits the Village of Margaretville.  A chicken bar-b-que will be available at the new bar-b-que pavilion, built as part of the project and the fees collected for chicken halves and dinners will benefit the Community Christmas Project.  Read More...

Citizens’ Initiative for Community Spaces (CICS) has received a $30,000 challenge grant from the Pasternak Family Foundation in support of their project to rebuild the pavilion in the Margaretville village park with the assistance of graduate architecture students from Parsons The New School for Design. The students are designing and building the structure and CICS has agreed to raise the necessary funds for building materials and insurance. All of this is being done with final review of the Village Board and with input from all interested parties. Models of students’ designs have been on display outside the Village offices since last month and there is a suggestion box for comments by the public. Updates can also be seen on the CICS web site: www.catskillcics.org. Read More...

Village officials, community volunteers and a design/build team of professors and students from Parsons, the New School of Design, are expected to break ground next week for construction of a new pavilion on the Village ball field behind the A & P store in Margaretville. The project, which is scheduled for completion before Labor Day, will be a wooden and steel structure designed to withstand a 100-year flood event according to award-winning architect, David Lewis who has spearheaded the project for Parsons. A separate and much smaller pavilion to be used primarily for cooking is also slated for completion as part of the Parsons program. The new pavilion, funded by hundreds of donations still being collected and construction loans guaranteed by Ken Pasternak and the M-ARK Project, will not cost a single dollar of taxpayer funding according to Margaretville Mayor, Bill Stanton. Though the existing pavilion will be demolished prior to the annual Firemen’s Field Days at the end of the month, the Parsons group has worked with the Margaretville Fire Department to curtail the construction site so the carnival can go on as scheduled without being moved to Arkville, as was the case last year when the Village field was flooded. Read More...

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Students and faculty members from Parsons The New School for Design spent Thursday through Sunday in Margaretville last week learning about community needs and preparing to work on projects designed to meet those needs. Eleven students in the Masters of Architecture Program are currently developing plans to rebuild the pavilion on the Margaretville Village Ballfield. Accompanied by two professors, they spent all day Thursday looking at that project, meeting with local people who use the pavilion, and interacting with Code Enforcement Officer Patrick Davis to learn what could and could not be built in the flood plain.
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