Anthony Fieldman

DETAILS

2,500,000sf

$330,000,000 USD

Completed in 2007

LEED Silver Certified

AWARDS

Chicago Athenaeum, 2009

AIA NY State, 2007

AIA NY State, 2007

IIDA/Metropolis, 2007

US GSA Workplace, 2007

BusinessWeek / Arch Record, 2007

AIA NYC Architecture, 2007

AIA NYC Interiors, 2007

AIA NYC Project, 2005

Miami Biennale, 2005

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / Associate Partner, SOM

SOM - Architect of Record

DETAILS

640,000sf

$160,000,000 USD

Completed in 2020

AWARDS

World Architecture Festival, 2010

SARA National, 2010

AIA NYC, 2012

AIA New York State, 2010

World Architecture News, 2010

NYC AIA, 2010

P+W Biennale, 2012

Anthony Fieldman, Lead Designer / Principal - Perkins+Will

Perkins+Will/Dar al-Handasah, Architects of Record

To our ancestors, the Empyrean was known as “the highest heaven”. It was thought to be home to celestial beings made of pure light—the source of all creation.

In 2023, we gifted a light and sound art installation to the citizens of Black Rock City, officially placed by Burning Man’s ARTery, and called it the Empyrean Gate.

A sixty-foot diameter shade structure, hosting 25,600 LEDs arrayed in 64 spokes and 8 surround sound speakers, was lofted twenty feet in the air, its 13-foot center void aimed at the Empyrean.

At night, video and sound sequences curated from artists worldwide provided visitors with one of two immersive experiences. A 13-foot stage and twelve radially arrayed double hammocks provided choice vantage points.

From midnight to 8am, hour-long downtempo sequences such as Tibetan throat singing, Renaissance choral music and Gregorian chants, paired with slow-moving video, invited meditative contemplation.

From dusk until midnight, an adjacent sound stage created by SRQ Beats of Sarasota, FL hosted visiting DJs who spun to the backdrop of energetic LED sequences, turning the Gate into a dance venue.

Located near Esplanade and 2:45, on ‘Playa’ adjacent to Entheos Village, it drew as many as 300 participants and a dozen ‘art cars’ at a time, every night of the annual event.

The Empyrean Gate was beta-tested at Black Rock City in 2022 and again at unSCruz in 2023 before making its full debut at Burning Man 2023, and at Love Burn in 2024.

All Images © Anthony Fieldman unless otherwise noted.

Principal Artist:

Anthony “Gatekeeper” Fieldman

Artistic Contributors:

James “Focus” Scott, fabrication

Nati Shabat, music

Abraham Fuentes, audio

Adrien Lacquemant, content

Walter “Rip Ions” Smith, video

Andris Kasparovics, lighting

Management:

James “Logistic” Tramel, logistics

Major Donors:

Matt Mullenweg, benefactor

Ed Chimney, James Currier, supporters

Whitmire Vo, fundraising

Video Artists (2023):

https://www.youtube.com/@worldofkaleidoscopes2446

World of Kaleidoscopes, Germany

https://www.YouTube.com/HDCOLORS

HD Colors, USA

Sound Artists (2023):

Meditative Mind, Australia

Sleep Before Midnight, Australia

Adrien Lacquemant, France

Tony Grund, USA

DETAILS

730,000sf

$656,000,000 USD

Completed in 2016

LEED Gold Certified

AWARDS

COTE Awards, 2016

SARA New York, 2016

AIA New York - Interiors, 2016

BD+C, 2016

ACEC, 2016

ID Magazine – Best of, 2015

ID Magazine – Green, 2015

ACEC, 2015

ENR, 2015

CFAD, 2015

All photographs © Anthony Fieldman unless otherwise noted.

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / Principal, Perkins+Will

Perkins+Will - Architect of Record

Michael Fieldman Architects - Consulting Design Architect

DETAILS

1,500,000sf

$250,000,000 USD

Completed in 2007

AWARDS

AIA NY State – Citation, 2008

Chicago Athenaeum, 2008

AIA Hong Kong, 2007

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / Associate Partner, SOM

SOM/Aedas - Architects of Record

Designed for Burning Man's 2024 Temple, the Sacred Grove is a stand of 80 “trees” supporting 184 “branches”, inside of which a series of spaces have been created for both individual and collective mourning, tribute, connection and renewal.

Based on our earliest sacred spaces before the language of religious structures supplanted them, sacred groves were common across global cultures. Their names and rituals varied, but all were considered magical places of healing and power. The sacred grove is a return to that common, pre-urbanized past.

Core Design Team:

Anthony Fieldman, lead artist

Nicole Nomsa Moyo & Sky Ece Ulusoy, artist co-leads

Daria Khachi, lead engineer

DETAILS

450,000sf

Cost Confidential

Completed in 2011

LEED Gold Certified

Net-Zero Executive Floor

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / Principal, Perkins+Will

Perkins+Will - Architects of Record

DETAILS

640,000sf

$160,000,000 USD

Completed 2020

AWARDS

SARA National Honor Award, 2010

AIA NY State Award of Excellence, 2010

World Architecture Festival Finalist, 2009

Anthony Fieldman, Lead Designer / Principal - Perkins+Will

Perkins+Will/Dar al-Handasah, Architects of Record

Apo-then-eum (place of divine elevation) is a visual, sonic and haptic instrument designed to help contributing light and sound artists transport visitors through participatory immersion.

Comprised of two nested chambers made of back-to-back LED nets (13,280 nodes in all), Apotheneum presents four independent canvases and an immersive sound system for collaborating visual and sound artists to “play”. Measuring 40 x 40 x 40 feet, Apotheneum's cubic antechamber envelops a thirty-foot cylindrical "inner sanctum" that opens to the sky and is anchored by a 24-foot pressure-sensing “bed” from which vantage point our three primary somatic senses are engaged.

Created for Burning Man 2025, Apotheneum is intended as a multi-year project that will evolve alongside a growing list of collaborators and content.

All Images © Apotheneum 501(c)(3) unless otherwise noted.

Renderings by HWViz

Lead Artist:

Anthony Fieldman

Core Art & Engineering Team:

Erwin Redl

Leo Fernekes

Walter Patrick Smith

Mark Slee

Nati Shabat

Glen Kaplan

Daria Khachi

Core Donors:

Jonathan Farber

Matt Mullenweg

DETAILS

750,000sf (landside)

$1,000,000,000 USD

Completed in 2002

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / Associate Partner, SOM (for landside program spaces)

SOM/Moshe Safdie and Associates - Architects of Record

DETAILS

100,000sf

$60,000,000 USD

Completed in 2009

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer, Associate Partner, SOM

SOM - Architect of Record

DETAILS

293,728 ft²

$240,000,000 CAD

In Construction

Net Zero Building—Anticipated

All images © DIALOG, unless otherwise noted.

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / Partner-in-Charge, DIALOG

DIALOG - Architects/Engineers of Record

DETAILS

3,000,000sf

$121,000,000 USD

Completed in 2016

AWARDS

Venice Biennale

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / Associate Partner, SOM

SOM/Gulf Consult - Architects of Record

DETAILS

6,000sf

$2,000,000 USD

Completed in 2014

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / President, RAFT Architects

RAFT - Architect of Record

DETAILS

230,000sf

$100,000,000 USD

Completed 2002

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / Associate Partner, SOM

PACE - Architects of Record

DETAILS

350,000sf

Cost Confidential

In construction

AWARDS

SARA NYC Honor Award, 2012

World Architecture Festival Finalist, 2011

P+W Biennale Honor Award, 2012

Anthony Fieldman, Lead Designer / Principal - Perkins+Will

Perkins+Will/Dar al-Handasah, Architects of Record

DETAILS

65,000sf

Cost Confidential

Completion 2024

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / CEO, RAFT Architects / Partner, DIALOG

DETAILS

121,590 ft²

$99,000,000 CAD

In Construction

Net Zero Building—Anticipated

All images © DIALOG, unless otherwise noted.

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / Partner-in-Charge, DIALOG

DIALOG - Architects/Engineers of Record

DETAILS

2,200,000sf

$475,000,000 USD

Unbuilt – Canceled in 2013

AWARDS

eVolo Skyscraper Award, 2016

Anthony Fieldman, Lead Designer / Principal, Perkins+Will

Perkins+Will - Architect of Record

DETAILS

450,000sf

Cost Confidential

In Design

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / President, RAFT Architects

RAFT - Architect of Record

DETAILS

1,100,000 sf

Master Plan completed in 2014

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / President, RAFT Architects

RAFT - Architect of Record

DETAILS

360,000sf

Cost Confidential

In Design

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / President, RAFT Architects

RAFT - Architect of Record

DETAILS

Vision Plan (Mixed Use)

Published 2010 in Newsweek Magazine

AWARDS

SARA NY, 2011

Designed for a feature in Newsweek Magazine, our proposal for New Orleans focused on its fragility in ecological terms, with disasters such as Katrina & the oil well failure revealing a city in need of better strategies to cope with these events. Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / Principal, Perkins+Will

Perkins+Will - sponsoring architect

DETAILS

100,000sf

$13,000,000 USD

In design

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / President, RAFT Architects

RAFT - Architect of Record

DETAILS

1,786,000sf

$150,000,000 USD

Unbuilt – canceled in 2015

BREEAM Excellent

Net Zero in operation

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / Principal, Perkins+Will

Perkins+Will - Architect of Record

DETAILS

700,000sf

Unbuilt – Competition

AWARDS

MIPIM Building of the Year

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / Associate Partner, SOM

SOM - Architect of Record

DETAILS

2,000,000sf

Master Plan Completed in 2004

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / Associate Partner, SOM

SOM - Architect of Record

DETAILS

646,000sf

Cost Confidential

Canceled due to civil strife

Anthony Fieldman - Lead Designer / Principal, Perkins+Will

Perkins+Will - Architect of Record

DETAILS

Various Expansion Facilities Worldwide

NYC / LA Completed

Milan, London, Hong Kong Unbuilt

Anthony Fieldman - Design consultant / President, RAFT Architects

Rockwell Group - Architect of Record

DETAILS

24,000sf

Cost Confidential

Completed in 2015

Anthony Fieldman - Conceptual Design / President, RAFT Architects

BluArch - Architect of Record

DETAILS

100,000sf

Cost Confidential

Completed in 2000

All photographs © Anthony Fieldman

450,000sf

Cost Confidential

Concept completed in 2016

It was an outrageous assignment: design an impossibly large compound for a sovereign monarch who cannot be named, in a country that cannot be named.

A two-year intensive design process with the client yielded an intersection of modern living and something their subjects would "recognize in themselves”—their deep cultural inheritance.

Anthony Fieldman, Lead Designer / RAFT Architects

Key collaborator: David Coomes, Landscape Architect / EDCO Design

DETAILS

70,000sf

$50,000,000 USD

Completed in 2017

LEED Silver Certified

RAFT Architects - Architects

All photographs © Anthony Fieldman.

DETAILS

81 key 5-star boutique hotel

Cost: confidential

Completed in 2022

Anthony Fieldman - Principal-In-Charge / Partner, DIALOG

DIALOG - Interior Designer of Record