Peter McCarthy is senior vice president for CannonDesign. Practicing primarily on environments that ignite human interaction, his work is focused on workplace, learning and social spaces. He is a project leader that believes in open communication in the design process, utilizing it to weave society’s complexity into clear solutions for the built environment. His understanding of creativity as both thoughtful of the present and predictive of the future has led to a portfolio of domestic and international award-winning projects.
The Onondaga Community College Academic II Addition is a unique project that makes use of previously unusable land and connects two significant buildings on the Onondaga Community College campus. Showing off steel members and connections throughout, this structure traverses an 80-foot-deep gorge that was formally an impassive divide through the middle of campus. The project is composed of a variety of performing arts learning, assembly and practice spaces, while physically linking the campus’s two halves.