shhhq
The Syracuse Hip-Hop Headquarters (SHHHQ) is a radical redevelopment of a 40,000 square foot former dairy building in the city’s Near Westside. The derelict building, abandoned for over 10 years and covered in dramatic graffiti art inside and out, will be converted into event and performance spaces, offices, classrooms, business incubation suites, and recording and print studio facilities.
SHHHQ will also serve as the center of operations for The Good Life Foundation, a non-profit supporting at-risk youth in Syracuse using hip-hop culture and entrepreneurship as their primary drivers. The design imagines the insertion of new glass and metal-clad boxes with static graffiti as its façade set against existing walls that will be dynamic canvases for continual graffiti art pieces.
The design assistants for this project were Kyle Simmons and Isaac Howland.
