Work | Residential
Financial District Residence
This apartment combination creates a five-bedroom apartment on the corner of a historic art-deco building in Lower Manhattan. Organized around the idea of “two facades” it frames the life and history of the house in the detailing of the walls.
Living in the Park, Sleeping in the City
High above Central Park, an apartment is designed to enable the owners to “Live in the Park” and “Sleep in the City” with dramatic views of the green landscape of the park and the collage of skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan.
Panorama House
The site is a twenty-acre parcel of land perched on the north end of the Methow Valley, just east of the Cascade Mountain Range in Washington State. The house frames views in every direction and is centered on a light filled living room.
Kensington Townhouse
Renovating an older building is one of the most sustainable things we can do in a city. However, there is always a tension between what can be preserved and what must be renewed.
Broadway Duplex
The Broadway Duplex investigates how a ceiling can reveal ways of making a home feel more generous within the urban environment of New York City.
Shelter Island Remodel
A large old home along the shore of Shelter Island is given new life through a careful re-organization of the living spaces and a new addition to bring the family closer to the water’s edge.
Promenade Apartment
Old New York apartments contain layers of decisions made in different eras. In a renovation, the design process must re-evaluate these decisions to craft a new space that embraces the good decisions and discards what no longer works.
Warehouse Loft
Situated within a landmark former warehouse, the project combines two previously renovated apartments into one new home for a young, growing family with a flexible live/work space. Reclaimed wood is deployed as large scale sculpture.
New Hope House
A house that looks upon a vast, rolling landscape is organized around an intimate interior landscape: a sculpted courtyard of three walls and a stand of old growth trees. It will be a home that will sit upon the ground like an old stone wall.s.
Upper West Side Duplex
Re-configuring spaces within a home is a second chance. Old building methods, different family sizes, and outdated ways of living can be renewed with optimism and generosity.
This Old Philadelphia House
The renovation of this house in Philadelphia was an unusual opportunity to reshape a row house to meet the needs of a single person. A selective unearthing of the original details and structure gives it life.
Crown Heights Apartment
The top floor apartment in a row house in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, receives good north and south light, has limited views, and sits one block south of a train that cannot be felt, but occasionally heard.
Cragsmoor House
A simple structure steps carefully through a stand of trees to access and reveal a gallery of views. A quiet retreat from the city that will embrace the elemental qualities of the landscape and embrace the family of four in a warm, intimate enclosure.
Long Beach House
A renovation of a home, especially one that has undergone a traumatic event, should enhance the space by updating it for contemporary needs while maintaining the memories and inherently positive feelings that created the memories of the place.
Work / Sleep Space
This selective renovation of a floor-through apartment on the Lower East Side did the unthinkable in New York real estate: reduced the number of bedrooms. An adjacent workspace reflects the clients professional needs.