10 St Francis Place
Location: Brooklyn, New York Year: 2012 A three story townhouse on a quiet tree lined block in Brooklyn was converted into a parlor floor apartment and a triplex. Within the shell of the existing brick building, the interior spaces were reworked to let light enter more dramatically into the otherwise dark center of the house. […]
Sock Farm
Sock Farm Fresh Kills, Staten Island, New York 2012 This project draws its inspiration from the formless fabric of the “windsock” that indexes the direction of a weather condition that is otherwise invisible to aviators. The idea of the windsock shaped up and billowing is coupled with an age-old obsession of humankind, to fly, to […]
Amagansett House
Location: Amagansett, New York. Year: 2011 Collaborator: Tim Furzer The house is situated on a four-acre property in Amagansett, in close proximity to the sea. The perimeter of the property is surrounded by a dense wooded area that opens up to a sloped meadow at the center. The clients intend to use the house as […]
Peace Pentagon
Peace Pentagon New York, New York 2010 The Architectural Competition Located at the intersection of Lafayette Place and Bleecker Street in New York, a modest building houses several peace and social justice organizations. However, the structure is in urgent need of extensive repairs, to the point where its current tenants are considering building a new […]
Engine 212
Engine 212 Brooklyn, New York 2010 The interior of the firehouse, despite its run-down appearance, is a charged space. One that instigated a community to come together and generate enough momentum to create a possibility that will ultimately allow Engine 212 to become a public owned community center. The interest is in the interior as […]
Williamsburg Tower
Midsummers Night Opera
Location: Citta Della Pieve, Italy Year: 2007 A Stage Set designed and built for the International Opera Theater’s production of Il Sogno di Una Notte di Mezza Estate. The opera was directed by Karen Salliant with an original score written by Pietro Rigacci. The design of the set responds to the forest setting of the […]
Hudson Street Apartment
Hudson Street Apartment New York, New York 2007 The apartment is located on the top floor of a landmarked brick building in Tribeca. In this renovation, we reconfigured the living and kitchen areas to provide more functional and better articulated zones of occupation for living and working from home. The arched window perimeter walls of […]
Beale Street Ferry
Beale Street Ferry Memphis, Tennessee 2003 The proposal seeks to re- establish the water’s edge in a manner that describes the dynamic relationship of the land and the Mississippi river. the various strategies to control flooding have translated the natural horizontal tendency of the river into a dramatic up and down movement along the man-made […]
Great Egyptian Museum
International Architecture Competition for the Grand Museum of Egypt 2003 entry as part of a design team, Charles Stone, Nandini Bagchee, Katerina Chatzikonstantinou and Donald Stone.