ON THE BOARDS [NY]

118,000SF - hotel tower with a concrete exoskeleton, a windmill, and a light installation

SERVICES
architecture
interior design
lighting design

3,000SF - The St. Regis Aspen Resort, Colorado.

SERVICES
interior design
lighting design

2,000SF - Casual dining

SERVICES
interior design
lighting design
branding

Recipient of the Best Of Year Award 2022

UNDER CONSTRUCTION [FINLAND]

New livery design for the largest cruise liner ever built by Carnival Cruise Line.
 

BUILT [NY]

20,000SF - A residential building 

SCOPE
architecture
interior design
lighting design
 

52,000SF interior and 70,000SF exterior - a Brutalist members-only club of concrete surfaces 

SCOPE
architecture
interior design
lighting design
design of bespoke furniture collection
art program

2,500SF - a busy diner in the heart of New York City clad in commercial-grade linen and wood

SERVICES
interior design
lighting design

AWARDS
International Architecture Awards - Architecture Podium, Honorable Mention [hospitality project] 2015

ON THE BOARDS [GERMANY]

85M, 6-DECKS - SUPERYACHT

SCOPE
architecture
interior design
lighting design
 

EUROPEAN PRODUCT DESIGN AWARD
- WINNER 2022

ON THE BOARDS [NY]

25,000SF - A residential building 

SCOPE
architecture
interior design
lighting design
 

BUILT [NY]

15,000SF - 10-unit residential building in the Astoria section of Queens

SERVICES
architecture
interior design
lighting design

ON THE BOARDS [FL]

13,000 SF - Continuous white surfaces split at the stair volumes

SCOPE
architecture
interior design
lighting design
 

20,000SF - new lighting systems are controlled via custom software to accommodate the varying lighting conditions of the seasons and the daily cycle of natural light

SERVICES
lighting design

Installation at Panorama Music Festival

SCOPE
interior design
lighting design

UNDER CONSTRUCTION [NY]

250,000SF - mixed-use commercial and residential building

SCOPE
architecture
interior design
lighting design

1,800SF - shoe store - sheepskin, distressed leather, custom neon light fixture, laser-cut p.o.s. acrylic counter

SERVICES
interior design
lighting design

AWARDS
Interior Design Magazine - Best Of Year [small beauty/fashion retail] 2014

UNDER CONSTRUCTION [NY]

12,500 SF - Large travertine surfaces layer the facade

SERVICES
architecture
interior design
lighting design

ON THE BOARDS [NY]

14,500SF above ground and 50,000SF below ground - commercial building 

SCOPE
architecture
interior design
lighting design
 

ON THE BOARDS [NY]

24,000 SF - KIA MOTORS SHOWROOM

SERVICES
architecture

BUILT [NY]

10,000SF - corten weathered steel facade over a decreasing glazing module

SERVICES
architecture
interior design
lighting design

3,000 SF - spa and hair salon - wood surfaces spawn from the walls and fold in organic turns

SERVICES
interior design
lighting design

AWARDS
International Architecture Awards - Architecture Podium, Honorable Mention [hospitality project] 2015

4,500SF - a blackened steel stairwell is suspended from the roof slab and is crowned by a structural glass skylight, while leather-clad kitchen cabinetry references a high-fashion detail

SERVICES
interior design
lighting design

8,000SF - first eco-friendly certified nightclub in the nation [LEED] fitted with custom LED pixels organized via a fractal equation

SERVICES
interior design
lighting design

AWARDS
1st eco-friendly certified nightclub in the nation [LEED],
International Architecture Awards - Architecture Podium, Honorable Mention [hospitality project] 2015

ON THE BOARDS [NY]

8,100 SF - the home for an entertainer

SERVICES
architecture
interior design
lighting design

ON THE BOARDS [NYC]

Surfaces of antiqued brass and antiqued mirror structure this design proposal for a hotel

SERVICES
interior design
lighting design

ON THE BOARDS [NY]

25,800SF - A residential building 

SCOPE
architecture

 

ON THE BOARDS [QATAR]

8,888SF - this energy independent house negotiates the tenuous evenness of sand and sea

SERVICES
architecture
interior design
lighting design

2,000SF - bakery - like a pastry in fieri tiled surfaces move organically with red cedar spheres

SERVICES
interior design
lighting design

AWARDS
International Architecture Awards - Architecture Podium, Honorable Mention [hospitality project] 2015

12,000SF - an ever-shifting whimsical play of gold and light 

SERVICES
interior design
lighting design

2,500SF - a whiskey venue with a soft and smooth wood ceiling system

SERVICES
interior design
lighting design

250,000SF - architecture as infrastructure II
42-story CO2-scrubbing, eco-friendly residential tower

The tower's architecture integrates a new technology developed by Columbia University Professor Klaus Lackner and referred to as an “artificial tree”. A series of resin columns is organized on all available areas of the tower that are exposed to the prevailing winds. As the wind blows through these resin columns, carbon is trapped in a chamber between the double slab at each level of the tower; the carbon is subsequently compressed and stored as liquid carbon dioxide in the cellar levels. The gap between the two slabs between the two floors also allows for cross ventilation that cools the floor slab of one unit and the ceiling slab of the one below. As the CO2-scrubbing columns work better when wind is present, the tower opens up in the middle to accelerate air speed as it travels through the gap.

The building is comprised of two cores each serving four to six units per floor. The two wings of the tower connect at the bottom lobby and at the top, where the last five stories are designed for multi-level units and amenities. The bottom six stories house the parking structure, which continues underground where the envisioned grid for distributing the liquid carbon dioxide is also located.

The entire glazing system of the building is covered with a thin-film solar cell (TFSC) by Nanosolar. This technology allows for a thin-film photovoltaic cell (TFPV), to be deposited in thin layers on a substrate. This system alone makes each unit self-sufficient in terms of the energy needs. Further, the slender profile of the tower and its location on the site also contribute to the energy efficiency of the building, which is oriented to take advantage of prevailing winds and day lighting.

SERVICES
architecture

AWARDS
international architecture awards - architecture podium, winner [architecture] 2015

BUILT [FL]

4,600SF - certified “green” by the florida green building coalition

SERVICES
architecture
interior design
lighting design

2,800SF - a top-tier italian coffee brand’s first venue in new york city

SERVICES
interior design
lighting design

7,900 SF - 7-story residential building in New York City

SERVICES
architecture
interior design
lighting design

300,000SF - architecture as infrastructure I
45-story eco-friendly residential tower

This residential tower is a hybrid offering pods for transient residential units while producing energy when and where these units are not present.

Three super-columns act as both cores and structural systems. Pods are piled on and around each super-column and host residential units, wind mills or solar panels. Every 5-to-7 stories, green pods span all three super-columns to brace them in a truss-like system. Nine large-sized wind mills top the tower and blur in the wind.

This model of inhabitation finds scale significance if repeated and scattered in a fractal distribution in urban settings across the globe. The residential units would move from tower to tower, along with its inhabitants in a highly entropic narrative. This building is not only energy self-reliant but also a contributing node to the electric grid. Therefore, this tower has a negative CO2 footprint and transcends its architectural identity by acting as infrastructure.

An urban framework where architecture is also infrastructure produces a shift in the balance of real estate values and safeguards the overall economical stability of a large-scale ecological project. In fact, this model of infrastructural architecture would entail the participation of public funds, and/or the collaboration of private and public resources and figures. Thus far, only a change in policy has been able to create the economical viability for environmentally feasible architecture. This hybrid model which overlays architecture and infrastructure further establishes the importance of a new sustainable paradigm.

Further, mass-customizable residential units can be fabricated and installed to suit specific needs. This approach opens up traditional construction methods to new design/build processes where design and installation are purely based on form and performance. New social models are forming, and fluidity of relationships and mobility of the smallest social units are pushing for a more ductile economical model for the construction industry. Hence, mass-customization is a natural, viable and necessary consequence.

These premises offer scenarios of an ever-changing architecture in a continually varying urban setting. They portend a shift in the conception of portable residence and architecture without site. In this conceptual framework the diagrammatic approach of modern times has no longer relevance. 

SERVICES
architecture

AWARDS
international architecture awards - architecture podium, third place [architecture] 2015

2,500SF - linked to the notions of self-similarity and non-differential abilities of the fractal definition of a geometry

SERVICES
interior design
lighting design