Façade & Envelope

110 West 127th Street

This Harlem townhouse was built under the auspices of the NYC Housing Preservation and Development Corp [HPD] to encourage development and home ownership in Harlem, The building was constructed in 2006 by an independent contractor for HPD. Bone/Levine Architects was brought in to evaluate water infiltration issues in 2020. Findings concluded there was an absence […]

Façade & Envelope

110 West 127th Street

This Harlem townhouse was built under the auspices of the NYC Housing Preservation and Development Corp [HPD] to encourage development and home ownership in Harlem, The building was constructed in 2006 by an independent contractor for HPD. Bone/Levine Architects was brought in to evaluate water infiltration issues in 2020. Findings concluded there was an absence […]

Façade & Envelope

74 Grand Street

This project, for a new building in the SoHo Cast Iron Landmark District, called for the re-use of a Landmarks protected cast iron façade. The façade, a superb example of a unique architectural heritage, was salvaged from the building that once stood on the site. Reuse of the original facade presented many design and technical […]

Façade & Envelope

285 Lafayette Street

285 Lafayette is an historic 5-story warehouse (originally The Hawley and Hoops Building built in 1886) with a 5-story addition that was added in 2002. During renovations in residential units it was discovered that the 5-story addition had numerous construction deficiencies that compromised safety and performance. The corrective work required a re-analysis of the structural […]

Façade & Envelope

170 Duane Street

This modest cast iron fronted structure was typical of the butter and egg warehouses of what was once known as the Lower West Side. In the 1980’s the building suffered a fire that gutted the upper floors and left the structure largely in ruin. In the1990’s a new residential plan added two floors and eliminated […]

Façade & Envelope

60 East 12th Street

This apartment building was built in the New York City post-war housing expansion. The existing white glazed brick and cast stone facade system had failed. The structural steel had begun to fail and the envelope was inadequately waterproofed. The facades were also mundane and the owner wanted to upgrade.  The program as designed led to […]

Façade & Envelope

640 Broadway

The very narrow footprint of this building presented a challenge to spatial layout. As an alternative to long narrow plans, we developed a program to work vertically across floors using atriums and open stairs. The additional square footage for development was accumulated in part from mechanical deductions, and in part from creating other double high […]

Façade & Envelope

Ice House Condominium

This outstanding turn of the century, industrial era, refrigeration building was converted to residential use in 1999. The conversion of the building, which spans a full block, called for cutting out an interior portion of the original building to create a central courtyard to bring in light and air for new apartments. The new exterior […]