Research & Urban Design

House & Studio for Two Artists

The project, on a Delaware River site, was designed for two artists. The architectural solution proposed two structures facing each other, engaged in the steep landscape of the river basin, and connected together by a bluestone retaining wall and elevated walkway.

Research & Urban Design

House & Studio for Two Artists

The project, on a Delaware River site, was designed for two artists. The architectural solution proposed two structures facing each other, engaged in the steep landscape of the river basin, and connected together by a bluestone retaining wall and elevated walkway.

Research & Urban Design

Approaching Silence

Bone/Levine Architects worked in collaboration with contemporary artist Truman Lowe to develop this project. Titled Approaching Silence, for a park site below the Manhattan Bridge, focused on sound through sculptural interaction. Approaching Silence offers a lens to recognize and understand noise pollution, an often overlooked but pervasive source of urban environmental stress. A team of […]

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Weehawken Meeting House

This historic structure near the Hudson River Waterfront, a clapboard house from 1834, was owned by the artist Jean-Louis Bourgeois, an activist for Native American causes. The late Michael Sorkin, giant of the NYC architectural community, brought BLA to the Bourgeois family to help develop an idea that would preserve the landmark and recognize the […]

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Acapulco House

This house is situated in the tropical coastal lands south of Acapulco. The architecture draws its inspiration from Pre-Columbian archeological remnants, the archetypal Mexican Courtyard house, and the spirit of Latin American Modernism. The scheme consists of an archetypal stair element that traverses through all areas of the house, providing outdoor circulation from level to […]

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Palisades Glacier Hut

This competition project envisioned a modular system for accommodating a new generation of huts in areas of the National Parks that see the heaviest use. Huts allow for overnight stays while reducing the impact of tent based camping. The hut system has long been a way of dealing with the large numbers of visitors in […]

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Newark Ironbound Housing

The site planning organizes a series of perimeter volumes around an open plaza. The architectural figure is structured by the irregular geometry of the site locating principal buildings along the two grids defining the parcel’s shape. The total construction area of approximately 500,000 square-feet was distributed among four buildings containing a total of 264 dwelling […]

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Newark Plaza Park

The Arena Plaza design explored the possibility of linking, by means of a publicly accessible urban landscape,  two important civic features of Newark; the Newark Penn Rail Station and the Prudential Center Arena. The design proposed to incorporate open lots and an abandoned railroad structure to utilize long neglected urban space into the city’s vital […]

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Narrowsburg Esplanade

The Narrowsburg Esplanade project, proposed on the shore of the Upper Delaware Wild and Scenic River, in the town of Narrowsburg NY, had two primary objectives; to rehabilitate and restore the eroded conditions along the riverbank and to create a riverside park providing a connection from Main Street to the river. The fieldstone walls of […]

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Pershing Square

This project, for the redevelopment of the then derelict urban park of Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles, was one of Bone/Levine Architects first competition successes and marked the beginning of a commitment to projects that addressed environment and landscape in the context of architecture. The project, produced in 1986, was selected as one of […]

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Foodshed

The Solution Project proposed a “pop up”’ farm and food production system at the Con Edison, John Street lot in the Brooklyn Bridge Park. The project addressed issues of brownfield remediation, climate and sea level change, foodshed and watershed awareness. The project incorporates passive and sustainable design elements in the creation and execution of a […]

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New York Waterfront

Bone/Levine Architects,independently, and later in partnership with the Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design, developed a series of proposals for projects on the NYC waterfront. Projects addressed a range of sites and waterfront related design problems. It was the objective of these proposals to imagine strategies to transform the harbor and estuaries to meet the […]