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Location: Gardiner, NY In 2020 two dear friends purchased a horse farm situated in a bend of the Shawangunk Kill near Gardiner NY, with the vision of creating a place to support work they believed in. Encircled by the river and fields, and with the white cliffs of the Gunks as backdrop, the property was…

Location: Brooklyn, NY Award: AIANY Design Award 2026 Certification: Passive House Plus, Passive House Institute, Darmstadt Germany PHIUS ZERO, Passive House Institute US, Chicago IL General Contractor: Mario Bissessar, City Line Interiors Inc Structural Engineer: Murray Engineering, PC Passive House Consultant: : John Mitchell, BLDGTYP Passive House Verification: Troy Hodas, Spruce Mountain Inc. Mechanical Engineer:…

Location: Hillsdale, NY Certification: PHIUS+ Passive House Builder: Zuniga Property Solutions Passive House Consultant: John Loercher, Northeast Projects PHIUS Verifier: Adin Maynard, Power House Energy Consulting Mechanical Engineer: Cramer Silkworth, Baukraft Engineering Structural Engineer: Kaaterskill Associates Set in a clearing at the foot the Berkshires, this house aims to be the home of the future.…

Location: Portland, OR This project is a hypothetical re-envisioning of the Oregon Historical Society. Located in downtown Portland, OHS collects, exhibits and publishes materials related to the historic Oregon Country: its mission is to make that history relevant to contemporary Oregonians via a historical museum, library, film archive, and educational programming. This is an institution…

Location: NYC, five boroughs Since 2008 I have worked with photovoltaic solar installers on over 40 rooftop solar arrays across NYC. These projects include arrays of every type, including some of the largest and most intricate as well as many of the simplest kind. They have been installed on the roof of every type of…

Location: Brooklyn NY, Red Hook Mechanical Engineering: Jordan Goldman, Zero Energy Design Passivehouse Consultant, Energy Modeling: Jordan Goldman, Zero Energy Design Structural Engineering: Madsen Engineering Acoustical: Marko Stamenovich Located in Red Hook, Brooklyn’s notorious decayed port, this modest renovation proposes to transform an anonymous two-story concrete-block box into the first mixed-use building in NYC to…

Location: Brooklyn NY, Park Slope. Mechanical Engineering: Cramer Silkworth, Baukraft Engineering Passivehouse consultant, energy modeling: Cramer Silkworth, Baukraft Engineering Structural Engineering: Michael Barry This project proposes a gut renovation, enlargement, and Passive House technological upgrade to an 1890’s red-brick townhouse with unused FAR and an exceptionally straight and sound exterior shell but an interior mistreated…

Location: Queens NY. Award: Honorable Mention, Architectural League’s “Folly” Competition. …53 million years ago, a stream of photons was born. Departing star 322495, outward bound for intergalactic space, they bent the infinite void beyond time. In the summer of the year 29333, on the fourth planet from the sun, a perihelic interceptor reached up, and…

Location: Manhattan NY, Lower East Side. Community, health, safety, and privacy: these were the keywords presented by the client for a proposed recording studio to be carved out of a Manhattan basement and cellar. Deep below the sidewalk the new double-height space will be protected in the “roots” of the city, surrounded by the stone…