Architectural Design and Planning
Our award-winning design favors clean, modern form-making. We engage in work in the public realm and private sector at a variety of scales and have proven experience in design and management and practice a robust construction administration process. Our comprehensive follow-through ensures the delivery of well-studied and successful projects.
Interior Building Renovation
Our clients include cultural institutions - performance spaces, libraries, museums, universities, government agencies, private residences, and urban design projects.
Sustainability
Our design approach integrates sustainable principles early in the design process and aims to create buildings, interiors, and urban interventions that respond to the critical issues of our time.
Historic Preservation
We have significant expertise in historic preservation and our projects have been awarded numerous historic preservation awards. We follow the philosophy directed by the National Registry of Historic Places. We “restore” sensitive to the intent of the historic architect, but design new elements of our own time.
OUR sustainability PRINCIPLES
Exploring realistic design alternates during the early phases of project design, we have the ability to quickly weigh the aesthetic, economic, and energy pros and cons of different strategies and make well-studied and intelligent recommendations.
∙ Low Energy Load Building Design
∙ Maximum Efficiency Systems and Controls
∙ Renewable energy sources, photovoltaics, geothermal, and wind
∙ Healthy Indoor Air Quality
∙ Construction Waste and Reclamation
∙ Green Infrastructure
OUR sustainability PROCESS
Our collective and holistic process broadens our thinking and fosters fresh approaches to problem-solving. Foremost, we focus on Conservation and Intelligent Use of resources ‒ water, energy, and materials. Our Team leads a series of programming/LEED charettes to establish a specific set of sustainable design and building performance goals that respond to the client parameters for environmental and design excellence. If the project has a LEED certification goal, NYSERDA attends and we walk the team through the LEED point system. We devise strategies to achieve those goals, establish project team benchmarks to measure progress, do calculations and take-offs to stay on target, write green specifications, track construction installation, and review commissioning.
01 Initial call or Zoom discussion
02 Schedule a physical visit to further review the scope, ideas, and limits of the work
03 Provide a draft proposal for discussion
04 Provide Final proposal
05 Begin Conceptual Design
06 Client Reviews
07 Schematic Design and Final Design phases with client reviews
08 Construction Documentation and Detailing
09 Contract Specifications
10 Contractor Bidding
11 Bid Review and Award
12 Construction Commencement