Category Residential
Keywords Historic Preservation / Renovation / Single-Family
This 4,200 sf single family home is a renovation and addition to an 1880’s land marked Italianate house. The project splits the house into two sections by inserting a new stair and bay window at the center of the house. This lateral move in the plan mediates between the front of the house which is restored [...]
Category Hospitality
Keywords Interiors / New Construction
Silken Tent is a 10,500 sf luxury wellness day spa that focuses on healthy aging, spirituality and personal growth. Each well-educated, well-traveled, well-read woman deserves a space in which each moment is tailored to her individual needs and point of view. The layered materials throughout the spa represent the complex needs of these sophisticated women. [...]
Category Commercial
Keywords Office Building / Renovation
The Columbia Centre is a commercial campus located in the suburbs of Chicago, consisting of three separate commercial buildings and two parking structures. Currently all the various campus structures are fragmented and disjointed. The overall site lacks the unifying cohesions necessary in any campus environment. Building access points are poorly identified both for pedestrians and [...]
Category Institutional
Keywords New Construction / Not-For-Profit / Office Interiors
“The Episcopal Church has always been for me the church which challenges me, which awakens me out of sleep, stretches me, sometimes annoys me, makes me think, and holds me in its embrace…The Church has never been one thing. It’s messy, it’s disturbing. It is embarrassing. But I suspect that the controversy is all necessary [...]
Category Residential
Keywords Apartment / Historic Preservation / Renovation / Single-Family
This is a 7,800 square foot complete renovation of a 1920’s vintage coop apartment. The overall strategy of the project was to recreate the vintage feel and detail of the apartment that had been lost through a series of previous awkward renovations. Maids rooms were converted into a large kitchen and family room and a new mudroom [...]
Category Commercial
Keywords Office Building / Renovation
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Category Commercial
Keywords New Construction / Not-For-Profit / Office Interiors
This 25,000 sf space creates training, conferencing, and general offices for The Ounce of Prevention Fund. This not-for-profit organization funds research and policy initiatives as well as program implementation for early childhood development.
Category Competitions
Keywords New Construction / Not-For-Profit
In addition to our broad range of projects, vWA enters international design competitions in an effort to remain theoretically and technologically focused.
This theoretical ticket booth uses its curving form, layering of glass and perforated metal skin, to reposition and alter the reflected imagery of Times Square simultaneously with the reflected image of the user. Any change [...]
Category Competitions
Keywords New Construction / Not-For-Profit
The project is the apparition.
This design challenges the traditional cathedral form of the catholic church while synthesizing the cultural and contextual influences of the parish and rural Indiana site into a unique community architecrure. A pre-engineered building system, manufactured by local industry, is inexpensively deployed but architecturally elevated by specific spatial design and material arrangement.
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Category Competitions
Keywords New Construction / Not-For-Profit / Office Building / Public
The proposed building was designed to serve as a conceptual bridge connecting and addressing the public and private intersection inherent in the site. An existing public green belt runs through the city and parallel with the site. The building utilizes a semi-conditioned space to engage the park. It also serves as a controlled transitional zone between public and [...]