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Who Should Actually Solve This? Rethinking How Housing Gets Built in New York
Either the public sector builds housing — funding it, managing it, and owning it — or the private sector is given enough incentive to do so at scale.
For decades, the city has relied primarily on the private market. There is an illustrious if limited history of nonprofit housing development, but it is not currently in wide use. Programs like 421-a, and now 485-x, are designed to bridge the gap between what it costs to build housing and what the market can support.
The 99-Unit Loophole: How 485-x Is Reshaping What Gets Built
Part 2: Michael considers how 485-x is influencing development patterns, with project sizes increasingly clustering below key labor-cost thresholds.
Announcing our brand new apartment building in Brooklyn
On the site of an old ballroom, we are collaborating with Double U Development to build a new 7 story, 60 unit apartment building. Previous plans included a retail building that was scrapped in favor of much-needed housing
Stuytown Playground - Accessibility Allows All to Beat the Heat!
As a part of our ongoing capital improvement [CapEx] work for our long-term clients Beam Living at Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village, we recently completed this accessible playground design as an amenity improvement at this community, the largest rental complex in the United States.
Bronx AIA/CCNY Design Studio is Honored By Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson
The largest of its kind in the country and a treasured New York City landmark, the majestic Kingsbridge Armory has been unoccupied for over 25 years. A new proposal to use it as a center for vertical farming, conceived and advocated for by…
Shore Hill Apartments Renovation of Public Spaces Complete
We are thrilled to share with you these photos from our recently completed renovation of the public spaces at Shore Hill Apartments in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
Blackstone Parc
Fifteen years after being introduced to this site in Riverdale and working on four schemes for two developers, we are proud to share with you completed photos of our latest multifamily building, Blackstone Parc…
New Lobby Project
This former commercial bakery, a through-lot midblock building, was completely changed when it was converted into back-to-back apartment buildings in the 1970s. The lobbies, tied together across a narrow glazed bridge, are at different levels …
Kenwood Gardens
Kenwood Gardens is a six-story, Georgian-style, courtyard apartment with sixty-nine apartments. Built in 1925 by architect Leroy Ward, the seven-story H-shaped brick and terracotta building is Long Island’s oldest cooperative apartment building. The …
New Haven Preservation Trust - 2020 Landmark Award - The Washington Building
We are proud to announce that our recent project was awarded the 2020 Landmark Award by the New Haven Preservation Trust. The Washington Building, originally built in 1899 and finished in 1900 as a …
Upgrades to Harlem Tenement Block for Jonathan Rose Companies
Since 2018, BSA has been working with noted developer, Jonathan Rose Companies [JRCo]; to upgrade their ten-building , 198-unit complex on West 135th Street, a storied Harlem block capped by the Schomburg Library on …
Brick Industry Gold Award 2019 - Soho Apartment Building
We are so honored to announce that Building Studio Architects received a Gold Award in the 2019 Brick Industry Awards in Architecture for our work on our 54 Macdougal Street apartment building. This new SoHo …
Queens Bronx Builders Association Award 2018 - Summit Parc Multifamily Apartment Building
John and Michael attended the Queens & Bronx Building Association Dinner on December 1 last year, where Summit Parc, a 15-unit apartment building on West 238th Street in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, was …
New Fitness Center Opens at StuyTown
Fitness 14 is our most recent project at Stuytown. This 8,000 square foot ground floor commercial space on East 14th Street was converted into a modern gym for exclusive use by the residents. Working closely …
Chelsea gets an update
Building Studio Architects was brought in to support the ownership team with a re-design for the public areas of 250 W 19th St in Chelsea. The improvements to this 1980s rental building included a lobby …
New Haven Restoration
Originally built in 1899, The Washington Building was originally an office building with a significant beer garden on its first and cellar levels. Located steps away from the New Haven Green, the richly decorated Neoclassical …