Rather than think of this project for a couple and their two teenage daughters as an addition to their Brooklyn house, the architects conceived a 360-square-foot, two-story garden pavilion added onto the original brownstone (in the back, the house is brick with stucco).
The two-story 1870s brick building at the edge of the TriBeCa West Historic District has distinctive corbelled brickwork, an unusual acute plan, low massing, and a multitude of French- and double-hung windows.
Chelsea Garret: Pieced together from old and new elements and animated by light and shadow, an industrial penthouse serves as an enticing space for understanding the art of Alexander Calder.
Like an architectural therapist, Stephanie Goto stripped away layers of troubles that had weighed on a trio of rooftop sheds in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood to reveal their true personality and inner strengths.
Built in 1853, on the site of a stable in a vernacular Greek Revival style, 130 Charles Street was always a modest house in the heart of the bustling dockside of Greenwich Village.