At Workshop/APD, an award-winning New York City-based multidisciplinary design and architecture firm, each project is uniquely defined by a sense of place and purpose and a desire to ultimately enhance the user’s experience through exceptional design. From sleek penthouses and seaside retreats to luxury residential developments and groundbreaking hotels and restaurants, the Workshop/APD aesthetic is timelessly modern but site-specific, unbound by project type or a singular style. Led by founding principals Matt Berman and Andrew Kotchen and principal Thomas Zoli, a collaborative team of more than 50 architects, interior designers and product designers leverages its vast and highly varied experiences to solve complex design challenges, resulting in spaces that are at once exceptionally beautiful and accessible.
Through a unique, vertically-integrated service offering that spans all aspects of architecture, interior design and product design, Workshop/APD can own every step of the process from inception to completion. The firm is known for embracing technology and celebrating craft, actively pursuing materials with a worked hand and creating one-of-a-kind furnishings and finishes to bring texture, materiality and contrast to luxurious modern spaces. Committed to designing places that celebrate a project’s location and history, the team demonstrates a profound respect for the physical and contextual environment in which projects are realized, extending the experience beyond the structure to merge landscape, neighborhood and architecture and furnishings in a beautiful, synergistic unit.
Workshop/APD is not bound by project type or a singular aesthetic, actively leveraging past experiences to solve a myriad of design challenges. The firm offers an environment that fosters creativity and embraces technological advances in products, design, and materials. As such, they advocate big ideas and believe in conceptualizing projects first, over merely designing them. The Workshop/APD process is steeped in collaboration, bringing together the necessary set of expertise to fulfill all design requirements.
Committed to designing properties and spaces that embrace the local, Workshop/APD projects demonstrate a profound respect for the physical and contextual environment in which they are realized. The firm has won a variety of awards in recognition of all sectors of its business - residential, development, hospitality and product design.