This project required the significant rebuilding of an
existing top floor in a Civil Wall era loft building in the TriBeCa neighborhood
of Manhattan. An existing wood frame roof was removed and a two-story 7,200SF
addition was added. The major volume, a two-story space behind the existing
marble facade, connects the two levels spatially. The organization of the plan
attempts to recreate some of the hierarchies of private and public domestic
space associated with the better prewar residential buildings in Manhattan. The
detailing-the extensive use of paneling, for example-is reminiscent of the work
of architects such as Jean Michel Frank, Adolf Loos and Bruno Paul.