KSP - 45-18 Court Square

New York, NY

Another example of a sensitive adaptive reuse project, this renovation adds a modern addition in a tasteful and refined manner. The project - acting as a catalyst for an emerging life sciences district in Long Island City, takes queues from its history while expanding the developable parcel into a unique, thoughtful whole. Its clever and sexy without being crass and over the top. Like all good fabric buildings, it makes the neighborhood it's in better for it. Like any good preservation project, there is no confusion between old and new, and both sides of the duality are made more interesting by the conversation across the eras.

The project leverages the framework of a pre-depression era structure by infilling the remaining zoning envelope to create a thoughtful and unique integration of building services with a clear, rational, modular expression.