STUDIO V Architecture is an award-winning architecture and urban design firm that seeks to reimagine the 21stcentury urban condition. We specialize in transit-oriented developments and waterfront urban design at all scales, and adaptive reuse projects that repurpose historic structures for public use.
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Old + New
We believe cities are the greatest artifacts of man, containers of collective myths and desires. STUDIO V explores and renews cities by creating contemporary architecture that incorporates and enriches history while expressing the ideals of our time.
Our designs combine old and new, integrate modern architecture with historic structures, and contrast craft and digital fabrication. Our research reveals historic layers of sites and structures while our architecture incorporates the radical recycling of industrial and historic artifacts including bridges, tanks, warehouses, buildings, former secret laboratories, and grain silos into surprising new uses and successful public spaces.
Edges + Centers
Our architecture addresses the forgotten spaces of cities, to support entrepreneurs, reconnect neighborhoods, and promote equity. Our expertise in resiliency, affordable housing, waterfront design, public parks, brownfield remediation, reinventing infrastructure, and cultural spaces is transforming former edges into the new centers of urban life.
Structure + Movement
Our architectural designs incorporate expressive lattice shells, cable-nets, state of the art sustainable materials, and innovative solutions to save endangered historic structures. Our innovative approaches to digital fabrication are transforming public spaces, from an award winning underground street in Japan, to the longest bar in North America, to a pedestrian passage on a bridge over Niagara Falls.
News
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Confronting COVID-19: ULI Members, including STUDIO V, Give Back to Communities
Urban Land Institute
“New York City has transformed almost overnight, where we have gone from an intense, connected community to people in isolation and empty streets,” says Jay Valgora, founder and principal of Studio V Architecture, based in New York City.
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STUDIO V and many NYC architects are 3D printing protective gear to help local hospitals
Curbed
Valgora is one of a growing number of architects and designers across New York City who are churning out thousands of desperately needed face shields each week to protect medical professionals battling the novel coronavirus.
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Operation PPE creates 3D-printed equipment for the COVID-19 front lines
Architect's Newspaper
“Everyone wants to help and no one knows what to do,” Valgora told AN. “So it’s kind of great to not only do this—to get this equipment into the hands of medical workers who really need it—but it’s also great to give people a vehicle where they can help out and play a positive role.”
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Silo City by STUDIO V wins MIPIM/ The Architectural Review Future Projects Award 2020 for New & Old
Architectural Review
Honored to be recognized by Future Projects Award for our master plan of Silo City. We're especially excited to receive the award for the New & Old category, as it speaks to our firms' core values – renewing cities by creating contemporary architecture that incorporates and enriches history.
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HK Organization chats about wildly successful Empire Stores and working with STUDIO V
Commercial Observer
Dumbo “wasn’t a retail center or even an office center” at the time, said Klaus. “So we did the tour of the building and I went back to my office. I got a telephone call from an architect I had met years before, Jay Valgora. He said, ‘I saw your name on the roster, I want to come see you right away.’ He came down to my office, I think that day. He said he had been a successful architect on the last round, he had a good concept for this, and he wanted to do the project.”