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.
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.
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.
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.
The project, which the City Planning Commission voted in favor of last week, is scheduled to be voted on by the full city council in September. The vote marks the final step in the rezoning process and a yes vote would mean the project can proceed. The plan has already been approved by Community Board 1 and the Queens Borough President, both providing non-binding recommendations. The rezoning application involves the construction of three residential towers—one 22 stories, another 31 stories and a third 35 stories—on a 3.8-acre industrial site located at 3-15 26th Avenue.
Since its construction shortly after the Civil War in 1869, the Gilsey House has been reinvented time and time again. Originally a posh hotel whose famous Silver Dollar Bar welcomed celebrities like Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Diamond Jim Brady, the cast iron building was converted into an apparel factory after the Great Depression to supply department stores on Lady’s Mile. In 1979, the dilapidated building was partially restored as artists’ lofts before a more thorough rehabilitation attracted young professionals in the media and tech fields. Today, the building rising above Manhattan’s happening NoMad district—North of Madison Square, that is—is topped by a contemporary glass-and-zinc addition by STUDIO V Architecture
New renderings released of The Green House in Long Island City. Located at 10-25 Jackson Avenue between 50th and 51st Avenues in Queens. The new development by STUDIO V will comprise of 46 rental apartments, an expansive amenity package, ground-floor retail, and 40 parking spaces.
ASTORIA, QUEENS — Studio V’s plan to build three high-rise apartment towers on the industrial Halletts Point peninsula won approval from Astoria's community board this week, in stark contrast to the harsh opposition that has met some other neighborhood projects.
Community Board 1 voted 19-14 to approve the rezoning needed to build the so-called Halletts North project. The now-empty lot on the peninsula's north side was formerly home to a steel plant before being purchased in 2013 by developers, who spent five years and $16 million cleaning it up.
One can’t miss the architecturally significant brick facade of the newest building in the Hamilton Park historic district of Jersey City. The nearly complete building designed by Studio V, named Swift&Co, has a modern yet striking facade pushing the envelope of design, while creating spacious apartments, retail shops and offices.