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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Meet The Disruptors: Jay Valgora Of STUDIO V
Authority Magazine
Fotis Georgiadis interviewed STUDIO V's Founder and Principal, Jay Valgora. "The two historical events that most influence my work are industrialization and urban renewal. Much of my work focuses on the edges and gaps these forces left within our cities and the opportunity these sites offer today. My designs attempt to restore and reinvent sites that bear the scars of industrialization and urban renewal and invest them again with the richness of meaningful forms, public spaces, and history, to weave them back into the community."
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Mayor Applauds City Council’s Approval of Halletts North Project in Astoria
QNS
Plagued by a chronic shortage of affordable housing across the city, Mayor Eric Adams is celebrating the City Council’s overwhelming approval of the Halletts North Project in Astoria. The plan, designed by STUDIO V and developed by Astoria Owners LLC, will bring 1,340 apartments — including 335 affordable units — to a 3.8-acre industrial site on the Halletts Point Peninsula.
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Halletts North Mixed-Use Development in Queens Approved by New York City Council
New York Business Journal
Halletts North, a mixed-use development in Queens, is officially underway. The 1.3 million-square-foot property, located at 3-15 26th Street in Astoria, features three mixed-use towers and includes 335 affordable residences, a public waterfront park, 21,500 square feet for community facilities and a 525-space parking garage. Halletts North is developed by Astoria Owners LLC and designed by architecture firm, STUDIO V.
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City Council OKs Halletts Point Megadevelopment Rezoning Amendment
Crain's New York Business
A new megadevelopment is headed to the Astoria waterfront. Plans for Halletts North, a 987,000 square-foot mixed-use development that includes 42,000 square feet of open space for retailers and nonprofits, can now proceed after the City Council voted 43-1 last week in favor of a rezoning proposal to change the area's designation from an industrial site to mixed-use residential. In addition to residential towers, the site will house space for local retail, 21,500 square feet of community facilities, a 525-car garage and a public waterfront park, according to a statement from STUDIO V Architecture, the firm that designed Halletts North.
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STUDIO V part of local effort in rejuvenating abandoned historic train halls that have been off limits for decades
New York Times
The Hunts Point station, now vacant, is a dramatically dormered, ramshackle beauty whose steep-peaked, red-slate roof once boasted a contrasting patinated verdigris copper cornice.The station’s terra-cotta north facade, where stairs once went down to train platforms, is largely intact, and the developers plan to rehabilitate that historic fabric. A new Metro-North station is planned north of the old one. When the new station opens in 2027, “everyone arriving will be looking right at the back facade” of the old station, said Jay Valgora, the principal of Studio V Architecture, which is designing the old building’s rehabilitation. “And that will become the front door of the neighborhood.”