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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New Rendering Revealed For 335 Bond Street In Gowanus, Brooklyn
New York YIMBY
A new rendering has been revealed for 335 Bond Street, a 14-story residential building under construction in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Designed by Studio V Architecture and developed by E&M Realty, the 155-foot-tall structure is planned to span 77,383 square feet and yield 73 units with an average scope of 932 square feet, as well as 4,644 square feet of manufacturing space, 4,633 square feet of commercial space, and a 30-foot-long rear yard. The residential component will include affordable housing, though the exact number of affordable units has yet to be disclosed. Titanium Construction Services is the general contractor for the project, which is located directly west of the Gowanus Canal by the intersection of Carroll and Bond Streets.
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Need Housing? Need a Train Line? Stack Them Up. Studio V’s proposal for a Borough Park rail cut.
Curbed - New York Magazine
A sickle-shaped scar curves through Brooklyn, with a single set of railroad tracks running down its length like sutures. Every so often — usually once a day — a freight train rolls off a barge at Sunset Park and rumbles along the bottom of the weedy trench, headed north. Otherwise, all is quiet down there — for now, anyway. Underused tracks in the middle of a populous city stimulate fantasies, which sometimes bear fruit in plans and, occasionally, concrete change.
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Studio V’s The Green House uses terra-cotta cladding in a nod to Long Island City’s past
The Architect's Newspaper
The Green House, a 12-story residential building in Long Island City, Queens completed earlier this year. Designed by New York City architectural firm Studio V, the project is clad in terra-cotta panels, paying homage to New York Architectural Terra Cotta Works which manufactured terra-cotta in Long Island City from 1886 until 1968 and was the only terra-cotta fabricator in all of New York City.
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DMTV Milkshake: Studio V Founder Jay Valgora on Why Cities Are Our “Greatest Invention”
Design\Milk
“Now, this is a question I think is wrong on its face,” says Jay Valgora, founder and principal of Studio V Architecture, when we asked him what cities can do to lure one-time urban dwellers back from the suburbs – where, perhaps, they fled during the pandemic. He rejects the perspective that the pandemic has fatally wounded urban centers. “I think that cities are the greatest invention of man,” says Valgora, who was raised in Buffalo, New York, and is now based in New York City.
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Home Comforts
Workplace Insight
The convergence of residential, hospitality and office design idioms is a sign of the way work and workplaces are changing.
Jay Valgora explains how his practice is moving from their Midtown Manhattan office to a nearby three-story residential space in the NoMad neighborhood.