Design Vault

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with Ross Padlock, partner at Kligerman Architecture & Design in New York City, New York. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. This episode highlights an Italian art deco private residence designed by Ross. The private residence we're discussing today is located on a narrow urban lot in a neighborhood which includes many homes from the 1920s. These homes feature various elements of brick and stone cladding combined with tile roofs and decorative windows. The new home was inspired by the Italian art deco movement, as well as the German Expressionist. It draws from the work of Piero Portaluppi, a preeminent architect of streamlined art deco classicism in Italy in the 1920s and thirties. Other inspirations include German architects Fritz Hogar and Heinrich Muller, well-known for creative and experimental forms constructed with brick. The exterior of the home is composed of details that decidedly complement the vernacular of the neighborhood. The construction palette of masonry includes brick, lilac sandstone, black windows, black slate and copper. Interestingly, the brick shapes, which appear to be custom, are actually all standard Glen-Gery modules. The course work is detailed and unique. The leaded glass panels in the windows are restoration glass and the roof dormers are clad in copper. The details of the house are mannerist yet subtle, and the brick is creatively patterned in coursed to give the house a unique personality.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with Daniela Holt Voith at Voith and MacTavish Architects in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. This episode with Daniela Holt Voith highlights Abbott Dining Hall located at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. The renovation of the 1960s era dining hall exclusively serves senior or fifth form students in their last year on campus. The project responds to the style of the adjacent upper house dorm and other Peabody and Sterns architecture and reminds one of both Shingle Style and Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. VMA’s reconfiguration blends seamlessly into the Lawrenceville esthetic with new brick facades, pitch slate roof and vaulted interior ceilings supported by glulam hammer beam trusses. In addition to a complete redesign of the kitchen and servery, custom white oak furniture and booth seating clad the interior, white oak paneling, terrazzo floor and over scaled fireplaces complete the vision.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with Will Quam, architecture photographer, architecture writer, and researcher in Chicago, Illinois. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. Will Quam lives in Chicago. He's currently writing a book for the University of Chicago Press on the history of brick architecture in the city. He documents brick as a way to pay more attention to the world around him and encourages others to do the same. He believes it's been like learning a whole new language and a means to discovering great texts hidden in the buildings that surround him in his own words. Everything built is designed and has impact, good or bad. It's easy to walk by something like a brick building and pay it no mind. But the world is so much more interesting when you ask the question, What is that and why is it the way it is? Above all, he believes nothing is boring and everything can be interesting and exciting, even bricks.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with John Hutch, one of the founding partners and principal at JP2 Architects in Baltimore, Maryland.. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. Marketplace Fell's Point is located in historic Fell's Point, Baltimore, Maryland. The new urban lifestyle apartments feature open rooms that maximize exterior daylight and the views. The bulk of the units in the marketplace project open onto private courtyard space, complete with firepits and water features. Many of the units are rehabbed historic buildings from the late 1800s with large windows and special features. The apartment buildings have direct access to over 100 community retail and entertainment venues on Fell's Point waterfront. In addition to the private courtyards, the project also features a club room, lounge, fitness center and secure parking for the residents.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with Peter Miller, partner at Palette Architecture in New York, New York. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. 625 Rogers Avenue is the site for a new mixed-use building with a primary use of residential ground level, commercial and community facility uses with a below grade enclosed parking lot. The architectural design for the building divides the overall mass into two distinct volumes a lower and upper. The lower is a rectilinear form that relates to historic buildings in the area. This volume is meant to create a more contextual streetscape and a friendly residential feel. In contrast, the higher recessed form is articulated to relate to the new character of the neighborhood. It steps back and recedes as it rises, making it more private and less visible from the street. The lower form is brick, the upper is stucco, the lower is dark, the upper is light. A side yard is included along the south elevation for more daylight glass and a restaurant terrace.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with John Zimmer, Director at Fogarty Finger in New York, New York. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. The Lively is a mixed use 18 story tower in Jersey City's Powerhouse arts district. The building features residential living situated above retail and public art spaces. The entry portals at the base define the black box theater and residential portions of the building. Double and triple height lobbies open up to the street through curtained glass walls at the base. The building's deep and varied openings and bronze windows and frames give a wonderful complexity to an otherwise familiar building form. The structure features a custom white brick with darker mortar, which gives the edifice a warm residential appearance. The bricks well scaled modularity complements the organized and complex facade. The project's esthetic and exterior elevations are reserved yet elaborate, familiar but novel, unpretentious, yet elegant.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with Eric Pros, Director of Design for DS Architecture in Cleveland, Ohio. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. The new City of Westlake Senior Community Center was designed for senior citizens. The building is quite large at 28,000 square feet, and the building typology is more and more familiar across the United States. With that said, the design team used design restrictions as an opportunity. The city of Westlake, Ohio, adopted a distinctive Western reserve traditional style of architecture. All public buildings throughout Westlake are comprised of a traditional sandstone water table, a blended red brick veneer and a pitched roof with reverse gables over their entries. At the outset, it was strongly suggested by the city that all buildings in Westlake incorporate the same old Detroit red brown blend of brick in a standard modular size. With these stipulations in mind, the finished building reimagines the standard running bond pattern of brick through the lens of an ancient Roman ruin. The team created a unique quarter coffer brick detail to make both the construction process repeatable and the facades uniquely textured. The resulting esthetic is innovative and quite elegant.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with Shane Neufeld, registered architect at Light and Air Architecture in Brooklyn, New York. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. The Z house, named for the shape of its stair is a renovation, providing a unique model for the urban domestic experience. At the Project Center is a new switchback stair that integrates the house vertically and horizontally, carving out the existing structure in order to shape dynamic sightlines that connect inhabitants in new ways. The stairs drama is heightened by the placement of large windows punctuating the rear facade. These allow the vertical space to open to the exterior directing views from the stair through the house and to the yard beyond. Descending from the rear of the parlor floor is a smaller stair slotted between a steel guardrail and oak millwork. This connects the living room to the new horizontal additions below. Here, the added square footage accommodates the kitchen and dining room in a single dramatic double height space that visually unites the rear yard and the parlor floor above. A green roof located above the garden level helps to buffer sightlines and cultivates a natural intimacy for the residents inside.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with Christa Waring, AIA, LEED-AP, CPHD, Principal at CTA Architects in New York, New York. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. 650 Park Avenue is located in the Upper East Side Historic District, built in 1963 and designed by Emery Roth and Sons Architects. It's a 21 story apartment building with a white glazed brick facade and setbacks above the 16th floor. The base of the building maintains the building line of Park Avenue. Recent facade examinations revealed a deficiency in the wall tie system that connects the face masonry to the backup concrete block masonry. CTA designed a program of facade repairs that include face masonry pinning in addition to the restoration of all shelf angles across the facades. The original construction features have finished glazed edge over all the window lintels, which has an impressive impact on the aesthetic of the building. Thus, the project entails an extensive masonry rebuild where matching the existing brick is of paramount importance.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with Lorne Rose, architect at Lorne Rose Architect in Toronto, Ontario. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. Today, we're going to talk about Lauren's Tudor home in Toronto. The neighborhood has a number of esthetically diverse architectural gems from the turn of the century, including a traditional Tudor that served as inspiration. Lauren's Tudor home features a variety of signature Tudor brick patterns from diagonal and herringbone to basket weave. The traditional half timber board work has been replaced with stone and a carved stone belt course that runs across the front facade, separates stone veneer at the base, a steep gable stance across all facades, giving it order and magnifying the Tudor style. The roof is cedar shingle and the overhangs are traditional. The rear of the house has a spacious covered porch with wonderful wood. Details, and the opposite side features a carved stone entry and a large wood and glass front door. The front landscape is organized, yet slightly whimsical, with a U-shaped drive. The backyard, in contrast, has an oval shaped lawn area surrounded by garden walls, apple trees and a vegetable garden.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with William Smart, founder and creative director at Smart Design Studio in Sydney, Australia. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. The new Smart Design Studio building is an innovative, sustainable and sculptural building with both new and renovated facades that sit within an inner city conservation area of brick warehouses. The design relates to the industrial buildings from the precinct. While it makes a departure with a modern facade of tiles, galvanized sheeting, steel frame windows and dynamic forms of curling and curving brick. Structurally, a large portion of the building feels industrial with precast concrete slabs, structural brick roof vaults and steel. Environmentally. The naturally lit and ventilated studio collects its own water and generates its own power, creating a carbon neutral building. In addition, large full length clear story windows enable natural light to enter the single industrial scale workspace. The Sawtooth roof trusses and a portion of the facades were retained with the exception of the offices on the western street frontage. That's where a narrow, highly designed apartment runs atop the length of the building. The apartment features four self-supporting offset brick, cat and airy vaults that allow light into the apartment.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with John Woelfling, Principal at Dattner Architects at in New York City. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. Located in downtown Brooklyn, 50 Nevins Street appears to be two buildings in one. The approach was to reinvigorate a century-old building through gut renovation and addition, which provides affordable housing, housing for formerly homeless individuals, and mental health services. The historic site, with its new ten-story addition, features 129 new apartments. The building was originally designed by famed Brooklyn architect Frank Freeman, opened in 1913 as a YWCA. In the early 1930s an extensive portion of the building was shaved off to enlarge Schermerhorn Street and make way for the subway line. That adjustment resulted in an imbalance to the original Colonial Revival building. The new coupled design ascribes value to the existing building and helps restore the balance it had lost. The existing red brick building remains shorter with a classical cornice. The new building sits slightly taller, flush and adjacent with a recessed connector which visually separates the architecture. The contrast in masonry color, dark connector and stylistic changes to the forms and facades set the two buildings apart esthetically, though clearly they're co-combined.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with Jay Valgora, Founder and Principal at Studio V in New York City, New York. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. 1515 Surf Avenue is a two tower, 26 and 16 story residential building complex in Coney Island, Brooklyn, designed by Studio V Architecture. This street corner project will span 470,000 square feet and yield 461 units, 139 designated for affordable housing and 11,000 square feet of ground floor retail. The building facade is variegated white to cream colored brick, with the main building podium facing Surf Avenue, featuring a soaring ground floor elevation with several diagonal columns. Its sloped roofline is further defined by a stepped series of wooden platforms the design team calls the vertical boardwalk. The building features curved glass lined balconies and amenity deck heated pool and green roof. Residents have panoramic views of Coney Island Amusement Park and the Atlantic Ocean. The total outdoor space will span over 20,000 square feet. The building includes a fitness center, lounges, co-working spaces, indoor basketball court, handball court and accessory off street parking. When completed in 2024, the property will be the largest geothermal heated and cooled building in New York City.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with Todd Poisson, Partner at BKSK Architects in New York City. They discuss Tammany / 44 Union Square. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. 44 Union Square sits at the northeast corner of Union Square Park in Manhattan. The project includes a remarkable contemporary steel and glass dome addition to the storied landmark building on Union Square's northeast corner for Redding International Ink. The new building expands the usable square footage of the historic building and adds an iconic anchor to Union Square. The building's former life was as the last headquarters for the political machine, Tammany Hall, an American organization founded in 1786, famous for controlling New York City and state politics for a time. The restoration and expansion of the building includes preserving two facades, new bronze storefronts in the likeness of the original 1928 design and a three-story rooftop addition. This wild steel and glass building cap is composed of a self-supporting free form shell grid dome atop a reconstructed hipped roof with gray terracotta sunshades.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with Paul Neuhaus, AIA, LEED AP, Senior designer at HGA. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. The new Pennsylvania State Archives Facility collects and preserves valuable paper documents while making them available to the public for viewing and research. The building is a state-of-the-art archival facility with an enhanced building envelope and HVAC system for the optimal environment to preserve historical paper documents. The street façade features a linear, steel framed louver structure which surrounds a two-story high glass enclosed pavilion. The pavilion is connected to the main building, which accommodates the two public research rooms and staff spaces. While much of the building requires a windowless approach. A wide assortment of colored Norman size bricks were used to give the façade a varied and playful appearance. The building used 350,000 brick equivalents in a blend of five different glazed brick colors. The building is three city blocks in size on three acres of land. The total storage area on three floors is 50,000 square feet and includes oversized, cool, cold, secure, and digital archives.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with David Kubik, AIA, Partner at BKSK Architects in New York City, New York. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. BKSK Architects made its imprint on the Gansevoort Market Historic District in New York City with a collection of landmark approvals. The redevelopment of a full block of tattered, low rise commercial buildings near the High Line. Through careful analysis, BKSK made a strong rationale for taller building heights and some new construction along portions of the block. The new development project has a roster of luxury retailers, commercial and office space. The row buildings include existing facades, along with a creative variety of contemporary versions. Interestingly, each new building of various sizes features a unique blend of colors and patterns of brick. The street facades maintain a turn of the century aesthetic with traditional elements and details, while employing modern windows and expansive metal awnings.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with Sussan Lari, AIA, founder of Sussan Lari Architect, P.C. in Long Island, New York Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. The Henhawk House is a renovation, and major expansion of an existing 4,100 square foot residence. The new home is approximately 13,300 square feet. The home features steeply pitched slate roofs, multiple gables of varying size, light red brick facades and half-timbered elevations with stucco infill and light gray wood. The homemade brick is highly detailed, with soldier, diagonal and herringbone coursing. The design also features tall, narrow windows, elliptical masonry archways and red copper gable finials, all of which reference early English domestic architecture and of course, the Tudor style. Although the exterior of the house is a traditional design language, the inside is completely open, functional, expansive, bright and modern.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with Peter Vanderpool, registered architect of Vanderpool Architecture. Peter is a practicing architect, licensed in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. Guilford Court is a luxury home in a suburban area of McLean, Virginia. The lot is angular and located on a cul-de-sac with narrow street frontage. It's also quite steep, rising 20 feet as it extends back from the street. Peter uses three separate virtual axes to inform the floor plan and programmatic organization of the house. The garage, located on the south side of the property, is clad in wood, while the private portion of the house, which resembles a kind of modern Tudor facade, is enclosed in fiber cement siding. The middle semipublic spaces are enclosed in a dark brick veneer. The landscape also reflects the same three axis grid with sculpted geometry that level out the site.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with David Gross, the co-founder and executive partner of GF55 Architects, a national firm with offices in New York City and Miami. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. Park + Elton is a development with 38 residential units in the Bronx, consisting of two distinct five story buildings. These buildings correspond to the Melrose Commons Urban Renewal Plan. The plan provides a range of affordable housing choices for the Bronx. The use of simple building materials, including brick in various patterns, colors and facade wall depths, makes these modest buildings appear quite unique. The simple modern masonry cornice and the differentiation of the window header detail with soldier course patterns reference the historical brick clad buildings found throughout the district. The subtle volume and height of Park and Elton also maintain a satisfying human scale. Construction of the buildings included sustainable design elements and incorporated New York City Green building standards. Park + Elton are considered equivalent to LEED certified buildings.

In this episode of Design Vault, Doug speaks with Gavri Slasky, AIA, LEED AP, Associate at Stephen B. Jacobs Group in Manhattan, New York. Visit glengery.com/design-vault to see photos and additional information as you listen along. Morgan Parc is comprised of 267 residential units situated above retail space. The nine story building is composed of a central tower at the far side of the square, flanked by two symmetrical wings, the masonry facades draw upon turn of the century mill buildings whose architecture is expressed in their strong, deep structural piers and intricate brick details. The building façade is composed of masonry piers that extend the full height of the building, opening up a ground floor to create a retail arcade that wraps a courtyard. Large industrial sized window units span between the deep piers. The building is capped by glass, enclosed rooftop amenity spaces, an outdoor pool and terracing roofs, which overlook Long Island.