Projects

HospitalityHotel

Rockaway Beach Hotel

6 story 70 200 sq ft hotel/spa/surf club building. 8″ flat plate structure supported by enhanced mat foundation with tension tie downs to resist net uplift /groundwater.

Boutique hotel with 53 rooms. The elevated 1st floor houses lobby , restaurant, spa & pool deck. 2nd floor event space and roof top garden terrace.

Client: Morris Adjmi Architects
Location: Rockaway Beach, NY
Date: 2020
Residential Building

118 East 1st Street

10 story 12 500 sq ft residential building. 8″ flat plate structure supported by mat foundation.

Use of single bay concrete slab to bear on thin columns and shear walls. Poor soil conditions coupled with slender aspect ratio leading to potential uplift were resisted by a bespoke mat foundation.

Client: Freyer Collaborative Architecture
Location: New York, NY
Date: 2022
Residential Building

3140 Webster Ave. Bronx

New 14 story residential structure, utilizes Precast plank floor on delta beam steel construction. This was the first mid rise designed for Stagg Group /Bronx Builders by A Degree of Freedom.

Our business relationship developed and we completed in excess of 30 mid rise ( 6 to 18 story) mixed income residential projects with Stagg Group in a 5 year period prior to the cessation of the 421 A tax abatement program.

Client: Stagg Group
Location: Bronx, NY
Date: 2017
Education Facility

FiT Pomerantz

Plaza expansion for adaptive reuse as gallery in landmark building.

Client: FIT / D. Smotrich & Partners LLC
Location: New York, NY
Date: 2017
Cultural Center

Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

Reinforcing of LPC building for support of MEP equipment and reconstruction of floor framing

Client: Ryall Sheridan Carroll Architects
Location: New York, NY
Date: 2023
Private Residence

NJ Beach house

New steel framed passive house designed private residence on small lot in Long Branch, NJ

Client: Ryall Sheridan Carroll
Location: New Jersey
Date: 2022
Museum

Metropolitan Museum, American wing

Vertical expansion of existing American wing. Project engineer on expansion of basement excavation and new 3rd floor and new mezzanine. Worked performed at prior firm (Severud Associates)

Client: Roche-Dinkeloo
Location: New York, NY
Date: 2007
Residential Building

687 Bronx River Rd

13 story 375 000 sq ft flat plate concrete residential building

Client: BE Bronx Builders/Stagg Group
Date: Completed 2021
Townhouse Rebuild

42 Sharon St

Reconstruction of existing townhouse with large openings in load bearing walls.

Client: NC2 Architecture
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Date: 2018
Ornamental Stair

New glass and aluminum interior connection stair

New glass and aluminum interior connection stair

Client: FX Collaborative
Location: New York, NY
Date: 2019
Education Facility

Grace Church High School

Combining seven 19th Century rowhouses for use as new high school with new black box theater, New roof top Gym addition.

2019 AIA NY State Design Award of Citation

Client: MBB Architecture
Date: Completed 2017
Landmark Building

Historic Structure Stabilization

The O’Neill Building
Stabilzation after partial collapse of south facade , design of structural reinforcing of façade LPC designated building

Client: NMC Management
Location: New York, NY
Date: 2012
Retail Retrofit

Chobani Prince St

Retrofit of 2 19th Century commercial buildings, new lintels to support wide pass through in party walls

Client: MB Construction
Location: New York, NY
Date: 2014
Cultural Center

Mercury Store, Brooklyn

Adaptive reuse of factory for use as contemporary dance performance space. The project was the 1st to use of CLT in NYC with DoB approval.

Client: Co Adaptive Architecture
Date: Completed 2022
Residential Building

150 Van Cortland East

15 Story 150 000 sq ft

Flat plate structure located directly over D subway line

this is one of over 30 mixed income mid rise residential structures totalling over 1.8m sq ft designed for Stagg Group /Bronx Builders in a 5 year period prior to the cessation of the 421 A tax abatement program

Client: Stagg Group
Location: Bronx, NY
Date: 2018

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