New York City Apartment

The site of this Interior Architecture project is an existing conjoined 1875SF “corner APT” at the back of a-long-ago repurposed 1911 NYC Factory Building with diagonal cross-views northwest, north and northeast into “large urban room” that is Madison Square Park as well as northeast, east and south views to The City and its numerous “water towers” and from these directions generous reflected light into the space thru south/eastern vertical windows and south noon-time light off “a pencil tower” to the north thru north windows.

Our PHX Client, who always had a “pied-à-terre” in NYC, had recently retired to The City with his partner and found “this diamond in the rough” down the street from where they were renting, which housed with their “extraordinarily eclectic ART / Furniture collection”, which from the outset would be ideally accommodated in the new space.

Our design approach, as often is the case, is to maximize “space” within the given constraints and to push the envelope to the absolute limit where possible and impossible are in equilibrium. In this project, that meant maximizing the “conjoined-corner-APT-ness” of the found condition by removing to the extent possible all interior walls to create “one corner room” to maximize experientially the diagonal cross-views and abundant natural light. It meant divorcing the “open-corner-kitchen” from the plumbing stack, whilst discovering the absolute limit of kitchen-island waste / vent lines in a very shallow existing floor. It also meant addressing our Client’s absolute request for one bedroom just for sleep and dressing that “was not in the open corner room”. In short, we discovered + pushed the limits of what was acceptable to the Building CO-OP and DOB on behalf of our Client in order to maximize their lived experience within “this unique find” within The Flatiron community.