David Chessrown's Contact Details

David Chessrown's Company Details

nARCHITECTS

New York, NY, US • 20 - 49 Employees
Architecture Firm/Engineering Firm

nARCHITECTS, PLLC is an internationally-recognized practice based in New York City founded by Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang in 1999. Ongoing work includes the design of the Wyckoff House Museum in Brooklyn, Pierscape at Chicago's Navy Pier, a competition-winning project led by James Corner Field Operations, and the firm's competition-winning entry for the groundbreaking adAPT NYC competition to design a micro unit building in Manhattan. The firm's recent work has focused on a wide range of scales from buildings and interiors to public space. Recent examples include the ABC Department Store Facades in Beirut, Lebanon, Switch Building in Manhattan (recipient of an AIA Building Type Award), the bamboo MoMA/P.S.1 Canopy (recipient of an AIA Design Honor Award), and Forest Pavilion in Taiwan (recipient of an Architect Annual Design Award). nARCHITECTS is currently retained by both the NYC Parks and Recreation's and the NYC Department of Design and Construction's Design Excellence programs.\\Recent firm recognition includes selection in 2012 as a Highly Commended firm in the international WAN (World Architecture News) 21FOR21 competition "to be part of a select group crowned to lead the next generation of designers in the 21st century." That same year, Wallpaper Magazine named nARCHITECTS one of twenty "world's most intriguing young practices," in their Architects Directory 2012.\\nARCHITECTS brings an open-ended approach to the design process based on conceptual clarity and technical innovation. Complex client identities, layered sites and phasing requirements are unpacked and reframed as straightforward design opportunities. Our approach to context is nuanced and agile - sensitive to opportunities and irreverent to cliches. We approach environmental questions as both a technical and cultural issue. In short, we aim for simple designs that produce a richness and flexibility of experience, with an economy of conceptual and material means.