Today, we bid farewell to 590BC and launch our new name and identity: Breitner Ciaccia—Office of Architecture. This has been a massive team effort with designers Lost and Found, Virgo and Joshua Rule bringing initial design ideas to life, as well as many dedicated hours by our whole internal team. Moving on!
Through its annual OHNY Weekend, Open House New York celebrates the best examples of design and planning throughout the five boroughs, from historic to contemporary, and helps foster a more informed conversation about how architecture and urban design sustain New York as a vibrant place to live, work, and learn. This year for the first time OHNY invites you inside the studios and offices of some of the city's leading architects and designers. Visit the spaces where architects work, see new projects and meet the individuals who are designing the future of New York. BC—OA is honored to be included! Stop by Saturday 10/13 from 12-4pm More info HERE
We're so pleased to be joined by Elizabeth Austin, a former Pratt student of Bronwyn's. Elizabeth is a recent grad, ready to get her hands dirty with some real live architecture.
See our archinect ad HERE with more info
Stefano Grisoglio has joined the BC—OA team. Stefano comes directly from Ivrea, Italy and recently graduated from the Polytechnic University of Turin. His Thesis titled SPACE explores the use of immersive Virtual Reality as a tool to study how humans move through spaces and how it feels to be inside something that is not built. We're hoping to bring this tool and thinking to our next projects. Stay tuned!
Thrilled to have been honored tonight with a Design Excellence Award from the AIA BQDA Awards for our Stair-Well Housing project. To learn more about this modular design for affordable housing in NYC visit the project page HERE
Today we joined the owners of Harlem Public and our team from Silman in presenting our concept for a phased adaptive reuse project in Harlem's Riverside Park. For more info on this three-part project go HERE
New office location at 84 Withers Street, overlooking all things Williamsburg from our 5th floor perch atop the BQE. It's bright and sunny and big and we love it.
