Studio a+i :: Portfolio

Zadig & Voltaire Soho New York, NY

This is our second project working with the French high end casual wear brand Zadig & Voltaire. The new store, that opened in June 2010, is their second New York store located in the heart of SOHO on Mercer Street. Read More...

Steven Alan Flagship Store New York, NY

This renovation for the Steven Alan Flagship store in New York gives a facelift to a well loved shopping destination in the TriBeCa neighborhood. The design balances the “found-objects” with selected new, clean displays, all within the context of a flexible retail space with distinct designer wares. Read More...

Tipsy Parson New York, NY

Tipsy Parson, is the second restaurant from the owners of Little Giant. This new restaurant in Chelsea was gut-renovated from an old laundromat and designed with a full service kitchen to serve the 75 seat dining space. Read More...

Zadig & Voltaire Meatpacking New York, NY

This is the first store in New York for the frenchy and arty brand Zadig & Voltaire. This high-end store keeping with the design philosophy of all the other ZV stores worldwide is a perfect white box with the feel of an art gallery. Read More...

Steven Alan Brooklyn, NY

Steven Alan’s first store in Brooklyn was designed with a “guerilla” operation in mind. Simple light fixtures and a canvas backdrop anchors the exposed pipe fittings, keeping the space simple on this busy thoroughfare in Brooklyn. Read More...

Steven Alan Outpost Los Angeles, CA

The store, the fourth in the Los Angeles area for Steven Alan, was designed to embrace the SA sprit and maximize the space so that it can serve as a retail store and as the LA area office. Read More...

New England Biolab Ipswich, Massachusetts

Competition entry for the New England Biolab 150,000sf headquarter. In order to minimize the building foot print and reduce the impact of the new building in this beautiful site, the design intent was to create a linear extrusion with a series of labs, offices and public space following the natural curve of the landscape. Read More...

Malabia Condominium New York, NY

This development re-investigates the urban space of the typical Buenos Aires block and in the process of design, created a new building typology that takes the row-house that opens to the street and inverted it. Read More...

Vitale Residence Rye, New York

In this renovation of the house that was originally designed by and for Ezra Stoller, the clients want to bring back the original spirit of the Stoller House, while at the same time update it for modern living and a growing family. Read More...

Shilo Office Tribeca, New York City

The best ideas often happen when there are many design criteria and even more design latitude. With Shilo, we were able to take the conventional ideas of an open workspace and really make an open space without walls. Read More...

Haley Residence Tribeca, New York City

This is a thorough renovation of a loft space in Tribeca. Design features included updating of an old kitchen to a modern open plan kitchen with a large marble countertop... Read More...

Ronnybrook Milk Bar Chelsea Market. New York, New York

How to create a fresh new look to the old fashion dairy store experience? Combining retail, take-out and bar seating, the design embraces the idea of organic dairy product from upstate New York using recycled materials from the farm and making it accessible to all ages. Read More...

New York Wine Company Warren Street. New York, New York

Located in Tribeca, this wine showroom had to accommodate both a large display of premium wines, as well as function as a wine tasting event space. Read More...

Cecilia De Torres Gallery Greene Street. New York, New York

This interior renovation provided a much needed update for both the gallery functions and the living quarters in this landmarked Soho loft. Read More...

Stephen Talasnik’s Stream Storm King Art Center

Stephen Talasnik’s Stream: A Folded Drawing, commissioned by Storm King Art Center on the occasion of it’s 50th anniversary. A site-specific construction consisting of about 3,000 bamboo poles tied together to form a monumental yet delicate structure some 12 feet high by 90 feet long, which appears to be rolling down the hill on which it is sited. studio a+i in collaboration with Structural Engineer Carlos Soubie provided constructability services. Read More...

Green Residence Queens, New York

This small multi-family building houses three generation of the same family under one roof. The owners wanted to have a distinct design from the standard wood frame-siding houses in the neighborhood within a limited budget. Read More...

Lamar House Patagonia, Argentina

This house is designed to be built by local tradesmen by using local  materials and the simplest construction methods, at the same time it responds to a unique site and program with a minimalist design. Read More...

Housing The Next 10 Million California

California housing trends are headed towards disaster with increasing water scarcity, tillable land scarcity, farmland scarcity and influx of residents. This study looks at the problem from a larger context... Read More...

Nouveau Musée Des Beaux Arts Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland

The design of a waterfront museum is also part of the larger context of integrating the waterfront into part of the city’s new expansion of cultural and recreational use in what used to be a port and industrial neighborhood. Read More...

Trenton Robbins Elementary School Trenton, New Jersey

The Robbins Elementary School is situated in one of poorest sections of a once vibrant city. The old stately building is not only overcrowded but scarred after years vandalism and fences and bars have been erected to fortify the school against the neighborhood. Read More...