The project is currently under construction and will feature a mixed-use building designed to accommodate two distinct yet complementary businesses. On the ground floor, Marrow Detroit Provisions will house a retail store, butcher shop, and a fully USDA-certified meat processing facility. Adjacent to the retail space, a bar will serve as a welcoming entry point. The bar will lead to the second-floor Marrow restaurant, offering an elevated dining experience within the vibrant Eastern Market district.

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Shiseido Vital Perfection event. Shop-in-shop event at the Virgin Hotel in New York City.

Concept: Shiseido

Production: Hideoki

Design + Build: makingworks

New Balance (Boston) a shop-in-shop in the Atmos (Tokyo) store located in Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood.

Dubbed the NBSE (pronounced “the Embassy”) as a nod to its surrounding city, the space offers exclusive New Balance apparel and footwear and is also a home for community events.

Design + Build

Seafood restaurant and wine spot in Corktown Detroit, from the same minds of Marrow Detroit.

Japanese Izakaya meets American Oyster Bar, sustainable and ethically sourced seafood is served in this small 12-seat bar.

“Mink has a sleek modern look designed by Studio AI Architects and built by Virtuoso. The interior features a curved L-shaped bar along the east wall. A small raw bar display faces the front entrance with a banquette seat and tables running along the windows looking out on Trumbull. The former tin ceilings have been replaced with a wavy textured tile and black pendant lights. Detroit Wallpaper used illustrations of oysters by artist Nancy Pappas to created a black-and-white accent wall at the back of the restaurant.” /Eater.

Graphics by Pao-Works

Wallpaper by Nancy Pappas

Union Square Laser Dermatology is located in a state-of-the-art 9,000 square foot full-floor facility, in a landmark building in the heart of Union Square. The design is a stylish, loft-like space with treetop views of Union Square Park.

Park View Dermatology is a 5,000 square feet full-floor facility, located next to the Plaza Hotel and featuring a stunning view of Central Park. The design has the same stylish, loft-like space feel we designed for their other location: Union Square Dermatology.

Project designed by our Tokyo office: studio-ai-tokyo.

Sketch by Esteban Erlich.

Office building located in Parque Patricios, the new Tecnology District in Buenos Aires city.

Reinforced concrete volume, rustic termination, and large black windows, covered by grey concrete skin.

Commercial plant floor, 2 underground floors, 10 office floors and green terrace.

Design team: Esteban Erlich, Jenny Harvey, Rosario Murua, Mateo Paiva

Designed with: Ricardo Pomphile, Arquitecto.

Marrow is Detroit's first neighborhood butcher shop and restaurant hybrid located in the West Village. The 80-seat restaurant and bar features an open kitchen layout complete with an indoor charcoal grill. Roughly 10 seats will face the action. A large, counter-height communal dining table runs through the center of the space. It will serve the dual purpose as a butcher block for breaking down whole animals when the restaurant isn’t open for service and as seating for large groups.

In a little alley in the Ginza district in Tokyo, our team proposed a new Hotel concept: a place that does not want to be a modern building that is gorgeous and shining. Instead from the facade to the interior details the use of real materials, textures convey nature, warmth and desire. This is not about being flashy, it is about being bold.

Designed with:

ONTOH / HIDEKI HAMAKAWA (interior designer)

MARS PLANNING / RYO OTSUKA (architect)

STUDIO AI ARCHITECTS / NOBUYUKI TSUKAHARA (architect) 

Design-build project in Dumbo for indoor playspace. Custom-made play structures, platforms, netting, slides and climbing structures are designed for curious minds and busy bodies to explore.

SEA AND THE CITY,

BEACH  CHIC,

MODERN,

COZY & INVITING,

TEXTURE,

LOTS OF WHITE,

NEAT,

CLEAN,

REFINED,

ORGANIZED,

BRIGHT & AIRY,

FEMININE.

These are the concepts that drove the design for the first EBERJEY store in New York.

Concept design with Laura Alandes

Interior Design with James Duncan

Lighting Design by Michiru Tanaka

Firstly, we drew from the triangular nature of the lot, which in a city like NYC, usually means a left-over or unusable space, but can also be vibrant corners of the city, where people meet and linger. Secondly, the nature of the AIDS crisis is not what our history has memorialized before -- typically wars, revolutions, a person, an event -- so it naturally turned us towards more abstract concepts like the feeling of being under a tree canopy, the sound of water, etc.

We wanted a space that can be all things to all people, especially with the passage of time. It is not easy to sum up how one feels when mourning a loss. It is deeply personal and at the same time the collective grief brings people together. We wanted a space that will allow a person to sit and contemplate both the individual loss and at the same time show our collective will to better our circumstances. It must also be a place not so severe and solemn that children cannot run thru and play -- because life goes on.

The paving design is the result of a collaboration with Jenny Holzer, responsible for the granite paving art installation, it added a new layer to the design, which enriched and transformed the experience.

Location: 
West 12th street & Greenwich Ave.

Date of Competition: 
March, 2013  (In Progress)

Structural Engineer: 
Robert Silman Associates

Lighting Designer: 

Fisher Marantz Stone

Artist: 
Jenny Holzer

Landscape Designer: 
M. Paul Friedberg and Partners

Graphic Designer: 
2x4 and Pablo Alabau

Renderings: 
a2t

Photos: 
Ed Caruso

This is the second location within 2 blocks in Tribeca that we designed for Reade Street Prep, a 2-yr to 5-yr olds pre-school and pre-K. Our collaboration with Reade Street Prep is a design relationship that explored every aspect of how the kids will use and experience the classrooms and making this not just another preschool.
We took care of all things great and small, from the elephant silhouette toilet partitions, to the “forest playground”, and all the way to the sprinklers and smoke detectors. 

Location: 
77 Reade Street, Tribeca, New York

Date of Competition: 
September, 2013 

Contractor: 
Yong Multi Construction

MEP Engineering: 
Steve Giammona

Fire Protection: 
American Security Systems

In an intimate setting inspired by Jean Michel's loft in Soho, the 1,500 sq. ft. store is his first retail store in New York. The store is organized around a limestone fire place, with low storage on the side and a gold leaf framed display wall in the back. Using simple materials and textures, and with the addition of Jean-Michel Cazabat signature colors Bleu Napoleon for the entry wall and Rouge Taureau for the furniture, the design of the store creates a discreet and comfortable place for the display of his shoe collection.

This is the first location in the US for the Belgian luxury brand Sarah Pacini. The intent of the design for this 4,000sf flagship store concept is to reflect Sarah Pacini’s design philosophy by showcasing the savoir-faire of the crafts men involved in this project: Belgian custom cement floor finishing, Canadian millwork, Italian metalwork. The result is a soft industrial feel with exposed ceilings and minimalistic raw steel and blackened wood millwork. The flooring unifies these elements through a monolithic charcoal epoxy pour artistically installed by a Belgian based company. 

Location: 
Flatiron District

Date of Competition: 
February, 2015 

Interior design: 
with Laura Alandes

2,300 square foot retail space in the heart of New York City’s fashion forward Soho neighborhood will reflect the glamour, edginess and originality of the shoes and accessories that are always at the base of the philosophy of the brand. With high ceilings, plaster walls and a mix of wood and metal displays and furniture, the New York flagship store’s modern, architectural design allows customers to focus on the product.

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. The restaurant faces Ninth Avenue with cozy alcove seating, bar service, and a recycled church pew serving as banquette seats. The back dining room which opens to a planted backyard houses both communal seating and corner banquettes.

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. Designed with Ronnybrook Milk Bar owner and graphic designer Mark Sarosi.

Photos by: Fran Roberts

Before co-working was an accepted way of working, Shilo was a space built to accommodate individuals and groups coming together on a project and freelancers working out of the same space.

Across the floor plate that spans the width of a city block, we created one large curving desk that anchors the main room, with small enclosed offices and support areas to the perimeter.

The project saw a gut renovation of 120 year old structure to the bones and update it for the people and infrastructure of the 21st century, while preserving the landmark district requirements.

With the opening his first store in 1994, Steven Alan quickly became known not only for the emergence of the casual cool world of shirting, but also his special finds and curated pieces from up and coming designers. Recognizing the need to assist those emerging designers in navigating the build out of their wholesale business while continuing to nurture and preserve the brand itself, the Steven Alan Showroom was launched in 1997.
Occupying 6,000sf over two floors, the showroom is designed to be a flexible space to be easily adjustable to the design seasons and at the same time  in tune with the design aesthetic of Steven Alan branding: simple raw materials, clever solutions and downtown loft  bourgeois-boheme feel. The program includes accessories / shoes / jewelry display, women's showroom, mens and kids showroom. The result is a cool and unpretentious space, quintessential Steven Alan.

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.

This is the New York Soho store for the frenchy and artsy 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 combined with the character of the classic Soho lofts. All custom millwork, large display areas and oversized center table covered by floating mirror box ceiling are the main features of the design.

Design with So-an

VPL’s very first flagship store consists of a 800sf retail space inspired by a 1920’s gymnasium. With the use of hanging manila ropes, stretch bars and exercise rings, the space has a playful spirit with a vintage feel mixed in with some modern elements like the plywood lightbox signage and the Donald Judd inspired cashwrap table. The remaining 1000sf is split into an office space and a showroom

in the back.