The concrete superstructure work at Opal Residences in Gravesend, Brooklyn was completed last week. The project, a 12-unit luxury ground-up for Redhoek+Partners, is a collaboration between J.L. Ramirez Architects, FAB 314 AW, and Pliskin Architecture. With the pouring of the bulkhead slab, the structure was topped out, and construction crews have shifted focus towards the… Read more »
Construction continues on Pliskin Architecture’s two-family development in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Following completion of exterior masonry work, the scaffolding has been removed, allowing a glimpse of the facade that will join this quiet tree-lined street. The project, developed by LTNG, is scheduled for completion in the first half of 2024.
Construction has picked up speed for the panyc designed restaurant on the Upper West Side. The restaurant, scheduled to open later this month, is the panyc team’s first project in the UWS as well as our first restaurant. The restaurant, a second location of a veteran Brooklyn establishment, will have 65 seats inside, and another… Read more »
The 4th year of K&Co and Pliskin Architecture’s rainbow pool installations on Roosevelt Island is under way, this year featuring art by Technodome1 (a.k.a Takun Williams).
One of the last pieces for the office we designed in Paris was installed last week – an undulating partial-height acoustic divider that breaks up one breakout space into 3 smaller, quieter meeting spaces. The office, designed in Collaboration with Atelier 208, was completed over the summer, with a few pieces remaining to be installed.
The 3rd annual summer pop up at the Manhattan Park Pool Club on Roosevelt Island will launch next weekend, and preparations are underway:
Construction has started on a new office space for the K&Co and Pliskin Architecture teams, in anticipation for the upcoming move of both firms to the Financial District in Lower Manhattan. After several years of growth at the Hudson River Collaborative in Tribeca, we are all ready to excited on the next chapter.
We’ve been closely chronicling the progress for the midtown apartment construction, and observing the faithful crew of TR Fox Contracting as they navigate the sequencing and construction of a gut-renovation and combination of two apartments. We have left a tiny GoPro behind and here are a few scenes from 6 months of construction, accelerated a… Read more »
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Making Stuff, Part 1
The bearded craftsmen of Gustav Mergins Woodworking were onsite, tinkering with the moving parts of over-sized pivot doors for an apartment renovation currently under construction. Covered in sawdust and equipped with the latest, um, beards, Gustav and crew were working on their pieces for a two-apartment combination project in Midtown Manhattan.
For an upcoming workplace project outside of RDU airport, Pliskin Architecture has teamed up with Bull City Designs (BCD) to develop several custom pieces that will anchor the fit-out of the offices. The signature piece will be the focal point of the employee break room, visible from most corners of the office, and allowing over… Read more »
Powering through logistical challenges, and trying to avoid construction crews at all costs, we installed a camera on site at Phase II of the tech office headquarters in midtown to capture the organized chaos! We missed the first few weeks as the painting of the ceiling could have done some serious damage to our camera…. Read more »
Not all clients are created equal. Specifically when it comes to visualizing a design before it is built. Plans, sections and other architectural projections describe space in almost clinical terms. 2D renderings, as advanced as they can be, are always flat, and almost always exaggerated – they can be a simplified and optimistic expression of our… Read more »