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In order to accommodate its rapidly-growing membership, the Mount Sinai Jewish Center, recently completed a major renovation to the Washington Heights location it has called home since 1959 (though its history in the neighborhood spans more than a century). In addition to structural repairs, the lower level was completely renovated with a number of improvements […]

For years, Core77 has produced an online guide for Design Week in New York. And even though they have been exclusively online since their inception (way back in 1995), they announced an ambitious experiment for their 2014 guide by choosing a format that many had assumed was dead: print. For four days in May during […]

For their design for the New Doctorate’s Building on the University City of Bogotá campus of the National University Of Colombia, we were asked by Steven Holl Architects to fabricate a site model. The “inside-out” concept driving the design called for a large site model to help demonstrate the relationship between the building and the […]

For this project, we were approached by graphic design studio MTWTF to fabricate a rather unusual sign they were designing for Red Bull Studios. MTWTF had worked with Red Bull before, designing a version of their iconic logo made up of thousands of sheets of laser cut paper for the Red Bull Music Academy. Located […]

This basswood site model was fabricated for Steven Holl’s Glassell School of Art project at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In order to accommodate the design’s subterranean features, the CNC routed basswood surface was attached to a basswood-lined plywood box below. The box would allow the model to show off the tunnel connecting the […]

Architects Seth McDowell and Rychiee Espinosa founded their practice mcdowellespinosa in 2010 with the goal of transforming “waste, excess, and the ordinary into new spatial and material realities.” In 2015, they were selected os one of the six winners of the the prestigious Architectural League Prize. Winners of the prize present their work in lectures […]

This large basswood site model was fabricated for Steven Holl Architects to use with their projects for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. As part of the museum’s campus redevelopment plan, Steven Holl designed two buildings: the new Glassell School of Art and the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building. Across from both the Caroline Wiess […]

Lawn darts. If you are old enough to remember them, you are probably aware of why the sharp-tipped projectile toys were banned from sale in the United States in the 1980s. Mostly relegated to memory and horror stories, countless dusty sets surely linger within the garages of those who wanted the Consumer Product Safety Commission […]

After covering the walls of our office with pegboard panels to hold materials and tools, we decided to use the remaining material for our sign. We were able to laser cut our logo from the 1/4″ pegboard, which was backed with a sheet of 1/8″ orange acrylic. We saved both the letters and the loose […]

The Urban-est was designed by Snohetta as a nest/birdhouse that could fit within the hollows of a standard masonry block. The prototype was developed for the Design Trust for Public Space’s 2009 Annual Benefit auction. The exterior surface was comprised of laser-cut 1/8″ birch and acrylic layers built up into a topography creating perches and […]

This project was the result of a cross-disciplinary studio based on the relationship between music and architecture. György Ligeti’s “Concerto for Violin and Orchestra” served as the inspiration for the design of the building. While incorporating many themes from Ligeti’s Concerto, the project focuses on the distinction between the sounds of the violin and the […]

This model was laser cut and assembled for a client in need of a topographic site model. The drawings for the model were provided by the client as a Rhino file with the sections cut through a three-dimensional model. These layers were each cut from sheets of 0.022″ thick recycled chipboard and built up on […]

This installation at 350 Bowery in New York City served as the setting for a pop-up exhibition curated by the editors of Core77 showcasing the work of 35 designers from all across the City. The exhibition, titled “All City All Stars,” featured designers picked by Core77 in an attempt to “survey the landscape of all […]

The Cultivated City was an exhibit prepared for Columbia University’s End of Year Architecture Show. The installation displayed the work of the students in Marc Tsurumaki and Marc Kushner’s Spring 2008 architecture studio. The installation occupied a busy corridor in Columbia’s Avery Hall and was comprised of a faceted pegboard wall of displaying student work […]

Inspired by the 16th-century wattle & daub building technique, our team produced a sustainable curtain wall panel system combining modern and medieval construction methods. The pre-fabricated frames are filled on site with waste from the building process. Sawdust, wood chips, and other scraps are mixed in with a binding agent to form the daub. This […]