https://www.oa-ny.com/projects daily 0.75 2025-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e7a9b31f318dbe8a2c7509/931d800b-7499-4dfb-8de9-23834da5f633/Screenshot+2025-09-25+at+6.18.16%E2%80%AFPM.png Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e7a9b31f318dbe8a2c7509/e17d46e6-2c9a-4f72-8a07-bf00ff31519b/2025-02-25+OA.+5th+st1638.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e7a9b31f318dbe8a2c7509/7d05fa87-abc2-4d2e-af4e-cc5c0e304755/Screenshot+2025-09-25+at+6.21.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e7a9b31f318dbe8a2c7509/1508445430342-P0MQ5AQSD6HJLD7RCX2L/image-asset.jpeg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e7a9b31f318dbe8a2c7509/1508355780481-6IAMGD53NRB9GUDNO4NS/sfw_01.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e7a9b31f318dbe8a2c7509/1508364220016-1MI81U8FOI0XKXCTUR32/sfw_02b.jpg Projects - Portland Proscenium DRAMA, PRAGMATISM AND THE PROMISE OF I-405. “As I was walking that ribbon of highway, I saw above me that endless skyway: I saw below me that golden valley: This land was made for you and me.” Woody Guthrie, This Land is Your Land, 1945. Though easy to dismiss as a cold, brutal, and underused resource, we prefer to see the underside of I-405 as a near-great architectural asset. Virtually thirty feet in height, capped by a concrete ceiling, and lit with a crack of natural light, the space is almost heroic. Its current status as an active weekday parking lot only partially taps its potential as a versatile urban room. What is needed here is a strategy of relatively simple aesthetic improvements and programmatic rethinking that will leverage the highway’s existing formal and functional features in order to transform its underbelly into a dynamic public hall. Using multiple layers of full-height sheer and acoustical blackout curtains hung from I-405’s edge, our proposal looks to elegantly wrap and emphatically claim the void underneath. The sliding drapes manipulate light, views, and sound while providing a strong visual identity from the interior and exterior. Conserving the current weekday parking function in this new enclosure is important as it maintains a useful resource for those who work in the Pearl District and the NW Alphabet neighborhood. Upgrading the existing ground surface with a polished concrete finish – in conjunction with the curtains – elevates the everyday act of car storage into a ritual less ordinary. Moreover, on weeknights and weekends when empty of cars, the revamped floor plane serves as a large, flat, flexible urban stage for other activities. The stage, together with the drapes, can be configured to achieve a range of atmospheres and support a variety of programs. Nightclub, restaurant, market, soup kitchen, church, and theater can pop in and out to serve as temporal local amenities. Years of ignoring the latent opportunities on this site has condemned I-405 to be perceived as an urban mistake – an infrastructure that ruthlessly divides cities and neighborhoods. Yet this notion can be reversed by recognizing that a ribbon of concrete designed to move cars can be just as productive and dynamic below as it is above. Harnessing its inherent strengths, both spatially and programmatically, will help finally fulfill the architectural promise of the interstate as more than just a vehicle-mover, but also a dramatic civic venue for people. Project Specs: Architect: Office of Architecture; Team: Aniket Shahane, Principal; Ivan Kostic, Valentin Bansac https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e7a9b31f318dbe8a2c7509/1508783030796-TTLQWRLW0CTIGDWEEUG9/DSC_6961.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e7a9b31f318dbe8a2c7509/1508783210216-CUHNY8G6ZGDO6TXZ2A9C/Image.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e7a9b31f318dbe8a2c7509/1535142534483-YS6602U49NBF0OFMOQWA/DSC_2187.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e7a9b31f318dbe8a2c7509/1508442634445-S5BUR8W16NKLSEUAHU4L/02.jpg Projects - Gowanus Field Station The pressures Gowanus currently faces – economic, cultural, morphological, and ecological – are both significant and haphazard. As a ‘‘field station’’, our project is not only a place which can be used to craft an urban strategy to address these forces, it is an embodiment of the strategy itself, which focuses on three of Gowanus’s most notable characteristics: its variety of flexible building typologies, its rich and diverse collection of programs/uses and its scarcity of iconic architectural landmarks. RECOGNIZE AND UNITE. Gowanus is already a collection of rich and varied businesses and flexible building typologies. Leveraging this neighborhood strength, our proposal for an ‘‘urban field station’’ does not call for a new building. Rather, it posits that the field station program – exhibits, academic space, workspace, auditorium, and recreation – already exists in the current physical and economic field of Gowanus. It simply needs to be knit together logistically. We see the urban field station as a flexible alliance of local businesses that share their space and time for the purposes of serving as a community center. The field station works as a collection of existing buildings on a neighborhood campus, meeting the physical requirements of the program, while simultaneously cultivating a strong bond between local businesses and the Gowanus community. REPRESENT. New York is a city of icons. The Empire State Building, World Trade Center, and the Statue of Liberty are all material representations of a civic ethos. Gowanus can contribute to New York’s legacy of postcard-worthy icons with its own architectural landmark. Reassembling the recently dismantled ‘‘Kentile Floors’’ sign letters along the axis of the Gowanus Canal is a proposal similar in spirit to the idea of the field station itself. Not only will it bring back a meaningful neighborhood icon in a new way, it will also serve as a powerful reflection of Gowanus’s identity as a neighborhood: vibrant, diverse, gritty, and resilient. Project Specs: Architect: Office of Architecture; Team: Aniket Shahane, Principal; Ivan Kostic, Valentin Bansac Awards/Publications: Featured in Urban Omnibus article Featured in Bustler Axis Civitas Competition, Honorable Mention https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e7a9b31f318dbe8a2c7509/1649183354227-GZ5HWAD3ZPQJFIG658EY/OANY_WaterMill_1016.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e7a9b31f318dbe8a2c7509/1728070556356-CEUTNPXBCUN027TLMTGZ/OANY_209_11th_0141.jpg Projects - Gowanus Facade At a time when older, smaller buildings in Gowanus are being demolished to make newer and bigger ones during a period of rapid neighborhood transformation, all this older and smaller building needed was a facelift. Having lived for decades in this 2-family house – a wood-frame structure built in the early 1900s – our clients had slowly over time renovated the interiors on their own in a manner that worked well for them. What they needed was not a 'gut renovation', but a 'skin renovation'. Neither the front facade of the house, which consisted of old aluminum siding and windows, nor its brick stoop were in good shape. Working with existing conditions in combination with zinc, steel, oak, and concrete, OA completely renovated the front face of the house. Standing seam zinc has been detailed to create deep openings for the new aluminum clad casement windows, as well as to provide a front awning. Entry is announced by a solid oak front door located at the top of the steel and concrete stoop steps. The side of the stoop is clad in oak slats that both hide and vent the storage area beyond. The final result does much more than improve the house's curb appeal. It is an example of how a building's transformation, however modest, when accomplished carefully and thoughtfully, can contribute to the character of the street on which it stands and the history of the neighborhood in which it takes part. Project Specs: Architect: OA: Aniket Shahane, Principal; Parker Elliott. Contractor: Black Square Builders Structural Engineer: Blue Sky Design Expeditor: James Anzalone Photography: Rafael Gamo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e7a9b31f318dbe8a2c7509/1742597889813-X3413LYW823QBN126CUE/OANY_RowHouse1%282-1%29_0156.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e7a9b31f318dbe8a2c7509/1742600140458-9RC0OKLPF6NGC0XNRS3H/OANY_405A_0660.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e7a9b31f318dbe8a2c7509/1741898324296-5FUA6WM5J1OKQ9WOLCDY/2025-02-25+OA.+5th+st1638.jpg Projects Not all renovations require a gut. For this project, our clients approached us with one primary goal: to open their 1st floor to the rear garden with a new deck and a giant set of doors. We took this as an opportunity to examine not only the first floor and its relationship to the garden, but the possibility for all three floors of this 100-year-old, detached 2-family house to support and enhance the day to day lives of their family. In the end, the project was less a complete overhaul, and more a curated set of interventions informed by design studies and conversations about what to keep, what to remove, and what to build anew. The garden floor was completely reconfigured to include a new mudroom / entry, a new larger interior stair that leads to the first floor, a guest bedroom, a full bathroom, and a rec room / office space with an outdoor covered porch. The 1st floor was left as an open plan but reorganized to locate the kitchen in the front and the living in the rear. The 2nd floor was left as-is with three bedrooms and two bathrooms that we supplemented with added storage in all bedrooms, together with new materials, fixtures, and lighting in the bathroom. On the exterior, the front facade received a new front stoop and front door, as well as a new entry to the garden level via a set of landscape steps and planter. The rear facade was completely redone with new casement windows on the second floor, along with the clients' initial request for a large set of accordion doors on the first floor that open to a new deck and sliding doors on the garden level leading to a new covered patio below the deck. The strategy to selectively renovate applied to the material choices as well. On the first and second floors, the existing oak flooring was reused but with a new ebony stain, providing a darker visual grounding to the interiors. This was the foundation for many of the new material choices: slate flooring, walnut millwork, and a textured black schist with dramatic veining provide a visual richness in the rec room of the garden level; black glass wall tiles laid vertically to meet a new sculptural skylight accentuate the spa-like feel of the upstairs bathroom; and, on the exterior, knotty cedar cladding on the rear facade, together with a black steel deck, stairs and railings help extend the interiors out to the garden. Project Specs: Architect: OA: Aniket Shahane, Principal; Mia Voevodsky, Parker Elliott General Contractor: Sze Yeung; 360 GC Structural Engineer: Joe K Blum Code Consultant / Expeditor: James Anzalone Photography: Matthew Williams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e7a9b31f318dbe8a2c7509/1728070014032-VJ0SL999IDECTQR7C0ZJ/2024-07-07+OA.+Quincy+st74375.jpg Projects - Quincy House Built in the late 1800s, this house had seen its share of neglect, and quick fixes. Joists had been cut to accommodate pipes; floors were bouncy and crooked; bricks in the walls were loose and crumbling. Our clients – a pair of design-savvy small business owners with a young son – had tried multiple times on their own to correct the architectural wrongs they inherited when they moved into the house. And while their attempts at renovating were valiant, they also proved to be overwhelming. OA was hired to help the clients re-imagine the house in a way that would serve them well for many years to come. In the process, they requested we use a variety of materials that went unused in their previous renovation attempts including a beautiful collection of handmade moss green Heath tiles. Additionally, they also asked us to create more considered relationships between the house and a collection of furniture, light fixtures, and artwork that they had acquired over the years: a handmade fibre chandelier, an oak dining table, and an armoire, among others. We thought about ways to incorporate these pieces such that they were in quiet dialogue with the interiors. The Heath tile, for example, became the building block for the entire material palette of the bathroom. The dining table and chandelier, on the other hand, informed the sculpted ceiling of the parlor level – anchoring the dining area in an open floor plan, while also incorporating plumbing and mechanical lines. The house was completely reorganized to facilitate the client's growing family, visiting guests, and need to work from home. The garden level is now set up to be an everyday entry that contains an urban mudroom, along with a guest bedroom, guest bathroom, and Rec Room. The parlor level acts as an alternative entry with an open floor for living, dining, and kitchen. The top floor is an efficiently organized level that includes 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a home office. The entire house is connected vertically via a new stair that is capped with an oculus and a rebuilt stair niche. The movement through the house alternates between rooms that are a tranquil backdrop for the client's objects to those that are dramatic in their use of materials, texture, and natural light. Project Specs: Architect: OA: Aniket Shahane, Principal; Parker Elliott Contractor: 360 GC – Sze Yeung Structural Engineer: Blue Sky Design Expeditor: James Anzalone Photography: Matthew Williams Press: Featured in The New York Times - “At First, It Was Just ‘Livable’. 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