Chinatown Nights Cultural Festival at Forsyth Plaza for Summer 2021

Think!Chinatown hosts a monthly cultural festival at Forsyth Plaza for Summer 2021. Working through the Neighborhoods Now initiative sponsored by Van Alen Institute and Urban Design Forum, LSS partnered with Asian Americans for Equality, Think!Chinatown, di Domenico + Partners, and Buro Happold to design and develop the monthly open-air program to support local vendors, showcase local artists, and activate underutilized public space in neighborhoods hard-hit by COVID-19. Future programming will include live public performances, art installations, and food from neighborhood restaurants.

LSS Interiors invited to participate in the Galerie House of Art and Design

Leroy Street Studio Interiors is taking part in the Galerie House of Art and Design, debuting August 7th in Sag Harbor, New York. 

Sunset Park Library wins 2021 AIA/ALA Library Building Design Award

Leroy Street received an AIA National Library Building Design Award for its recently-completed Sunset Park Library, a derelict courthouse transformed to house one of the busiest, most culturally diverse branch libraries in the BPL system.

LSS Architect Kate Bedford presents Curbside Dining Pavilions at AIANY Interiors Committee's annual Speed Presentations

The pavilions were created in collaboration with students from The Living City Project's CityLab program and long-time restaurateur-friends Charlie Bird and Pasquale Jones.Click photo above to watch Kate explain the design process.

LSS joins team for Neighborhoods Now iniative set in Chinatown

LSS is excited to be working with community partners Asian Americans for Equality and Think!Chinatown for the 2021 Neighborhoods Now initiative organized by Van Alen Institute and Urban Design Forum.

Spring 2021 Wrap-Up

Read the latest newsletter to catch up on what's new in the world of Leroy Street Studio.

Ocean Home names LSS to top 50 Coastal Architects for 2020

LSS is grateful to be a part of this year's OH50!

LSS featured in Archinect's Studio Snapshot

Archinect interviewed LSS Partners, Marc Turkel, Morgan Hare, and Shawn Watts, about engagement and inclusivity in the firm's founding, studio culture and design values.

Sweet Rehab featured online in Architectural Digest's Clever

LSS Interiors collaborated with Rue D'Arch to transform this historic storefront in Soho into a artisinal french patisserie.

LSS speaks about art + community at Yale's Road Trip Symposium

LSS joined the conversation of What About Learning?: The Road Trip Symposium on 22nd, 25th + 26th of September. The three sessions on alternative models of learning welcomed a wide-ranging panel of international speakers to share diverse thoughts on dispersed knowledge sharing as a spatial practice in the expanded field. The sessions were structured around the themes of pedagogy, activism and art + community, with contributions from educations, practitioners and provocateurs working in varied contexts.

ArchRecord shares working from home experiences of architectural community including LSS and industry peers

As the architecture industry transisitons to new ways of working and collaborating, we too have taken action to adpat to a new normal. Our red construction van was used to deliver monitors and supplies to our employees around the city, and our current participatory design student workshop is moving to video conferencing.

LSS named to Architectural Digest's top 100 for 2020

LSS is grateful to be a part of this year's AD100!

LSS Interiors interviewed in Elle Decor Italia

Elle Decor Italia interviewed LSS Interiors Director, Sybille Schneider, about our collaborative process and what she hopes the spaces of tomorrow will be like.

Center for Urban Pedagogy announces their Making Policy Public collaborations at LSS

CUP announces their Making Policy Public collaborations at LSS. Over the next year they will be working with these incredible advocates and designers to create visual explanations of complicated policy issues.

Architectural League's mentorship program visits LSS's collaborative space

LSS welcomed architecture undergraduate and graduate students from City College of NY and New York City College of Technology who are participating in the Architectural League's inaugural year of a collaborative mentorship program. Students and their mentors enjoyed presentations from our various areas of practice - architecture, interiors, design-build and community participatory design.

LSS-designed East Village Homes Breaks Ground

Thrilled to announce that the affordable housing project we've partnered with Asian Amercans for Equality (AAFE) to design and build broke ground on Friday, November 15th, 2019!

LSS hosts community design workshop for Sunset Park teens

Exposing students to the design process, LSS mentored each using their own artwork through Center for Family Life's Life Lines youth development program.

LSS-designed Environmental Center included in Women-Designed NYC

LSS-designed Alley Pond Environmental Center, led by senior architect Lesli Stinger, was included in Women-Designed NYC, a publication that focuses on women-led projects awarded by the Public Design Commision over the past ten years.

LSS invited to BIM & Design Futures Roundtable in Stockholm

LSS's BIM Manager, Peter Koncz, was invited to the Bricsys 2019 Conference in Stockholm, where he particpated in a roundtable that focused on the future of BIM & design.

LSS participates in Archtober's Pumpkintecture Carving Competition

Pumpkin carving team, Leroy Spooky Scary, made an 'Adaptive Reuse' Pumpkin Reduction Mousse that took home the Hannibal Lecter Pathetic Consolation (Honorable Mention)! Every part of our pumpkin was used in a new inventive way in our dish/design. It reflects our firm's baking culture and obsession with process.

LSS participates in Archtober Panel: Transforming Brooklyn's Libraries through Design

LSS partner, Shawn Watts, spoke on Archtober Panel discussing how architecture is amplifying the incredible work of Brooklyn Public Library (BPL). Panelists including Karen Fairbanks (Marble Fairbanks), Carol Loewenson (Mitchell Girugola), Brad Samuels (SITU) and David Giles (BPL), shared groundbreaking projects that are transfoming local libraries.

Sunset Park Library awarded 2019 MASterworks Award

BPL's Sunset Park Interim Library wins Municipal Art Society's prestigious award for Best Adaptive Reuse

Louver House published in Phaidon's Houses: Extraordinary Living

LSS honored with the inclusion of Louver House in Houses: Extraordinary Living, Phaidon's exploration of the world's most innovative and influential architect-designed houses since the early 20th century.

LSS named to Architectural Digest's top 100 for 2019

LSS is honored to be included in such a distinguished group for the eigth consecutive year

Dune House featured in Galerie Magazine

Jacqueline Terrebonne features LSS's recently completed Dune House in Galerie Magazine's summer issue.

Shore House wins Excellence in Architecture Award

AIA Long Island presents LSS / BLDG / Interiors with an Excellence in Architecture Award for the Shore House

Hill House featured online in Dwell

Hill House featured in online Dwell article highlighting the home's sensitivity to it's serene site.

New York Times features Cube House

The New York Times features the LSS / BLDG designed-and-built retreat in their Sunday issue (June 24, 2018).

Pier 42 included as case study in community design publication, Resilience for All

Barbara Brown Wilson features Pier 42 as one of four case studies in her book about equitable change through community-driven design. All proceeds from book will go to the community organizations featured in the book, including New York City's GOLES. Click image to purchase. 

90 Morton St. featured in Architectural Digest

Transformation of industrial 1911 printing factory into 35-unit condo building featured in June 2018. 

LSS-designed library opens to public

The BPL Sunset Park Interim Branch will serve its community with flexible multipurpose spaces and continued programming during construction of the new permanent branch.

Shore House wins SARA | National Design Award of Honor

LSS / BLDG / Interiors wins an Award of Honor from the Society of American Registered Architects at the 2018 National Design Awards program.

Oak Grove House featured in Luxe

"Reverence for nature and sleek modern design create a bucolic family home in Coral Gables."

HST awarded Curry Stone Design Prize

This prestigious prize honors orgnizations with an innovative approach to social design practice.

Shore House wins SARA | NY Design Award of Excellence

LSS / BLDG / Interiors win award from the Society of American Registered Architects of New York. 

Louver House published in Phaidon's new release

LSS honored with the inclusion of Louver House in Wood, Phaidon's exploration of the world's best timber architecture

LSS joins ArchLeague roundtable discussion

LSS joined other Lower East Side architects for a discussion and mapping exercise regarding avoidance

Named to Luxe's Gold List 2019

LSS has been included in Luxe Magazine's select guide of designers

Shore House featured in Architectural Digest

Bluff-side home covered in February 2017 issue

LSS among Architectural Digest's top 100 for 2017

Sixth consecutive year on AD100 list

HSC selected to create NYC's first Cultural Plan

NYC Department of Cultural Affairs selects Hester Street Collaborative to create New York City's first-ever compehensive Cultural Plan

Bay House featured in Dezeen

Cedar clad house on timber piles featured in July 2017

The AD100 2016 list

LSS included with distinguished group

Robin Hood Libraries featured in Architectural Digest

"Starting Small: Imagine How Public Architecture Gives Back", April 2015

HSC among distinguished non-profits awarded the prestigious Citibank grant

HSC awarded $500,000 Citi Foundation's Community Progress Makers Fund

West Village Townhouse in Elle Decor

Featured on May 2014 cover

LSS office included in World-Architects online

Storefront office connects LSS and HSC with Chinatown neighborhood

HSC, LSS, and Pier 42 featured in Urban Omnibus

Pier 42 converted into a public parkland

LSS featured on cover of Luxe

"Perfect Pairing", Volume 11, Issue 1 

Charlie Bird featured in AD online blog

LSS helps create a highly-textured, crafted, new culinary hot spot

Architectural Digest

Pond House featured in May 2012 issue

Making of Paths to Pier 42: An Interview with LSS

Bay House featured in February 2011 issue of AD

Environmentally-conscious home embraces surrounding wetlands

Louver House on ArchDaily

Featured in December 2011

Stone Houses highlighted on ArchDaily

Family compound uses heavily wrought stone walls to knit multiple homes together