Adapts an industrial icon
into a cultural campus.
SILO CITY
Silo City is a vision for the adaptive reuse
of the largest collection of grain elevators
in the world into an arts and cultural campus
on the Buffalo River. The design for Silo City
tells the extraordinary story of the grain
elevators and their role in history, industry,
arts, and architecture by supporting both
grass roots and internationally renowned
arts and cultural institutions and local artists.
It is supported by sustainable development
including commercial, residential and
hospitality that grow out of the themes,
architecture, and history of this site.
Converts edges
into centers
EMPIRE STORES
Empire Stores, a series of Civil War-era
coffee warehouses abandoned for over
a half-century on the Brooklyn waterfront,
formed a barrier isolating the community
from its waterfront. The award-winning
design features a dramatic public courtyard
slicing through the building, reuniting
community and waterfront, combining old
and new, and adding a Waterfront Museum
and rooftop Public Park.
Creates new visions
for public parks
The Tanks at Bushwick Inlet Park
Currently an abandoned and polluted
tank farm, STUDIO V is transforming
the waterfront site into a new model
for park design: repurposing industrial
artifacts to create resilient and innovative
public spaces. The design reinvents the
site’s history, transforming ten former oil
tanks into interconnected gardens,
performance spaces, art installations, and
an oyster growing habitat.
Transforms a factory
into dining destination
Morimoto ASIA
Once an unpromising industrial shed,
STUDIO V transformed this space into
a soaring 500 seat restaurant for
internationally renowned “Iron Chef”
Masaharu Morimoto. This award-winning
design features vertically overlapping
dining spaces, bars, outdoor terraces, and
lounges unified by one of the longest
continuous bars in the world: the 270-foot
digitally fabricated “ribbon bar.”
Reconnects waterfronts
and communities
Halletts Point
Halletts Point consisted of vacant
warehouses and crumbling factories
until STUDIO V’s urban designs
began transforming it into a dynamic
mixed use community. Innovative
designs for five clients integrate new
affordable and luxury housing, social
housing infill, public schools, waterfront
parks, a blackwater treatment plant,
water taxi, and set new standards for
resiliency for NYC.
Defines new forms
for new uses
Yonkers Raceway
An extraordinary wooden pavilion graced
Yonkers “Hilltop Racetrack” before being
tragically demolished in the 1970s.
STUDIO V’s architecture reinvents this
historic structure through contemporary
form, structure, materials, and lighting.
A dramatic steel grid-shell grows from the
hillside to contrasting an architecture of
perforated zinc and curved facade of
suspended glass.
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