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338 Berry: the rooftop penthouse addition, with the Williamsburg Bridge behind

Drawn in Brooklyn.
Built in New York.

Architecture and interiors for buildings, townhouses and apartments. From the first line to the finished room.

338 Berry, Williamsburg. A penthouse on a former noodle factory.Soho Townhouse. A landmarked facade from 1827, restored.

Selected work

The sculptural plaster stair in the Brooklyn Heights townhouse

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Brooklyn Heights Townhouse

A turn-of-the-century brownstone, transformed inside around one stair: wood treads rising within a seamless, hand-troweled plaster balustrade.

Interiors. Completed 2024.

11 Essex Street, a slender building clad in porcelain tile on the Lower East Side

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11 Essex Street

A narrow Lower East Side lot. Full-floor homes with light from east and west, behind a rain screen of angular Spanish porcelain.

Mixed-use building. 7 units, 16,000 sq ft. In construction.

The Lenox Hill townhouse as approved, with a new limestone facade and mansard roof The same townhouse before, with a plain stucco front

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Lenox Hill Townhouse

The plain stucco front had lost its brownstone detail. We drew a new limestone facade, and Landmarks approved a complete replacement.

Single-family townhouse. 9,120 sq ft. Architecture and interiors.

Old Westbury house from the garden: brick and charred wood, large glass, a pool

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Old Westbury

A dated 12,525 sq ft house on Long Island, stripped to its foundations and drawn again: Danish brick, charred wood, a double-height living room and a terrace over an infinity-edge pool.

6 bedrooms, 8 baths. In construction.

Twenty-three projects, every one drawn here first.

Buildings, houses and apartments across New York. Each name opens the project on our current site.

How we work

It's a conversation.
We set the goals together with you, and find the heart of the project in that dialogue.
Welcome the impossible.
New York has rules for everything. We treat them as material for the design.
Tech minded, forward thinking.
BIM and project management software to study more options and keep quality from start to finish.
Jason Allen
Jason AllenPrincipal, practising since 1998
Lisa WM Chow
Lisa WM ChowPrincipal, practising since 2000

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98 Fourth Street, Suite 401
Brooklyn, NY 11231
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