The archive.
Twelve buildings,
quietly.

A 1903 leather tannery being converted into three loft residences with a shared courtyard. The challenge: a heavy-timber frame riddled with century-old lye damage and a façade under landmark review since 2018.

A full gut renovation of a two-floor maisonette inside an 1849 row that had been broken into six SROs in the 1970s. We are returning it to a single dwelling without losing the layered patina that the previous tenants left behind.

A small community bindery and letterpress workshop being inserted into the rear yard of a Carnegie-era branch library. The brief was simple: do not announce yourself; let the new room read as a quiet companion to the old one.

A 1908 cast-iron foundry returned to a single-family dwelling, with the original travelling crane left in place above the kitchen. The hardest decision was structural: how much of the steel to expose, and how much to wrap, given thermal performance and noise transfer between bedrooms.

A full restoration of an 1886 Italianate brownstone — including the parlor cornice, the rear yard wall, and the original gas-line millwork in the kitchen. We replaced almost nothing visible; the budget went into hidden work, framing repairs and waterproofing.

A two-bedroom garden-floor apartment renovated for a writer working from home. The site challenge was light: with a north-facing yard and a 4-foot grade drop, almost every surface was specified in white-washed pine to draw the limited daylight further inside.

A 4,200-square-foot wine bar inside a former carriage house, with the hayloft door reused as a service hatch to the kitchen. The job came with a strict acoustic brief from the neighbours — three party walls, two of them landmarked, all needing isolation.

A quiet 1,800-square-foot reading room added to a 1922 Carnegie branch. The new volume is set seven feet below the existing floor, so its roofline does not crest the cornice; from the street, almost nothing has changed.

A landmarked 22-foot-wide townhouse, restored at the front and reconfigured at the rear. We added a single new opening in the back wall — a tall, narrow window above the stair — and otherwise kept every existing aperture exactly as we found it.

A rear addition tucked entirely behind a landmarked façade so as to be invisible from the street. The roof of the addition steps once, mid-volume, to keep its ridge below the cornice line of the neighbouring rowhouse.

A working horse barn converted into a writer's studio and a sleeping loft for a family of three. We retained the dirt floor in the central bay as a covered courtyard between the two heated volumes — heating the in-between would have meant gutting too much of the timber.

A 690-square-foot one-bedroom inside a pre-war co-op, refitted for a museum curator who wanted no closed doors except at the bath. We built three full-height millwork walls instead — the rooms are defined by joinery, not partitions.