50 North Greeley is the proposed redevelopment of a long-vacant parcel in the heart of Chappaqua, New York. Planned as a mixed-use, transit-oriented development, the building will utilize a wide range of regenerative materials, on-site energy generation, passive environmental design, and mass timber structural systems in tandem with ecological urban strategies to produce a convivial, accessible, and Net Zero Energy building. The project will include 45 residential apartments, ground floor retail spaces along the North Greeley corridor, and a number of landscaped courtyards and public spaces.

As New Haven’s economy has improved in recent years and as the city center has attracted more residents, New Haven has come up short on housing stock, achieving a vacancy rate among the lowest in the country and, subsequently, elevated rents in a growing area around downtown. We believe it is critical for new affordable and attainable housing developments to not only provide economically viable alternatives to an increasingly inaccessible residential rental market, but to create safe, beautiful, and healthy dwellings that are integrated into the local community. 

Spanning 7.5 miles between Cold Spring and Beacon, NY, the Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail is a new multi-modal linear park created by Scenic Hudson along the Hudson River. The trail, with landscape architecture by Scape and buildings and structures by Gray Organschi, will provide visitors with expansive views across the river, as well as access to the region's complex system of waterways, wetlands, highlands and forests. 

The Breakneck Bridge, designed by Gray Organschi in collaboration with structural engineering firm Fast + Epp, serves as a critical point of connection along the Fjord Trail, crossing over the Metro North Railroad tracks and sloping gently toward the riverbank, where it joins the southerly reach of the river's edge trail. Conceived primarily as a pedestrian path, the bridge also provides previously unavailable emergency vehicular access to the riverside stretch of the trail.

New Haven’s Ninth Square district has beena locus of industry, culture, and design for centuries. Through the adaptation of a historic masonry building and an innovative expansion with mass timber construction technologies, ACME Lofts will integrate contemporary architectural design and environmentally sensitive building practices into the historic, industrial fabric of New Haven’s city center.

ACME Lofts embraces New England’s rich manufacturing heritage and the extensive forest systems that surround its urban centers. By developing a unique timber construction solution ideal for historic city centers, ACME offers a model for future development in which mass timber structural systems, and the sustainable forestry practices and material science that support them, create a new synergy between dense cities, healthy forests, and a thriving industrial economy based in wood.

Our office was tasked with designing a residence for a couple and their family that occupies an extremely limited buildable area due to a confluence of zoning setbacks. The final massing responds to these site constraints by molding itself along these setbacks, producing two gabled structures oriented towards important views of the surrounding landscape. A lap pool between the buildings acts as a focal point for the primary outdoor space as well as providing privacy between the 4-bedroom main house and a separate guest house with wellness studio.

Our clients asked us to renovate their lakeside retreat in upstate New York, creating a vacation home appropriate for three generations. We focused on maximizing living space within the existing structure, increasing the overall square footage with a modest 450 SF addition, and providing unobstructed views to the nearby lake. The addition of skylights and large expanses of glazing allowed us to orient the primary living spaces and a new screened porch towards the lake to the south and west, while the house’s secondary spaces look east towards the rest of the wooded property.

Our clients approached us to design their forever home in the hills of Old Lyme for their young and growing family. Perched on high ground, the site features lichen-covered ledge outcroppings, diverse woodlands, and broad views to the Lieutenant River and the Long Island Sound. We situated the house at the forest edge to capture intimate views of forest and ledge outcroppings to the north as well as panoramic views to the river valley and sound to the south. The linear sequencing of the plan creates a series of reveals and moments with the dynamic landscape that surrounds the house.

The project also includes the design of a small sewing studio tucked away in the forest. The studio repurposes an existing timber frame structure into an open, light-filled workspace.

Starlight Park, occupying a narrow sliver of land located between the Sheridan Parkway and the Bronx River, is now a vibrant community space primarily serving the neighborhood of Fairmont-Claremont Village to its west.  In addition the Bronx River Greenway, a continuous 23 mile bike and pedestrian path, runs along the eastern edge of Starlight Park thereby making it accessible to a much larger population. The Park includes a playground with extensive play equipment and landform mounds for children to run and roll on; a full-size soccer field with two baseball fields included within its boundaries; the Bronx River Greenway; and a future boathouse at its south end.

The clients for this project returned to GOA for an addition to their house, built by the office nearly 20 years ago. Working from home during the pandemic prompted our clients’ desire to add dedicated office space to the house. They also wanted additional living space to meet the needs of visiting children and grandchildren. The addition is integrated into the house’s existing planning and circulation, utilizing the footprint of the garage’s flat roof to provide a new guest suite and office space on the second floor. Though most of the rooms in the house look north to a lake through the woods, the addition is orientated to project over a nearby ledge, bringing into focus a seldom experienced part of the surrounding woods.

Our clients for the Candlewood House returned to GOA and asked us to design a new outbuilding close to the main house. The new cottage contains an office for remote work and a gym. The structure nestles into the hillside, using rising grade to elevate it above the main house. The gym on the lower level takes on the axis and orientation of the main house, creating an outdoor court between the two structures, while the office above rotates to provide uninterrupted views of the lake and the rolling hills to the northeast.

Our clients, a photographer and a writer, approached us to renovate and expand a house originally designed by Joseph Salerno as his own residence. It was important to all that the house maintain its original aesthetic and spatial character. The house now includes an additional bedroom and bath; we also reorganized the primary living and sleeping spaces in a pinwheel configuration around a curved pod containing two baths. A new den extends into an existing courtyard, contributing to a sense of outdoor living that carries throughout the project.

The IDEAS Children’s Center campus is a new construction project consisting of a 20,000 SF building serving 200 children, aged 2-6. Situated on approximately 5 acres in Virginia, the preschool prototype is a 1-story building that contains 10 studios, staff offices and lounge, a large multipurpose room, an entrance and reception area, and furnished hallways to accommodate student activities. The project is intended to serve as a prototype for future preschool campus developments in the Mid-Atlantic region.