This project represents the culmination of Partner Adam Kushner’s dream of a fully integrated design/build/development paradigm. Its deeply philosophical narrative draws from the project’s historical context of a house sitting over the mythical Minetta Brook. The crossing trees found in front of the home forming a Gothic archway fronting Minetta Street inspired the other defining narrative structure played out in the building’s newly inserted facade. Looking both forwards and backward, the stacked chord wood pile, so much the staple of our rural landscape, and once part of this site’s history, becomes reintegrated again as a reflective screen seen in the living room. The inceptive design moment occurred as the partner was cutting away a tree that had fallen post-Super Storm Sandy combined with an ad hoc game of hide and seek he was having with his children. Somewhere in all of this, he provided a wonderful place to shelter his family for the foreseeable future.
Architect Kushner Studios
Program
5,100 SF
vertical enlargement, five bedrooms, four bathrooms, living spaces, guest house, front/rear courtyards, rooftop kitchen, 83’ indoor/outdoor climbing wall, seven working fireplaces, seasonal solarium, sauna, and jacuzzi.
Contract Price $2,450,000
WHAT
Gut renovation
WHERE
Greenwich, New York City
WHEN
2020