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Verona Carpenter Architects

Award-winning architecture and interiors practice in NYC

02/19/2026

Excited to share that we are starting construction on the restoration and renewal of Wu Hall, the administrative, dining, and social center of Butler College at Princeton.

The 21,000-square-foot building was designed by Venturi Scott Brown in 1983, at the beginning of Princeton’s residential college system, and was the firm’s first project on campus. Robert Venturi aptly described Wu Hall as a “hyphen." Through its positioning on the site and through its formal, material, and stylistic choices, Wu Hall created a rich dialogue between the diverse structures, styles, and spaces around it and made possible multiple scales of connectivity between inside and outside.

Our scope is to restore the exterior façade, reconfigure select interior areas to meet programmatic and accessibility requirements, improve the building’s mechanical and electrical infrastructure, and create a new addition at the second floor. We are also specifying new furniture throughout.

Our design approach is to respect and restore the design intent of the building while enhancing functionality, infrastructure, and the occupant experience -- ensuring that Wu Hall will continue to support and enrich campus life for decades to come.

11/21/2025

Inclusive spaces are spaces where you can be yourself – this belief guides our work, and it shines through in this article on a new openness about mental health in the ballet world, featuring our project for The School of American Ballet.
“One aim of the center is normalizing the need for support. Students can book sessions with mental health counselors and nutritionists using a confidential online system. Jennifer Carpenter, the principal architect, wants students to feel safe and secure there, she said, for it to be ‘a place where you’re not under scrutiny.’ Students told her that along with constantly being observed by their teachers, they felt other eyes on them, too. ‘They’re also role models for the younger students,’ Carpenter said. ‘So this could be the place where they can sort of be themselves.’”
by Gia Kourlas, photos by Thea Traff, courtesy of the New York Times.

11/03/2025

The NYC Public Design Commission awarded us this honor last week - our Briarwood Library is one of the 43rd Annual "Excellence in Design" winners.
A project for the Department of Design and Construction and Queens Public Library, the Briarwood Library project includes the complete interior and exterior renovation of the existing building, with the goal of helping this key neighborhood anchor better serve the whole community. The design creates an inclusive environment that feels connected to its neighborhood with carefully calibrated visual openness and improved physical accessibility both inside and out. The design creates an enhanced sensory experience of the interior, a more flexible and functional interior flow, and a more welcoming landscape, including a renovated exterior plaza with evening illumination. The project will also contribute to New York City’s sustainability goals, achieving LEED Gold, and will use renewable energy created onsite through a new photovoltaic panel system. The new exterior façade will feature glazed terracotta in a range of earthy tones that harmonize with the brick that characterizes the surrounding neighborhood. The library has dedicated adult, teen, and children’s spaces. Each of the spaces is zoned so that visitors feel ownership and a sense of place, with distinctive graphic murals depicting local plants in each area. A special large-scale window with a new sill bench gives the teens a corner perch, and round windows are scaled to children’s views. The new landscape features sensory elements that appeal to smell and touch, as well as sight.

10/17/2025

Launch today of our Neurodiverse City installation! A play space with sensory options that gives an alternative to the typical playground. Thank you for hosting!
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10/15/2025

See you at FIT tomorrow! Happy to join Natalia Mendez and Yannick Benjamin of Women on Wheels to talk about making interior spaces for inclusion at the 2025 FIT adapt/evolve symposium. Thank you Barbara Weinreich for moderating and for hosting.

10/02/2025

We are so excited to be working with New York City Center! Their mission is to make the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience – and VCA is helping them make improvements to physical and sensory access. We carefully document existing conditions and interview stakeholders on their experiences. This helps us identify opportunities for creating more inclusive space for public spaces and for everyone on stage and behind the scenes.

09/24/2025

Our design for the lobby at 140 Broadway is under construction... we are preserving the beautiful 1960's green marble in this landmark building, honing it so it's lighter in tone and less reflective. New terrazzo floors with inset soft seating areas create a brighter and more welcoming place.

09/22/2025

View from both sides of this screen that divides a landing space from the more private zone behind it - open but shielded.

09/19/2025

Testing prototypes with students for our Neurodiverse City Project. We are working with public schools on a range of outdoor sensory environments where kids can relax and play, with neuroinclusion in mind - people don't experience the same space the same way.

09/12/2025

Our principal Irina was named "Tiger of the Week" at Princeton 🧡- VCA designed this renovation of Prospect House to make a more inclusive, beautiful, and functional place and we are currently back on campus designing a dining hall renovation. Thank you Photos by .laignel

09/09/2025

What a joy to work with the School of American Ballet. We designed the new Artistic Health and Wellness Student Center (open this week!) through a deep engagement process with the school and the students and we cannot wait to see how these incredible dancers use the place. The center shows the school’s commitment to the whole student – with spaces for mental health counseling, physical training, nutrition guidance, and more. Students have a state-of-the art pilates studio, strength and conditioning studio, dedicated counseling rooms, PT rooms, academic study rooms, and a lounge that looks out onto Lincoln Center’s plaza. Our new travertine and bronze stair links the School’s lobby to the center. Congratulations .
Photos by SAB.

06/13/2025

So proud of this award! Our Princeton Prospect House renovation is the 2025 Higher Education winner in the NYCXDesign Awards. Thank you and

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