08/21/2025
One of our favorite projects, Black Box Red Hook, covered by thanks for the interview. Water, landscape, natural ecosystems, light and air are all key aspects to our work, along with a net-zero design strategy.
“It’s an adaptive reuse project,” said architect Gita Nandan, one of the firm’s three principals along with architect Marc Mancuso and Elliott Maltby, head of landscape design. “It was just a shell of a building. What we inherited was a black brick box” after Superstorm Sandy tore through the area in 2012. “It was a long slog.” The austere exterior remains, concealing a light-filled, elegant interior space with soaring ceilings, skylights, and huge sliding glass doors opening onto a series of gardens and roof terraces. “This is emblematic of our philosophy — landscape being architecture,” Nandan said. “There’s really deep integration between indoors and out, a blurring of the lines between the two. There are outdoor living areas as well as indoor planted zones.”
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