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NYC homeowners can now add an ADU to their home, and the path just got clearer.Local Laws 126 and 127, enacted in Decemb...
03/27/2026

NYC homeowners can now add an ADU to their home, and the path just got clearer.

Local Laws 126 and 127, enacted in December 2024 as part of the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity initiative, established a comprehensive framework for ADUs in one- and two-family homes. Applications are now live in DOB NOW. One unit per lot, max 800 sqft, separate entrance required.

ADUs can go in your attic, basement, cellar, backyard, or an attached/detached structure, giving homeowners real flexibility to add income-generating space without major structural overhaul.

Check out this ADU we designed in P.G. County, a sleek studio with a kitchenette perched over a two-car garage. The pyramid-style roof stays under the 15-foot limit, with a skylight strip and clean white cladding paired with raw wood at the base. Compact, practical, and designed to not disrupt the main house.

This is exactly the kind of thinking we’re bringing to NYC. Contact us to explore what an ADU could look like on your property.

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**Lac-Mégantic — Quebec, CA**Tucked into the lakeside terrain, this guesthouse gently extends the life of the main home ...
10/16/2025

**Lac-Mégantic — Quebec, CA**

Tucked into the lakeside terrain, this guesthouse gently extends the life of the main home into nature.

Designed to embrace the rhythm of the seasons, it rises from the rock and settles into the landscape, becoming part threshold, part shelter.

A roof terrace bridges the distance between dwelling and lake - an elevated path of light, stone, and stillness -  where architecture becomes continuity.

**Lac-Mégantic — Quebec, CA**Tucked into the lakeside terrain, this guesthouse gently extends the life of the main home ...
10/14/2025

**Lac-Mégantic — Quebec, CA**

Tucked into the lakeside terrain, this guesthouse gently extends the life of the main home into nature.

Designed to embrace the rhythm of the seasons, it rises from the rock and settles into the landscape, becoming part threshold, part shelter.

A roof terrace bridges the distance between dwelling and lake - an elevated path of light, stone, and stillness - where architecture becomes continuity.

**Creo — Harley Street, London, UK** KBN are currently collaborating with Creo on the transformation of a Grade I Listed...
10/08/2025

**Creo — Harley Street, London, UK**

KBN are currently collaborating with Creo on the transformation of a Grade I Listed building on Harley Street into a new clinic. The project is a full refurbishment, bringing bespoke medical‑grade joinery, high‑quality finishes, and carefully selected fittings into a heritage setting.

It’s still a work in progress - and we ask for a little imagination for now - but every step is shaping a space where history and innovation will meet. We’ll keep you updated as the project unfolds.



BURL BURL: a bench wrapped in movement.
The swirling grain of the burl doesn’t just decorate, it mesmerizes. It turns a ...
09/29/2025

BURL BURL: a bench wrapped in movement.
The swirling grain of the burl doesn’t just decorate, it mesmerizes. It turns a minimal silhouette into a living surface, animated by depth, texture, and repetition.

Six legs hold a slender volume that’s both delicate and hypnotic. A piece that speaks through material: warm, unpredictable, alive.
Burl Burl. When form meets the poetry of matter.

3/3 A project where architecture is not used to divide, but to connect.Between inside and outside, matter and light, bui...
09/23/2025

3/3 A project where architecture is not used to divide, but to connect.

Between inside and outside, matter and light, built form and natural presence.

This is not a composition of rooms, but a spatial system designed for experience.
The house doesn’t assert a fixed shape, it adapts, opens, responds.

Each space is calibrated to host the passing of time: light shifts, seasonal rhythms, everyday life.
Architecture, here, is not simply a house: it’s a framework for living.

2/3 **The Garden House — Chandigarh, IN** Light, filtered. Space, softened. Light filters in, curtains breathe, silence ...
09/14/2025

2/3 **The Garden House — Chandigarh, IN**
Light, filtered. Space, softened. Light filters in, curtains breathe, silence holds the room.

The house invites you to inhabit a space in between, where nature enters, privacy is choreographed through layers, and stillness becomes architecture.

1/3 **The Garden House — Chandigarh, IN** From concept to matter. Before it was a house, it was an idea.A study in volum...
09/05/2025

1/3 **The Garden House — Chandigarh, IN**

From concept to matter. Before it was a house, it was an idea.

A study in volumes, balance, and void.
This wooden maquette is not just a model: it’s a spatial manifesto. A structure of silence and hierarchy, where each layer reveals a rhythm,
a weight, a direction.

Architecture begins here: in the tension between abstraction and reality.

1/3 **The Garden House — Chandigarh, IN** From concept to matter. Before it was a house, it was an idea.A study in volum...
09/05/2025

1/3 **The Garden House — Chandigarh, IN**

From concept to matter.
Before it was a house, it was an idea.
A study in volumes, balance, and void.

This wooden maquette is not just a model: it’s a spatial manifesto. A structure of silence and hierarchy, where each layer reveals a rhythm, a weight, a direction.

Architecture begins here: in the tension between abstraction and reality.

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