Portfolio Archives

Mount Sinai Jewish Center

In order to accommodate its rapidly-growing membership, the Mount Sinai Jewish Center, recently completed a major renovation to the Washington Heights location it has called home since 1959 (though its history in the neighborhood spans more than a century). In addition to structural repairs, the lower level was completely renovated with a number of improvements […]

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Core77 Design Week Delivery Truck

For years, Core77 has produced an online guide for Design Week in New York. And even though they have been exclusively online since their inception (way back in 1995), they announced an ambitious experiment for their 2014 guide by choosing a format that many had assumed was dead: print. For four days in May during […]

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Western Standards by Alan Ruiz

For his project “Western Standards S2-48,” artist Alan Ruiz asked us to fabricate a series of panels in MDF similar to the work we did for his project “Against Nature.” As in that project, the CNC router was used to create a series of shallow inserts made from the profile of the steel studs that […]

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Bittertang’s Petri Dish Bed

For their work on Storefront for Art and Architecture’s 30th Anniversary Show, Bittertang asked us to help create part of a waterbed in the shape of a petri dish. The exhibition was titled “BEING“, and explored the history of Storefront, including ephemera such as the unsuccessful grant applications making up this “waterbed of unfulfilled dreams.” […]

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Against Nature by Alan Ruiz

For his installation “Against Nature” at the Sunroom Project Space at Wave Hill, artist Alan Ruiz wanted to construct a system of alternating layers of standard steel studs. Set in front of the large arched windows of the Sunroom, the upright vertical channels needed to be carefully arranged. The CNC router was used to develop […]

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CNC Routing for Bittertang

For BOFFO Building Fashion 2013, Bittertang designed an installation inspired by Michael Bastian’s fall/winter 2013 collection. Their “Creepy Chic” interior warped and distorted antique furniture, and set the dark and eerie stage for Bastian’s clothing. We were asked to help CNC cut part of one element of their display, a shelf that was to look […]

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Core77 Pop-Up Installation for Design Week 2012

This installation at 350 Bowery in New York City served as the setting for a pop-up exhibition curated by the editors of Core77 showcasing the work of 35 designers from all across the City. The exhibition, titled “All City All Stars,” featured designers picked by Core77 in an attempt to “survey the landscape of all […]

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Warped Panes: Experiments in Slumped Glass

This project set out to explore the possibilities of glass slumping, culminating in a full-scale installation of slumped glass panels at Columbia University.

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Cultivating the City

The Cultivated City was an exhibit prepared for Columbia University’s End of Year Architecture Show. The installation displayed the work of the students in Marc Tsurumaki and Marc Kushner’s Spring 2008 architecture studio. The installation occupied a busy corridor in Columbia’s Avery Hall and was comprised of a faceted pegboard wall of displaying student work […]

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