— Locations Brooklyn, NY
Architect in Brooklyn, New York
Brownstone blocks and converted industry — a borough where the existing building is almost always the client’s real site.
— Locations Brooklyn, NY
Brownstone blocks and converted industry — a borough where the existing building is almost always the client’s real site.
Peaslee Architect, P.C. has built in Brooklyn, including a cinema — the kind of commission where acoustics, egress and sightlines all have to be solved at once, inside a shell that was never meant for it.
Brooklyn work is overwhelmingly work on existing fabric: brownstones, warehouses, garages and small industrial buildings, each carrying a century of undocumented alteration. The first honest task is finding out what is actually there.
Rowhouse work is a problem of light and circulation — a deep, narrow plan with windows at two ends. Solving it usually means rethinking the stair and the rear, not adding square footage. Condition audits come first; landmarked blocks add a review layer that shapes the scheme from the outset.
Converting industrial shells to residential, commercial or assembly use turns on structure, egress and mechanical distribution. Assembly occupancies — cinemas, performance and community space — bring occupant-load and life-safety requirements that govern the plan.
The practice carries these from feasibility and schematic design through construction documents and contract administration.
— Also serving, near Brooklyn
From the Woodstock Valley studio, Peaslee Architect, P.C. also takes work in Williamsburg, Bushwick, Park Slope, Gowanus, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Greenpoint, Red Hook, Crown Heights and the surrounding towns. Wherever the project sits, the arrangement is the same — one licensed architect, one intent, carried from the first honest conversation through substantial performance of construction.
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Call (718) 383-8909 or email [email protected]. The studio is at 648 Route 198, Woodstock Valley, CT 06282.