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Top Ranked Architecture Firm in Real Deal
13 March 2018Curtis + Ginsberg Architects was listed as one of the top 30 prolific architecture firms in New York City over the past 5 years, and ranked top 3 of 5 in the Bronx.
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Satpal Kaur Curates BuildingEnergy Boston
01 March 2018Project Architect Satpal Kaur is a content curator for six sessions at this year’s NESEA BuildingEnergy Boston conference. The sessions focus on funding, designing and planning for energy efficient projects.
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Lexington Gardens II is a Featured Case Study
22 February 2018Lexington Gardens II was a featured case study for Kingston Block & Supply, whose brick defines the project’s dynamic facade.
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Second Avenue Nears Completion
26 January 2018The Second Avenue Development was featured in CityRealty
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Resilient, Energy-Efficient Development Featured
23 January 2018Beach Green Dunes I was featured in Affordable Housing Finance
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Beach Green Dunes In the News
12 January 2018Beach Green Dunes I was featured in this month’s AIA New York Chapter newsletter In the News.
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New Certified Passive House Consultant
28 December 2017Kuan-Ju Chen is the latest team member to become a certified Passive House Consultant at C+GA, bringing the number of certified consultants in the office to four!
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Making Room at the National Building Museum
14 November 2017Partners Darby Curtis and Mark Ginsberg were in Washington D.C. yesterday to celebrate the opening of Making Room: Housing for a Changing America, an exhibit at the National Building Museum that studies housing design solutions for a modern, efficient living arrangement. The exhibit, for which C+GA is a CHPC sponsor, is open to the public from
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MWBE Success Stories
23 October 2017Partner Darby Curtis is a panelist on MWBE Success Stories at the DASNY NYC Higher Education Event on Wednesday 25 October at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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NYSAFAH Winner
13 October 2017We are honored to announce that Beach Green Dunes was awarded the NYSAFAH Project of the Year: Downstate. This is Curtis + Ginsberg Architects’ first of many multi-family projects to be Passive House certified.
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Bridging the Bronx exhibition at MAS Summit 2017
06 October 2017On October 16, C+GA will be participating in the Municipal Arts Society Summit innovation exhibition, showcasing Bridging the Bronx, our proposal for housing a New York of 9 Million inhabitants. We hope you’ll join us at the Summit and come visit our booth! Click here for the full schedule of events.
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Open Architecture New York Day of Impact
03 October 2017C+GA is excited to be participating in Open Architecture New York’s fourth annual Day of Impact this weekend, where we will join fellow architects and design professionals for a city-wide service day. Join C+GA and OACny to collaborate with some of New York City’s best volunteer-based organizations for hands-on painting, planting, and rebuilding projects, all
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Manhattan Institute: Small is Beautiful
27 September 2017Today the Manhattan Institute released their book Urban Policy Frontiers, which features new thinking on how to improve housing, transportation, child welfare, and policing. “Small Is Beautiful: Micro-Units Can Help Make NYC Housing Affordable”, written by Partner Mark Ginsberg, with assistance from Russell Beaumont, is featured as the first article in the publication. The article
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Mark Ginsberg Quoted in Architect Magazine
28 August 2017Partner Mark Ginsberg was quoted in an article that discusses the destructive repercussions of flooding, and Trump’s repeal of the Federal Flood Risk Management Standards.
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Third Avenue Development in the NY Daily News
28 July 2017The New York Daily News featured Curtis + Ginsberg Architect’s design for the Third Avenue Development in the Bronx within their article on developing 400 new affordable housing units in Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan.
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4th Annual Architecture Camp
06 July 2017In June, Curtis + Ginsberg Architects’s Cameron Toler was at UC Berkeley running the 4th year of the AIA East Bay and Fam 1st Family Foundation Architecture Camp. The week-long program, which was founded by Cameron and Jeremiah Tolbert, introduces under-served middle school students to architecture and design. UC Berkeley wrote an inspiring article on the camp here.
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Crain’s Real Estate Conference: Don’t Just Think Big. Build Big.
19 June 2017Partner Mark Ginsberg presented at last week’s Crain’s Real Estate Conference: Don’t Just Think Big. Build Big. The conference focused on transformative collaborations between the public and private sectors that would impact the way we approach building public infrastructure. Mark spoke about opportunities in the Bronx to develop more housing by utilizing air space above
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Navy Green and it’s team of architects, C+GA, FXFowle and Architecture in Formation, is the recipient of two more awards!
08 June 2017Navy Green has won a 2017 SARA NY Design Award and the AIA Brooklyn + Queens Design Award’s Mixed Use Residential Award of Excellence and a People’s Choice Winner! To read more about Navy Green, please view the project here: http://www.cplusga.com/works/navy-green/
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Windows are Going in at C+GA’s Fulton Street Affordable Mixed-Use Development
23 May 2017Read more about it in today’s Brownstoner article.
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A Mixed Income success story at Navy Green, “a sustainable project that integrates, rather than separates”
18 May 2017Crain’s NY OpEd highlights the Navy Green Development
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C+GA’s Marcus Garvey Wins a 2017 Building Brooklyn Award
12 May 2017C+GA’s Marcus Garvey Apartments is a recipient of a Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce 2017 Building Brooklyn Award for Historic Preservation: Affordable Housing.
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Navy Green Wins Urban Land Institute Excellence in Housing Award
04 April 2017Navy Green won the Excellence in Housing Development Award in The Urban Land Institute New York’s second annual Awards for Excellence in Development. The Awards for Excellence recognize outstanding development projects in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors across New York State that best exemplify ULI’s commitment to responsible land use and creating sustainable, thriving communities.
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Leadership Expands at C+GA!
04 April 2017Curtis + Ginsberg Architects LLP is proud to announce that Reinaldo Gutiérrez, AIA, LEEDAP and Crystal Ng, RA, CPHC, LEEDAP have been named Associates. We welcome the additional leadership as C+GA continues our mission to provide quality sustainable design, that emphasizes the needs of the client, the environment and the community, from the building users
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Story Avenue featured in The New York Times “The Bronx is Building”
03 March 2017This mixed-use project consists of two buildings and a Community Facility which pay tribute to the Art Deco style famous in the Bronx. C+GA currently has 934 units of affordable housing in design and construction in the Bronx. You can read more in the article below.
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“Revealed: Second Phase of Morris Avenue Apartments, the Bronx’s First Major Affordable Passive House Project”
03 March 2017C+GA’s Morris II Apartments was featured in New York Yimby. Providing much needed low income housing while incorporating state of the art building technology and resiliency, the community of sustainable homes includes 154 apartments and a Community Facility. To read the full article, please follow the link below.
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“Construction Begins On 1520 And 1530 Story Avenue, 435 Units Of Affordable Housing In Soundview”
07 February 2017Construction has begun on C+GA’s Story Ave project which was highlighted in New York Yimby. To read the full article, please follow the link below.
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C+GA’s Frost Street is a recipient of a MultiFamily 2017 ICF Builders Award
24 January 2017On Thursday 19 January 2017 C+GA’s Frost Street received the First Runner Up Award for Multifamily at the ICF Builders Awards.
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Mark Ginsberg discusses new NYCHA Design Guidelines at AIANY
14 January 2017On January 12th Principal Mark Ginsberg spoke to packed house at the Center for Architecture in New York announcing the new New York City Housing Authority design guidelines which he helped to develop.
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Crain’s Publishes C+GA’s Proposal for a NYC of 9 Million Residents
06 November 2016Crain’s NY ”Think Big” highlights C+GA’s vision for how NYC can accommodate a population of 9 million. We envision creating new land by activating and developing the space over existing sunken railroad lines and below-grade highways. The proposal is scalable to utilize these linear sites throughout the city. For this proposal we focused on the
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Reception and Exhibition at Rutgers University
22 October 2016Mark Your Calendars: Reception for C+GA’s proposal in the Group Show Partner in Crime Thursday, December 1, 2016, 6-8pm School of Criminal Justice Gallery, Rutgers Center for Law & Justice 5th Floor 123 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102 Join C+GA and see our Proposal for Rikers Island currently featured at the Paul Robson Gallery at
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Mark Ginsberg contributes to the Zoning @ 100 collection
25 July 2016Prompted by the 100th anniversary of New York City’s Zoning Resolution, the New York AIA Planning & Urban Design Committee has compiled twenty interdisciplinary essays from influential thinkers working in the field — including partner Mark Ginsberg.
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Additional C+GA Staff Gain Passive House Certification
01 June 2016We are pleased to announce that C+GA’s Crystal Ng and Associate Amy Leong will be joining Satpal Panesar as certified International Passive House Associates.
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New Housing Preservation & Development guidelines released; aided by partners Mark Ginsberg and Darby Curtis
12 May 2016With the release of new HPD (Housing Preservation & Development) guidelines this past week came a special thanks to Mark Ginsberg for his role in helping to shape these guidelines.
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C+GA Shortlisted for International Competition to design The Women’s Building
20 April 2016C+GA has been immersed in the design proposal for a new Women’s Center to be constructed within and adjacent to the site of the former Bayview Women’s prison on Manhattan’s West Side.
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Commentary on Outline of the de Blasio Administration’s Housing Policy for the NY Law School NYC Land Use News
09 December 2015Partner Mark Ginsberg FAIA, LEED AP has written a commentary on Commissioner Vicki Been’s address outlining the de Blasio Administration’s actions and efforts to advance a comprehensive housing policy for New York City.
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Ready to Respond: Strategies for Multifamily Building Resilience
01 December 2015Partner Mark Ginsberg FAIA, LEED AP is a Senior Advisor on this Enterprise Communities Partners’ manual released yesterday, 30 November, contributing to this important report which provides practical strategies to building owners to make their properties more resilient. For more information or to download the full report, please visit the link below.
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