Architect-builders are best solution.While I run a busy architecture practice currently with fifteen residential projects, two restaurants and an office building underway, it is my architecture-builder work that is most valuable to my developer clients. In addition to producing what I think are innovative and cutting-edge designs, we also serve as general contractors A general contractor is an organization or individual that contracts with another organization or individual (the owner) for the construction of a building, road or any other execution of work or facility. on many of our design projects. This unique design/build strategy saves clients valuable time, money and frustration. It also makes for a better end product. When I am in control of the project in the studio as well as on the job site, I am both a better architect and a better contractor. Each role is both supportive and reliant upon the other; each informs the other, and together, [like a yin and yang Yin and Yang Noun two complementary principles of Chinese philosophy: Yin is negative, dark, and feminine, Yang is positive, bright, and masculine [Chinese yin dark + yang bright] ], the sums are always stronger than the individual parts. When I am responsible for the build out of my design, I naturally know what I want and how to achieve it. When questions arise on job sites, as they always do, I can easily and quickly make decisions to solve problems. Developers benefit from our construction experience, because we bring this knowledge to the design process. As an architect, I have a depth of understanding about what can and cannot be built, how costly something is to construct, and what alternatives there are to explore. This saves clients a tremendous amount of time and money. It also saves them the potential frustration of dealing with two parties that too often have separate interests. Architects and contractors historically have difficulty communicating and understanding each other, which can lead to frustration and delays on a job. Obviously this is very hard on the client. Contractors view architects as idealists who don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what they are doing, while designers and developers think that contractors exist and live for change orders. In a design/build situation however, I have only myself to point a finger at. The skills required of a good architect and a good contractor are, in a general sense, identical. It all comes down to foresight. You've got to think the project through. As an architect, I'm managing my staff and the production of drawings. On the construction side, I'm managing production of work. It's like a chess game. You've got to think five, six or seven moves ahead. As an architect you're always constrained by the cost of materials and the ability of contractors to implement your ideas. When you're also the contractor you have the freedom and the knowledge to find solutions, which protect the integrity of the design and the quality of the final product. My current design/build projects include EN Restaurant, which opened in September in Greenwich Village Greenwich Village (grĕn`ĭch), residential district of lower Manhattan, New York City, extending S from 14th St. to Houston St. and W from Washington Square to the Hudson River. , Ginger & Spice Restaurant in Ramsey, N.J., my own apartment in the Village (see New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Magazine April 4, 2005 issue), a Sutton Place Sutton Place may refer to places in England and the United States: Places in England
In modern property law, individual ownership of one dwelling unit within a multidwelling building. Unit owners have undivided ownership interest in the land and those portions of the building shared in common. project, a 12 story commercial office building in Poland, a residential addition in the-Rockaways; a few apartments-and MEET Restaurant, in the Meatpacking meatpacking or meat-processing, wholesale business of buying and slaughtering animals and then processing and distributing their carcasses to retailers. The livestock industry is among the largest in the world. District. ADAM Adam, the first man, in the Bible Adam (ăd`əm), [Heb.,=man], in the Bible, the first man. In the Book of Genesis, God creates humankind in his image as a species of male and female, giving them dominion over other life. KUSHNER, PRINCIPAL, KUSHNER STUDIOS ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN PC |
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