Work Represented on Website

Glendale Avenue Residence,  Rye NY  (2003-04)ken andruk design
Additions to and transformation of a mid-century split-level house on a site that was tightly constrained by wetlands. The interior is organized around a new central stair hall. The walls and roof are cloaked with a uniform blanket of naturally durable cedar shingles, left to weather.

Warwick Avenue Residence, South Orange NJ  (2003-05)
Renovation of a 1915 Arts & Crafts style house in an Historic District include a new kitchen (with custom cabinetry in quartersawn white oak to harmonize with the original woodwork in the adjacent rooms, and a new bank of windows to link the kitchen with the garden), a new master bath and dressing area, and the conversion of the old sleeping porch for use a quiet retreat for sewing and reading. All original work of significance was saved, and all new work is up to the high craft standards of the old.

Sherman Avenue Garage/Shop, Glen Ridge NJ  (2005-06)
New building in an Historic District. An unusual long footprint makes the back yard feel as large as possible while providing space to park two full-size vehicles, garden equipment, bicycles, and a workbench, all under an accessible storage loft. The distinctive custom doors and windows, cedar shingle siding, steeply pitched roof and carved rafter tails contrast deliberately with the utilitarian detached garages that are typical in the neighborhood. The old-fashioned double-strip drive also serves to maximize lawn and garden area.

Fifth Avenue Residence #3, New York NY (2002-03)

Renovation of a one-bedroom co-op apartment for use as a pied-a-terre by new owners. Reorganizing a relatively small part of the awkward post-war apartment allowed for the creation of a central hall/foyer of coherent shape, with new "found" space for closets and an expanded kitchen. Other improvements included a new bath, built-in library and AV cabinetry, and a new central AC system.

Douglas Road Residence, Glen Ridge NJ (2006-07)

Renovation of and additions to a late-19th-century Gothic Revival house that had been heavily damaged by fire, located in an Historic District. We enlarged the 6,000 sf house to 7,500 sf. Gothic details and leaded glass designed in the spirit of the original recapture the character that the house lost when it was largely stripped of its trim and re-clad in stucco early in the 20th century. Carefully balanced extensions on three levels, along with consistent vocabularies of custom detailing inside and out, give the house a coherence that it has never had in the past.

Clark Street Residence #2, Glen Ridge NJ  (2005-)

(under construction)
A new house of cedar shingle in an Historic District, replacing one lost to fire. In its massing, materials and footprint the new house is reminiscent of the original, but with more sophisticated planning we have doubled the family's living space and improved the home's relationship to the yard, the street and the community. Leaf-green eaves combine with the natural cedar to make a house with black trim seem, paradoxically, bright and colorful.

South Oxford Place Residence,  Brooklyn NY  (1999-02)

Renovation of the parlor floor in a Victorian brownstone in a landmark district. Elaborate custom cabinetry in walnut disguises a compact modern kitchen as an Eastlake-style sideboard. Period papers dress the walls and ceiling. A new decorative iron stair gives direct access to the garden.

Ridgewood Avenue Residence #2, Glen Ridge NJ  (2006-07)
Renovation of and addition to a Shingle Style house, built in 1896, in an Historic District. All original fabric of significance was saved. Aside from extensive in-kind restoration of exterior trim and porches, major improvements include a new kitchen/family room with ample new windows and direct access to an elevated deck, provision of additional bathrooms and a second-floor laundry, and reorganization of the master bedroom suite.

Golf Clubhouse for The Tuxedo Club, Tuxedo Park NY  (1996-98)
The new 21,000 sf clubhouse, built of naturally weathering cedar shingles and stone, is responsive to the cultural and physical context of an historic private club and village. It extends and develops the American Shingle-Style tradition that reached maturity with the cottages the architect Bruce Price built at Tuxedo Park in the 1880's.

Designed and managed by Mark Wright, AIA while he was with Robert Lamb Hart. Recently the club has turned to Wright & Robinson Architects for ongoing work at the building.

H. H. Richardson's House for Rev'd Percy Browne, Marion MA  (2001-present)
Graphic reconstruction of the cottage as built in 1882 by architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Archival research and field measurement of a heavily altered, partially surviving structure; execution of drawings, description and history for publication; measured details and specifications for eventual restoration of the endangered historic structure and its outbuilding. Publication coming in 2009.

Hillcrest Road Residence, Ridgewood NJ  (2006-07)
Renovations of a distinguished Colonial-style house (originally built in the mid-1920s) meet the needs of a young family while respecting the inherent character of an unspoiled structure. Two bedrooms were combined and reconfigured to yield a new master bedroom, a generous master bath, and a nursery. This spatial reorganization also allowed the children's bath to be expanded with a second sink and a semi-private toilet area. All of the new work is up to the high craft standards of the original house.

Brookfield Road Residence, Ridgewood NJ  (2005-06)