Table of Contents Poetic Realism by Simone Corda

Designing Spaces with Soul by Heidi Saarinen

Projects

1. Weeksville Heritage Center

2. Theatre-in-the-Park

3. 10 Bouck Court Pre-K

4. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University

5. Louis Armstrong Historical Museum

6. DeSimone Consulting Engineer’s Offices

7. House in Vermont

8. Marcus Garvey Houses Community Center

9. Heritage Health and Housing Headquarters

Firm Profile & Projects

Credits

Poetic Realism

Louis Armstrong House Museum

Caples Jefferson Architects’ buildings is the key to finding a minimal and display a variety of typologies and effective answer to a challenging architectural expressions, whilst brief, such as in the Desimone maintaining a consistent level of Consulting Engineers Office, where excellence that is rarely found in the the budget, in proportion to the architectural panorama. This relies on overall intervention on an existing the refinement of the several themes building, was extremely low. present in their work into a coherent The attitude towards the existing ensemble, through the office’s context becomes more multifaceted sophisticated design method. in the firm’s projects for community The first step of their process towards and cultural facilities because refining a concept requires an the complexities of each specific understanding of the existing context community are integrated in addition of a specific site and/or of the mutual to the influence of the urban physical relationships of the elements in a context. These typologies of brief: it is never a simple translation buildings have subsequently formed of a program to a form. In some an important contribution to the projects it is the elements of the notion of contemporary public space. natural landscape that provide a As a result of the fragmented social context for interpretation, for example composition of the world’s largest the House in Vermont, in which views cities, the public space is no longer of the landscape are intentionally a traditional symbol of a common framed by the openings and thus belonging and shared culture. aestheticised. In other projects, it is Instead nowadays, the role of public the built environment that suggests space leans towards the creation of the tone and proportions of an a scene for peoples’ appropriation. intervention such as the facade of the The differences between class, Louis Armstrong Museum. The deep culture and interests are narrowed understanding of the constraints through the appropriation process Queens Theatre-in-the-Park Weeksville Heritage Center

because people learn from each While both are united by geometry but at the same time offered a certain other and develop a stronger as a tool, the viewer in Mies and degree of freedom because of the sense of community. This is the Le Corbusier plays an active role; ordinary value of the original building. strategy of the Marcus Garvey by moving through the building the In a completely different setting, the Houses Community Center, whose viewer re-composes the space in a beautiful Starr East Asian Library space, both internal and external, unity. Similarly, it is the perception of at Columbia University, Caples and is divided according to the different the person approaching the building Jefferson still use the light to create ages of its users in order to avoid that designs the Queens Theatre-in- something remarkable. The central friction, and then unified through the the-Park, not abstract geometrical piece of furniture is sculpted by the transparency of its elements. The rules. The long external ramps in this light entering from the original neo- focus on the social and historical building bring visitors into the main classical fabric, and creates a slight aspects of communities is also what room, where the space is defined vibration into the space through its characterises the Weeksville Heritage only by the intersection of several elegant curve. Centre, a transitional space giving curves in the construction. Such a Context, culture, community, access to one of Brooklyn’s heritage light gesture in the design creates modernism, minimal intervention and precincts. In this the interaction tension in the physical space, and light are all key concepts that play an of African-inspired and modern makes it extraordinary. Another important role in the design process language elements emerges as a project in which the minimal gesture of many architects, however the way symbol of inclusiveness and shared elevates a building to superior in which they are intertwined in Sara memory. refinement is the conversion of a and Everardo’s work is something The modernist language used garage into the Heritage Health & special. Their methodology allows in Caples Jefferson’s buildings Housing Headquarters, where small them to engage a wide and diverse here refers more to the humanistic spaces are rhythmically divided by audience with a factual and at the sensibility of the 20th Century the light that enters from skylights, same time highly poetic architecture, Masters rather than the empty which almost appear as abstract which is the expression of the volumes of their followers. The volumes inserted into the space. The deep investigation that transforms disparity between these two re-elaboration of the existing garage their work into a more meaningful sensibilities lies in the balance given posed a difficult challenge in terms of modification of reality. to the relationship of subject-object. budget and lot dimension constraints -Simone Corda Designing Spaces With Soul

Queens Theatre-in-the-Park nebula detail

This book commemorates the the House in Vermont, an early work of award winning practice project, there is a timeless ambience. Caples Jefferson Architects (CJA), Immediacy to the dramatic terrain, describing selected projects allows for true connection to nature spanning over 30 years. Careful through not only the site but also consideration to materials, surface the sound, light and wildlife of this and pattern is evident in each extraordinary location. Materials project, large or small. Sensory and components have been design, a natural ingredient, is sensibly coordinated and the design embedded within the design celebrates the panoramic views of process. A sympathetic approach in the seasons. collaboration with client, community, site and user is strictly part of the This attention to detail continues design ethos. Spaces have been throughout the CJA projects. planned so not to add unnecessary Historical hints are hidden within frill. Instead focus is on clever spatial the design and architectural journeys, light, shadows, intriguing ornamentation in all of the work. views and solid environmental There are stories about site, people technology. Particularly informative and dreams elegantly woven into the and beautiful are the delicate and surfaces in many of the projects. For poetic developmental drawings and example, cultural patterns of African sketches in this book, underpinning heritage are cleverly integrated into the creative process. planes, colours and textures and can be experienced in the award-winning Each building designed by CJA Weeksville Heritage Centre. The contains specific elements invaluable building has added rich new purpose to the way space is used to enhance to an otherwise partly neglected our daily activities. In the residential site. Cultural and social diversity is buildings, as seen for example in also positively evident in the Queens Weeksville Heritage Center Heritage Health & Housing Headquarters

Theatre-in-the-Park and the new residents have been created. These buildings and places are Louis Armstrong Historical Museum, Human scale, need and aspirations essential. They may be private or through the smart use of story telling, – the design ideas have opened public, with a range of uses. In daylight and space planning. The up new types of holistic, everyday today’s whirlwind lifestyle, uncertainty vibrant patchwork façade, an artistic regeneration. These areas have and continued social diversion collaboration, and the serene light- together with the design in many places, the city needs filled interior of the Heritage Health process become something unique. exciting breathing spaces such as and Housing Headquarters, another Communities have gained new the buildings by Caples Jefferson award-winning project, symbolises identities; places to share and Architects described in this book, the balance of life, healing and hope. somewhere important to belong. be it residential, educational or For people to connect, particularly community based facilities. Through When passing through the spaces, in the fast paced world that we live their meticulous response to the site, visitors and residents are made in, the spaces we spend time in user and brief, CJA create something to feel part of the bigger picture. need to have resonance. Buildings incredibly valuable, tactile and Architectural design and spatial and spaces that enlighten and appreciated, going way beyond the environments are communicating a compliment us as people; where physical requirements. bond, using layers of local narrative we may catch memories through and the more intimate stories that glimpses of pattern and shadow, -Heidi Saarinen echo between the corporeal materials where sound, light and chance- and textures. Just as much as history meetings make us remember and of place is considered in the design reflect, all common ingredients in process; the future and the protection the projects by CJA. As an example, of place are equally valued as a we see this in the Marcus Garvey design methodology. Houses Community Centre, where everyone from young children to In many of the practice’s key older people have opportunities in buildings, much needed new different ways to enjoy architecture opportunities for communities in and preferred activities. peripheral areas of the city and its Weeksville Heritage Center

Brooklyn, New York 2013 complex that fills the corner between awarded a gold rating under LEED Buffalo Avenue and St. Marks Street. 2.1, with the use of a system of wells. A balance between respect for The building is articulated in an Buried under the landscape, seven the existing site and creating a elegant L-shaped glass corridor that dry wells provide on-site percolation remarkable architecture that is able connects two pleasantly textured of storm water, whilst 48 geothermal to engage a wide community is what volumes, one long, the other wells drilled to a depth of 470 ft, characterises the Weeksville Heritage squared in plan, which the architects provide for heating and cooling. -SC Centre in Brooklyn. Built to enhance developed partially underground the 19th-century houses of an African in order to maintain a height Awards: American freedman’s community relative to the heritage houses. This 2015 AIA NY COTE Sustainability and form a coherent community composition forms a gate, sometimes Institutional Award precinct, the new 23,000 sq ft real and sometimes illusory from 2014 Best of New York AIA New complex includes a the direction of the old Indian trail York State and state-of-the-art exhibition, that arrives from the southeast and Award of Excellence AIA performance and educational crosses the site diagonally to arrive New York State facilities. The buildings gravitate at the old houses. The patterns and MASterworks Best New around the central landscaped area the rich textures offered by the slate, Building where past and present face each the wood and the frit glass create Municipal Art Society other and are bound together by the a rhythm almost of African riffs Design Award Historic ever-changing farmland vegetation embedded into a modern syntax. Districts Council that evokes the agricultural heritage These elements add a playfulness to Nominee Mies Crown Hall of the community. The relation of this the civic tone set by the geometrical Americas Prize central area towards the surrounding rigours of the building making 2013 Best Cultural Project streets and its delimitation is the the space welcoming to the wide Citation Architect Magazine idea underlying the project. From the community that enjoys it. Honor Award National Org. group of heritage houses, a fence The architects’ commitment to of Minority Architects with African-inspired patterns wraps community goes further yet with due 2007 Design Award Citation AIA around the site, allowing a view of diligence given to environmental Chapter the farmland, until it reaches the new sustainability. The Centre has been

Concept sketch Top to bottom: Buffalo Avenue elevation, Bergen Street elevation, St. Marks Street elevation, elevation from courtyard Ground Floor

Floor Plan Key

Ground Floor:

1 Entry Portico 2 Glass Link Lobby 3 Gift Shop 4 Workshop 5 Media Center 6 Exhibition room 7 Multipurpose Room 8 Food Service 9 Library 10 Control Room 11 Dressing Room 12 Loading Area 13 Security Office 14 Recycling Room 15 Staff Entry

Second Floor:

16 Porch 17 Conference Room 18 Open Office 19 Office 20 Staff Pantry 21 Library Mezzanine

Second Floor 48 Geothermal wells beneath the landscape Façade from Buffalo Avenue with open main entryway

View from St. Mark’s Avenue Glass link

Performance room interior

Top: View from second floor balcony to historic houses Bottom: Stairway to library

Opposite page top: View from offices on second floor Opposite page bottom: Office interior

Queens Theatre-in-the-Park

Queens, New York 2011 the dissimilar intellectual dispositions diagonal mullions. The superbly of the respective architects. The crafted elements thus coalesce not The 2011 Caples Jefferson Architects’ difference can be largely explained into the creation of an object, but project for the Queens Theatre- with an analysis of the long external into an experience, which begins in-the-Park reception room brings ramps that continue into and within in the surrounding landscape and hope as the first bright step in the the building. These ramps generate culminates in a dazzling spatial revitalisation of the area of around the complex spiralling forms that triumph. -SC World’s Fair complex. Built in 1964, continue around the circular main the Fair awaits a clear renewal plan. volume, and climax in the domed Awards: The buildings originally designed by ceiling. This is clear evidence of 2011 MASterworks Award for Philip Johnson and Richard Foster how the new building has been Best Restoration define an iconic dominance, a conceptualised according to the Municipal Art Society context that no other architecture can perception of a moving viewer rather 2011 A|L Design Award easily relate to both because of their than a static composition of volumes. Special Citation Best Use of shapes and history: a distant futuristic To start off with, the external skin Color optimism solidified in circular-based of the building has been designed 2010 Cultural Project of the Year structures. Nevertheless, from a to give the impression of a perfect New York Construction superficial figurative analysis, the curvature, despite its composition of 2008 First Prize Award for new 600-person reception room large, flat, glazed units that its tight Excellence in Design gives an impression of having always budget allowed. The design, using Queens Chamber of been a part of the complex. In fact, Gestalt principles, introduces metal Commerce the architects created an assonance fins projecting at each vertical joint in 2008 Citation, National Awards of building elements and shapes the glazed wall, drawing the viewer’s for Excellence in Design between the new and the existing attention to focus on their vanishing National Organization of structures: circular volumes, columns, around the curve rather than on the Minority Architects and a tension-based roof are the glass itself. Inside, the sloping roofs most recognisable common features. above the ramps continue into the It is however in the finer elements that main envelope, adding a dynamism the old and the new buildings reveal to the movement generated by the Building in World’s Fair context Concept sketch: Building form Concept sketch: Gestalt of curves

Entrance from the East

Interior view Building seen through Flushing Meadows Park Interior view of oculus skylight and air tree

Exterior and Interior Details

10 Bouck Court Pre-Kindergarten

Brooklyn, New York 2016 The new Pre-Kindergarten at 10 The Rose That Grew from Concrete Bouck Court in the Gravesend by Tupac Shakur: The Rose that grew from Concrete section of Brooklyn is a 22,000 square foot renovation of a single- “Did you hear about the rose that A school renovation for Pre-K. story building located in an industrial grew A community of children and corridor. The site is located across from a crack in the concrete? teachers located across the street the street from an elevated train line Proving nature’s laws wrong, from an elevated train line and and a sanitation industrial garbage it learned to walk without having feet. a sanitation industrial garbage processing facility ground. Part of Funny, it seems to by keeping it’s dumping ground. New York City’s new universal Pre-K dreams; program, the new school provides it learned to breathe fresh air. An opportunity to create for young naturally lit, inwardly-focused Long live the rose that grew from bodies and minds. classroom and gathering spaces. concrete A place of natural light. when no one else even cared.” A place of magic, serenity and Strategically selected design fantasy. elements, including a green wall A place for the young to imagine. in the entry forecourt and a sky- A place of rooms and meeting lit interior plaza for school and spaces scaled for intimacy with community gatherings, provide a light and its ever changing patterns, welcome respite on an urban setting delight, dark, soft, hard and shadows. with few readily apparent amenities available in the community. The aim The forecourt - a garden in the was to create a place of natural light, concrete - begins the architectural serenity and fantasy. A place for the sequence. A metaphor for the young to imagine. The renovation potential of all young bodies and also incorporates cost-and-schedule minds. conscious flood-proofing measures, required due to the project’s location in a high-risk coastal flood zone area. View of entry from the street Left. Entry Lobby Right. Plaza with skylight & bench detail

Left: Gymnasium from hallway Right: Classroom detail Plaza with skylights Classroom interior with skylight Playground Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University

New York, New York 2009 A Japanese woodcarving from the which are necessary symbols for a World’s Fair of 1900, the ‘Shrine’, has leading educational institution. -SC In the Starr East Asian Library been located on top of a new plinth, at Columbia University a subtle placed centrally on the main axis, as Awards: architectural gesture has added if the space were firstly harmonised 2010 CWB Design Portfolio Award a new depth to the original Beaux around it. The spatial organization Arts design by McKim, Mead, that could have been perceived as an and White, lighting up the already amazing frozen picture of a remote beautiful with new vitality. The overall time, if left in this way, gets a new intervention intended to remove some meaning with the introduction of the incrustations from the Neo-Classical 42-foot-long circulation desk. Placed fabric and to give a new functional centrally on the entry cross-axis it strength to the library, upgrading the clearly divides the functional areas information technology standards, of patrons and staff and works as an revisiting the circulation and in doing area of interaction between the two. so, creating a flexible public reading Its shape is however what confers room. On top of the obvious electrical an added value to the library. The work, painting and carpet installation, desk is almost the extrusion along it is interesting to observe how the a curve of a complex section that new elements are placed in the then gets cut by the light coming heritage setting. A security enclosure from the windows opposite to the was designed to have minimal visual entry. This cut has the practical impact. New bookshelves with a reason of enabling accessibility for design that recalls those already people on a wheelchair, but also existing occupy the areas between grounds the piece of joinery into the the elements that define the bays, space. The curve winds across few forming a completion of the spatial bays, compressing and enlarging order given by the existing rhythm the space and therefore introducing of fenestration, columns and vaults. dynamism and a modern sensibility, View from circulation desk to the west Circulation desk

Project Commentary

Louis Armstrong House Musem

Queens, New York 2019 curved façade. The façade itself is into soloing jazz and as a singer composed of three sections: long popularised scat, interpreting both Along a side street in one of the blue- window panes curved along the jazz and pop songs with incredible collar neighbourhoods of Queens bottom, a flat, recessed section in the energy and soul. The same qualities there is a building that tells the story middle creates a terrace above, and are translated into the architecture of a man who transformed music; a green roof along the top. Between through the daylight that cuts through it was his home from 1943 until his the middle and the upper parts, an the roof to light the different heights death in 1971. Having become a awning is shaped in almost reverse of exhibit spaces and research rooms national historic landmark, it was curvature of the lower section, so that accommodated on two storeys. The converted into a museum to collect, the chiasmatic counter-positioning of culminating moment of the visit is arrange, preserve, catalogue, and the two surfaces creates a complex the Jazz Room, where live musicians make available to the public materials dynamism. Indeed, although created open their rehearsals to fulfil the relating to this man’s life and career, with simple gestures this front living legacy of the man whom some as the mission of the institution elevation relates both to the urban called ‘Pops’, others ‘Satchmo’, but to states. These activities in addition to and the poetic. To begin with, it everybody, was Louis Armstrong. concerts and lectures have grown establishes a relationship with the -SC over time, requiring more space, so neighbouring building, which has the in 2007 Caples Jefferson Architects same three-part division articulated Press: were asked to design a new facility at at almost the same proportions and 2013 International New Architecture a site close by. height. The lower part of the museum The two buildings are on opposite rises from the ordinariness of the sides of the street, slightly off-beat residential street because of its of each other, as the new building music-inspired mullion partition in the is almost but not quite directly in facade, and its colour, reminiscent front of the heritage house. Its front of the glowing gold of the musician’s door does however face toward magical trumpet. Inside the centre, the house to create a direct visual visitors can access artefacts and the connection, with the entrance placed music of this innovative entertainer on an angle along the convex of the that transformed the trumpet Façade looking west

107th Street 1. Visitor’s Center 1. Sloped Private Garden 2. Louis Armstrong’s House 2. Green Roof 3. Urban Forecourt

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Second floor plan 4 Offices 5 Archives 6 Viewing Garden 7 Workroom 8 Reading Room Façade views Top: Façade at night looking south Bottom: Façade study of opposing curves Jazz Room Exhibition room Lobby Desimone Consulting Engineers Office

New York, New York 1997 A Venn diagram that describes the Secondly, the structure of the existing relationship between a remarkable building is used as a reference to set finished product, a low budget and the most efficient size and design a job done fast should in theory for dense groups of workstations. have nil intersection. The DeSimone Lastly, the raw material of the existing Consulting Engineers Office in New building is sometimes left exposed, York might be the exception to this the textures of concrete beams and rule. When a client acquired an 1800 downpipes adding notes of colour square foot space adjacent to their to the soft neutral environment. existing offices on a short term lease These three aspects converge at the for an urgently needed expansion, reception area with an interesting Caples Jefferson produced a twist. Here, the presence of the pragmatic but nevertheless refined panoramic windows on three sides workplace in just six weeks for $12.50 is emphasised by the 30 foot long per square foot. desk and its background feature As in many of the firm’s other panel which is hybridised with the projects, elements of the existing exposed concrete beam above in building involved in the new scheme terms of treatment: the joinery and and its surroundings are the the wall clad employ a rich and grounding for the concept. Firstly, coloured texture whilst a simple white the inspiring skylines of , paint geometrical motif decorates the Queens, and Brooklyn framed by structural element. -SC the windows, set the axis on which the organisation of the space is based. To enable appreciation of the views from across the office, there is an extensive use of clear glass partitions, and the white walls that define desk clusters are kept low. View across offices to East River

House in Vermont

Greensboro, Vermont 1975 As if suspended between two the cladding, which simultaneously dimensions, the house in Vermont underlines the dynamic continuity stands as a frozen photogram in of the facade walls that intersect at mid-process in which an architectural obtuse angles. The horizontal flow object is merging with the landscape. is broken by the roof whose angle The complexity of the natural takes its cue from the terrain and then environment that surrounds the by the openings. From the interior, house is something that cannot the small windows placed in rotation be ignored for its uniqueness and frame views of the landscape making beauty: a terrain that slopes 30 to nature an ever-changing piece of art. 45 degrees covered by an ever- Their position maximises the solar changing coloured forest, and amenity and underlines the appealing a waterfall that runs into a deep experience of the multifaceted lake. This challenging topography space around the stairs. The rooms therefore sets the main reference are kept to minimal dimensions grid for the house’s geometry, one for heating considerations, given axis being the contour line of the that temperatures drop to minus entrance and the others being those 20 degrees when the winter snow of the foundation walls, as well as covers the area. In the white snow being driven by consideration for cover the gentle light copper lining retention and drainage. On this of the facades does not integrate the grid, the house grows as vertically house into the landscape of browning as the 80 ft high trees that encircle leaves like in other seasons, but it. Such a configuration allows a brings a warm tone, conveying a small footprint which limits the risk moving sense of safety and refuge. of erosion; it is also justified by the -SC need to reach for light amongst the tall trees. The projection towards 1981 Citation of Merit, National the sky is horizontally paced by Plywood Design Award

View from hillside

Marcus Garvey Houses Community Center

Brooklyn, New York 2011 can be hosted simultaneously but the roof and walls intrigue the outside separately from the others so as to world with a strong presence and In 2005 Caples Jefferson Architects avoid any friction. turn the centre into the hearth of the were called to design the Marcus They include a paved inner court development. -SC Garvey community centre within an with a fountain, a grove of trees, a urban void delineated by the 1970’s paved and shaded outer court, a 2009 Citation, National Awards Housing Authority project and the playground and a basketball court. for Excellence in Design commercial strip along Pitkin Avenue These spaces are shaped by the National Organization of in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. in-between areas produced by the Minority Architects One of the constraints proposed by existing residential and commercial the site was the articulation of an buildings in relationship with the irregular empty space surrounded new building. This is formed by two by buildings of different heights masonry volumes, one long, the other and various orientations. The main more static in its proportions, unified influential factor of the design by a steel and glass corridor that however was not so immediately wraps around them, leaving a central readable: the need for a secure courtyard in the middle, which is a environment by the users in a highly useful space for contemplation and troubled neighbourhood. This was special events. The building elements so important that, for example, a can be read using a poetical key as bullet-proof glass barrier wraps well: a lyrical moment occurs in the around the courtyard, protecting meeting room located in the larger the children’s play. To achieve a volume where the dramatic light design that takes these themes into that enters the east-west skylight consideration, a series of indoor emphasises the significance of areas and landscaped courtyards community gathering. In addition, were made available. Each of these while the transparency allows to keep areas is versatile for use by different the community together putting it in age groups and different activities visual contact, the slanted angles of View towards entrance Aerial view Aerial site plan View towards courtyard View at end of courtyard Top: Site diagram Middle-top: Building section through billiard room Middle-bottom: North elevation Bottom: South elevation Structure diagram Meeting room & view towards courtyard and classrooms beyond Billiard room looking towards meeting room

South building and teen basketball court Senior grove and courtyard at night Heritage Health & Housing Headquarters

New York, New York 2002 Hope is the message that Caples to appreciate the daylight within the Jefferson wanted their Heritage building, amplifying the sense of time. Health & Housing Headquarters They are spaced rhythmically along to convey. Thus the architecture the corridor that brings one from becomes the symbol of this agency’s the entry to the opposite end of the noble mission, which is to provide building which opens toward the next social services for ex-convicts street. This path across the building battling addiction and mental health proceeds with a non-linear direction, problems. Joy is expressed externally through dark and light, almost like by Nathan Joseph’s patchwork the soothing journey back to the installation which covers the facade community of the people that come of the building, formerly a simple here asking for help. -SC garage in New York City. The bright colours of the artistic piece project Awards: optimism towards the community 2004 Citation: Architecture and attract the attention of the AIA Design Award New passers-by. Once through the small York Chapter door that is overhung by the entry canopy, the interior environment 2004 Citation, National Awards could not be more different. A sense for Excellence in Design of peace pervades the space. The National Organization of all-white interiors are lit by a soft light Minority Architects that comes from the small windows and the four skylights that cut the 2003 AIA National Honor Award building crosswise. Each skylight for Architecture is formed by a void prism lined with polycarbonate sheets which confers a high sense of abstraction that gives rise to poetry. These light wells allow

Axonometric: Disposition of light shafts and repurposed façade Second Floor

First Floor

Basement Work area clustured around light shafts Opposite page: Walkway by work area

Reception light shafts Opposite page: Lunchroom View up light shaft to skylights Drawing of offices with natural light

About the Firm

Caples Jefferson Architects is CJA offers architecture and interior Architect Magazine and Domus to a design and architecture firm design services, as well as master and The Wall founded in 1987, in New York planning, urban design, research, Street Journal, the firm was listed City, by principals Everardo and programming. The firm has among the ‘Top 50 Sustainable Jefferson and Sara Caples. The completed over 200 projects for Firms in the United States’ in firm designs architecture that is civic, corporate, educational, Architect 50, a nationwide ranking engaged with social, cultural, and cultural, public, and private clients by Architect Magazine, in 2013. community concerns. The firm in the United States and abroad. The firm is a Minority and Women builds sustainably for the long Sustainability is crucial to the firm’s Business Enterprise (MWBE) term and for a broad public. design philosophy. Projects are certified in New York City, State, built to last, with materials and Whether designing a room, and federal levels. In 2009, the renewable energy options carefully building, or campus, CJA creates firm was designated New York chosen to consider their long-term architecture that speaks emotionally City’s MWBE of the Year. footprint. Efficient construction, and to the spirit, aspirations, and history the use of natural light, air, color, of the people who inhabit the materials, and transparency are key space. The firm designs buildings functional and aesthetic elements. that serve as civic anchors in the public realm—buildings In 2017, the firm was honored with that culturally broaden modern AIANY’s President’s Award. CJA architecture through the exploration was awarded the AIA’s New York of materials, form, movement, State Firm of the Year in 2012. transparency, light, and color. With work widely published from Selected Awards & Publications

2017 Weeksville Heritage Center First Prize Award for Excellence in National Organization of Minority Design AIA NY President’s Award Architects Queens Theatre-in-the-Park Honor Award for Excellence 2015 Weeksville Heritage Center National Organization of Minority Architects AIA NY COTE Institutional Award Ranked Number 26 of Top 50 National Awards for Excellence in Weeksville Heritage Center Sustainable Firms in the United States, Design, Citation Architect Magazine Queens Theatre-in-the-Park Built By Women New York City Award Multiple Projects 2012 Publications

The City of New York AIA New York State Firm of the Year CJA work has been featured in US and City Council Citation international publications including: Weeksville Heritage Center 2011 AIA Architect, AIA Guide to New York City, AD, A|L, allhitecture.com, 2014 Municipal Art Society ArchDaily, archello.com (Netherlands,) MASterworks Award for Best Restoration archidose.com Architizer, Architect AIA New York State Best in NY State Queens Theatre-in-the-Park Magazine, Architectural Design (UK), Architectural Record, Architectural AIA New York State Award of AIL Design Award Week, Architecture, ArchNewsNow, Excellence Special Citation: Best Use of Color architecturenewsplus. com, Architecture Weeksville Heritage Center Queens Theatre-in-the-Park Record, Arkkitehti (Finland,) Arts Build NY, Building Design & Construction, Chicago Athenaeum 2010 C3 (South Korea), Canadian Architect, American Architecture Award Casas & Más (Mexico), Chicago Weeksville Heritage Center New York Construction Tribune, cl (Chile), Competitions, Cultural Project of the Year Contract Design, Constructs, curbed. Municipal Art Society Queens Theatre-in-the-Park com, DesignBoom, Detail (Germany), MASterworks Best New Building DDC Design Excellence Publication, Weeksville Heritage Center CWB Design Portfolio Award Domus, dsgnr, Editors Guild Magazine, Starr East Asian Library eOculus, FastCoDesign.com, Green Historic Districts Council Design Award Buildings NYC, International New Weeksville Heritage Center 2009 Architecture (China), m-grid.com (China,) Metals in Construction, Metro, Mies van der Rohe Crown Hall City of New York MWBE of the Year Metropolis, Network Journal, New Americas Prize Nominee York Construction News, New York Weeksville Heritage Center National Organization of Minority Daily News, New York Magazine, New Architects York Observer, NOMA Magazine, NY Building Brooklyn Awards National Awards for Excellence in Metro Oculus, Perspecta, Progressive Best New Civic/Institutional Building Design, Citation Architecture, Queens Gazette, Weeksville Heritage Center Marcus Garvey Houses Community Queens Ledger, TATLIN (Russia), The Center Architect’s Newspaper, The New York 2013 Times, , Young 2008 Children Architect Magazine Annual Design Review: Best Cultural Project, Citation Queens Chamber of Commerce Selected Projects

MUSEUMS & EXHIBITIONS Manhattan Community College (BMCC), measures, New York, NY New York, NY The Africa Center, New York, NY Low Library curtains, Columbia Jennie Knauff Children’s Center, Bronx, University, New York, NY Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, NY NY, certified LEED Gold Starr East Asian Library renovation, K-8 Columbia University, New York, NY Louis Armstrong House Visitor Center and Archives, Queens, NY Bronx Academy of Promise Charter Marshak Science Tower renovation, City filed for LEED Gold School expansion, Bronx NY College of New York, NY

City of Culture exhibit, Center for Neighborhood Charter School in Harlem Life Sciences Building renovation, Stony Architecture, New York, NY new building, New York, NY Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Sri Lanka exhibition, , New Neighborhood Charter School in Harlem COMMUNITY CENTERS & RELIGIOUS York, NY swing space, New York, NY CENTERS

THEATRES Fair Haven Middle School, New First Corinthian Baptist Church, New Haven, Connecticut with Roth & Moore York, NY Queens Theatre in the Park, Flushing Architects Meadows Park, Queens, NY SpiritWorks for Marble Collegiate Brooklyn Blue Feather School, ADA Church, New York, NY Renovation of the Apollo Theatre, New renovations, Brooklyn, NY York, NY Renovation of Beth Shalom Synagogue, Grace Church School renovation, New Havana, Cuba Renovation of the Fair Haven York, NY, with James Stewart Polshek & Auditorium, New Haven, CT Associates Community Center, Village, Brooklyn, NY EDUCATION High School Community Center, Brevoort Houses, Preschool and Pre-K Regina Pacis High School for Autistic Brooklyn, NY Students, Brooklyn, NY 6309 4th Avenue Pre-K, Brooklyn, NY Higher Education Community Center, Cooper Park Houses, Brooklyn, NY 10 Bouck Court Pre-K, Brooklyn, NY Academic Conference Center, Columbia University, New York, NY with Community Center, Taylor-Wythe Blue Feather School for Autistic Renzo Piano Building Workship and Houses, Brooklyn, NY Children, Brooklyn, NY Dattner Architects The Valley Center, Church of Saint Shurtleff School and auditorium, Main Campus scoping program, John-the-Divine, New York, NY Chelsea, Massachusetts with Finegold Columbia University, New York, NY Alexander + Associates Borough of Manhattan Community Howard Haber Blue Feather School, College energy conservation Bronx, NY measure upgrades, New York, NY

Child Care Center, Borough of Baruch College energy conservation OFFICES Wilson Houses, entrance and lobby renovations, New York, NY 212 Media, New York, NY Whaler’s Point Condominiums, East Plenty Magazine offices, Brooklyn, NY Haven, CT Flaum Partners offices, New York, NY Pediatrics Department renovation, St. Luke’s hospital, New York, NY Motion Pictures Editors Guild offices & training facility, New York, NY URBAN DESIGN & INFRASTRUCTURE

Swing Space Headquarters & Renovation of Exterior Spaces, Jacob Broadcasting Studios, New York, NY Javits Building, New York, NY Headquarters, Heritage Health & Housing, New York, NY NYU Warren Weaver Hall Cogeneration Plant and Urban Plaza, New York, NY Headquarters renovation, Hapag-Lloyd America Inc, Piscataway, NJ Fresh Meadows Residential and Retail Boiler Plants, Queens, NY DeSimone Consulting Engineers offices, New York, NY Cogeneration Plant, The Estee Lauder Company, Melville, NY Hapag-Lloyd America Inc. exterior renovations, Staten Island, NY Lehman Houses Maintenance Building, New York, NY NY Macintosh Users Group, New York, NY Hazardous Waste Storage Building, Stonybrook, NY Gonzalez Associates, New York, NY Miller & Pagani, New York, NY

RESIDENTIAL AND TREATMENT

120 Kingston Avenue Apartments, Brooklyn, NY

LaCorte Apartments, Brooklyn, NY

Bronx Citizens Committee Alcoholic Crisis Center, Bronx, NY

1753 First Avenue apartment building, New York, NY

Central Harlem Alcoholic Crisis Center Long Term Recovery Center, NewYork, NY Credits

ESSAYS

Simone Corda is an architect based Cicada Design Inc. Formed in 2000, Julian Olivas combines his lifelong in Sydney, Australia. He explores the Cicada is a company based in passions for flying, aesthetics, and themes of contemporary architecture Toronto, Canada that has specialized love for adventure with the professional through researches and projects at in utilizing digital design media in the skills he acquired as a Photographer, different scales and across sectors. visualization of large scale institutional Architect and Helicopter Pilot for a point His PhD thesis focused on the flexibility and urban projects located globally; of view that is exciting, unique and of architecture as the key concept working in a highly collaborative extraordinary. for sustainability. He collaborated manner with its clients. We create with the Faculty of Architecture at the unique stories about environments, Andrew Popper is a photojournalist University of Cagliari, Italy. Since 2009 systems and communities. We seek and multi-media producer whose he has been a contributor for the Italian to inspire, inform and make complex association with Everardo Jefferson and magazine Area and the Korean C3. ideas meaningful. Our work is used to Sara Caples dates back to their student explain projects during their planning days. A graduate of Yale University, Heidi Saarinen is a designer, educator, stages, to communicate and contribute he has worked as a researcher on the architectural writer and dance artist to the design process in particular Comprehensive Plan for New York with specialism in concepts, theories participating with design consortiums City; as an assignment photographer and experimental methodologies. for public / private partnership for Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated Heidi’s continued research investigates infrastructure proposals (P3), marketing, and the New York Times Magazine; as peripheral places, thresholds and fund-raising, planning permissions and a photo editor at US News and World the interaction between spaces and press coverage. Report and Business Week, and as a the body. Heidi is currently working book reviewer for Barron’s. He lives in on a series of collaborative projects Thibault Jeanson is an internationally New York City, where he helped found and publications connecting interiors, recognized photographer based the Neighborhood Charter School of architecture, choreography and film. in Paris specializing in innovative Harlem. Heidi is active in matters on community advertising, interiors, and architecture. and architectural heritage and is based His work has been featured in art Albert Vecerka uses his strong in London, UK. galleries and published in a variety of understanding of architecture and mediums, including books, magazines photography to portray objects and PHOTOGRAPHY and digital formats. Jeanson’s work has space; painting with light and capturing appeared in Vogue, Martha Stewart time in still imagery, time-lapse, and Michael Anton is a photographer Living, Elle Decor, House & Garden, video. Albert’s work has been displayed based in New York, specializing in and The World Of Interiors. and widely published in print and architectural, industrial, corporate and digital media. Since 2004 he has been fine art photography. Nic Lehoux is a Canadian architectural teaching architectural photography at photographer who works with architects the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School Blandon Belushin is a graduate of Art who are pushing the boundaries in of Architecture at City College. He has Center in Los Angeles. Blandon has design of the built environment. Nic is also taught Parsons and Cooper Union. lived and worked in New York City for regularly commissioned to document over thirty years, shooting for architects, significant buildings around the world Paul Warchol’s work has been designers, ad agencies, and nonprofits. with his unique eye, lighting and published in the leading architectural He’s the photographer of the book sense of composition. His images are magazines of the world. Warchol Barns of Cape Cod which documents frequently published in the international received an AIA Honor Award for the vanishing barns of the area, and a architectural press. Excellence in the field of Architectural contributor to several books on design. Photography in 1996. He operates his own studio and archive in NYC and GRAPHIC DESIGN lives with his wife and two children in Bucks County Pennsylvania. Beau Rhee is a designer, artist and educator. She is the director of Stephen Yang is a photographer communications at CJA. specializing in reportage photography based in New York.

Credit in order of appearance

Weeksville Heritage Center: Nic Lehoux, Julian Olivas Michael Anton, Stephen Yang

Queens Theatre-in-the-Park: Nic Lehoux, Julian Olivas, Albert Vecerka

Starr East Asian Library: Blandon Belushin, Stephen Yang, 3D Visualizations by Cicada Design

Louis Armstrong House Musum: 3D Visualizations by Cicada Design All Drawings by CJA

Desimone Offices: Paul Warchol

House in Vermont: Andrew Popper

Marcus Garvey Community Center: Nic Lehoux, Julian Olivas, Michael Anton

Heritage Health Housing Headquarters: Blandon Belushin, Thibault Jeanson, Albert Vecerka CAPLES JEFFERSON ARCHITECTS PC 37-18 Northern Boulevard, Suite 319 , NY 11101 1.212.779.9772 www.capjeff.com