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Ten projects showcase
clever urban interventions
spearheaded by principals
under age 50
RON NYREN
Next-Generation Design Firms
Design firms led by Gen
X and Gen Y principals are
coming into their own in an
era of aging cities and industrial
parks, rising housing costs,
increasing wildfires and floods,
continuing urban sprawl, and
the lingering dominance of
the automobile. The 10 firms
profiled here, led by men and
women in their 30s and 40s,
have responded creatively
1. Allen Apartments
BUFFALO, NEW YORK
At the edge of Buffalo's Allentown Historic District, small Colonial,
Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne buildings sit
across Main Street from large contemporary structures such as
the University at Buffalo's Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences. At the corner of Allen Street and Main, Mayflower
Allen Property asked Los Angeles-based Adam Sokol
Architecture Practice (ASAP) to give new life to a 1920s-era, sixunit,
two-story apartment building in deep disrepair.
Founded in 2011, ASAP convinced the city's preservation
to these challenges, devising
cost-effective approaches to
the designs of residences and
green spaces, shortening construction
times by deploying
prefabricated structures, and
transforming brownfields for
community use.
The following projects
include an approach to rescuing
neglected public parklands,
one patch of ground at a time:
a new park that shares space
with stockpiles of road salt;
eight dwellings tucked into one
long Quonset hut; a community
arts center on the site of a
former gas station; a modular
interim fire station designed
to ultimately become an environmental
learning center, and
others.
board to allow demolition of the historic structure while keeping
the storefront's existing tan brick façade. Buffalo's new Green
Code allowed the building to forgo a parking requirement, freeing
up room for a three-story addition clad in dark gray metal
panels that steps back from Main Street and holds 10 units. At
the rear, the building's angular volumes frame a new courtyard
shared by its neighbor, also owned by Mayflower. The Allen
Apartments were completed in 2022.
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