STUDIO V Architecture is an award-winning architecture and urban design firm that seeks to reimagine the 21stcentury urban condition. We specialize in transit-oriented developments and waterfront urban design at all scales, and adaptive reuse projects that repurpose historic structures for public use.
We believe cities are the greatest artifacts of man, containers of collective myths and desires. STUDIO V explores and renews cities by creating contemporary architecture that incorporates and enriches history while expressing the ideals of our time.
Our designs combine old and new, integrate modern architecture with historic structures, and contrast craft and digital fabrication. Our research reveals historic layers of sites and structures while our architecture incorporates the radical recycling of industrial and historic artifacts including bridges, tanks, warehouses, buildings, former secret laboratories, and grain silos into surprising new uses and successful public spaces.
Our architecture addresses the forgotten spaces of cities, to support entrepreneurs, reconnect neighborhoods, and promote equity. Our expertise in resiliency, affordable housing, waterfront design, public parks, brownfield remediation, reinventing infrastructure, and cultural spaces is transforming former edges into the new centers of urban life.
Our architectural designs incorporate expressive lattice shells, cable-nets, state of the art sustainable materials, and innovative solutions to save endangered historic structures. Our innovative approaches to digital fabrication are transforming public spaces, from an award winning underground street in Japan, to the longest bar in North America, to a pedestrian passage on a bridge over Niagara Falls.
A 463-unit rental property at 1515 Surf Avenue is now topped out in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Developed by LCOR and designed by STUDIO V Architecture, the building stands 16 stories tall and also contains 11,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor.
In this podcast interview, Jay Valgora, Founder and Principal of STUDIO V, and Majora Carter, CEO of Majora Carter Group, an urban revitilization, strategy, and real estate group firm, explore the importance of community reinvestment and the power of design to transform neglected spaces into vibrant, thriving places. Our case study is Bronxlandia, a community-led initiative in the South Bronx that aims to revitalize a neighborhood.
From bio-grounds on the Certosa Island to the most contemporary urban challenges, here are the exhibitions that talk about architecture during the 2023 Venice Biennale.
"I think the neighborhood realizes that it’s a pretty creative and interesting design from STUDIO V, that will add a lot of value and integrate well into the neighborhood,” Chris Wan said. “It’s been a long blighted corner for many years, so it’s long overdue that it’s transformed.”
Located on a 1.5-acre lot one block from the Coney Island boardwalk, 1515 Surf Ave. is slated to open in 2024 and was hailed as the largest geothermal residential development when it was awarded the NYSERDA grant in 2021, a title that has since been passed to 1 Java St. Still, it was the first project of its kind in NYC’s history to begin using geothermal technology—and has led to the wave of development employing the similar systems.