Hudson Street Loft
New York City, 2007
DBPA transformed this 6,000-square-foot, 2-story warehouse loft into a home for a growing family. The project is located on the top two floors of a former industrial building in Tribeca. The design was guided by the family’s daily life and the spaces were carefully laid out to provide distinct areas with varying levels of privacy and intimacy.
The lower floor is the more public of the two. An elegant entry foyer, with dark wood wainscoting, opens into a large room that holds the open kitchen, the dining area, and the living room. The materials are simple, yet rich: jatoba wood cabinets and bookshelves, statuary marble countertops, brushed stainless steel upper cabinets, and wide-plank floors of reclaimed oak. The dark wood and oak flooring provide a sharp contrast to the crisp white walls and ceilings. Elements of the warehouse space, including ceiling beams and sprinklers pipes, were left exposed in order to maintain a touch of the industrial character. This room has the flexibility to function as a daily living space but also has the capacity and elegance to allow for formal entertaining.
On the second level, the character of the loft changes. Here, spaces are made up of smaller, more intimate rooms and the palette of materials is kept more restrained. A variety of white surfaces reflect, amplify, and modulate the abundant daylight that streams in through the continuous bands of steel windows.
New York City, 2007
DBPA transformed this 6,000-square-foot, 2-story warehouse loft into a home for a growing family. The project is located on the top two floors of a former industrial building in Tribeca. The design was guided by the family’s daily life and the spaces were carefully laid out to provide distinct areas with varying levels of privacy and intimacy.
The lower floor is the more public of the two. An elegant entry foyer, with dark wood wainscoting, opens into a large room that holds the open kitchen, the dining area, and the living room. The materials are simple, yet rich: jatoba wood cabinets and bookshelves, statuary marble countertops, brushed stainless steel upper cabinets, and wide-plank floors of reclaimed oak. The dark wood and oak flooring provide a sharp contrast to the crisp white walls and ceilings. Elements of the warehouse space, including ceiling beams and sprinklers pipes, were left exposed in order to maintain a touch of the industrial character. This room has the flexibility to function as a daily living space but also has the capacity and elegance to allow for formal entertaining.
On the second level, the character of the loft changes. Here, spaces are made up of smaller, more intimate rooms and the palette of materials is kept more restrained. A variety of white surfaces reflect, amplify, and modulate the abundant daylight that streams in through the continuous bands of steel windows.