The Glenmore Gardens Homes

Located in East New York, Glenmore Gardens is comprised of nine two-family homes developed by Just Green Resources LLC and situated on city-owned land through the Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s New Foundations program. As part of a consortium of young, design-oriented firms, LTL was responsible for one of these homes in collaboration with Architect-of-Record Della Valle Bernheimer.

Utilizing a consistent palette of inexpensive but visually expressive materials, the project brings innovative design to an underserved community while working within stringent economic constraints.

The Glenmore Gardens homes are part of Mayor Bloomberg’s ten-year New Housing Marketplace Plan to build and preserve 165,000 units of affordable housing for 500,000 New Yorkers, the largest municipal affordable housing plan in the nation’s history.

Glenmore Garden | Brooklyn, NY
Open Spring 2007
Site Area: 5,500 sq. ft.
Architects : LTL Architects.

Shigeru Ban Architects | Metal Shutter Houses

This is a new under construction project on West Chelsea [ 9 unit condo ] that was designed by japanese Shigeru Ban Architects. The project is located on the south side of West 19th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues in West Chelsea’s art gallery district, right next to the High Line, the Hudson River Park, Ghery´s IAC Building and Jean Nouvel´s 100 11th.

On this building, Shigeru Ban once again innovates on the material use by incorporating motorized perforated metal shutters on its -dynamic- facade, which act as light-modulating privacy screen at the outer edge of each residence’s terrace adjacent to the double-height living rooms.

From their website: This subtle “removable skin” echoes the neighboring gallery after-hours shutters, subtly contextualizing the building within its site. The building can literally become a uniform minimal cube, or it can open completely (as well as virtually unlimited permutations between). South of the loggia, twenty foot tall, upwardly pivoting glass walls open completely, thus blurring the boundary between the inside and outside – the double height living room and loggia become one.

Similarly, a series of interior sliding glass doors create an open “universal floor” in each of the duplex houses – one vast and uninterrupted expanse which transitions seamlessly from inside to outside, or partition the space into private areas.

Urban Villa Domus Malles / Metrogramma

Architects: Metrogramma

Location: Bolzano, Italy
Client: Immobiliare Case and Dimore S.r.l.
Program: 14 Apartments housing block
Project Surface: total area 3.560 SQM
Volumetry: 3.570 MC
Project Schedule: 2004 - 2007
Project cost: 2.500.000 Euro
Architect Homepage: www.metrogramma.com

A residential policy is completely different from an exclusively building one. In respect of this point of view, Metrogamma studio accepted the assignment of Case and Dimore of building a little residential condominium in Bolzano, Italy.

This is not a simple residential building but a complex which aims to add something new to the usual project of residential apartments especially in terms of quality and comfort of the single residences. The relationship between the different typological proposals conceived as a landscape made of full and empty spaces and the energetic inovations has allowed to direct our efforts to the innovation of the residential intervention model.

One of the main characteristics of this architectural complex is that of not showing identical, repetitive residential typologies, but instead of offering different residences ( despite the little residential intervention ) which improve the residential offer: residences with gardens ( on the ground floor ), attics with roof gardens ( on the fifth floor ).


Each apartment is provided with wide loggia-balconies and terraces on each floor. Facades are rich of accurate details which give an idea of the inner heterogeneuos subdivision. This project make the best use of the area potentialities by maximizing the allowed cubature as on the PUC, i.e. with a maximum of 3592,68 cm.