Rise Projects is a full service architecture and design firm founded and led by Karen Frome with a vision for thoughtful materiality and balancing the elegant with the bold. We approach each project as an exploration between our office and the client. We start projects by learning about the inspirations and the expectations for a project, looking at the possibilities and listening to our clients’ needs. Through this attentive approach Rise Projects has built a relationship with clients who frequently return to us for subsequent projects. Our in-house team at Rise culls the expertise of our longstanding consultants to ensure that a project is seamlessly executed. We deftly solve difficult situations and enjoy bringing creative and fresh thinking to to a wide array of challenges.

ANTI explores the power of design to develop projects that connect travelers with local nature and culture. NATAL PROJECT is an open conversation around off the grid dwellings in rural areas.

Design shop based in NY, NY.

Normal Projects/Michael Chen Architecture is an architecture practice producing both built commissioned work and design research. We integrate diverse thinking about architecture, interiors, products, infrastructure, and urbanism to produce work that embodies an enduring fascination with intricacy and the interactions of multiple systems and elements. Our approach is deeply informed by curiosity and a love of tinkering, of drawing, of discourse, and of making. We believe in technology, and make extensive use of specialized digital tools and platforms for design, fabrication, and collaboration. These are key to our practice and inform both new ways of working and exploration into new ways of living with, producing, and thinking about architecture.

SABO project is a Brooklyn-based design office investigating the fields of architecture, furniture design, set design, installations and environmental strategies. Through an optimistic sabo(tage) of each project substance, our practice aims to identify unexpected means of contemporary relevance. The office focuses on the design of places where one can act differently and perhaps think differently.

Sustainable, Healthy Homes... by Design www.surfprojects.com @surfsideprojects

When the founding members of a design collective all hail from the powerhouse firm Nendo, you can expect their work to be both disciplined and prolific. Such is the case with Takt Project, a multidisciplinary studio based in Tokyo founded by Atsushi Honda, Yoshitaka Ito, Satoshi Yoshiizumi, and Takeshi Miyazaki. The group works on a wide range of projects, from socially driven endeavors like improving wheelchair design to wristwatches for Sony’s under-the-radar wearable tech start-up. Reinvention is a recurring theme in the studio, as seen in the 3-Pring Product line—3-D printed components that people can use to transform readily available, inexpensive products from retailers like Muji. Riffing on the idea of sampling in music, Takt created a bracket that can be used to join run-of-the-mill acrylic storage bins to build a console, and a unit that allows someone to string an ordinary light socket through an acrylic storage box to create a pendant light. “The words of greats from the past taught me that design is not about the beauty of shapes or styling,” says Yoshiizumi, “but rather adding a creative and novel interpretation to existing ways of thinking.”

Weather Projects is an architecture studio founded in 2013 and based in Los Angeles. The studio provides design services for architecture, interiors, and furniture. The work is based on dialogues between forms and spaces that offer society a sense of place, fascination, and a new way to experience the world. We believe this dialogue leads to better buildings, communities, and cities for us all. Our residential projects create a background for modern life. We work closely and collaboratively with homeowners and thoughtful local developers. Our projects range from individual home renovations and additions to ground up single and multi-family developments. Our design focus revolves around responsive buildings and spaces that improve the health, wellness, and aesthetic qualities for it’s inhabitants and the surrounding community. Currently our residential projects are located in Los Angeles and Marin Counties.

Mickus Projects is a multi-disciplinary design studio specializing in furniture, lighting, architecture and design strategy. Founded by Ben K. Mickus in 2006 in Brooklyn, and now based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the studio takes on design, fabrication and often installation of their work. The exploration of multi-sensory experience, interplay between materials, and craftsmanship enhanced by digital technology frame the practice at large.

Small Residential Office

PAC discovers the untapped potential of the existing to create something new. Renovation and Addition is a strategy we embrace. The initial methodology we apply with each design is the simple need for research. Any existing context has its own programmatic, structural and volumetric principles that have to be understood and respected. Sometimes only a minimal intervention is sufficient to reveal the quality and character of an existing site. Our design intention is to combine the new with the old in an unexpected way, making an architecture at once familiar and unique. We are interested in projects of various scales – ranging from small interiors to urban masterplans – and look forward to each new challenge. PAC was founded by Anne Menke and Richard Sharam in 2011 and is based in Berlin. www.project.ac

An Interior Design Studio