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nARCHITECTS is a Brooklyn-based architectural studio working across the United States and internationally on new buildings, transformations of existing buildings, and public spaces. In collaboration with public agencies, cultural institutions, developers, and private clients, we design architecture for the 
public good, engaging a world in flux. Our work aims to amplify meaningful, self-reinforcing interactions between communities and their environments, both built and natural.
Co-founded in 1999 by Eric Bunge, FAIA, and Mimi Hoang, FAIA, NOMA, nARCHITECTS gained national attention in 2004 with Canopy, an installation at MoMA P.S.1 in Queens, NY, and soon after, Switch Building & Gallery in Manhattan. Since these early projects, our work has continued to address pressing contemporary issues related to housing, cultural institutions, and civic space. As New York City’s first micro-unit apartment building and the tallest modular building in Manhattan at the time of completion, Carmel Place helped to contribute to changes in the zoning resolution in support of livable spaces for the increasing number of small households. The design center A/D/O provided a new public platform for design thinking in a transformed warehouse in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint, becoming a major producer of culture in its four years of existence. With the renovation of Chicago Navy Pier (with team lead James Corner Field Operations) and the completion of the NYS Equal Rights Heritage Center, the firm expanded its profile, going on to win the 2016 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture and the 2017 New York State AIA Firm of the Year Award. And with the completion in 2020 of the net-zero Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center, the practice demonstrates a capacity to give form to a new generation of environmental stewardship. In 2023 nARCHITECTS received the National Design Award in Architecture.
Current projects include a campus renovation of the Teatown Lake Reservation comprising nature and education centers, the renovation and addition of the West New Brighton Library in Staten Island, the adaptive reuse of MADE Bush Terminal, a concept design for West Sibley Hall at Cornell University, a community pavilion at Violet Cove in Suffolk County, the Orchard Beach Maintenance & Operations Building for NYC Parks, a renovation of the Staten Island Zoo, a private home in Dutchess County, and an affordable housing project for seniors in Brooklyn for the New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development.
In 2018, nARCHITECTS published the book Buildings and Almost Buildings (ACTAR), a subtle manifesto about the formal and social potential of an architecture that remains open-ended. Order your copy here.
nARCHITECTS is a nationally certified WBE and NYS/NYC accredited W/MBE firm.