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Oza Sabbeth Architects on Working Through the Pandemic

2020-07-15T09:00:00-04:00

Oza Sabbeth Architects is a Long Island, New York-based architecture and construction practice founded in 2014 by architect Nilay Oza and artist Peter Sabbeth. The pair runs a 10-person design-build office that focuses almost exclusively on high-end residential projects in the Long Island area. This specific project focus, as well as the firm's in-house construction capabilities, gives the design team an ability to iterate a variety of sumptuous spatial and material approaches with the help of their uncompromising clients. The arrangement has also made working from home a particular challenge for the hands-on team.

We caught up with Oza and Sabbeth to discuss where the firm stands in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, how the practice is pursuing new work, and what the future of the firm's office culture might look like post-pandemic.

S9 Architecture is Remaking the City and Suburbs Through Iterative Design

2017-05-02T12:14:00-04:00

S9 Architecture, a Manhattan-based firm, is involved in a plethora of projects that are not so much shaping the skyline of the city as quietly addressing the context of the city and the impacts of new spatial needs from the street and human scale. Their work has even attracted the likes of ‘starchitect’ Bjarke Ingels, who recently moved into a rustic, rusted penthouse in one of their Brooklyn buildings. A relatively young firm, S9 has a style and philosophy that has helped them secure a position at the forefront of a new market for vibrant mixed-use development in New York and its surroundings, with projects like the Dock 72 building in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard under construction—which has WeWork as a major tenant—to iterations on reviving and adapting the shopping experience in suburbia.

At home in a changing climate: strategies for adapting to sea level rise

2016-08-03T10:09:00-04:00

For most of us, ‘home’ conjures a sense of safety and security. But a home is a fragile thing: vulnerable to quaking ground, rushing water, violent winds—not to mention, the volatility of finances and health. This has never been more true than in the time of climate change. The global thermostat of the home in which we build our homes is on the fritz.