This project required the significant rebuilding of an existing top floor in a Civil Wall era loft building in the TriBeCa neighborhood of Manhattan. An existing wood frame roof was removed and a two-story 7,200SF addition was added. The major volume, a two-story space behind the existing marble facade, connects the two levels spatially. The organization of the plan attempts to recreate some of the hierarchies of private and public domestic space associated with the better prewar residential buildings in Manhattan. The detailing-the extensive use of paneling, for example-is reminiscent of the work of architects such as Jean Michel Frank, Adolf Loos and Bruno Paul.