Brownstoner
The Insider: Boerum Hill Townhouse Reno Beefs Up Energy Efficiency, Saves DetailOctober 24th 2024
CO Adaptive multiplied the energy efficiency of a landmarked 19th century townhouse while preserving exquisite plasterwork.
Remodelista
Adding Energy Efficiency and Revived Style to 1860s Quarters in BrooklynAugust 23rd 2024
The 1860s brick row house in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill had a lot going for it...CO Adaptive, a Brooklyn architecture practice and building studio specializing in energy-efficient design, was readymade for the job.
Dezeen
CO Adaptive overhauls Queens home to meet Passive House standardsAugust 3rd 2024
Brooklyn studio CO Adaptive has retrofitted a terraced house in Queens, New York to meet Passive House energy efficiency standards.
Society of American Registered Architects
2024 Design Award of ExcellenceJune 11th 2024
We are very happy to announce that our Timber Adaptive Reuse Theater for the Mercury Store was awarded the 2024 Design Award of Excellence by the SARA New York Council.
New York Times
‘You Can Be a Little Different in Queens’: Why This Home Is Not Like the OthersMay 31st 2024
Instead of a conventional renovation, one New Yorker took a progressive approach. Now he pays almost nothing for energy, and the air is always fresh.
Sustainability Hub for Offshore and Coastal Solutions to Climate Change
Governors IslandApril 16th 2024
CO Adaptive has been selected to provide the interior design, lighting design, and sustainability consulting for the renovation of a 23,000 SF climate research center on Governor’s Island for Buttermilk Labs.
Syracuse Architecture
NYC: In Practice, Practicum Program and RoundtableApril 15th 2024
A professional elective course that combines academic readings and podcasts, writing assignments, and classroom discussions while exposing students to architectural practice through a three-week full-time practicum at a New York office. The practicum component of the course is a structured immersion into professional practice that allows students to watch and to learn from architects and designers as they perform their job responsibilities.
Cornell AAP
The Circular Economy: Science and Business of Construction Stakeholder EditionFebruary 8th 2024
The elective partners with seven (7) New York State stakeholders who have offered to participate in interviews and answer questions on their business models, finances and strategic setup. In groups, we will conduct interviews with these stakeholders, understand, map and graphically represent their answers, check references, codes and legislation, and – as a class – synthesize the answers, understand commonalities of the industry and geographic area as well as stakeholder-unique gaps and barriers. The final result is a graphic mapping of the reuse ecosystem across stakeholders, as well as seven written reports summarizing the specifics of each stakeholder within this framework.
Stakeholders: Finger Lakes Reuse, Tri-Lox, ReUse Action, Preservation Architecture, CO Adaptive, LCP Group. and Contento’s
Leaning Out X / Women in Circularity
Center for ArchitectureJanuary 31st 2024
The cause and effect of our impact on environments—and the impact these environments have on us—has highlighted the importance of understanding ecosystems and circularity in built, cultural, and natural contexts. We also want to understand the communities that create, maintain, and evolve in these contexts. Women that have pioneered in circularity will share their work and exchange thoughts in this moderated panel. Please join theAIANY Global Dialogues Committee for the 10th annual Leaning Out event as we meet and converse with some of these extraordinary thinkers, designers, and architects.
Speakers:
Mae-ling Lokko, Assistant Professor, Yale University’s School of Architecture; Assistant Professor, Yale’s Center for Ecosystems in Architecture (Yale CEA)
Ruth Mandl, Principal and Architect, CO Adaptive
Viviana Pozzoli, Co-founder, Equipo de Arquitectura
Abeer Seikaly, Artist, Architect, Designer
Moderator:
Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture & Design, The Museum of Modern Art
You can watch the event here.
After Comfort
e-fluxDecember 2nd 2023
A series of presentations and discussions on what tomorrow’s comfort might look like and how architecture’s value is evolving through its entanglement with the building industry, economic systems, and energy transitions. Talks are centered around After Comfort: A User’s Guide, e-flux Architecture’s editorial collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney, the Technical University of Munich, the University of Liverpool, and Transsolar.
The event is organized by Daniel A. Barber, co-editor of After Comfort: A User’s Guide, Nick Axel, deputy editor at e-flux Architecture, and Christina Moushoul, assistant editor at e-flux Architecture. It is moderated by Daniel A. Barber, and includes participants Florian Idenburg (SO-IL), Dorit Aviv (UPenn), and Bobby Johnston and Ruth Mandl (CO Adaptive).
US Architects Declare
Adaptive Futures SeriesOctober 13th 2023
Join Ruth Mandl and Bobby Johnston of CO Adaptive as they discuss their project in Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY. Originally an industrial site housing a metal foundry, this heavy timber building was transformed into a new developmental space for theater artists, and exemplifies low carbon design thinking in several ways.
The Architectural League of New York
Beaux Arts Ball 2023: Sea ChangeSeptember 29th 2023
“Beaux Arts Ball 2023: SEA CHANGE celebrated circularity, reinvention, and the interdependence of planetary ecosystems and the built environment. In 2023, the Ball returned to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Agger Fish Corp.’s Building 269. The space was transformed anew with an immersive installation by Brooklyn-based studio CO Adaptive, conceived in dialogue with this year’s theme, and with lighting designed by Joel Fitzpatrick and Ken Farmer. The exuberant graphic identity was once again crafted by Michael Bierut, Britt Cobb, and their team at Pentagram.”
The Municipal Art Society of New York
2023 MASterworks Design Awards Best Adaptive ReuseSeptember 28th 2023
The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) announced today the winners of the annual 2023 MASterworks Awards which celebrates the best new spaces and buildings in New York City’s public realm. New York City is renowned for its architectural beauty and brilliantly designed spaces and buildings and the MASterworks Awards recognize the best additions to the city’s built environment completed in 2022.
DETAIL
The Mercury Store in New York by CO Adaptive ArchitectureSeptember 20th 2023
A wonderful feature from one of our favorite publications!
American Institute of Architects New York
Building Tour: Timber Adaptive Reuse Theater by Co-AdaptiveSeptember 13th 2023
Join us for a two-hour tour of the Timber Adaptive Reuse Theater located in Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal District. The tour will be led by Ruth Mandl and Bobby Johnston of CO Adaptive Architecture, as well as Claudia Zelevansky of Mercury Stores. Content will include a brief history of the building’s previous iterations and the adaptive re-use of the industrial building into a new cultural facility for Mercury Stores. The project is representative of how the architects understand the the design of one building as part of a holistic system whose component parts have an effect on their environment.
Columbia University
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and PreservationSeptember 6th 2023
Ruth and Bobby have been invited to teach a graduate level advanced design studio on the theme Uncertain Futures. Their studio, Industry of Waste, tasks students with developing architectural products and processes for a circular economy, and to look at how these economies and ecologies will adapt to an uncertain future in New York City’s Red Hook Grain Terminal.
Photo by Ofer Wolberger
Metropolis
CO Adaptive Uses Low Carbon Design to Rejuvenate Old BuildingsDecember 19th 2022
Catalogues a visit by Metropolis to our new facility in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and highlights discuissions around circularity and de-construction withg our team and trade partners.
Museum of Modern Art
Architecture NowNew York, New Publics Exhibition
February–July 2023
In a city where many aspects of our social lives are shaped by real estate and economic forces, architecture can play a vital role in fostering participation and belonging. New York, New Publics showcases 12 projects for public-facing spaces across New York City’s five boroughs. In contrast to the violent nature of urban renewal and other disruptive metropolitan initiatives of the past century, recent design approaches propose subtler, nimbler interventions. Considering the city as an ecosystem, these inventive approaches envision a future in which architecture creates more accessible, sustainable, and equitable cities.
New York, New Publics is the inaugural installation of Architecture Now, a new periodic exhibition series that will serve as a platform to highlight emerging talent and foreground groundbreaking projects in contemporary architecture.
Remodelista
The Low Impact HomeSeptember 2022
NBC Open
House
Elegantly Renovated Bedstuy TownhouseAugust 2022
A feature on Ruth and Bobby’s Passive House in Bedstuy where they give a tour to NBC and some behind the scene footage of the project.
Dezeen
Awards
Shortlist - Rebirth Project
AIA Brooklyn
Design Awards
Commendation For Climate Action
December 2022
Design
Vanguard
Architectural Record
June 2022
Azure
Awards
Winner + People’s Choice Award in Adaptive Reuse
June 2022
Design
Hunter
Mexico
Think GreenApril 2022
Archdaily
Redesigning the Road to Net Zero: How CO Adapive Architecture is Breaking New Ground
March 2022
Wallpaper
Sustainable Architecture, Innovative and Inspiring Building Design
February 2022
Divisare
CO Adaptive Architecture, The Mercury Store
January 2022
Dezeen
CO Adaptive Architecture converts Gowanus foundry into flexible theater spaces
January 2022
ICON
Old Brooklyn Foundry becomes theater incubator
November 2021
ArchDaily
Adaptive Reuse, Rethinking Carbon, Sustainability and Social Justice
November 2021
AIA Brooklyn
Design Awards
Winner, Sustainable Design
December 2020
Clever
A Passive House Grows in Brooklyn
March 2020
Architect
Five Construction Details to Reduce Embodied and Operational Carbon
January 2020
Architect
Macon Street Passive House
December 2019
Interior
Design
CO Adaptive Architecture turns a 200 Year-Old Brooklyn Brownstone into and Energy Efficient Passive House
November 2019
NYCxDesign
Awards
Kitchen and Bath Category Winner
May 2019
Passive
House
Accelerator
From Small to Extra Large