Former N.Y. Church Site Reimagined as Housing. MLK Plaza Serves a Range of Low- and Moderate-Income New Yorkers.
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Q&A with Brian McIntosh – MAP’s Director of Architectural Visualization
Brian McIntosh, MAP’s Director of Architectural Visualization discusses renderings and the role that they play in the firm’s design process.
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Casa Celina wins a 2025 AIANY Design Award!
The affordable senior housing located at the Justice Sonia Sotomayor Houses in the Soundview section of the Bronx, is named for the Justice’s mother, Celina Baez.
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Casa Celina Earns Mention From Michael Kimmelman In The NY Times
Located in the Soundview section of the Bronx, this 16-story building offers affordable senior housing under NYCHA/HPD's Seniors First program at the Sotomayor Houses.
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Renderings Revealed for 450 Union Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn
The 19-story residential building in Gowanus, Brooklyn, is designed by SO-IL with Magnusson Architecture & Planning as the architect of record and developed by Tankhouse and McArthur Holdings.
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MAP Projects In the Built By New York Exhibit at The Center for Architecture
The exhibit features five projects by Magnusson Architecture and Planning.
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2050 Grand Concourse Profiled in Affordable Housing Finance Magazine
The once vacant corner lot now offers 96 affordable housing units for low- and middle-income residents, including 58 apartments for those with special needs, and houses the new headquarters for nonprofit developer and service provider, Unique People Services.
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Melrose Commons in the News
The Melrose Commons Master Plan, a formative, community-centered design project celebrates its 30th anniversary.
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Community-Driven Development in New York City: The Melrose Commons Master Plan
30 years later, the revitalization project in this South Bronx neighborhood provides a framework for inclusive design and housing production.
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Sara Bayer, Named to Crain’s New York Business 2024 Notable Leaders in Sustainability
MAP’s Director of Sustainability, Sara Bayer, was honored as one of Crain's 2024 Notable Leaders in Sustainability. She shares her insights.
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Buildings Of Excellence Round Four Winners
Carmen Villegas Apartments and other 4th Round winners profiled by Passive House Accelerator
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East Clarke Place in MarketWatch
The story of this 112-unit, affordable senior building helps illustrate the dire need for this type of housing.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Tours Casa Celina
The new, MAP designed senior affordable housing complex in the Bronx is named in honor of her mother Celina Báez.
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Carmen Villegas Apartments Wins a NYSERDA BOE Award
The 217-unit senior housing development was also recognized with a Blue Ribbon for Design Excellence
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2050 Grand Concourse Opens!
Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the completion of 2050 Grand Concourse, an affordable and supportive housing development with 96 apartments in the Bronx’s Fordham Heights neighborhood.
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Regenerative Metropolis: High-Performance Carbon Sequestration
Opening remarks for the Climate Week symposium from MAP’s Director of Sustainability, and the event chair, Sara Bayer.
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Dekalb Commons Breaks Ground
The multi-building passive house complex will yield 85 affordable units and approximately 1,190 square feet of ground-floor commercial space.
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Q&A with MAP’s newest principal, Brian Loughlin
An expert, and advocate for equitable housing, planning and community development, Brian Loughlin weighs in on some of the biggest challenges facing our local housing industry.
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What we can learn from Nordic countries about affordable housing
As an Iceland-born architect who has been designing housing in New York for more than 30 years, I’ve seen the achievements and failures of our system—and I’ve seen solutions from the Scandinavian countries that can work here.
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MAP’s projects are winners of NYSERDA’s BOE competition
Highbridge and Livonia C3 – are winners in the third round of NYSERDA’s Buildings of Excellence competition.
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It’s a Seismic Shift. We are Ready!
MAP’s Director of Sustainability Sara Bayer spoke at the NYSERDA Buildings of Excellence Round 3 Awards.