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Based on New York City’s Lower East Side, this enterprising architecture firm, led by Morgan Hare, Marc Turkel, and Shawn Watts, is adept at navigating diverse worlds. While playing an active role in the local community through its nonprofit arm, Hester Street Collaborative, Leroy Street Studio continues to expand its résumé of Manhattan commercial projects (the Charlie Bird restaurant, an office triplex in the iconic Lever House) and high-end residential commissions, varying from townhouse revamps to vacation homes in the Hamptons and on Cape Cod. The firm’s crisp, clean-lined houses smartly riff on traditional building types, often with innovative touches such as the wood louvers that clad a barn-style house on Long Island. Other hallmarks include incorporating open spaces that cut through structures and composing asymmetrical volumes and windows—bold gestures that animate the architecture and its relationship to the site. leroystreetstudioom

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