David Ling Architect
4 Reviews

Greenbaum Apartment

After completing the renovation and addition to the owner’s 60’s modernist house in New Canaan, they asked for an encore for their upper east side pied-a-terre. Two one bedroom apartments were combined to form a new apartment and visiting room for psychiatry practice. With space at a premium, the architect decided to take a flexible approach by gutting the entire space and replacing the fixed walls with a series of translucent honeycomb partitions. These honeycombs, together with the cabinetry clad in perforated aluminum sheets referred to the owner's baseball collection, ghostly enshrined behind sandblasted glass doors.

The sculptural centerpiece is a rudder like piece cladding the column. By turning the ensemble into a light fixture, it became the center piece instead of the awkward column in the middle of the room. The entire perimeter of the apartment is lined in the perforated aluminum cabinets and continue into the ultra marine blue kitchen. Translucent panels conceal media equipment and bathrooms as well as the baseball collection. Maple floors, and floating ceilings complete the picture as do the b+b and cassina furniture.
Country: United States