Andre Kikoski Architect, PLLC

By nightfall, the building’s gestalt transforms yet again as it fades from a solid industrial mass to an ethereal, enigmatic glowing mural, a true work of art on a true urban scale.
📷: Francis Dzikowski

The building skin is composed of a computer-generated pattern of concentric openings of increasing size that we then “erased” with freehand pen strokes, resulting in a random perforation that marries the hand and machine through craft. The skin is secured with visible exposed fasteners and backlit with LEDs in a reflective aluminum cavity.
📷: Francis Dzikowski

With characteristic sensitivity to the qualities of building materials, we were drawn to how the composition of alloying copper, chromium, and nickel that comprise Corten steel oxidizes into a richly textured protective rust-like skin that is elegantly transformed by the setting sun into Rothko-like regions of color.
📷: Francis Dzikowski

Exposing the wheels and motorized pulley mechanisms that raise and lower the panels against massive, bolted steel beams references the gritty industrial architecture of the chemical factories, coal yards, breweries, and rail yards of Bushwick’s historical past.
📷: Francis Dzikowski

Using a bifold door panel system adapted from airplane hangars and factories, the façade’s motorized panels function as awnings in their raised position and lower to secure the shops behind a monolithic wall of weathered steel plate.
📷: Francis Dzikowski

Unifying two abandoned warehouses with a single façade of Corten steel, this 10,000-square-foot adaptive reuse creates a landmark retail destination that signals Bushwick’s arrival as a new creative urban center, while recalling its industrial past.
📷: Francis Dzikowski

In a world of constant change, our design philosophy thrives on continuous dialogue with nature, space, people, the past, and innovation.
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Thank you and .manferdini for the “Insiders” feature, highlighting our meticulous approach to design and our commitment to future perspectives. We’re honored to featured alongside .ando and in a magazine dedicated to critical thinkers and innovation.
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Sag Harbor’s architectural history informed every aspect of this contemporary retreat. We are grateful to and for covering this project and recognizing that this light-filled, “glass-box gem” is truly one of a kind. Read more via link in bio.

📷 Lena Yaremenko

Our firm’s fascination with nature informs how we think about making beautiful environments in which people will flourish. Thank you for this article on how we use nature as an unexpected and welcoming design element for Prosek Partners’ new 34,000-square-foot headquarters. Read more via link in bio.

📷 Scott Frances

But what if I want to throw bones ?

Join us as we look at concepts for a house that resonates with the simple beauty of the natural landscape!

When your client of 20 years is mesmerized by the international space station and iconic sci-fi movies — like 2001, Dune, Star Trek and Passengers — and asks to redesign their downtown loft ! Images 2, 3 and 4 are the inspiration.

Our client asked us to bring new energy to the gut renovation of storied 1920s Jazz Age estate on Southampton’s iconic Meadow Lane. As we thought about it, we realized how fun it would be to imagine a design where if Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Andy Warhol, and Edie Beale were all alive today, they would feel right at home. So in what was once an unremarkable, leftover playroom off the massive industrial kitchen, we edited the architecture to reveal the incredible proportion of this space and then opened it with walls of glass to a boundless ocean horizon. While the material and finish palette defers to this view, the eclectic combination of sculptural contemporary furnishings and blue chip art quietly work in harmony with saturated pops of color in a way that both casually relaxed and also timelessly impeccable.

For thousands of years, the desert sky inspires us with beauty to take note of what’s really important. With brilliance, robust constellations give us peace and offer tools to navigate, tell time, and even grow food. Thank you Orion and Pleiades for your sharing your wisdom last night, offering a way to think about living in harmony with nature and building our world more sustainably in a complex and fragile environment.

Celebrating the serene beauty and taming the raw power of an inhospitable desert landscape — where temperatures soar above 130 degrees by day and plunge to freezing at night — the pool at the Habitas AlUla is a contemporary oasis that flawlessly combines sustainable architectural practices and an ancient place with breathtaking simplicity. Let’s build more this way!

The setting sun ushers in a new year, as it has for millennia in the Ashar Valley! Welcome 2024

“If I see my city as beautiful and bewitching, then my life must be so too” Orhan Pamuk

Since the very beginning, Andre’s love of the ocean has informed our desire to build beautiful and sustainable climate resilient architecture. Thank you Ocean Home Magazine for recognizing our efforts and naming us one of the Top Coastal Architects of 2023. 📷 Scott Frances

Rotating shutters in copper, native oak, and recycled glass to both shade an all glass building from the sun, and create a beautiful expression!

Who doesn’t love a grand entrance? The dramatic minimalism of this tropical residence combines clean lines with a sophisticated material palette and lush vegetation to create a home of great intimacy and warmth, despite its generous scale.

Summertime and the living is easy!

“The true task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, all these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in one’s memory.” Jorge Luis Borges

Thinking that the floor at the beach could be calm, subtle and also a little surprising!

About last night …

The ancient Romans carried amulets of onyx into battle for good luck. In renaissance Europe wearing onyx was thought to bestow eloquence. Mies van der Rohe brought in slabs from the Atlas Mountains for the Villa Tugendhat. We just think it’s stunningly beautiful!

Lyrical geometry and pure materiality in their finest expression.

A new spin on the over water bungalow

Geometry, nature, and light in perfect harmony.