What is Passive House?
Passive House is a building design standard that can reduce energy use by as much as 90% compared to conventional construction.
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Hidden Sleeping Loft Doorway
Secret doorways and sustainable design standards are the way to our heart!
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Sneak peek from a custom kitchen
Sneak peek of from a custom kitchen in a Garrison, NY home. The details include recessing doors and a slide-out base tray to make the coffee pantry fully accessible and easy to clean.
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Natural Habitat Feature
From Metropolis Magazine and DesignTV by Sandow, River Architects is honored to be featured in the first of their new video series, Natural Habitat, about homes that focus on beautiful design and meaningful sustainability.
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Professional Confessionals with James
“To a lot of people, architecture is an intangible. It’s not something they understand. They can understand the work that an engineer does, so a building doesn’t fall down on them. They can understand the work a contractor does because they drive the nails or they apply the paint. But architecture is the art of the building, and that gets to be much more difficult for people to understand.”
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Professional Confessionals with Juhee
“I want to move people, create a space where people would feel lifted
spiritually, and make it worthwhile for someone to visit that space.”
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Our Founding Story
I was 29 years old and had just returned from a Fulbright Fellowship studying
Korean residential architecture when a friend introduced me to my very first
client, Oscar. He wanted to open a small bar in Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan. We
had a blast creating a “Cuban Lounge” on a limited budget. We even got published
in a few small media outlets.
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