David Grider Architect


DAVID GRIDER ARCHITECT

Projects
The following highlights of our project experience provide an indication of our architectural interests and the range of clients that we've worked with. If our experience has some resonance with the project that you're contemplating, whether you represent an institution, are a well-seasoned owner, or are someone considering working with an architect for the first time, we encourage you to contact us to discuss your ideas and to see how we might help to realize them. The projects are organized as follows: Featured Project Institutional & Commercial Educational Master Planning Residential
Featured Project: The Educational Alliance's Project ORE Activity Room. Photograph by Mark La Rosa. Our interior renovation for the Educational Alliance’s Project ORE is now serving the older adult community of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Conference Room. Photograph by Mark La Rosa. We enlarged and reconfigured spaces, installed interior glass to distribute natural light throughout, and specified colorful, robust finishes to create an open, warm, and inviting series of spaces in what had been a dim institutional setting. Administrative Office. Photograph by Mark La Rosa. In the words of Project ORE’s Director Nancy Abramson “the relocation and transformation have had a major impact on our population and programming. Most notable is the light! Having so much natural light in here has been wonderful; people are more talkative and engaged – sometimes in arguments – but nevertheless – engaged!" Interior Hallway. Photograph by Mark La Rosa. In addition to the new activity and group room, we provided new counseling rooms, workstations and offices for staff, restrooms, and a new pantry area for catered meals. Pantry and Preparation. Photograph by Mark La Rosa. And as with all of our projects, we used Building Information Modeling to create images of the project as it developed and a coordinated set of drawings so that it could be built quickly, accurately and within budget – accomplishments we find as engaging as natural light. Design Rendering of Activity Room by David Grider Architect.
Institutional & Commercial
	Dance Theater and Studio New York, NY Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Adaptive reuse of one-story 1920’s garage building (former Anne Leibovitz photo studio) into 200-seat black-box theater and studios for an avant-guard dance company. 17,400 sq. ft.

	Piers 92/94 New York, NY Merchandise Mart Properties Incorporated Redevelopment of mid-century Hudson River piers into modern convention center including significant new land-side construction and extensive list of regulatory requirements including ULURP. 450,000 sq. ft.

	Tranquility Gardens Columbarium Brooklyn, NY The Green-Wood Cemetery New construction of 1-story columbarium and surrounding funerary landscape organized around a central reflecting pool, fountain and memorial obelisk. 14,000 sq. ft.

	Hillside Mausoleum Brooklyn, NY The Green-Wood Cemetery New construction of a 5-story concrete mausoleum with two large atria of open stairs, light wells and waterfalls that reconcile the grade between the foot and crest of the sloped site. 64,000 sq. ft.

	Pool Room Renovation New York, NY Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Gut renovation of swimming pool room, shower & locker rooms, and mechanical spaces in fully occupied, historic 1927 Lenox Hill Neighborhood House. 4,500 sq. ft.

	Webster Branch Interior Modernization New York, NY New York Public Library Complete rehabilitation of historic 1905 Carnegie Branch Library including the provision of new central air conditioning, a new elevator, and the restoration of existing millwork. 4,000 sq. ft.

	Change Ringing Bells at Trinity Church New York, NY Trinity Wall Street Restoration of existing chime bells and provision of a new ring of 12 change bells, the largest in the United States, in the steeple of Richard Upjohn’s NYC Landmark Trinity Church. 1,600 sq. ft.

	Bell of Hope New York, NY St. Paul's Chapel A modest 9/11 memorial tolled each year in rememberance. It's base is of brownstone to match the churchyard's headstones, and is fitted with a bronze coping that commemorates the original World Trade Center site.

	New Aquarium Visitor Center Coney Island, NY The Wildlife Conservation Society New Visitor Center addition to the original 1959 Wallace K. Harrison aquarium building utilizing the relocated structure of the 1870s Brighton Beach Carousel Shed. 65,000 sq. ft.

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Educational
	Flagship Building Renovation New York, NY The Educational Alliance Gut renovation and addition to the Alliance’s historic six-story 1890’s building with over 24 separate programs including an Early Childhood Center, Wellness Center, Art School, and Older Adults. 124,000 sq. ft.

	K-8 Charter School Bronx, NY Additional Opportunity LLC Gut rehabilitation of three floors within former Verizon telephone exchange building for conversion to charter school. 110,000 sq. ft.

	New Settlement Community Campus Bronx, NY NYC School Construction Authority & Settlement Housing Fund Fast-track new construction project of K-12 public school and community center, responsible for design development and contract documentation of the building’s core and shell. 165,000 sq. ft.

	Exterior Restoration of PS-95 Brooklyn, NY NYC School Construction Authority Exterior preservation of a Landmark C.B. Snyder school, filed with State Historic Preservation Office with numerous custom masonry, terra cotta, and parapet reinforcing details. 10,000 sq. ft.

	Exterior Restoration of PS-65 Cypress Hills, NY NYC School Construction Authority Exterior modernization of historic 1889 School, filed with State Historic Preservation Office with numerous custom masonry, window, and copper roof details. 20,000 sq. ft.

	Colegio La Esperanza Shade Trellis Tijuana, Mexico BC The Americas Foundation Design-build project with the UCSD School of Architecture as led by Steve Badanes. The School lasted for two semesters before being axed by California budget cuts, and the trellis burned down in 2007. 500 sq. ft.

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Master Planning
	Campus Master Plan Pleasantville, NY Pace University Examine scenarios to establish a pedestrian-oriented environment and formulate strategies for redevelopment and growth that increase campus density while respecting the existing suburban fabric.

	Campus Master Plan - Site Selection Brooklyn, NY Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center Update of Campus Master Plan in effort to study site selection for new regional lab building and to identify other sites and potential uses for future development.

	Minerva View Corridor Brooklyn, NY The Green-Wood Cemetery Ongoing effort to quantitatively define the historic view corridor from Battle Hill to the Statue of Liberty and incorporate into an advisory CB197a plan that would create a framework for the view's protection.

	Cemetery Master Plan New York, NY Trinity Wall Street Master Plan for the only active cemetery in New York to identify sites for additional funerary buildings and structures in an effort to extend its capacity for future interments.

	Airport Master Plan San Diego, CA San Diego Air Commerce Center Master Plan to convert Brown Field Municipal Airport (a former naval airfield and the site of David Grider's flight instruction) into an international cargo airport.

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Residential
	Genesis Neighborhood Plaza Brooklyn, NY HELP USA New construction of a DHCR-funded 6-story reinforced masonry residential building as part of multi-phase, 130,000 sq. ft. mixed-use community facility complex. Phase I 52 Units, 61,000 sq. ft.

	Desert Dwelling Desert Hot Springs, CA Private Client Earth-sheltered dwelling organized around central grotto formed by rammed-earth walls.
	Apartment Renovation, Central Park South New York, NY Private Client Remodel of two bedroom apartment overlooking Central Park.
	Apartment Renovation, 23rd Street New York, NY Private Client Remodel of the ground floor of a triplex apartment in Chelsea.
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