Death Star Loft / Raad Studio
Death Star Loft contains a series of unexpected experiences and spatial moves that challenge the typical layout of a split level New York City apartment.
Raad Studio is an award-winning Manhattan-based design firm with a portfolio of over 100 completed projects. Founded by designer James Ramsey in 2004, the firm specializes in the exploration of materiality, form and scale in a way that reveals the limitless potential of design, and that marries innovative thinking about function with a deep respect for the traditions of everyday living. Raad specializes in objects and spaces that emphasize the process of construction, an expertise gleaned from close and continued collaboration with builders.
LOCATION: New York
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Death Star Loft contains a series of unexpected experiences and spatial moves that challenge the typical layout of a split level New York City apartment.
The design solution that resulted is the marriage of landscape and architecture. Though the neighborhood itself is graded flat, the parkland to the north is a wild original dunescape. By restoring our idea of the original natural state to the site, we created a set of hydrodynamic dunes with penetrations that allow water to sluice through the land
This unique New York Loft was designed by RAAD Studio, an award-winning Manhattan-based design firm with a portfolio of over 100 completed projects. This loft is located in one of the most beautiful buildings in New York City, the Beaux-Arts style former police headquarters located at 240 Centre Street. A unique room inside an iconic New York building