Verona Carpenter Architects are excited to announce that they will be presenting on October 14th, 2022 at the Thomas Jefferson University 3rd International Neurodiversity & the Built Environment Symposium: Placemaking.
Use this link to register for the symposium.
VCA features in Interior Design October 2022 Issue,
“Verona Carpenter Architects Transforms a SoHo Loft into an Artful Home”
Laura Mattioli, an art scholar, curator, and collector, found her SoHo loft, and the one two floors up that now houses the Center for Italian Modern Art, on a tip from a friend back in 2011. A native of Milan, Mattioli had been looking for a place in Manhattan where she could open the foundation to spread the word about the modern and contemporary art of her homeland, but she needed a large, open space on one level that she could easily move works in and out of for exhibitions. Her friend had heard about a handsome cast-iron building on Broome Street with full-floor apartments that were about to come on the market. Mattioli immediately booked a flight to New York and within days she had nabbed two of them—one for CIMA and one for herself.
Finding an architect proved trickier than finding the space, however. The first two Mattioli hired were more interested in making a statement. But she wanted the architecture to take a back seat to the art—some inherited from her collecting father, some purchased herself. Then she discovered Irina Verona, co-principal of Verona Carpenter Architects, who understood Mattioli’s point of view. “We like the approach of ‘light architecture’ that respects the surroundings and what happens in it,” she says, speaking of the work she and co-principal Jennifer Carpenter have been doing together since founding their firm in 2017, after Verona had taken on Mattioli’s project.
Verona first completed the center, which opened in 2013. Then came Mattioli’s 4,500-square-foot apartment, which, because it was to be a home, would be “more personal,” the architect notes. But otherwise, the priorities remained largely the same—“quiet architecture for a lot of amazing pieces,” referring to both Mattioli’s art and furniture, much of it mid-century.
Read the full article on Interior Design.net here
Jennifer Carpenter will present and moderate a panel on designing spaces that can be experienced through all of our senses.
This interactive, in-person program asks: How do we feel in an interior and why do we feel that way? What elements make us feel safe or seen, productive or inhibited, happy or harmed? Knowing this, how do we design spaces to accommodate—and celebrate—different sensory needs where we work, where we learn, and where we live? Panelists will focus on lived experiences and design principles to create meaningful sensory spaces for all needs.
Jennifer Carpenter is a WBE Mentor for NYC Small Business Services and will share her insights on this panel “Building Visibility and Credibility with NYC Agencies”.
We are excited to announce that our project for art collector’s residence has won a 2022 own NYCxDesign award, in the apartment category.
More information on the awards page can be found here: https://interiordesign.net/award/nycxdesign-awards-winners-2022/
We are so excited to be one of twenty firms selected by NYC’s Department of Design and Construction (DDC) as part of their Project Excellence program. Read more about the announcement here.
We are so excited to share with you that we have won the 2021 Design Trust for Public Space The Restorative City RFP!
In partnership with WIP Collaborative, our proposal The Neurodiverse City seeks to create more inclusive public spaces for all New Yorkers, including those with cognitive differences and invisible disabilities. We will be focusing on playgrounds, pocket parks, and streetscapes through a community-driven process in three phases: audits of existing sites, prototype installations, and design guideline publication. You can read more about it in the press release here. We can’t wait to get started.
Design Trust hosted a ceremony at Prospect Park to recognize the winning RFP proposals
About the RFP: Launched as an open call for proposals in spring 2021, The Restorative City is a major Design Trust initiative dedicated to connecting health equity with the built environment throughout New York City. Two winning projects – The Neurodiverse City by Verona Carpenter Architects and WIP Collaborative, and Healing Hostile Architecture by Design as Protest, were selected by a jury of city government officials and industry leaders from a short-list of eight finalists, who were drawn from an initial group of more than 90 proposals
Verona Carpenter Architects is excited to be partnering with WIP Collaborative on The Neurodiverse City, our collaborative entry to the Design Trust’s The Restorative City competition.
Though we live in a neurodiverse city, the design of the public realm does not support the entire population and their range of physical, neurological, and emotional needs. In the wake of the isolation and trauma of the pandemic, it is urgent that our city spaces offer inclusive zones where all of us, including those with “invisible disabilities” and sensory sensitivities, can come together and find restorative common ground. Through a research and co-creation process with local communities, this project will examine existing public spaces - such as playgrounds, streetscapes, and pocket parks - and propose new design guidelines to support the greatest range of physical and neurological differences.
