Where the Manhattan neighborhoods of SoHo, TriBeCa, and Chinatown converge, Shanghai-based brand Stellar Works introduces its first permanent U.S. location. Spread over 4,000 square feet of an Italianate building on Canal Street, the space by New York architecture firm INC_A is a chance to see new work and installations with brand collaborators.

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Curbed NY’s House Calls visited inca’s very own, David Bench to find out his experience in finding an apartment in the Lower East Side and renovating it for himself and his growing family. Click the link to read the full article

But in 2014, when they happened to attend an open house for a one-bedroom apartment in Amalgamated Dwellings, they were surprised to find the price comparable to properties they’d seen in less expensive neighborhoods. The possibilities they could envision for the 700-square-foot space were even more encouraging.

“It immediately became clear, just walking through it, that we could convert it to a two-bedroom,” says Bench. “The key was that there were a lot of windows.” They made an offer and were in contract in two weeks. After living in the apartment as it was for a year, Bench slowly began to perform the first phase of work—revamping the existing bedroom and living room—in 2015. It was backbreaking work, and took close to two years.

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The store is considered of one of the premiere places for fashion on the Island.

“Atelerie’s redesign and expansion was no easy feat. Brooklyn based Tri-Lox and Inc_a, which stands for It’s Not Corporate Architecture, created and fabricated the eco-conscious space using natural materials such as oak for a dramatic floating staircase. Pebble gardens, used for displays and seating, fan out to wide spaces for browsing. Figured Maple – Stone White, Tri-Lox’s signature material sourced from salvaged trees, lends a marble-like look to display cases.”

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“In 2016, the Storefront for Art and Architecture held an unusual design competition asking architects to compete for the most creative way to tear down a building. The brief had come out of a prior competition, the New York non-profit's 'Competition of Competitions', in which David Bench and Jonathan Chesley proposed the idea for a dream-up demolition competition. 

At the time, the two were beginning to form their own studio, born out of lunchtime chatter with one another in Union Square Park. Now, the New York-based INC_A (which stands for 'It’s Not Corporate Architecture') is busy growing as a design firm, working on a number of public and semi-public projects. For this week's Studio Snaphot, we talk with Bench and Chesley about their radical proposals and many evolutions as a practice.”

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What's the story behind this boutique?
Before Atelerie, a dreamy concept store opened in the City of Hamilton in March 2019, it had long been a favorite among Bermuda’s style-minded socialites who craved designer women’s clothing and high-end accessories. The popular women's boutique had existed in three other locations over the past decade, and each move accommodated its growing popularity and swelling customer base. This sparkling-new Reid Street space is the grandest one yet—an airy emporium envisioned by owner Heather Macdonald and executed by Brooklyn-based design firms INC_A and Tri Lox Workshop.

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Hamilton, Bermuda-based luxury retailer ATELERIE has reintroduced its signature hometown flagship following a refresh from Brooklyn, N.Y.-based design firm Tri-Lox and inc_a architecture. The redesign emphasizes sustainable materials while also paying homage to the store’s lush surroundings.

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Like many craft brewers today, partners Lauren and Joe Grimm started experimenting in their apartments when they first started dating more than a decade ago.

“When we got together, we started to go down the rabbit hole of fermentation,” Lauren, 35, says. “As soon as we got into making beer, we just kind of became obsessed with it. The experimentation is really limitless.”

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“At Grimm, red velvet curtains, plants, and incandescent bulbs soften the industrial space, which houses stainless steel production equipment alongside wood tables and a maple wood bar.”

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“For the design, they collaborated with New York architecture firm inc_a to bring their aesthetic to life. “We wanted a light-filled space that would blend the industrial nature of brewing equipment with organic materials,” Lauren says, citing materials like wood, textiles, plants and hand-drawn wallpaper. “We were inspired by the ’70s California aesthetic of indoor plants and ceramics, as well as the David Lynch’s red curtains in Twin Peaks.” Other design elements, like a large custom-spalted maple bar top and wallpaper in the bathrooms designed by artist Gretta Johnson (who also designed the custom glassware) help define the interior. “Ultimately, we wanted the space to embody the spirit of our beer labels, and I think it does that well,” Lauren says.”

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“While to build is often perceived as an Apollonian pursuit, to destroy appears to be its Dionysian counterpart,” reads the call for entries. “Understanding that our built environment is the product of many forces, it can dialectically be reduced to the tensions between creation and destruction, addition and subtraction, and erection and demolition.”

There are plenty of prizes for building, but two architects have inaugurated a competition for the most creative way of demolishing a building – in the hope that the results will improve the urban environment.

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Bench and Chesley’s winning entry, Taking Buildings Down, was as ingenious as it was simple: rather than ask for new architectural developments, the pair wondered what kind of submissions they might receive if they called for architects to dream-up a demolition scheme.