Press Hall Workspace
2022
Location
New York, USA
Area
2,400 m²
Client
Kestrel Capital
Services
Adaptive reuse, interior architecture, and furniture design.
A printing hall from 1920 given a second life. The original timber trusses and cast-iron columns stay exposed, while a new set of quiet, flexible rooms lets a modern team work, meet, and think together.
Context
Kestrel Capital bought a 1920s printing hall in Tribeca and wanted to move its team in without erasing the building’s character. The space is a single deep floor with low daylight at the center and a heavy structure that could not be changed.
Modern work asks for focus rooms, meeting spaces, and acoustic privacy, which are hard to deliver in an open industrial hall.
Concept
We kept the timber trusses, cast-iron columns, and the original floor, and inserted a set of freestanding timber rooms that stop short of the ceiling. The hall stays whole, and the new volumes organize it into streets, meeting rooms, and quiet corners.
New skylights bring light into the deep center, and a continuous acoustic lining hidden in the trusses keeps noise under control. The workspace now feels like part of the building’s history rather than a new layer on top of it.
Materials & Sustainability
Keeping the existing structure avoided demolishing a building that already held decades of embodied carbon. The original timber trusses were cleaned and treated, and the cast-iron columns were restored in place.
The new timber rooms are built from certified plywood as a kit of parts that can be reconfigured as the team changes. Low-energy LED lighting, a new heat-pump system, and reclaimed floorboards complete the interior.
Credits
Client: Kestrel Capital
Design Team: Otlo Architecture Studio, New York
MEP Engineer: Harbor MEP
Furniture Fabrication: Brooklyn Timber Works
Photography: [Photographer Name]
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