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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

GRO Architects (nicole ROBERTSON + richard GARBER): The new Gansevoort Marine Transfer Station for Recyclables and Environmental Center (GMTS) is one for several such facilities proposed by Mayor Bloomberg to better equip the city to handle increasing amounts of recyclable materials including plastics, metal and glass. Challenged by the project’s prominent, and controversial, location at the edge of the West Village, our design seeks to buffer the operations of the facility through formal and programmatic design strategies.

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GRO Architects, pllc: richard GARBER + nicole ROBERTSON [principals], justin FOSTER

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

richard GARBER + nicole ROBERTSON: Located in downtown Princeton a block from the university, MoC MoC Japanese Cuisine occupies 2,400sf of our building renovation project at 14 South Tulane Street. The design for the restaurant is conceived around an interest in expanding the dining space, both literally and experientially. We imagined a system of wood slats that form a ceiling infrastructure throughout the dining floor, operating at multiple scales in the space.

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