This Upper West Side apartment has coveted open views to the northeast enabled by preserved Schwab Mansion across the street. In light of this, we organized the apartment around visual corridors and light channels as intra-room connectors. To re-envision the original thirteen-room pre-war apartment, we situated a grand salon-like living room at its center and organized the entry, kitchen and sleeping spaces around it like spokes on a wheel. We carved and aligned double-wide openings between rooms, channeling sunlight deep into the apartment, and enabled a natural and generous flow between spaces.
