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Adding a room to an existing apartment in NYC

Today it s relatively easy and routine to add an additional bedroom to apartments that contain “L” shaped living rooms which are commonly know as “convertible or Jr” one or two bedroom apartments. Historically this type of alteration was difficult for two basic reasons. One, the NYC Zoning Resolution had a term called “zoning rooms” […]

Architectural Lighting Design

With increasing energy restrictions and emerging technologies such as LED (Light Emitting Diode) lamps, lighting has become more complicated in the past couple of decades. Once, the options were limited to incandescent lamps for home use, fluorescent tubes for retail applications and sodium chloride for civil engineering application. Where lighting was once an afterthought, today […]