May 20, 2013

RKT&B Wins Excellence in Design Award for Sutphin Boulevard Arcade

RKT&B is pleased to announce that we have received the Excellence in Design award from the Queens Chamber of Commerce for the Sutphin Boulevard Arcade in Jamaica, Queens. As part of a continuing effort by the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation to improve the area near the Jamaica Transportation Hub, RKT&B redesigned the eastern side of the Sutphin Avenue underpass and added new retail shops for an enhanced pedestrian experience.

March 14, 2013

How to Design Affordable Small-Lot Housing in Urban Areas, by Carmi Bee

An article written by Carmi Bee for "Multi-Housing News" in November 2010 on his "Smart Housing" infill prototype details the concept behind the development of several of the firm's most recently-completed projects.

January 10, 2013

Microhousing Concept from RKT&B

RKT&B is proud to share a new microhousing concept, inspired by the adAPT NYC competition issued last summer by the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Click through to see images.

January 10, 2013

"Haunted Castle on Central Park Now Luxury Condominiums" -- Curbed NY feature on 455 CPW!

Curbed NY has a great feature about 455 Central Park West, including photos and a description of RKT&B's conversion of the old cancer hospital into luxury condominiums.

November 21, 2012

PS70 Queens Groundbreaking Ceremony

On October 25th, city officials broke ground on a new 60,000 foot addition to PS70 in Astoria, designed by RKT&B.

November 14, 2012

Housing for Storm Victims: Carmi Bee's Letter to the Editor

The New York Times recently printed a letter to the editor from RKT&B senior partner Carmi Bee about a possible solution to the housing crisis following Hurricane Sandy.

November 05, 2012

Hurricane Sandy Recovery

RKT&B’s offices have now reopened. If you were unable to contact us by phone or email last week, please try again as all of our systems are now working.

August 01, 2012

Putnam Madison Housing Featured in New York Nonprofit Press

Designed by RKT&B Architects, Putnam Madison Housing is a new 48-unit affordable housing development in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.

August 01, 2012

Carmi Bee, RKT&B's Senior Partner, Featured in Real Estate Weekly

Real Estate Weekly highlighted RKT&B's latest completed project, Putnam Madison Housing.

July 30, 2012

Press Release Celebrates the Completion of Putnam Madison Housing, Designed by RKT&B Architects

The latest implementation of the Infill Housing Prototype developed by RKT&B and the Community Preservation Corporation (CPC) is now complete.

January 03, 2012

The Maynard Is Latest Incarnation of RKT&B and CPC's Infill Housing Prototype

The Maynard, located in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, marks another milestone for RKT&B Architects.

January 01, 2012

Landmark Brooklyn Building Converted to Condos by RKT&B

RKT&B Architect's project at 166 Montague Street continues the firm's tradition of adaptive reuse and restoration with the gut renovation of an 1891 Brooklyn gem.

April 27, 2011

RKT&B Architects Featured on Buildipedia.com

Buildipedia points to RKT&B’s work on Turtle Bay Towers, 455 Central Park West, and the School for the Physical City as examples of excellence in adaptive reuse

October 06, 2010

Construction of 1465 & 1473 Fifth Avenue, A Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) project in Harlem, is complete

80,000-Square-Foot HPD Infill Project Is Especially Notable for Unusual Facade

January 01, 2010

New State-of-the-Art Hospital to be Built in Abuja, Nigeria

Hospital with Teaching/Research Facility and Hotel to be completed in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, in 2012

April 12, 2009

RKT&B Triumphs Over 25 Years of Obstacles to Complete Restoration of 455 Central Park West New York, NY

RKT&B (Rothzeid Kaiserman Thomson & Bee, P.C. Architects and Planners) is proud to announce the completion of the restoration/adaptive reuse of 455 Central Park West.