GLUCK+

All buildings tell stories, yet they’re often seen as finished objects only. Dive into individual Stories or peek inside Story Collections (grouped together by a common theme) to explore our process—the ideas, materials, and details that make GLUCK+ buildings work. Take a look behind the scenes.

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Architect-Led Design Build

Architect-Led Design Build

Mission on display

Mission on display

Lower East Side Boogie

Lower East Side Boogie

From windows to window walls

From windows to window walls

Vacant podiums

Vacant podiums
Individual building module with windows and grey panel exterior pulled through intersection at Sandford Ave.

Building as much offsite as possible

Building as much offsite as possible

Adaptive reuse: from parking to performance

Adaptive reuse: from parking to performance

Leveraging the earth

Leveraging the earth
Section through building showcasing people occupying the gallery spaces.

Art artifact articulation

Art artifact articulation

Referential yet modern

Referential yet modern

Hanging a school

Hanging a school
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Thinker Maker

Thinker Maker

ALDB scales up

ALDB scales up

Nooks & books & hooks

Nooks & books & hooks
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What is Design?

What is Design?
Building with large steel beam, wood framed roof held up by steel structure and mountains in background.

Digging underground, a case study

Digging underground, a case study

Bridging old and new

Bridging old and new

450 instruments, up & down

450 instruments, up & down
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I’m a Non-Profit

I’m a Non-Profit
Simplified diagram of the locker box, roof, patio and tennis court shape and relation to one another.

Triangles, triangles, triangles

Triangles, triangles, triangles
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Architects Doing More

Architects Doing More
A gray and glass building framed by trees, with tall grass in the foreground.

Burying a building in the park

Burying a building in the park
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About Time

About Time

A balanced push and pull

A balanced push and pull

A long search

A long search

Reshaping the earth

Reshaping the earth

Round a courtyard

Round a courtyard

Densifying suburbia

Densifying suburbia
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Building Matters

Building Matters

Two horizons

Two horizons

Collisional Commons

Collisional Commons

The view at the end of a wood wall

The view at the end of a wood wall

Potential on a difficult site

Potential on a difficult site
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What’s It Cost?

What’s It Cost?

Facing Central Park

Facing Central Park

Rethinking camouflage

Rethinking camouflage
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Trade Sets

Trade Sets

Missing teeth

Missing teeth
Elevation of building façade relation to adjacent buildings fronting 127th St.

Expanding a brewery

Expanding a brewery

A surgical excavation

A surgical excavation

Reclaiming a ruin

Reclaiming a ruin

The urban dilemma

The urban dilemma
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Layout

Layout
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Feedback

Feedback

Villages and commons

Villages and commons
Close-up view of drilling head.

Smart drilling: gravity at work

Smart drilling: gravity at work

Each their own world

Each their own world

Cut, lift, punch, pop: a central clearing completes a campus

Cut, lift, punch, pop: a central clearing completes a campus
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Picture a Building

Picture a Building

A very graphic story

A very graphic story

Soundproof

Soundproof
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Paper Architecture

Paper Architecture

Shopping the structure

Shopping the structure

LEED Gold Tower

LEED Gold Tower
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Up in the Trees

Up in the Trees

A colorful edge and its assembly

A colorful edge and its assembly

Detailing corrugated metal

Detailing corrugated metal
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Vertical Library

Vertical Library
Below-ground view of steel columns with footings hanging from a large steel beam.

Hanging columns

Hanging columns
Construction progress image of concrete being stressed.

Lasting compression

Lasting compression
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Offsite STACK

Offsite STACK

Design as teaching tool: sea level rise

Design as teaching tool: sea level rise

The stair as sculpture

The stair as sculpture
Collage of construction images while placing precast platform.

Precast platforms

Precast platforms

A sylvan campus

A sylvan campus
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Cutting Corners

Cutting Corners

Aiming for a zero-carbon house

Aiming for a zero-carbon house

A rift and its echoes

A rift and its echoes

Losing weight

Losing weight

Meeting budget without losing program

Meeting budget without losing program
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Outsmart Water

Outsmart Water

Floating the box

Floating the box
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Sticked Lumber

Sticked Lumber

Carved energy conservation

Carved energy conservation

Centered House

Centered House
View out large wood framed window to Central Park and Manhattan skyline.

Outside bronze, inside oak

Outside bronze, inside oak
North to south section showing how cool air is drawn in from the North, while warm air rises as the sun heats the South.

The stack effect

The stack effect

Curtains on the outside

Curtains on the outside
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Grounded

Grounded

Blurring the line

Blurring the line

The city as partner

The city as partner

Sun Wall

Sun Wall
View looking at Kaufman grey panelled façade and down 34th Street.
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ONstage @ Kaufman

ONstage @ Kaufman

Sculpting sustainable performance

Sculpting sustainable performance

Wood screen camouflage

Wood screen camouflage
View looking up at module being installation on site.
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The Stack Time Lapse

The Stack Time Lapse

Low-tech sustainability

Low-tech sustainability

Plug-in ready

Plug-in ready

Between two neighborhoods

Between two neighborhoods

Sound and light: a ceiling story

Sound and light: a ceiling story