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EFGH Architects is a dynamic full-service licensed architectural design firm founded in 2007 by Principals Hayley Eber and Frank Gesualdi. Located in New York City, EFGH is actively engaged in a range of project types including Commercial, Retail, Workplace, Residential and Cultural. EFGH maintains a rigorous process that involves an intense conceptual design focus mixed with a drive for quality in the built results. Built on the principals’ years of experience in world-class architecture firms, EFGH is a rising name in the field of architecture, advancing and elevating design across project types. EFGH believes that great partnerships lead to great spaces and has a proven track record of achieving quality results while establishing and maintaining strong relationships with clients.

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Selected Works

Commercial

Chop’tDogmaticPopbar Manhattan Mini Storage

Cultural Institutions

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Alice Tully Hall Juilliard Black Box Theater Hypar Lawn PavilionVan Alen InstituteG.O.A.L. Community Center

Landscape

The High LineRosario Park

Office

CinereachBenetton

Residential

Harris House Recreo VillaMattituck House

Hospitality

Boulders Resort

Public Space

Media Zone

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EFGH Architects is a New York-based licensed architectural design practice founded in 2007 by princi-pals Hayley Eber and Frank Gesualdi. The studio actively engages projects across scales: Our process reflects an intense conceptual design focus mixed with a drive for quality in the built results.

Hayley Eber, AIA (b. Johannesburg, South Africa) is a Registered Architect, designer and educator. She is currently an adjunct Professor at The Cooper Union in New York, a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and co-founder of EFGH. She received a B.A.S from The University of Cape Town in 1997, a B.Arch from the Cooper Union in 2000, and an M.Arch from Princeton University in 2002. Prior to co-founding EFGH, Hayley worked at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, where her experience included installa-tion and media work, performance, architectural competitions and large scale urban projects. Prior to joining DS+R, she worked at Eisenman Architects in NY on The Arizona Cardinals Stadium and the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and at Wiel Arets Architects in Maastricht on the Utrecht University Library.

Frank Gesualdi (b. NY) received a Professional B. Arch from Syracuse University in 1999 and a M.S. in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in 2004. He is currently teaching at The Pratt Institute. Before co-founding EFGH, Frank was a Senior Designer at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, where he worked extensively on the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts renovation, including the full redesign of Alice Tully Hall, as well as a number of international competitions. Prior to joining DS+R, Frank was Project Designer for STUDIOS Architecture in Washington, DC where he was a lead designer for The Nysmith School, a 22,000 SF school addition in Herndon, VA, as well as a number of innovative office designs for a variety of media companies.

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CHOP’TEFGH was asked to revitalize an existing restaurant brand. The design for Chop’t is a prototype comprised of key components that will “drop in” to all future locations, becoming the new design standard for the brand. These components are both large pieces of furniture and small pieces of archi-tecture, participating in and regulating the high volume flow of customer traffic. We’ve introduced variable speeds to the space - slow, medium and fast. Each component inserts itself along the customer’s path and produces a local environment within a larger spatial field: The Wall Peel is a wall-cov-ering/ furniture/ signage hybrid. The Stage is a folded steel structure that wraps the existing salad equipment and is also an illuminated internal facade. The bent metal assembly acts as structural surface and provides stability to the form. The Alcove provides a room-within-a-room: softer finishes, warmer lighting and a lower ceiling provide a respite from the fast pace of the restaurant.

ClientChop’t Creative Salad Co.

LocationVarious Locations inNYC & Washington, DC

ProgramRestaurant

Area2,000 - 3,500 SF, typical

Budget$225/SF

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DOGMATICThe design of the 600 sq ft interior and storefront for the new flagship restaurant Dogmatic Gourmet Sausage System on Union Square, is based on the aesthetics of the butchery, which becomes the generative approach to the project. A 14’x4’ communal butcher-block table is the centerpiece for the space, and incorporates retractable cantilevered seating to avoid any freestanding furniture. A raised built-in banquet on the west wall overlooks the restaurant while providing the base for the Sausage Wall-of Fame. A mural describing the Dogmatic story is baked onto the ceramic tiles using a transfer toner technique. The 11’ tall vertical glass menu board screens a portion of the open kitchen, while hanging off a steel armature from the restaurant hood. Meat hooks support the lighting cylinders on tracks. The custom steel designed storefront doors pivot to allow for maximum open-ness and connection to the outside.

ClientBlum Enterprises

Location17th Street, NYC

ProgramRestaurant

Area600 SF

Budget$200/SF

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Storefront Options

Franchisee Design Standards

Exterior lighting;see fixture specification

Exterior signage;see fixture specification

Exterior signage;see fixture specification

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There are a number of components to the facade design. These are labeled below and are to be used in the combination that best suits the particular site configuration and restraints.

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POPBAREFGH was approached to redesign an existing store with the intention to franchise the brand. An prototype is used as the basis to develop the franchise guidelines inclusive of all necessary design documents, including furniture, display items, back-of-house, signage and graphics. The material strategy for the store is based on the ice pop stick, whereby milled plywood build up the furniture and display components in layers. A steel and glass interior window wall allows for customers to view to the production space, while a highly transparent street facade allows visual access to the mer-chandise from the street.

ClientPop Bar

Location5 Carmine St, NYC

ProgramRestaurant

Area800 SF

Budget$200/ SF

StatusIn Development

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MANHATTAN MINI STORAGEIn an effort to revitalize their existing brand, Manhattan Mini Storage ap-proached EFGH to re-conceive their lobby and retail space at their Upper East Side location. The 3,000 sq ft corner site will house their new retail environment, which in addition to moving supplies will contain a newly curated collection of design objects. To be consistent with the language of packing, a large mill-work display wall is conceived of as a series of stacked boxes, which both house and showcase the retail items, while at the same time form the division between front and back of house. Large wall graphics are applied at the scale of the environment, supplementing the digital LCD displays.

ClientEdison Properties

LocationManhattan, NYC

ProgramRetail

Area3,000 SF

Budget$200/ SF

StatusUnder Construction

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LINCOLN CENTER CAMPUS RENOVATIONThe ensemble of buildings and public spaces of Lincoln Center are the product of a group of prominent architects including Gordon Bunshaft, Eero Saarinen, Wallace Harrison and Philip Johnson. Lincoln Center has become an icon inextricably linked with New York. The redesign of public spaces includes the Central Plaza, the North Plaza, the conversion of 65th Street from a service corridor into a new central spine, the transformation of three blocks of Lincoln Center’s frontage at Columbus Avenue and eventually, Damrosch Park. The redesign is intended to turn the campus inside out by extending the spectacle within the performance halls into the mute public spaces between the halls and into the surrounding streets. The range of scales for the project requires an effort that dissolves boundaries between urban planning, architecture, landscape design and information design. 65th Street Project in collaboration with FxFowle; Promenade Project in collaboration with Beyer Blinder Belle.

With Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

ClientLincoln Center ForThe Performing Arts

LocationManhattan, NYC

ProgramPublic Spaces

Area16.3-acre campus

BudgetUndisclosed

Operations

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HYPAR LAWN/ NORTH PLAZAThe dual requirements of a destination restaurant and a public green within the limited open area of Lincoln Center’s North Plaza are satisfied in a single gesture sited between the reflecting pool and the plaza’s north edge. A twisted plane of lawn is elevated to act as an occupiable green roof over a glass pavilion restaurant. The hypar touches down at the SW corner plaza for access to the lawn and has two high points at SE and NW corners. The resulting topography is oriented away from city noise and traffic to create a bucolic urbanism. The contoured wood ceiling of the restaurant frames views to the plaza and the street. A split kitchen serves 160 diners and 40 at the bar.

With Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

ClientLincoln Center ForThe Performing Arts

LocationManhattan, NYC

ProgramPublic Space and Restaurant

Area11,000 square feet

BudgetUndisclosed

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ALICE TULLY HALL The re-design is intended to transform the venue from a good multi-pur-pose hall into a premiere chamber music venue with street identity and upgraded functionality for all performance needs. Tucked under The Juil-liard School, the opaque base of Pietro Belluschi’s building is stripped away to reveal the hall’s outer shell. The sloped underside of Juilliard’s expansion serves as the canopy framing the hall, its expanded lobby and box office. A shear one-way cable net glass façade puts the hall on display. The liner of African moabi is tailored around all existing hall features and new program-matic elements to eliminate visual noise and illumination emerges from the wood skin the way a bioluminescent marine organism exudes an internal glow. A percentage of the wood liner is constructed of translucent cus-tom-molded resin panels surfaced in veneer to match and blend seamlessly with the wood, binding the house and stage with light. Like the raising of a chandelier or the parting of a curtain signaling the start of performance, the blush will be part of the performance choreography: a hush will fall in the seconds of transition from distraction to attention when the blushing walls become the first performer. In collaboration with FxFowle.

With Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

ClientLincoln Center ForThe Performing Arts

LocationManhattan, NYC

ProgramConcert Hall

Area79,524 gross sq feet

BudgetUndisclosed

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FLEX WORKSPACE

projector

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wifi

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shelving

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BLEACHER

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MEDIA WEDGE

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PERFORATED CEILING PANELS

GLASS REARFACADE AND SKYLIGHT

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Interior = City. A microcosm of the space of the city, the new Van Alen Institute is imagined as a container for dynamic life. As an institution com-mitted to the expansion of the definition of “public architecture” and the processes that shape the public realm, the VAI needs a home that embodies that ambition. Recognizing the dramatic proportions of the existing site as an opportunity, the proposed new Ground/ Work space turns a long skinny ground floor volume into a virtue: it maximizes the street level space, cre-ating a single room - a large “grand hall” - that strives to reach the scale of the street, and extend the life of 22nd Street into the heart of the Institute. Through the easy manipulation of three mobile components in the space, The Media Wedge, The Bleacher and the Hinge Table, the VAI can be radical-ly transformed by a few employees in a short amount of time. When one asks “What is the new space of the Van Alen Institute; A Workspace, Exhi-bition space, Lecture Hall, Book/ Media Outlet, Public Forum, Conference space, Performance Space or Party space?” The only suitable answer is All of the Above.

ClientThe Van Alen Institute

LocationNew York City

ProgramOffice, Bookstore,Public Meeting

Area1,700 SF

BudgetUndisclosed

StatusInvited Competition Finalist

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SOLAR1. SOLAR PANELS2. SOLAR COLLECTOR3. SOLAR HOT WATER HEATER6. SOLAR BOILER FOR HELATH FACILITY

RAIN4. RAIN CANOPY5. RAIN WATER COLLECTION GUTTER6. RAIN WATER STORAGE7. GREY WATER STORAGE8. BLACK WATER STORAGE9. RECYCLED WATER IRRIGATION SYSTEM

ELECTRICTY10 SOUND PROOF BACK-UP GENERATOR

HEATING-COOLING11. THERMAL MASS LABARYNTH12. POLY-CARBONATE SCREENS13. OPERABLE PANELS ALLOW FOR PASSIVE VENTILATION14. TRANSLUCENT PANELS FOR DAYLIGHTING

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G.O.A.L.Green Operations Action League is a community-based soccer, education and health-care facility envisioned for Langa Township in Cape Town. The intention is to simultaneously create both a clearly defined, inwardly fo-cused space for soccer as well as an outward-looking, expandable facility that recognizes and integrates with the local landscape.

The 20x40m soccer pitch is defined by a perimeter of tilted planes that rise to enclose the various programs beneath. On the two long edges of the pitch these tilted surfaces become the main spectator viewing areas- one for formalized seating (bleachers) - and one for informal seating (grass mound). These pitched surfaces direct and gather rainwater and distribute it to catchments basins at ground level.

The triangular geometry acts as a “module” for growth; these triangular modules accumulate to provide both enclosed and semi-enclosed spaces as well as patios and gardens. As needed, additional enclosure can be added over time, providing a continuous and connected facility that integrates into the landscape and with the surrounding community. The ‘quilt’ also allows for local materials to be seamlessly interchanged with the proposed ma-terial palette depending on alternate locations and climates, providing an infinite ‘patchwork’ of sustainable material options.

ClientCompetition

LocationLanga Township,South Africa

ProgramYouth Soccer & Community Center

Area50,000 SF

BudgetUndisclosed

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THE HIGHLINE (PHASE 1)The High Line, in collaboration with James Corner Field Operations and Piet Oudolf, is a new 1.5-mile long public park built on an abandoned elevated railroad stretch-ing from the Meatpacking District to the Hudson Rail Yards in Manhattan. Inspired by the melancholic, unruly beauty of this postindustrial ruin, where nature has reclaimed a once vital piece of urban infrastructure, the new park interprets its in-heritance. It translates the biodiversity that took root after it fell into ruin in a string of site-specific urban micro climates along the stretch of railway that include sunny, shady, wet, dry, windy, and sheltered spaces. Through a strategy of agri-tecture—part agriculture, part architecture—the High Line surface is digitized into discrete units of paving and planting which are assembled along the 1.5 miles into a variety of gradients from 100% paving to 100% soft, richly vegetated biotopes. The paving system consists of individual pre-cast concrete planks with open joints to encourage emergent growth like wild grass through cracks in the sidewalk.

With Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

ClientFriends of the Highline

LocationManhattan, NYC

ProgramLandscape and Public Space

Area1.5 miles

BudgetUndisclosed

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BILLBOARD PARKAs a vital component of the current effort to revitalize Rosario, Argentina’s industrial waterfront, Billboard Park is a recreation landscape that occu-pies both the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the site in order to pro-vide an open lawn as well as river vistas to the public. Part of a public-pri-vate partnership and constrained to a plot of land set away from the water’s edge, Billboard Park raises up to form a vertical landscape, accommodating a vertical garden as well as lookout points for visitors. A lightweight, soil-free growth medium is used to accommodate the plant life within a modular concrete structural honeycomb. This stacked pattern occupies both verti-cal as well as horizontal planes of the park and provides a dynamic visual icon for Rosario.

ClientCity of Rosario, Argentina

LocationRosario, Argentina

ProgramLandscape andPublic Space

Area4,500 sq ft

BudgetUndisclosed

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CINEREACHA 5,500 SF loft environment on two floors houses the Cinereach Head-quarters on 5th Avenue. A multi-programmed raised platform on the lower level serves as the hub of the office and houses key components: the main conference room, two editing bays, the kitchen, a bar counter and multiple seating areas. Mobile storage bins dock beneath. A 40-foot continuous shelving system, comprised of folded steel, lines the east edge of the interi-or. This faceted “wallpaper” integrates storage, seating and work surfaces into a seamless, custom-designed system.A state of the art screening room occupies the upper level. This acoustical-ly tempered environment is lined in dark felt and can accommodate black out conditions to become a fully immersive environment. The exterior of this black box is coated in chalkboard paint, allowing the surface to func-tion as a low-tech marquee for the events inside. The executive offices are enclosed with sliding Lexan panels and allow for a range of privacy options.

ClientCinereach/Philipp Englehorn

LocationManhattan, NYC

ProgramOffice Space,Screening/ Editing Facility

Area6,000 SF

Budget$125/ SF

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BENETTON RETAIL & OFFICE BUILDINGAs an alternative to the normative mixed-use building that satisfies multiple parameters at the cost of a coherent and singular identity, we imagine a po-rous urban attractor, a carved block, that provides multiple spatial scenarios for the shopper, office worker and park-goer. The interface between building and urban life is extended by the insertion of a public green space into the heart of the building, a new public ground on the third floor that is both shad-ed and open to the sky. Local building techniques are employed in unconven-tional ways: concrete cores twist diagonally up the building; glass panels are ‘slumped’ providing structural integrity to the individual components and a triangulated steel frame is brought to the perimeter as an exoskeleton, al-lowing for a column free interior.

ClientBenetton

LocationTeheran, Iran

ProgramSpeculative Office Towerwith Retail

Area130,000 SF

BudgetUndisclosed

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HARRIS RESIDENCE

A 3,200 sq ft renovation of an existing house in East Hampton, comprises essentially of an extensive deck with a new pool, in addition to the reconfig-uration of the East façade with new fenestration and a large set of sliding doors. The ambition of the design is to extend the living area seamlessly from interior to exterior, providing a new range of programmatic amenities such as an outdoor shower, built-in barbecue area and a serving window- all of which flank the new pool and outdoor deck. A slatted wall which conceals the pool form the neighbor’s view, rotates the slats individually to medi-ate views and light. The entire envelope of the house is re-clad in a char-coal-colored wood paneling.

ClientBrent & Lynn Harris

LocationEast Hampton, NY

ProgramResidence

Area3,200 sq ft

BudgetUndisclosed

StatusUnder Construction

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RECREO VILLAA long and narrow building sited at the top of a lush green mountain in Cos-ta Rica, this house is a porous three dimensional frame that almost disap-pears into the landscape. Carefully balancing abundant access to air, light and views with the need for episodes of privacy and enclosure, this house is an attenuated deck that loosely holds a few solid concrete blocks – the bedrooms and a swimming pool. Distant views to the ocean are framed by the teak structure and expansive roof. The strategic positioning of built-in furnishings and a carefully choreographed path through the length of the house promise a dynamic relationship to the site.

ClientRecreo Resort, Costa Rica

LocationCosta Rica

ProgramResidence

Area3,000 sq ft

BudgetUndisclosed

StatusBuilt

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THE BOULDERS RESORTThe expansion of a 1970s classic golf resort includes 50 new guest rooms in linear strands folded into the contours of the Sonora desert landscape. The loft-like rooms and suites have floor-to-ceiling glass with large outdoor areas, including plunge pools that juxtapose luxury with the rugged, arid terrain. Indoor and outdoor life is contiguous. Interventions into the exist-ing resort may include a renovation of the lodge and restaurant, and a new pool with a swim-up bar and an inclined beach-like structure that dives into the water at one end and cantilevers over the café at the other, providing a screen from the elements. (Unrealized)

With Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

ClientBlackstone

LocationScottsdale, AZ

ProgramHotel/ Spa

Area80 Units/ 800 SF ea.

BudgetUndisclosed

StatusUnbuilt

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MATTITUCK HOUSEMattituk House is a prototype design for a sustainable single-family house. The ambition is to wed high standards of living with advanced technology and design in the development of a small affordable domestic project. The house is a self-sufficient, cost-effective contemporary design with a minimum impact on the site and environment. This high-performance house generates and sustains its own water and power needs through passive first heating and cooling systems, photovoltaics, and rainwater filtration. The multi-production efficiency of its design optimizes a scalability and versatility of habitation.

ClientPaul Pawlowski

LocationMattituck, Long Island

ProgramResidence

Area2,000 sq ft

Budget$400 / sq ft

StatusIn progress

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MEDIA ZONEEFGH collaborated with Diller Scofidio + Renfro on an invited competition for a series of interconnected public spaces designed for a new 600,000 m2 media project in Abu, Dhabi, UAE. A series of large open and semi-cov-ered media spaces is offered, where the public can experience and interact with a creative environment dedicated to the creation and production of broadcast content, music, film and other forms of media and entertainment. These spaces form a network of atmospheres that infuse the public realm with a variety of sensory experiences: indoor/ outdoor theaters, a dry gar-den, a digital souk, a green market and a variety of recreation zones. This “media space” will engage the unique, 24/ 7 community and work/ leisure lifestyle that the Media Zone will create.

ClientTWOFOUR54° ZONE

LocationAbu Dhabi, UAE

ProgramPublic Space, Media Installations

AreaOperations

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EFGH Architects is a dynamic full-service licensed architectural design firm founded in 2007 by Principals Hayley Eber and Frank Gesualdi. Located in New York City, EFGH is actively engaged in a range of project types including Commercial, Retail, Workplace, Residential and Cultural. EFGH maintains a rigorous process that involves an intense conceptual design focus mixed with a drive for quality in the built results. Built on the principals’ years of experience in world-class architecture firms, EFGH is a rising name in the field of architecture, advancing and elevating design across project types. EFGH believes that great partnerships lead to great spaces and has a proven track record of achieving quality results while establishing and maintaining strong relationships with clients.

c All Rights Reserved. EFGH, Inc. www.efgh-ny.com