Purpose

WE CREATE DELIGHT FOR OUR CLIENTS

We specialize in optimizing Light-Views-Space

We specialize in creating a home that brings you delight

We specialize in residential gut renovations

About

Principal Profile

Allegra leads a team of talented professionals dedicated to a culture of clarity, kindness, and excellence.

This firm is dedicated to creating a delightful experience for its clients on the path to a truly delightful new home.

Allegra is a licensed architect with over 15 years of design and construction experience in and around New York City.

Before starting her own practice Allegra worked at a series of progressively larger firms doing innovative work, including work on a solar home in the Catskills, renovations of rental-to-coop 10-40 unit buildings in Harlem, residential and corporate renovations, and an expansion of JFK airport for Delta.

Through her consulting work, Allegra has developed specialties in lighting and inter-disciplinary branding and design.

Allegra’s latest innovations are an emphasis on new apartment renovation typologies and a focus on her “Light-Views-Space” design strategy in her firm’s renovations and creating a delightful process for her clients.

Allegra became a registered architect in the State of New York in 2000.

Read more about Allegra in the blog post Born to be: A NYC Apartment Renovation Specialist

Recognition and Affiliations

Rhode Island School of Design = RISD Summer 1988

Melanie Freundlich Lighting Design 2002-2005

Skidmore Owings and Merrill = SOM 2000-2001)

Murphy Burnham Buttrick = MBB 1998-1999)

State of New York Office of the Professions 2000-present)

American Institute of Architects = AIA 2000-present

HONORS + AWARDS

Fire Island Bungalow Winner: Interior Design / Residential Category; Honorable Mention: Country Category: BLT Design Awards [2023]
Gramercy Pied à Terre Honorable Mention: Interior Design / Residential Category: BLT Design Awards [2023]
Upper West Side Townhouse Honorable Mention: Architectural Design / Residential Category: BLT Design Awards [2023]
Post Graduate William Kinne Traveling Fellowship Prize: Columbia University [1996]
Lowenfish Memorial Prize: Columbia University [1996]
Kinne Summer Traveling Fellowship: Columbia University [1993]
Honors Thesis: Dartmouth College [1992]
Winner of Great Bear III Cabin Design: Dartmouth College [1990]

EXHIBITS + PUBLICATIONS

CELEBRITY HOMES: Fans of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Can Now Live in the Building From the Show: Architectural Digest [April 19, 2018; by Joyce Chen]
COOL LISTINGS: Pre-war Beauty: 6SQFT [April 19, 2018; by Michelle Cohen]
GIMME SHELTER: Live in the building made famous by ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’: New York Post [April 18, 2018; by Jennifer Gould Keil]
AIA Annual Subway Exhibit: West 4th Street subway station, NYC [October 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013]
West Side Story: Interior Design [July 2000; by Julia Lewis]
Negotiation & Duration exhibit: Columbia University, NYC [Spring 2000]
Exchanging Views exhibit: Columbia University, NYC [Spring 1994]
Waseda University Studio Installation: Waseda University, Tokyo Campus [Summer 1993]