DESIGN GALLERY:

THE ROAD TO REOPENING

Photo gallery of the construction process:

About the Design Company:

Founded in 2007 and led by Peter Zuspan, AIA, Bureau V Architecture’s expertise lies in understanding the roles that space and design play in both the creation and exhibition of arts and culture. Trained as both an architect and a musician, Zuspan’s work has spanned from performance, sculpture, and installation to the architecture that houses and supports them.

The studio’s recent clients range from arts and culture organizations, such as National Sawdust, Creative Time, the Goat Farm Arts Center, Chapter NY, and the Brooklyn Public Library, to governmental institutions such as Miami-Dade Arts in Public Places, to artists and designers, such as Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Slow and Steady Wins the Race, and Tyler Coburn.

Bureau V’s design of National Sawdust, the nonprofit chamber music hall in Brooklyn, NY, was described by the New York Times as “the city’s most vital new-music hall.” The project has won national and international awards including AIA Honor and Merit awards, the AR Culture Award Commended, AN’s Best Adaptive Reuse, was listed in Architectural Record's global list of the Top 10 Arts Centers of the Year, and was nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize.

Zuspan has taught architecture and design at Columbia University, Barnard College, Syracuse University, and the University of Pennsylvania. His research project entitled The Performance of Shame: The Desegregation Renovations of Downtown Atlanta, recently won the AIA Arnold W. Brunner Grant for Architectural Research in 2021.

Bureau V is a certified LGBTBE studio based in Brooklyn, NY. www.bureauv.com