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Celebrating Preservation: Harlem River Houses Wins Lucy G. Moses Award
The restoration of Harlem River Houses, New York City's first purpose-built public housing development, was recently honored with a 2025 Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award. RAND…
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Professional Women in Construction Names Valerie Landriscina, RA 20 Under 40 Outstanding Women in Construction 2021
RAND is proud to announce Project Architect Valerie Landriscina, RA has been named Professional Women in Construction 2021 20 Under 40 Outstanding Women in Construction award…
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RAND Wins Ortner Preservation Award for Park Slope Jewish Center Project
RAND is proud to announce our exterior and roof repair project at Park Slope Jewish Center in Park Slope Historic District has won a 2018 Evelyn…
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Restoring Historic Details in Sunset Park
Over the years, various boards of directors at Parkside Assocation, located at 549 41st Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, resolved to replace the leaky roof of the…
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An Evening Celebrating Preservation
Last Thursday night my RAND colleagues and I joined more than 500 people to celebrate the beauty and grandeur of historic restoration at the 25th annual…
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Touring the “Cathedral of Commerce”
Although I’ve been an architect for 27 years, and lived in New York City for 33, until recently I had largely overlooked one of the city’s…
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Former Factory Gets Its Beauty Back
As an architectural student in Istanbul and Europe, I had the opportunity to study some inspiring buildings. I was reminded of those buildings when I was…
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Living Landmarks at The Plaza
Recently my husband (and RAND Project Engineer) Samuel and I had the honor of attending the New York Landmarks Conservancy’s 20th Living Landmarks Celebration—fittingly enough at…
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Celebrating Landmarks Lions
On Tuesday night my RAND colleagues and I had the pleasure of celebrating two New Yorkers who have enriched the city’s historic preservation movement. The Historic…
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Old Passion, New Position
After nearly 14 wonderful years at RAND, I have left my regular full-time role of Senior Project Associate to take on a new position pursuing an…
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Restoring a Neighborhood Church
One reason I became an architect was to make a positive impact in my community. My current RAND assignment at the historic Rutgers Presbyterian Church, on…
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The Lions Still Roar at the Algonquin
In my more than 30-year career as a bricklayer, preservationist, and project manager, I’ve been fortunate to have worked on many noteworthy buildings in New York…
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Restoring a Landmark on Ladies’ Mile
Rand was recently hired to oversee an exterior restoration and roof replacement program at 901 Broadway, which the New York Observer called “one of the most…
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A “Real Life Architect” Goes Back to School
I recently had the pleasure of visiting a fifth-grade class at the Bloomingdale School (P.S. 145) on West 105th Street in Manhattan and talking to the…
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RAND Project Recipient of Historic Preservation Award
The Park Slope Civic Council has selected RAND Engineering & Architecture, DPC’s exterior restoration of 153 Lincoln Place as a recipient of its 2017 Evelyn and…
