by ESKW Blog | Jun 12, 2020 | Community, Office Culture
Recent events and the growing list of Black victims at the hands of the authority sworn to protect them implores us to raise our voices. It was naïve to believe that doing good work was enough. To dedicate our practice to working with community-based organizations to...
by ESKW Blog | Apr 30, 2020 | Community
In an effort to stay connected and invoke some watercooler chat in the virtual world, we’ve begun asking staff for a personal update and signoff at the end of our staff-wide Zoom meetings. Last week everyone told us what they had for breakfast (far too many of us are...
by ESKW Blog | Apr 22, 2020 | Community
Joe Sultan, aka the “S” in ESKW/Architects, may not be architecting on essential housing projects these days, but he is absolutely doing his part along with wife, Sandy Chilewich, to keep us safe. Joe was always a problem-solver in architectural practice,...
by ESKW Blog | Apr 17, 2020 | Community, Our Projects
In lighter news, back in February before remote learning became the new normal, ESKW/Architects Senior Project Manager Ruth Dresdner took a group of her Bard High School Early College Manhattan students to our 1921 Cortelyou Road project as part of her seminar...
by ESKW Blog | Apr 13, 2020 | Community, Office Culture
Given the times, ESKW/Architects has been doing our best to stay healthy physically and mentally while working from home. Starting last month, we’ve been sending weekly office-wide emails with tips for remaining active and stable, and individual team members have been...
by ESKW Blog | Mar 19, 2020 | Community
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, ESKW/Architects has been working remotely and likely will be for the foreseeable future. We have very limited staff in the office daily to ensure mail and packages are received, and that drawings and forms are processed. Staff...
by ESKW Blog | Jan 23, 2020 | Office Culture
ESKW/Architects is proud to announce that Janine Sutton Golub has been named Associate in the firm. We are honored by her dedication to our clients, our projects, and the culture of our office, which wouldn’t exist without her. Janine first joined ESKW/A in 2004 after...
by ESKW Blog | Jan 23, 2020 | Office Culture
ESKW/Architects is proud to announce that Moses Ragasa, Ruth Dresdner, and Jon Mark Bagnall have been promoted to Senior Project Managers in the firm. Combined they bring decades of experience, and their office leadership and mentorship of staff contribute to the...
by ESKW Blog | Nov 26, 2019 | Community, Office Culture, Our Projects
1070 Myrtle Avenue recently received a Society of American Registered Architects (SARA) National Design Award of Honor at the organization’s annual conference in Chicago. ESKW/Architect’s Project manager Fialka Semenuik, AIA, Associate, was in attendance to accept!...
by ESKW Blog | Oct 4, 2019 | Community, Our Projects
Today, 1921 Cortelyou Road and Baptist Church of the Redeemer was mentioned in The New York Times in a story about the development of faith-based sites. In increasingly challenging times for houses of worship, it’s important that the development market reacts...
