Leroy Street Studio is an architectural practice inspired by innovation in design, the craft of construction, and a collaborative approach that places the clients’ needs at the center of the design process.
LSS pursues intensive research into local building techniques, systems and materials, and rigorously examines the physical, social, and environmental context of each project. The firm derives architecture through a synthesis of diverse forces that allows them to create a unique design for each client, informed by their requirements and desires.
The firm is comprised of three partners and talented team of architects with a deep knowledge of residential, community, and institutional construction, most of whom have been with the firm for many years.
Each project has a senior Project Architect, and a Partner-in-charge involved in every aspect of a project’s design and development. The firm employs a team approach with the studio and with the consultants with which it collaborates, as well as with other architecture firms with which LSS partners in the US and abroad.
In 2001 LSS founded Hester Street Collaborative, a non for profit participatory design build workshop, to improve the physical environment in NYC neighborhoods. HSC works with local residents to transform neglected public spaces in parks, schools and affordable housing developments through a design/build process which allows stakeholders to play a hands-on role.
In 2008 LSS founded BLDG, a construction management company dedicated to bringing the firm’s clients a better, more cost-effective product through an integrated design and construction process.
In 2011 LSS interiors was founded to provide interior design services to further provide an integrated, holistic design package to clients.
Leroy Street Studio was founded by Morgan Hare
and Marc Turkel in 1995. Shawn Watts joined the practice in 1997 and became a partner in 2005.