Peterson Rich Office Projects

The Shepherd is a new art gallery, performance space, and community center planned for the East Village neighborhood of Detroit — a residential area that has long been subject to population decline and urban blight.

Blu Dot Lexington is in the heart of Midtown East Design District. This light and airy 14,000 sf store features two showroom levels and a rooftop terrace.

Peterson Rich Office recently completed construction of a gallery dedicated to works on paper at Wesleyan University.

In Spring 2019, PRO won an invited competition to design a new art gallery building for the Wesleyan University Davison Arts Center—one of the most extensive collections of works on paper in North America.

In 2021, PRO worked with the Rubin Museum on the design of the Mandala Lab, and immersive cultural space on the third floor of the museum.

The Mandala Lab is an interactive space for social and emotional learning inspired by the Tibetan Buddhist mandala. The immersive cultural space invites visitors of all ages to smell, see, touch, and listen as they sense, interpret, and process their own emotions supporting the Rubin museum’s mission: to stimulate learning, promote understanding, and inspire personal connections to the ideas, cultures, and art of Himalayan regions.

PRO worked with Galerie Perrotin to design a flagship 25,000sf exhibition space on five floors in the historic Beckenstein Building.

Peterson Rich Office has been collaborating with Nina Abney on the design of her new painting studio.

The Hudson River Valley is rapidly becoming home to both arts institutions and artist studios. Successful artists drawn to large spaces, and the small town culture of Peekskill, Hudson, and Cold Spring are reclaiming formerly industrial spaces for art production.

PRO's P&T Knitwear bookstore features bold colors, an amphitheater, a children's section, and a podcast studio.

At a time when there are a record number of empty storefronts in Manhattan, P&T Knitwear is designed to be a place of dynamic activity and events, activating Orchard Street and the wider Lower East Side with a new type of space for learning, dialogue, and exchange of ideas.

Between 2019-2020 PRO worked with The Regional Plan Association on a report of design strategies to modernize NYCHA buildings.

Between 2019-2020 PRO worked with The Regional Plan Association on a report of scalable solutions and design strategies to modernize NYCHA buildings and campuses and improve living conditions for residents as part RPA's The JM Kaplan Fund Chairs for Urban Design fellowship.

In 2022 Peterson Rich Office was featured in the "Architecture Now" Exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.

In 2022 Peterson Rich Office was featured in the "Architecture Now" Exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition highlighted PRO's ongoing collaboration with the New York Housing Authority in their efforts to renovate 30% of their portfolio.

Can architecture evoke landscape like a painting can? PRO tries to provide answers to this question with the design of Tula Telfair's studio

Can architecture evoke landscape like a painting can? Built on a rural site overlooking the Connecticut River, this studio was commissioned by an artist who paints large-scale, imagined landscape paintings. We wondered whether the building could also evoke landscape, and express the resonance between the work being produced inside the studio, and the surrounding context.

Apartment renovation of a dwelling for 1 in Chelsea, featuring our custom design table around an original wood column

Nestled within Chelsea, this 1,300-square-foot apartment is a true hidden gem. Designed for a single inhabitant, it revolves around a rich material palette, featuring wide board floors, elegant black and green marble accents, and custom-made furniture.

This 4000sf townhouse, a private residence in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, revives a historic construction technique that is unique to this neighborhood in New York, but updates it with design features and details that reinterpret the townhouse typology.

This two story penthouse in Tribeca features a smooth, thick bodied, sculptural stair.

This two-story penthouse on top of a historic cast-iron building in Tribeca was originally completed in 2006 but has never been occupied. It contains 3800 interior square feet on two levels and 3400 square feet of exterior terrace.

PRO completed the design of a jewel-sized store for luxury fashion brand The Row.

PRO is collaborating with Zaria Forman designing her new studio in Preston Hollow, NY.

Peterson Rich Office is collaborating with Zaria Forman on the design of her new studio in Preston Hollow, NY.

PRO designed the Glossier New York Flagship store featuring a sleek, pink stair at the store's entry, connecting costumers from the street to the second floor show room.

From its roots in the beauty blog ‘Into the Gloss’, the Glossier skincare and beauty brand has always been about community. The space to house a new flagship store was conceived as a place to emphasize that sense of community in real life, and to bring people together to have a collective and interactive experience.

PRO is currently working with Library Street Collective on a new affordable, "Live-Work" housing complex that is targeted at working artists.

PRO is currently working with Library Street Collective on a ground-up, affordable, "Live-Work" housing complex that is targeted at working artists.

In light of falling confidence in world markets and near 0% interest on government bonds, New York City real estate has become a financial safe haven. With ground level sites almost entirely occupied, developers have turned their interests skyward.

Peterson Rich Office is designing a new ground-up mixed-use building for a rapidly changing Brooklyn street.

Located within a historic building in the elegant shopping and entertainment hub of London’s West End, Glossier London is a modern compliment to a traditional architecture.

9x18 rethinks the role of parking, proposing that these overlooked spaces can help shift the discourse around affordable housing from one of economic burden to one of economic opportunity.

PRO worked with the Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art in Peekskill, New York on an upgrade and expansion to their existing facilities.

Roof by Roof proposes a strategy to combine the large-scale provision of new affordable housing with the repair, renovation, and future-proofing of existing stock, with the aim of bringing value to NYCHA as a housing provider and benefiting existing and future residents alike.

As part of a larger master plan, PRO created a new entry and addition for a campus center at the Fieldston School.

PRO designed display systems for two different exhibitions at Luhring Augustine.