STUDIO VISION
Our work is founded on an expansive view of architecture that engages with history, beauty, and craft, bringing fresh thinking about the past and a lush sense of material. We see every project as a unique opportunity to learn something new about the people that occupy our world, and to use research as a foundation for fresh thinking about how to create spaces that transcend everyone’s first expectations.
ABOUT NICHOLAS POTTS, AIA
Prior to entering private practice, Nicholas Potts led landmark projects at world-renowned firms—including SHoP Architects’ 111 West 57th Street and Bjarke Ingels Group’s Spiral at Hudson Yards—and acted as an editor on “Elements of Architecture’ at the XIV Venice Biennale and its companion, a 2600-page encyclopedic history of the everyday elements of architecture with Rem Koolhaas/AMO and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, published by Taschen in 2018. He can currently be seen hosting New York-based episodes of Architectural Digest’s ‘Walking Tour’ and regularly contributes opinion on design to publications including Vogue, Architectural Digest, and Elle Décor.
Licensed: New York, Washington DC, California, Minnesota
Selected Prior Works:
With BIG
The Spiral, New York; Seaport San Diego; The BIG U / East Side Coastal Resiliency, New York; Marble Collegiate Tower, New York; The Creamery, San Francisco
With SHoP
111 West 57th Street, New York; Confidential Hotel, London
With HGA, Minneapolis
Lakewood Garden Mausoleum, Minneapolis; B’Nai Israel Synagogue, MN; Winona History Center, MN; Private Residence, Sonoma CA; Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis; Yale University Health Services
Photo: Jennifer Hughes