Brooklyn, NY 11201
90 Broad Street
Kinderhook, NY 12106
917 244 8095
Brooklyn, NY 11201
90 Broad Street
Kinderhook, NY 12106
917 244 8095
Baxter Projects is an award-winning architecture studio dedicated to building healthy sustainable low-carbon spaces and structures. Founded in 2014 by Kevin Baxter, we are based in Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley.
Whether it’s a new home, a renovation/new addition, or a complex multi-use structure, our experience and skills in the pursuit of intelligent, artful design allow us to execute meaningful projects of any scale that are as aspirational as they are practical and distinctly rooted in place.
With each new client/project, we bring a body of knowledge that includes engineering, art, and industrial design, to learn and grow as we further a new path in modern living and sustainability.
Kevin Baxter, Architect
Kevin Baxter is the founder and principal of Baxter Projects.
For 25 years, Kevin has worked on numerous residential and commercial projects that are recognized for their history, integration into land and topography, their vibrant interpretations of modernism and utility, and the Passive House and carbon sequestering techniques employed to conserve energy.
Prior to founding Baxter Projects, Kevin was a project architect at some of the world’s most prestigious firms and visionaries, including Pei/Cobb/Freed, Gaetano Pesce and Ennead Architects, where he led a team for the award-winning renovation and modernization of the Public Theater. Kevin also led the adaptive reuse of the Cincinnati Music Hall, built in 1878, into a twenty-first century multi-purpose concert hall.
Kevin is a educator and adjunct professor of architecure at the New York Institure of Technology and has been an invited architecture critic at the City College of New York, Pratt University, New York Institute of Technology, the Art Institute of New York, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Clemson University, and the University of Florida.
Kevin is a registered architect in New York State, a member of the American Institute of Architects, and a United States Green Building Council LEED Green Associate.
Brooklyn Apartment
A 600sf apartment on the top floor of a 1910 brick walk-up, formery used as a sail factory, was in need of re-imagining a sunny perch near the waterfront, formerly working docks now transformed into the Brooklyn Bridge Park.
The sloping roof was concealing an orginal 10 foot wide skylight used to illuminate the workspace. In order to recapture the natural light and make the small footprint more space efficient, the floor was gutted front to back and rebuilt it as a two bedroom one bath with a work loft, increasing the usable floor area to 700sf.
Simple materials and bright colors bounce sunlight around the spaces making the apartment feel like a rooftop aerie.
Completed in 2015.
Published in Domino and Brownstoner.