Future Projects has been named to The Architect’s Newspaper Twenty to Watch, a list assembled by the newspaper’s editors to recognize rising residential architecture design talent. Led by University of Oklahoma Architecture alumni Julie Tran and Khoi Nguyen, Future Projects will be featured both online and in the January/February 2025 print issue of The Architect’s Newspaper. The piece will offer a glimpse into two new residential projects in juxtaposing styles: the Fort Greene Townhouse and Riverside Apartment projects.
Designed around fine, crisp details, the Fort Greene Townhouse project uses texture and tactility to bring richness and scale to daily life. The sparse quality of the architecture is a canvas for sculptural surfaces – delicately fluted cabinetry, hand-plastered walls and softly rounded forms.
Fort Greene Townhouse Project. Photo courtesy of Future Projects
By contrast, the Riverside Apartment project embraces the marriage of meticulously restored historic detailing with discreetly modern interventions. The project focuses on connecting spaces physically and visually through a series of elliptical archways. Interior furnishings are a balance of contemporary built-in pieces and vintage finds.
Riverside Apartment Project. Photo by Andrew Bui.
“No matter the scale of the project, from small interventions to complete reconfigurations of historic buildings, the interplay of new and old, soft and hard, enclosed and open, is always present,” says Future Projects. “The intention behind these details is to create spaces that are genuinely personal, establish a sense of place, and to encourage continuity within a trend-forward culture.”
The Twenty to Watch architects will share their work and celebrate with the design community at New York’s A&D Building on March 6.
Future Projects is an architecture and interior design firm established by Julie Tran and Khoi Nguyen around a rigorous practice that aims to create aesthetic environments that are direct responses to those who will inhabit them. The practice has a particular interest in the tension between uniquely tailored spaces and adaptive reuse at all scales. Future Projects operates their studio out of Brooklyn with award-winning projects in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Oklahoma and has been featured in national publications, including Architectural Digest, Dwell, Domino, Dezeen, and AN Interior. The firm was previously awarded the Young Architects award and two Best of Design Awards from The Architect’s Newspaper.
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