Brochure - Mastro Skylar Architects

After all, it’s your home.Our clients come to us with pretty strong ideas. We enjoy the challenge of integrating ourdesign philosophy and expertise with their requests. The clients of the above home collectedcountry antiques, loved to garden, and needed another bedroom. We suggested creating thecottage pictured above, complete with a cottage garden, on the roof of their brownstone situatedamong high rises. The home on the right was created for a couple who collected modern art andwanted a zen garden. We suggested removing part of the building to create a private courtyard.We’ve had clients who wanted to live in a church, and have mixed old ceiling frescos withmodern steel handrails and jagged forms. Another asked us to turn a large factory into hishome, giving us the movie “Blade Runner” to inspire us. The stair details in that job relate to theEl that zooms by a few feet outside his living room windows. We’ve designed spaces thatremind a family of a wonderful Caribbean vacation. We’ve created cabinetry to house a cookiejar collection in the context of the remodeling of the entire suburban home, reorienting it on adifficult lot. We’ve designed a number of homes for clients who collect Art and Craft Pottery orMission furniture. We’ve done a home that recalls a house in Charleston for a Southern family,while solving circulation problems and enlarging a small dining area.All of the above projects, as different as they may seem, do have something in common:Mastro & Skylar Architects. Those familiar with our work know it when they see it. We aremodernists at heart, constantly striving for simplicity, rationality, and consistency in our work.We respect the existing context, but never blantantly imitate it. It is your house, but for a shorttime we share the creation of it with you.