Morris Adjmi Architects is a New York studio that Morris Adjmi founded in 1997 after his collaboration with Aldo Rossi. It works from 60 Broad Street and offers architecture, interiors, planning and art services for residential, commercial and hospitality clients. The firm says it has designed more than 27 million square feet in over 25 cities. On the Brooklyn & Church office-to-residential conversion at 526 S. Church St. in Charlotte, its role is narrower than a blanket design credit suggests. MA designed the new three-story, 28,000-square-foot retail building and, by its own account, collaborated on the recladding concept for the former Duke Energy tower. Axios Charlotte credits the design to MA working with SK+I Architecture.
The studio page lists the practice more broadly than “architects”
MA describes itself as a multidisciplinary design practice spanning planning, architecture, interior design and art, and its own published list of core markets and services runs wider than the project galleries suggest: residential, hospitality, commercial, placemaking, arts and culture, institutional, adaptive reuse and new construction, plus entitlement support services, zoning and feasibility, architectural design and documentation, interior design and documentation, urban planning and design, and art services.
The zoning, feasibility and entitlement line is the one most often missed. It means the studio can be engaged before a scheme exists, on whether a site will carry the programme at all — a distinct service from being handed a brief and designing to it.
The firm states it has designed more than 27 million square feet of built space in more than 25 cities in the United States and abroad. Its stated design position is compact and unusually specific: creating iconic buildings that stand out by fitting in, with contemporary architecture, interiors and environments drawn from art, history and context, using sustainable technologies and innovative materials.
The portfolio, read by building type
The published index gives a clearer picture of the practice than any description. Hospitality is heavily represented: the Wythe Hotel, The Rockaway Hotel, FORTH Hotel, The Tampa EDITION, The Nickel Hotel, Four Seasons Hotel and Residences, and Nexus Club New York. Residential and mixed-use runs through the Austin Nichols Penthouse, The Huron, Overline Residences, Front and York, The Row Fulton Market, The Grand Mulberry, 30 East 31st, The Axel, 520 West 20th and 360 Bowery. Institutional work includes the UC Berkeley Anchor House dormitory. Commercial and workplace covers 837 Washington, Steel House, the Theory Building, The High Line Building, Thrive Capital, 350 and 400 Summer, and a lobby renovation at the firm’s own 60 Broad Street address.
Planning and placemaking is listed as its own category, with Fenway Corner in Boston, The Seam, Robinson Terminal North, The Avenue, and Rye Street Market at Baltimore Peninsula. Forbes has recognised the studio for excellence in hospitality architecture and design.
One detail sits outside the portfolio and is worth recording. For more than 15 years the Manhattan office has run rotating art exhibitions, showing painters, photographers, sculptors and other artists whose ideas align with the firm’s values — a platform the studio says enriches the practice and creates collaboration.
The studio works from 60 Broad Street, 32nd floor, in New York, and links Instagram and LinkedIn from its own pages. It publishes no headcount, and no founding year appears on its current site.
