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We integrate architecture, interiors, and construction to transform historic townhouses and brownstones into homes that are beautiful, healthy, resilient, and designed to perform for generations.

Oculus House

Java Haus

Seashell House

The reBuild Approach

One Integrated Team

Architecture, interiors, and construction come together as one team from the start. Our integrated design-build approach brings construction expertise and real cost information into the design process early - improving coordination, reducing uncertainty, and carrying a clear architectural vision through completion.


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Healthy, High-Performance Homes

We design homes that are quieter, healthier, more comfortable, and dramatically more energy-efficient. Guided by Passive House principles, we combine high-performance envelopes, filtered fresh air, efficient all-electric systems, and thoughtful material choices - without compromising architecture or interiors..

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Design Without Compromise

We believe performance and beauty should reinforce one another. From restoring historic details to creating contemporary interiors, we look for solutions that respect the character of each house while making it work beautifully for the way people live today.

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Client Partnership

Renovating a New York townhouse is a complex process. We work closely with our clients from the earliest ideas through construction, communicating clearly, making decisions collaboratively, and providing the expertise needed to navigate the process with confidence.

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“We love our beautiful, airy new home and feel incredibly lucky to have found Themis and his team. Over the past two years, they’ve made a very complex process feel as easy and seamless as possible.”

PRE-PURCHASE CONSULTATION

Considering buying a brownstone or townhouse?

Our pre-purchase consultation helps you understand a property’s potential, constraints, and renovation implications - before you commit.

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Ten years ago today, we finished the Canvas House. One of the first landmarked Brooklyn rowhouses we took on, and it set the terms for how we’ve approached historic homes ever since. The house belongs to photographer Winnie Au, and the design
New York has 233,000 rowhouses. Mostly pre-1930, highly inefficient, and - importantly - variations of essentially the same building type. That repetition makes the rowhouse one of the city’s greatest opportunities for scalable retrofit, yet i
No radiator under this door. In January, the glass is warm enough to sit beside—that’s what triple glazing and a continuous air barrier buy you. The comfort isn’t a finish or a fixture. It’s the enclosure doing its job. Gues
A moment beneath the oculus. . Designed to bring daylight deep into the center of this historic Brooklyn brownstone, the 6-foot wide, triple-glazed, operable circular skylight transforms what might otherwise have been a transitional space into one of
Old and new don’t have to compete. Done carefully, each can make the other more legible. At Seashell House, a contemporary kitchen occupies the rear of an 1897 Italianate brownstone, while the front parlor preserves much of the home’s hi
We finished Java Haus in Greenpoint and then we left a monitor running for a full year and checked whether the building did what the model said it would. It did. → 62% less energy than a code-minimum version of the same house → 82.2% of th

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