Seaworthy is an American oyster bar next door to Ace Hotel New Orleans. Set in a classic Creole cottage built in 1832, Seaworthy is a partnership between Ace Hotel and the trio behind New York’s award-winning Grand Banks: brothers, sailors and New Orleans natives Alex and Miles Pincus and nightlife impresario Adrien Gallo.
Seaworthy culls inspiration from the Pincus brothers’ sailing trips along the Gulf Coast waterways, the time-worn traditions of Southern hospitality and the legendary exuberance of the city of New Orleans.
Seaworthy showcases wild-caught and sustainably harvested oysters from American waters — Gulf Coast, East Coast and West Coast alike — as well as locally sourced fish and game. The celebrated beverage program offers both classic and proprietary cocktails, with a smart selection of beer and wine.
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Design » HOME Studios + Alexander Pincus + Atelier Ace
Client » Domain Companies + Ace Hotel+ Grand Barracks
Program » Restaurant
Construction » Restoration + Renovation
Location » New Orleans, LA
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2016
National Sawdust is a venue for young musicians and composers of new classical, jazz and experimental music to perform and record their work. It houses an acoustically-driven chamber music hall consisting of a double-height space with surrounding balcony that holds up to 300 patrons. Conceived as a jewel set within the brick envelope of a former sawdust factory, the venue seeks to combine the historic European concert hall model with the late bare-bones black-box model, where the crafted beauty and performative ornament of the former meets the experimental programming and roughness of the latter.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + Bureau V
Client » National Sawdust
Program » Concert Hall
Construction » Adaptive Reuse
Location » Brooklyn, NY
Budget » 16 million
Status » Complete
Year » 2009 - 2015
Inspired by the floating "oyster barges" that lined lower Manhattan's waterfront in the 18th and 19th centuries, Grand Banks is a seasonal oyster bar aboard a historic 142-foot wooden schooner, the Sherman Zwicker. The menu at Grand Banks features sustainably produced oysters from both coasts—with a special emphasis on the native Atlantic oyster species harvested from New York waters—as well as ingredient-driven small plates and nautically inspired cocktails.
Grand Banks' hand-built wooden ship, officially christened in 1942 as the F/V Sherman Zwicker, is the last original saltbank fishing vessel in existence. Once part of the proud Grand Banks fleet that fished the abundant but turbulent North Atlantic, the Sherman Zwicker traded cod and salt throughout the Americas. Today she is an exceptional and rare surviving example of traditional boat-building skills. The Sherman Zwicker is also the largest wooden vessel in New York City.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + Eric Cheong
Client » GBSZ LLC
Program » Restaurant
Type » Restoration + Renovation
Location » New York, NY
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2014
Outcropping is a temporary installation designed for the main concert field at the Camp Bisco music festival in upstate New York. The installation is comprised of multiple groupings of crystalline forms that sit within and tower above the festival audience. The forms are tipped with angled mirrors that reflect the landscape, the performance lighting, and the crowd below, producing a dynamic, refractive atmosphere intended to unify the core elements of the festival.
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Design » Alexander Pincus
Client » Camp Bisco
Program » Art Installation
Construction » Fabrication
Location » Mariaville Lake, NY
Budget » 20,000
Status » Complete
Year » 2012
Photographer » Alexander Pincus
Location » New Orleans, LA
Camera » Polaroid Land Camera 360
Year » 2005
Xanadu is a DJ booth designed for a performance by Juan Atkins, the inventor of Techno, that was commissioned for the Expanded Music Project at Land of Tomorrow. The form is based on anirregular pentagonal antiprism, a geometric shape comprised of alternating triangles. It is framed with solid plywood panels and clad in padded sections of gold-sparkle vinyl and maroon carpet.
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Design » Alexander Pincus
Client » Land of Tomorrow Gallery
Program » Art Installation
Type » Fabrication
Location » Louisville, KY
Budget » 5,000
Status » Complete
Year » 2013
LQ is the latest addition to Zumtobel’s Avantgarde Collection. The form is made from a single minimal surface component that can expand infinitely via seamless edge to edge connections. The form is generated by a scripting process that evolves the topology of a primitive towards particular goals, in particular heightened refraction and a lack of undercut surfaces.
LQ was awarded Light of the Future at Light+Building Frankfurt 2008.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + Hani Rashid
Client » Zumtobel
Type » Object
Location » NA
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2007
Cairo is a new series of steel and walnut furniture that explores a recurring hexagonal pattern. Elements include large and small display shelving, low cabinets, a credenza, and a room divider.
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Design » Alexander Pincus
Client » NA
Program » Furniture
Type » Fabrication
Location » NA
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2013
Photographer » Alexander Pincus
Location » Tennessee
Camera » Nikon F100
Year » 2003 - 2004
The Montello Foundation’s Artist Residency Program provides a solitary retreat in the Nevada Desert to reflect on nature and create new works. The off-the-grid complex provides simultaneous immersion in, and protection from, the extreme desert landscape. The two structures, housing living quarters and a work studio, are made of cast in place concrete and corrugated siding; and are attached at the roof by a screened canopy that conceals solar panels and a water catchment system, and at the ground by a reclaimed timber deck.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + Bureau V
Client » Montello Foundation
Program » Artist's Retreat
Type » New Construction
Location » Montello, Nevada
Budget » 300,000
Status » Unrealized
Year » 2011
Photographer » Alexander Pincus
Location » Cuba
Camera » Leica M6
Year » 2010
Rider, led by James Beard Award-winning chef Patrick Connelly, is a two story restaurant housed within the celebrated National Sawdust. The space juxtaposes rough industrial materials with crisp modernist gestures, as seen most clearly in the heavy brick facade that is severed by long ribbon windows and supported by minimal 'V' shaped columns.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + Bureau V
Client » National Sawdust
Program » Restaurant
Construction » Adaptive Reuse
Location » Brooklyn, NY
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2009 - 2016
Photo Credit » Nick Solares + Eater
Colorblock, a proposed installation within the Hudson Square Connection Business Improvement District, intends to enliven its surroundings and attract pedestrians into two under-utilized public spaces. The design, a field of painted and chromed stainless steel masses, is based on a single pre-fabricated form that is replicated at various scales, with varying degrees of enclosure. Each unit contains one reflective panel positioned adjacent to the ground, and an interior, visible through its seams, that is coated in elaborate patterns of electroluminescent tape. These mechanisms work at two scales – at the urban scale, folding the surrounding plaza and inhabitants into a new and curious geometry, and at an intimate scale, where one discovers a hidden world by peeking through the open seams of the forms.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + Bureau V
Client » Hudson Square Connection BID
Program » Public Space
Type » New Construction
Location » New York, NY
Budget » NA
Status » Unrealized
Year » 2012
Trillion Dollar Mile is a renovation of an existing commercial building along a major thoroughfare in New Jersey. The project takes up the contextual typology of the drive-by commercial facade as its point of departure. Operating as a series of chromatically shifting ribs arrayed along the surface of the existing masonry structure, the project produces a facade as volume, as it reconstructs and thickens the building’s original flatness.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + Bureau V
Client » ESL Corporation
Program » Office Space
Construction » Adaptive Reuse
Location » Fort Lee, NJ
Budget » 1 million
Status » Unrealized
Year » 2007
Commissioned by the Whitney Museum for its retrospective, Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, Abacus is a site-specific installation that re-imagines the material and rhetorical tropes of Fuller’s oeuvre. It attempts to embed a new emotional relevance to Fuller’s engineering logic by producing a landscape that is both structurally rigorous and atmospherically immersive.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + Bureau V
Client » Whitney Museum of American Art
Program » Art Installation
Construction » Fabrication
Location » New York, NY
Budget » NA
Status » Unrealized
Year » 2009
Photographer » Alexander Pincus
Location » Lexington, KY
Camera » Pentax
Year » 2011
The Ecco Ecco Los Angeles flagship building integrates sustainable design elements into a patterened volume to create an architecture that embodies the company’s commitment to finding innovative solutions to environmental problems. The signature element of the building is a facade comprised of custom integrated wind turbines that harness energy from passing winds as well as from wind produced by the building’s air displacement.
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Design » Alexander Pincus
Client » Ecco Eco
Program » Commercial
Type » New Construction
Location » Los Angeles, CA
Budget » NA
Status » Unrealized
Year » 2009
Budapest Bank Tower frames the view across the Danube in an industrial section of Budapest that is being developed by the Orco Group. The 30 story tower is designed to incorporate a second tower, to be constructed later, and is set to become the tallest building in Budapest. The project is the winner of an international competition that included Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry among others.
The scheme is based on a single line that projects through multiple vectors and is given volume through a series of hyperbolic projections. The building is supported by a two rotating cores and a structural skin that we developed in collaboration with ARUP. The mesh skin is based on experiments we conducted with perforated topologies and aggregation, where a surface would become less perforated under heavier loads and more perforated under light loads.
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Design » Asymptote Architecture
Design Lead » Alexander Pincus
Client » Orco
Program » Office Tower
Type » New Construction
Location » Budapest, Hungary
Budget » NA
Status » Unrealized
Year » 2006
SSWTR Spring 2010 is a pop-up installation based on the idea of still life. The installation is comprised of a series of simple wood structures with rope supported shelving and decorated with objects donated by artists and designers including Amy Yao, Andrew Kuo, Chris Caccamise, David Carson, Darren Kraft, Gloria Baume, Judy Linn, Mika Tajima, Mike Mills & Miranda July, Naomi Nevitt, No Age, Sam Wilson, Sonnet Stanfill, Tauba Auerbach, Tavi, Vampire Weekend , Wendy Yao, Zoë Ghertner and other special guests.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + Bureau V
Client » Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Program » Installation
Type » Fabrication
Location » New York, NY
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2010
Photographer » Alexander Pincus
Location » Somewhere in New Jersey
Camera » Nikon F100
Year » 2007
The Strata Tower set on Al Raha Beach in Abu Dhabi, is a 40-story luxury residential building boasting an elegant and dynamic facade and form.
The architectural statement is the result of employing a strategy of simultaneous twisting and tapering the geometry that constitutes the tower form and gestural aspects. Then stemming from that approach, an intricate layered treatment of the façade allows for the integration of the tower with the podium base. The podium itself mediates between the towers stature and grandeur while being set on a waterside archipelago site. The base element houses the main lobby and public areas all overlooking gardens and the surrounding seascape. Large skylights are set into an articulated roofs capes of the base producing an architectural composition that provides a compelling dune like terrain beneath the spire. Within these spaces are naturally light filled interior environments for housing an array of lounges, spas and interior pools.
Inside the tower, the floor plates rotate around a central core and accommodate a variety of luxury residential typologies. At the base of the tower each of the 3 large wings houses two residential units; in the midsection each wing is entirely occupied by a single unit; in the upper floors duplex and triplex units occupy multiple floors while the very top accommodates a single multi-story penthouse and residential club. The tower is wrapped in a layered façade comprised of a high performance floor to ceiling glass curtain wall with a system of louvers suspended beyond the glass. The environmental performance of the external louver system is optimized by varying the density of the louvers from one area of the facade to another in response to solar orientation and the self-shadowing that results from the building geometry. This geometry and the architecture of the facade in combination with the play of shimmering light effects from the surrounding water contributes to the compelling atmospheric and iconic quality of the Strata Tower.
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Design » Asymptote Architecture
Design Lead » Alexander Pincus
Client » Aldar
Program » Residential Tower
Type » New Construction
Location » Abu Dhabi, UAE
Budget » 500 Million
Status » Under Construction
Year » 2007 - 2013
Photographer » Alexander Pincus
Location » Havana, Cuba
Camera » Leica M6
Year » 2010
Photographer » Alexander Pincus
Location » Los Angeles, CA
Camera » Nikon F100
Year » 2001
Love Always documents two lives through juxtaposed images taken daily in different cities.
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Team » Alexander Pincus + Noah Olmsted
Client » NA
Type » Installation
Location » New York and Los Angeles
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2007
Money Talks is a herringbone patterned wallpaper that is made using one dollar bills. At just under $10 per square foot, the cost (excluding installation) is less than many conventional wallpapers. And the look, well, money talks.
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Design » Alexander Pincus
Client » NA
Program » Wallpaper
Construction » Fabrication
Location » New York, NY
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2014
Photographer » Alexander Pincus
Location » Joshua Tree, California
Camera » Polaroid Land Camera 360
Year » 2007
Higher Power is a 12-outlet, cruciform surge protector that accommodates oversize adapters while providing comprehensive protection from evil, power surges, and AC contamination.
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DESIGN » Alexander Pincus
CLIENT » NA
TYPE » Object
LOCATION » NA
BUDGET » NA
STATUS » Complete
YEAR » 2012
Photographer » Alexander Pincus
Location » Mexico City, Mexico
Camera » Lumix
Year » 2010
Photographer » Alexander Pincus
Location » Montello, Nevada
Camera » Nikon F100
Year » 2009
Starting With The Universe is part of an ongoing drawing experiment, seeking to find new values for the architectural deliverable outside the functions of presentation and construction. Each drawing is an original document created through processes such as computer-generated graphics, hand drawing, applique, paint, and collage.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + Bureau V
Client » Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Media » Paint, Ink, Pencil, Tape on Archival Print
Dimensions » 15ft. x 8ft.
Location » New York, NY
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2008
Photographer » Alexander Pincus
Location » New York to New Orleans
Camera » Polaroid Land Camera 360
Year » 2008
76N6 is a multi-family residential building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The seven unit brick building features private terraces, a communal roof garden, and a facade comprised of operable doors set behind custom steel railings. The surface of the railings are pleated around angled steel tube subframes to create a layering of textures and pattern across the facade that offer varying degrees of light filtration.
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DESIGN » Alexander Pincus + Bureau V
CLIENT » Dankyle Realty
TYPE » Multi-family Residential
LOCATION » New York, NY
BUDGET » NA
STATUS » In Progress
YEAR » 2012 - 2015
Ecco Eco New York is a redesign and renovation of an existing structure to house the offices of the environmental design initiative Ecco Eco. The building is intended to take advantage of sustainable energy sources while providing an iconic presence to the environmental brand. Combining environmental performance with graphic design, the signature element of the project is an intricate patterned facade comprised of custom parabolic solar panels and landscape elements that produce electricity and improve the urban air quality.
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Design » Alexander Pincus
Client » Ecco Eco
Program » Commercial
Type » New Construction
Location » New York, NY
Budget » NA
Status » Unrealized
Year » 2009
Kinesthesia Physio is a one-on-one fitness and physical therapy center at The Whitman, a recently developed, ultra-luxury condominium overlooking Madison Square Park in Manhattan. The design, which contains a full spectrum of private and semi private workout and treatment areas, is defined by a continuous, perforated steel wall that angles and folds to create spaces for required functions, and in doing so, creates a unified atmosphere within an otherwise busy and disjointed site.
Drive By Shooting is part of an ongoing drawing experiment, seeking to find new values for the architectural deliverable outside the functions of presentation and construction. Each drawing is an original document created through processes such as computer-generated graphics, hand drawing, applique, paint, and collage.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + Bureau V
Client » Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Media » Paint, Ink, Pencil, Tape on Archival Print
Dimensions » 15ft. x 8ft.
Location » New York, NY
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2008
My first and only animated GIF. The images were scanned from a Learn To Breakdance poster that I found in the sleeve of an old record in my collection.
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Design » Alexander Pincus
Client » NA
Program » NA
Type » Animated Gif
Location » NA
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2005
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DESIGN » Alexander Pincus
CLIENT » Self Initiated
TYPE » Maritime
LOCATION » New York, NY
BUDGET » NA
STATUS » In Progress
YEAR » 2013 - 2014
Radiant Emblematic Structure is part of an ongoing drawing experiment, seeking to find new values for the architectural deliverable outside the functions of presentation and construction. Each drawing is an original document created through processes such as computer-generated graphics, hand drawing, applique, paint, and collage.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + Bureau V
Client » Land of Tomorrow Gallery
Media » Reflective Tape, Silver Enamel, Ink, Pencil on Archival Print
Dimensions » 60in.. x 30in.
Location » Lexington, KY
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2009
Photographer » Alexander Pincus
Location » La Balsa, Costa Rica
Camera » Konica Disposable
Year » 2007
SSWTR Spring 2009 is a pop-up fashion installation based on the organization of the modern day department store. Drawing on construction methods of balloon-frame suburban housing and Hollywood sets, the installation aims to convert the idea of the traditional multi-level organism of commerce into a singular streamlined and temporary experience.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + Bureau V
Client » Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Program » Fashion
Type » Fabrication
Location » New York, NY
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2008
Everything Ornament is part of an ongoing drawing experiment, seeking to find new values for the architectural deliverable outside the functions of presentation and construction. Each drawing is an original document created through processes such as computer-generated graphics, hand drawing, applique, paint, and collage.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + Bureau V
Client » Land of Tomorrow Gallery
Media » Gold Leaf, Silver Enamel, Ink, Pencil on Archival Print
Dimensions » 60in.. x 30in.
Location » Lexington, KY
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2009
Drums of Death is a vector animation short produced for Chuck D and DJ Spooky for their single B Side Wins Again.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + Noah Olmsted
Client » Chuck D and DJ Spooky
Program » Video
Type » Vector Animation
Location » NA
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2005
Grey Out is a quick, cheap, and novel centerpiece for a dinner of fifty people commissioned by Pin-Up, the Magazine for Architectural Entertainment. The installation, a combination of found birch branches and finished birch lumber, juxtaposes rough and finished elements in an improvised tessellated gray form punctuated with fresh orchids.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + Bureau V
Client » Pin Up Magazine
Program » Centerpiece
Type » Fabrication
Location » New York, NY
Budget » 500
Status » Complete
Year » 2010
Photographer » Alexander Pincus
Location » Upstate, NY and Western, MA
Camera » Misc
Year » 2013
Eye to Eye is a collaboration with the art collective Assume Vivid Astro Focus on a live performance at the Guggenheim Museum. Using a laptop, 2 digital sequencers, and an electronic drum set, we produced an improvisational sound-scape of rhythmic, operatic, and abstract effects that provided the sonic environment for a real time light-show and a wild crowd of masked dancers.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + Bureau V
Client » Guggenheim Museum
Program » Performance
Type » Audio
Location » New York, NY
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2011
LGB is one of the earliest examples of the use of subdivision surface modeling in architecture and the first example of the single surface branching structure that has become an increasingly popular design technique.
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Design » Alexander Pincus
Institution » Columbia Graduate School of Architecture
Course » Advanced Design Studio
Instructor » Hernan Diaz Alonso
Program » Object
Type » Fabrication + Research
Location » New York
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2003
Recon X is a fetishized design object with no particular purpose whatsoever. Made from water-jet cut aluminum panels, cnc milled hinge plates, and automotive linear actuators, it is a highly articulated yet completely de-calibrated piece of furniture. It is a piece that comes with no agenda other than encouraging the user to figure out their own potential uses by reconfiguring it into different spatial and performative organizations.
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Design » Alexander Pincus + David Boira
Institution » Columbia Graduate School of Architecture
Course » Housing Design Studio
Instructor » Charles Eldred + Mario Gooden
Program » Object
Type » Digital
Location » NA
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2003
Bloom is a digital process that produces variable, three dimensional topologies. By adjusting variables to make random selections within a certain range, a sort of snowflake logic arises with intricate micro-scale variation within a coherent macro-scale formal language.
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Design » Alexander Pincus
Client » NA
Program » Research
Type » Digital
Location » NA
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2007
Cloudform is a digital process that maps a geometrically consistent pattern on the surface of a complex form by projecting a two dimensional pattern onto a flat yet topologically identical form, then reassembling the form in three dimensions.
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Design » Alexander Pincus
Client » NA
Program » Research
Type » Digital
Location » NA
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2012
Ripple is a seating element that is part of the M-Scape series of furniture by Hani Rashid. It was designed for an exhibition on Asymptote’s product and furniture design at Phillips De Pury.
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Design » Hani Rashid + Alexander Pincus
Client » Philips De Pury
Program » Object
Type » Fabrication
Location » NA
Budget » NA
Status » Unrealized
Year » 2007
Wolford is a digital process that produces geometric primitives that contain a reciprocal relationship between form and perforation. The above renderings show a Wankel inspired torus with two slightly varied strategies.
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Design » Alexander Pincus
Client » NA
Program » Research
Type » Digital
Location » NA
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2007
Candelabra is a design research project done in collaboration with David Boira and Zoe Coombes as an independent study under the guidance of Hernan Diaz Alonso at Columbia University. The forms and assembly logic are based on research into minimal surfaces and genetic organization.
Our intention was to produce a chandelier that relies on its architecture rather than its technology for its performance. The curvature of the components was optimized to refract light as well as to connect seamlessly at its edges either in plane or offset. This logic allows for multiple configurations that were in the end sampled from the refractive behavior of scripted flocking patterns.
The components themselves are made from vaccum formed plastic and joined in the center with fiberglass tape. The seams were refined with bondo, sanded, and finished with primer and finally painted with three coats of auto body paint. The components are assembled using tranparent plates that were made using a laser cutter.
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Design » Alexander Pincus
Institution » Columbia Graduate School of Architecture
Course » Independent Study
Advisor » Hernan Diaz Alonso
Program » Object
Type » Digital Fabrication + Material Research
Location » NA
Budget » NA
Status » Complete
Year » 2005
