ZH Architects

Architecture firm implementing modern design with low impact, low carbon construction techniques.

04/13/2026

Proud Honor Award Winners for The Rock House 🏡 Kent, CT BuildGreenCT Building Performance Cooperative

12/18/2025

How do you retrofit a campus icon—without shutting it down?
Mid-century bones, 21st-century performance. This deep-energy makeover will balance Passive House standards, carbon reduction, and resilience—all while staying open for class.
✨ Designed to welcome, connect, and endure.

11/26/2025

🦃 Happy Thanksgiving from ZH Architects! 🧡
This season, we’re grateful for the communities we design for, the clients who trust us to bring their visions to life, and the collaborators who help make sustainable architecture possible.
At ZH Architects, we believe that gratitude is reflected through care—care for our environment, for thoughtful design, and for creating spaces that support well-being, connection, and a low-carbon future.
Wishing you a warm and restful holiday filled with light, laughter, and inspiration.
From our studio to your home—Happy Thanksgiving!

11/04/2025

We’re excited to announce construction starting soon on our project with this Manhattan Community Shelter! 💫

Our redesign transforms the shelter into a bright, welcoming space for all — featuring an open glass storefront, a colorful neighborhood-inspired façade, and improved accessibility with a new ADA ramp.
A place designed to uplift and connect the community. 💛

09/29/2025

This Round 1 Buildings of Excellence Competition winner is almost complete! 🏆 Built to Passive House standards with healthy, recyclable materials—like this gorgeous slate façade, durable enough to last generations. ♻️🖤

09/05/2025

is now accepting new proposals until Sept 17, 2025 for Round 6 of the Buildings of Excellence Competition!

We’re proud to share that Flow Chelsea was recognized as a past winner of the Buildings of Excellence Competition — an initiative celebrating forward-thinking, high-performance multifamily developments in New York State.

07/22/2025

Manitoga also known as Dragon Rock is the home and studio of industrial designer Russel Wright and Mary Einstein Wright. The materiality and detailing are stunning — stone, wood, glass all working in harmony with the landscape.

It’s clearly the home of a designer: every element is considered, expressive, and deeply tied to nature. A true design gem.

06/23/2025

Congrats to Marianne Hyde, AIA, CPHT of and Ed Yaker, Board Member of the Amalgamated Bronx Housing Corporation for receiving the NYS Buildings of Excellence Award! The project is a transformation of 1940 Workers’ Housing into 48 resilient, light filled apartments using biobased materials.

House Network
not demolish

06/16/2025

was lucky enough to stay at the & join a tour led by Bruce Becker that walked us through the project. We appreciated the smallest details that contributed to this mission: such as the filtered water coolers located in elevator lobbies on all floors – could choose from flat or sparkling, a embedded in a wooden cube rather than a pamphlet to provide suggestions for local tourist attractions & high quality bath toiletries in refillable bottles in the bathrooms.

Here are our recommendations for the best spots for seeing the beautiful details that carefully restored:
· Fire stairs – one of the most beautiful stairs we have seen - a combination of stone treads, wood handrails, board-form concrete and natural light from windows.
· A view from any window – allows you to see the material of the façade which are precast concrete panels with an exposed heavy aggregate developed as a sunshade to reduce the amount of direct sunlight that would enter the building. This was quite prescient since typically uses this technique as part of reducing the solar gain from the sun. The recent renovation elaborated on this design by adding wooden window surrounds with a reveal for tracking internal sun and blackout shades. The entire assembly is elegant and worth noticing.
· The upper floors consist of a four-story volume suspended from cantilevered trusses. These can be seen on the 9th floor and are also expressed on the building’s façade.

06/12/2025

is the only certified passive house in the
Hotels are one of the most energy intensive building types due to their 24/7 nature of operations. The constant demands for heating, cooling, lighting and operating amenities such as pools, restaurants, gyms, conference rooms, and laundry to cater to guests’ comfort leads to substantially higher energy consumption compared to other building types.

is paving the way for a new approach to running an hotel 🏨 it has abandoned the use of by electrifying everything, has reduced its need to use energy by designing it to meet standards, and produces all its power on site with renewable energy sources. Equally important is that it is a beautiful renovation by Becker & Becker of an iconic building designed by

05/11/2025

CLT in Spain!

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515 Greenwich Street
New York, NY
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+12123660425

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http://www.zh-architects.com/

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