Dattner Architects integrates affordable housing with historic Bronx church campus using gothic design details
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Josh Niland
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Summary
Dattner Architects has completed St James Terrace, an affordable housing development integrated with a historic Episcopal church campus in the Bronx's Fordham neighborhood. The project balances new construction with historic preservation, adding social housing and supportive spaces through a purpose-built structure that bookends the landmarked gothic-style church.
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· 3 pulledLocal studio Dattner Architects has balanced new construction and historic preservation for the addition of social housing to a historic church campus in the Bronx, New York.
Located in the borough's Fordham neighbourhood, St James Terrace offers affordable housing combined with supportive spaces in a purpose-built building bookending a landmarked Episcopal church, whose goth
Dattner Architects balanced density and historic preservation for the expansion of a historic church campus in the Bronx into social housing
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