Mountain View House: Floating on a Sea of Color
While the view from atop Raycliffe undulates, the house, of course does not. It’s an incredibly solid contemporary, ingeniously designed by architect Andrew Wright to be both connected to its surroundings by color and strength and the 90 windows that reflect the view…
Kingston Signs Tentative Agreement to Develop Uptown Site of Former Parking Garage
Architect Andrew Wright says he’ll do everything in his power to make sure his proposal for redeveloping the site of the former Uptown parking garage comes to fruition. “I’m in this to make Uptown work,” Wright said Thursday…
Wright Architects Wins Restoration Award
Andrew Wright, principal of WRIGHT ARCHITECTS PLLC, accepted the prestigious award for his firm’s historically accurate restoration of an 1883 brownstone in New York City. The brownstone also features a geothermal well (drilled 1,000 feet under the carriage house) to reduce the carbon footprint by providing lower cost heating and cooling energy.
All Wright Now: Architect Talks Buildings, Life, and Favorite Things
Andrew Wright, owner of Wright Architecture and Wright Builders at 200 Fair St., has worked on projects ranging from early American structural restoration to sustainable geothermic 200,000-square-foot office buildings. Wright planned cities and hospitals in Algeria for Skidmore. He started his practice in New York City in his one-bedroom apartment on…
New York Architect Wins Stanford White Awards for Excellence in Classical and Traditional Design
The prestigious 2012 awards season is over! And the winner is Andrew W. Wright, of Wright Architects, PLLC., who received the first annual Stanford White Awards for Excellence in Classical and Traditional Design from the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art…
Here Comes Mr. Wright: Local Architects Says He’s Ready…
After three years standing firmly behind New Jersey developer’s plan for a condominium tower in Uptown Kingston, city officials say its time to consider other proposals for the site. Since 2005, Mayor James Sottile has championed the Teicher Organization’s proposal to build a 12-story, 214-unit apartment tower on the site of a city-owned parking garage…
The Wright Stuff: Kingston Architect Builds on Success…
Kingston’s Andrew Wright credits much of his success as a design-build architect to a chance mix-up in identities on a Manhattan street. Wright left a Manhattan firm to go out on his own. “I bicycled to see clients, because I couldn’t afford the subway tokens,” he recalled…
Local Architect Hopes to Develop Site of City’s Uptown Parking Garage
There was a time when architect Andrew Wright plied his trade in the employ of big-city firms. But, says the Stone Ridge father of two, the creative juices didn’t flow. “When you are in the big corporations there is not as much attention given to the product,” said Wright. “It’s more about the politics… I love what I do now.”