Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel Architects


Gerner, Kronick + Valcarcel Architects, is an international architecture and design firm based in New York City, United States.
Founded in 1995, GKV Architects has completed work on over 50 million square feet of space. It has designed projects in the United States, Turkey, Portugal, Great Britain, British Virgin Islands, Grand Cayman, Puerto Rico, and China. The firm is one of New York's most highly regarded full-service architecture and interior design firms. Its three founding Principals, Randolph Gerner, AIA, Richard N. Kronick, AIA, and Miguel Valcarcel, AIA, have been collaborating for over 35 years. Principals, Benita Welch, AIA, Joe Barbagallo, AIA, Michael Fontaine, AIA and Silke Rapelius, AIA, round out a staff of 50. GKV also provides LEED consulting and lighting design services.
Top GKV projects have been featured in Architectural Record, Architecture, Architectural Digest, Interior Design, Interior Design's Best of Hospitality, Interiors, The New American Apartment, Building Design+Construction, Real Estate Weekly, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. The firm has garnered multiple industry awards for outstanding residential and commercial design.

Experience

GKV Architects provides Architectural Design services for both base building and interior architecture. GKV has completed a number of award-winning buildings in New York City. Recent notable buildings include: 5 Beekman Street in Lower Manhattan and ARC in Long Island City, New York. Both projects have been recognized by the AIA as outstanding design projects and have won numerous national and regional awards. Other notable buildings in New York include: TEN23, an 111-unit luxury rental tower adjacent to New York's elevated High Line park and the headquarters for God's Love We Deliver, a full gut renovation and adaptive reuse of an industrial structure located in the SoHo district of Manhattan.
GKV has an extensive corporate interiors portfolio that rages from new open space concept work areas to traditional closed private offices and conference rooms. Some of GKV's most notable corporate interior projects include: the reconfiguration of the multi-floor offices of Allianz Global Investors in New York City, San Francisco, California, and Dallas,Texas and several floors of The Durst Organization's One World Trade Center, housing Mic.com, xAd GroundTruth, along with other established firms. Other Corporate Interior projects include: law offices for Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu PC, private offices, conference rooms, and meeting rooms for Olshan Properties, and a 5-story headquarters featuring an executive floor, reception area, open workstations, private offices, boardroom, conference rooms, and pantry for Bank Leumi USA.
GKV also has been commissioned by the city of New York, New York state and the Federal Government for several public sector work projects, including the headquarters for the NYC Human Resources Administration at 4 World Trade Center that won a GSA National Award for design. The firm also designed a 250,000 square foot headquarters for SEIU 32BJ.
GKV's non-for-profit projects include offices space, treatment facilities, schools and shelters for The New York Foundling, Services for the Underserved, Safe Horizons, New Dawn Charter High School, The Transfiguration School and God's Love We Deliver.

Partial Project List

Restaurant + Hospitality