Kostow Greenwood Architects LLP, is a New York City-based architecture firm, specializing in broadcast and live arts facilities, interior architecture and historic preservation and renovation and urban revitalization projects. Serving commercial, nonprofit and institutional clients, the firm was founded in 1987, and is led by principals Michael Kostow and Jane Greenwood. Kostow Greenwood is a Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise. Kostow Greenwood is “known for their expertise in studio and theatre design" most notably for CNN’s New York City broadcast studios, which at the time of its construction, houses what is considered the largest newsroom on the East Coast of the United States, and sympathetic renovations of landmark New York City theater and auditorium buildings including many for The Shubert Organization, the Centennial Memorial Temple for the Salvation Army, the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies Headquarters, and the conversion of the Loew’s Metropolitan Theatre into the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Each of these three historic renovations received Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards from the New York Landmarks Conservancy, its highest honors for excellence in preservation. Michael Kostow holds a B.A. in Architecture from Lehigh University and a Masters in Architecture from Yale University. Jane Greenwood, who also serves as the firm's Managing Director, graduated from Pratt Institute School of Architecture. Both are LEED Accredited Professionals and members of the American Institute of Architects.
Works
92Y Tribeca Expansion and Remodel, 200 Hudson Street, New York, NY
109 Prince Street Retail and Residential Space, New York, NY
281 Park Avenue South Restoration of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies's Headquarters, New York, NY
Centennial Memorial Temple Restoration of art deco auditorium of The Salvation Army’s NYC regional headquarters building, 120 West 14th St., New York, NY
Steelstacks Cultural, Performing Arts and Broadcast Center with PBS Channel 39 and ArtsQuest, Bethlehem, PA
WNYC Radio and Multimedia Performance Space, New York, NY
Awards
SANDI / IIDA Project of the Year, 2015, , Miami ULI Global Awards for Excellence Winner, 2014, , SteelStacks Art and Cultural Campus Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award, 2013, The New York Landmarks Conservancy, Centennial Memorial Temple at the Salvation Army NY Regional Headquarters Annual Building Award, New Construction, 2007, Queens Chamber of Commerce, Cambria Heights Library Design Honor Award for Religious Art and Architecture, 2003, Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art, and Architecture /Faith & Form, Loew’s Metropolitan Theater / Brooklyn Tabernacle Building Brooklyn Award, Community Facility2003, The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Loew’s Metropolitan Theater / Brooklyn Tabernacle New Studio Excellence Award, 2002, Broadcast Engineering, MTV Networks Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award, 2002, The New York Landmarks Conservancy, Loew’s Metropolitan Theater / Brooklyn Tabernacle Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award, 1994, The New York Landmarks Conservancy, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies Headquarters Certificate of Merit, 1994, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, 109 Prince Street Citation of Merit, 1993, The Victorian Society in America, 109 Prince Street
