Insights on Architecture

Award-winning Sherman Architects has done it again, winning the Global 100 - 2026 prize for Best Architecture.

Home Builder Digest has selected Sherman Architects for its Best Residential Architects in Brooklyn, New York.

Welcome to our Winter 2025 Newsletter: a dream project, a slue of awards, and an arboreal feast.

Dispatch from our Dumbo office: from brownstone additions to apartment combinations, we're making news in NYC.

The Chicago Athenaeum Awards our Ft. Greene Brownstone their 2025 Future House Award.

Global Design News bestows a Future House Award on Sherman Architects' Park Slope Additions.

Everything you need to know about additions to historic homes in landmarked districts.

Removing an elevator and adding a skylight gave us an open shaft for bringing sunlight all the way down through the entire house.

Roof transformation: our small extension allowed a graceful procession through French windows to a lushly landscaped roof deck.

We replaced a low cramped kitchen with a generous open space whose soaring double-height ceiling is showered in daylight from above.

Our second case study shows how transforming a stair hall into a playroom can turn a cramped passageway into the best room in the house. 

The first in a series of case studies, this post transforms an attic from a crawl space into a spatial playground of linked roof decks. 

Sherman Architects integrates sustainable design strategies to create eco-conscious buildings that stand the test of time.

A critical factor in choosing an architecture firm is design style. Can your architect adapt to your preferences?

Global Design News and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design honor Sherman Architects with their Future House Award.

Of the three methods architects use to charge for their services, which do you prefer?

General Contractors speak their own language. This glossary explains the jargon you might find in a GC's proposal.

Architects vs. interior designers--how do you know which to hire? Here's a brief comparison of the skills each brings to a project.

The new Dumbo public library packs a lot of architecture into its small footprint. Congratulations to WorkAC!

If you’re planning to renovate or build a house, you'll need to hire an architect.  Don't miss these five critical steps.

Standing in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter protesters, we are outraged by the ongoing murders, police brutality, and systemic racism against Black people.

Design-build firms offer one-stop shopping, but you might not realize what you're missing.

Curbed has chosen a project by Sherman Architects for its list of “New York City’s Most Beautiful Homes of 2019.”