NEW YORK CITY TOWNHOUSE EXPERTS
About the Firm
Zivkovic Connolly Architects is an award-winning, nationally and internationally published New York City architecture firm known for refined residential design, historic preservation, and highly detailed architectural work across both modern and traditional styles. With particular depth of knowledge in townhouse design, renovation, restoration, and new construction, the firm brings together design sophistication, technical skill, and hands-on project leadership for clients seeking exceptional homes in New York City and beyond.
Recognized as townhouse experts, Zivkovic Connolly Architects has extensive experience with the unique challenges of New York townhouses: landmarked facades, historic interiors, complex structural alterations, cellar excavations, rooftop additions, new mechanical systems, code and zoning constraints, passive-house design and the integration of modern high-end amenities within older building fabric. Our work balances architectural character with contemporary comfort, creating homes that are elegant, functional, technically sound, and built for long-term investment value.
The firm excels in both traditional and modern design. Our projects range from historically sensitive restorations and classically detailed residences to contemporary interiors, modern townhouse additions, ground-up buildings, country homes, and select commercial work. This range allows us to design with flexibility and precision, whether the goal is to preserve the architectural integrity of a landmark building, create a clean modern environment for art and family life, design a new residence from the ground up, or combine historic architecture with state-of-the-art building systems.
We provide comprehensive architectural services from early feasibility studies, pre-purchase advice, zoning and code review, and project planning through design, documentation, approvals, construction coordination, and post-occupancy support. Our principals remain directly involved throughout the process, ensuring that design intent, technical execution, budget, schedule, and client priorities remain closely aligned. Our clients’ interests are consistently our foremost concern, throughout each project.
Few firms have matched experience in coordinating the many systems that make a high-end residence successful. Zivkovic Connolly Architects is highly knowledgeable in the design and coordination of SMEP systems, structural systems, lighting, security, audio/video, data, smart-home controls, fire protection, HVAC, humidification, and other specialized building systems. We are equally expert in navigating New York City code and zoning requirements, Department of Buildings filings, Landmarks Preservation Commission approvals, and the construction realities of complex urban sites.
Our goal is to create architecture of lasting quality. We define successful design not only by appearance, but by performance, durability, comfort, craftsmanship, and the value a project brings to its owners over time. Whether restoring a landmark townhouse, designing a ground-up home, renovating an apartment, planning a country residence, or working on a carefully considered commercial project, we approach each commission with the same commitment to beauty, technical rigor, and long-term client relationships. We facilitate our clients’ desires and ambitions.
Townhouses are a central focus of our practice. From landmark restorations and full gut renovations to new ground-up residences, penthouse additions, cellar excavations, and complex DOB/LPC approvals, Zivkovic Connolly Architects brings unusually deep experience to the design and execution of high-end New York City townhouses. View our NYC Townhouse Projects to see selected examples of this work.
Featured NYC Townhouse Projects
Award-winning landmarked Upper East Side mansion in New York City reconfigured through a full gut renovation, selectively restoring historic interiors while introducing a new penthouse and an open-to-sky domed rotunda.
West Village townhouse designed as a contemporary residence for entertaining, organized around a light-filled multi-story central atrium.
Upper West Side townhouse renovated as a contemporary single-family home, centered on a skylit six-story stair gallery for the display of a major modern art collection.
High-performance Upper West Side townhouse designed to Passive House standards, integrating energy efficiency with gallery-like living spaces for a modern art collection.
Landmark Upper East Side limestone mansion restored and reimagined alongside a new ground-up townhouse, recognized as one of Manhattan’s most distinguished new residential buildings of the past half century.