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Engine 16
A historic Manhattan firehouse converted into four Passive House apartments.
The restored red brick firehouse front on its Manhattan street.
- Practice
- Ingui Architecture
- Year
- 2024
- Photographer
- Adam Kane Macchia Photography
The project
Ingui Architecture converted Engine 16, the former Metropolitan Steam Fire Engine Company No. 16 in Kips Bay, Manhattan, into four apartments, including the owner's home, with a community space on the ground floor. The building had been a church since 1974 and had fallen into disrepair.
The adaptive reuse is Passive House certified through the EnerPHit route and fully electric. Alternating double-height rooms and mezzanines, designed largely in section, keep original firehouse elements alongside new stairs and kitchens. It was completed in 2024.
A kitchen beneath the old pressed tin ceiling and a new steel stair.
A green kitchen against an old brick wall.
A steel and timber stair beside a piano.
The timber stair winding up through the building.
A kitchen with an end grain timber island and arched windows.
Credits
- Architect
- Ingui Architecture
- Photographer
- Adam Kane Macchia Photography
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