Two Units Become One Inside the Rockefeller Apartments
Design Milk | 07.05.2026 20:00
The Rockefeller Apartments occupy a singular position in American architectural history as one of the earliest International Style residential buildings in New York, originally designed in 1936 by Wallace Harrison and J. André Fouilheux and commissioned by the Rockefeller family to house tenants displaced by the construction of Rockefeller Center. This project demanded an interior language capable of conversing with the building’s modernist pedigree without slipping into nostalgia or period mimicry, a balance Nicholas Potts Studio and Studio Armando Aguirre achieved through extensive archival research and a willingness to let the architecture itself dictate the terms of intervention.
