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Barak Pliskin / Pliskin Architecture
@panyc.bsky.social
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Manhattan based architecture and interior design firm, focused on high-end design projects throughout New York City.
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"Small buildings offer developers an alternative blueprint for creating spaces that New York needs and the homes that New Yorkers want"
@crainsnewyork.bsky.social

www.crainsnewyork.com/op-ed/op-ed-...
Op-ed: How building small could help solve NYC's housing crisis
Solutions don't have to be complicated. There is one easy and overlooked answer to New York City's urgent need for diverse housing: building small.
www.crainsnewyork.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Poolhaus, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida

Designed by Pliskin Architecture, Fab314AW, and RISE Architecture
Developed by Redhoek+
Renderings by @hb_vis

panyc/FAB314 team: Nimrod Meir Levi, Hyuein Song, Barak Pliskin
Facade at Poolhaus, an 18-unit building in Bay Harbor Island's, with wraparound balconies shielded by brise soleil creating privacy at bedrooms and bathrooms
June 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Tanzania photo dump
Cheetah on a branch, searching for prey Giraffes in the Serengeti Elephant herd in the Serengeti Vultures vulturing
May 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Congestion pricing has improved life in New York City by: reducing cars on the street, speeding traffic (especially at peak hours), speeding buses and making them more reliable, expanding transit ridership, reducing car crashes, reducing noise complaints, and increasing the number of visitors. Fire response times fell in the NYC congestion zone, even as they increased in the rest of the city. Car crashes with injuries fell citywide, but they fell especially dramatically in the congestion pricing zone from 2024 to 2025 Local buses have sped up dramatically in the congestion pricing zone.
May 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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blkahn.bsky.social
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skyline A vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery. A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything. A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.
March 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Opal Residences in Brooklyn.
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A collaboration between Pliskin Architecture (panyc), JLR Architects, and FAB 314 AW. Developed by Redhoek+
Opal Residences, Construction Progress
Drone footage of Opal Residences, a joint project designed by JLRArchitects, FAB 314 AW, and Pliskin Architecture. Developed by Redhoek+. Video by Five7 Media and…
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March 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Quick visit to the Paul Rudolph exhibit at the @metmuseum.org
March 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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New research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows that mass deportations would likely worsen the housing shortage by decimating the labor force.

Immigrants make up >23% of the construction workforce & more in FL, TX. About half are estimated to be undocumented immigrants. www.urban.org/urban-wire/m...
Mass deportations would reduce the construction labor force and exacerbate the housing shortage nationwide. More than 30% of construction workers were born outside the US in California, Florida, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, and Texas.
February 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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The penthouse at 584 Leonard

Designed by Pliskin Architecture for LTNG. Staging by Monomid
View up to the glass skylight and the roof access stair at 584 Leonard PH The living room at 584 Leonard street PH - designed by panyc. Staged by Monomid
February 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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marcelmoran.com
Cities are not museums. Neighborhoods change. We desperately need housing, and we can't let voices like these derail needed development.
February 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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if you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery
Picture of the Manhattan Bridge from Dumbo
January 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Traffic is already down 7.5% in the first week of NYC's new #CongestionPricing plan, according to @mta.info.

#CongestionPricing means better streets for everyone — commuters, pedestrians, and even drivers.
Traffic into Manhattan drops 7.5% in first week of new toll. That's 43,000 fewer cars a day
A new toll on drivers entering the core of Manhattan brought modest but measurable traffic reductions to New York City in its first week of operation.
apnews.com
January 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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samd.bsky.social
this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)
January 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.

We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.

2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.
January 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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This might just be the game changer we've been waiting for - not burning fossil fuels indoors AND not upgrading electrical panels and running new wires.
www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
I Tried the Tesla of Induction Stoves. It Could Be the Future.
The first battery-assisted induction range works with a regular wall outlet. We tried it out.
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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76 N8th, currently under construction in Williamsburg.

Designed by Pliskin Architecture, developed by LTNG
December 20, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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Coverage of 76th N 8th, our 2nd Williamsburg ground-up, on Brownstoner:

www.brownstoner.com/development/...
Curved Brick Condo Building Rises in Williamsburg
The three-family condo building on North 8th Street has a distinctive design with interesting brickwork.
www.brownstoner.com
November 27, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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Name a show you're positive no one remembers but you:
November 23, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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holz-bau.bsky.social
our entire housing industry needs massive overhaul

from financing

to mortgages

to poorly designed land use codes

to a lack of comprehensive urban planning

to mobility

to fixing our anomalous building codes that result in poor quality yet expensive multifamily housing

the status quo is broken
November 20, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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SF showing off
November 20, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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First glimpse at the curved facade at 76 N8th after removal of the construction scaffold

Developed by LTNG
Designed by Pliskin Architecture / panyc
Photo by Jorge Salgado
View of a curved facade made of red bricks at 76 N8th in Williamsburg View of a curved facade made of red bricks at 76 N8th in Williamsburg
November 18, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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This city still has it
View of lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the East River during descent into LGA
November 12, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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First photos following the removal of the scaffolding at Opal Residences in Gravesend, Brooklyn.

A collaboration with JL Ramirez Architects and FAB 314 Architecture Workshop.

Developed by RedHoek+

Facade panels by GammaStone, windows by Alumtech.
November 4, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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It's almost like the climate is changing
October 30, 2024 at 2:33 PM