Twenty years ago, when Jonathan Marvel and Rob Rogers founded Rogers Marvel Architects, they decided to forego the route taken by many young Manhattan firms—designing residential and commercial interiors—preferring, Marvel says, “to cut our teeth on New York City’s’ bricks and mortar.” They negotiated a city contract to oversee repairs to schools, libraries, and armories, which were jobs that left little room for design. “It wasn’t very glamorous work,” he says.
But decades of careful attention to the city’s infrastructure have begun to bring Rogers Marvel its quotient of glamorous work. The firm recently was chosen to design the condominium and hotel building that will overlook Brooklyn Bridge Park and provide a projected $3.3 million per year for park maintenance.
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