This is My Story

My passion of architecture and design was truely concreted when summer turned into fall in 1966 on the busy streets of Lower Manhattan.

I remember walking by the construction site of the World Trade Centre, to be mesmerised by the constant progression and development.

Each scaffold, crane and material all working in synergy, reaching for the sky.

The clear morning sky on the 11th of September, 2001 forever changed me and the dynamic of 2RKS Architecture + Design.

In early 2003 I moved to Australia and reestablished 2RKS a year later, with the prime focus on hospitality and residential.

The rebirth of 2RKS is graphically represented as the second vertical line in the logo where the perspective view of the World Trade Centre towers from his home in Brooklyn where I saw the towers fall.

The rebirth of 2RKS is graphically represented and in honour of the world trade centre.

the second vertical line in the logo illuminates the perspective of the World Trade Centre from my home in Brooklyn where I saw the towers fall.

the 2rks philosophy

Logistics

context

theory

Requirements that are derived from the client’s needs. These would include programming, area, costs, spaces, adjacencies and efficiencies.

Sun, wind, views, climate and shade are some environmental forces which influence a site. Understanding these forces influence the form that is to be designed. Its mass, density, transparency, material and environmental constraints are affected directly by these requirements. It is dutiful to give back to the earth for which has been taken.

This underlying concept or metaphor behind the project becomes the spirit. This is derived from an applied meaning or client identity to the project identity to the project, not a literal interpretation. These three elements take the project from the broad to the specific, the malleable to the tempered and the spirited to the spiritual. Because you will select your architect based on many considerations, you should place your confidence in a firm that considers your values as important as their own.