Frank Dubinsky is closing in on two decades of work developing and financing affordable housing. Frank leads the development team and oversees the company’s developments in preconstruction and construction. Over the years, Frank has developed many of Monadnock’s complex mixed-income and mixed-use projects across the city, ranging from low-income rentals in Harlem and affordable coops in Midtown Manhattan to high-rise buildings on the Long Island City waterfront.
Candelaria is an architect and urban designer at Gehl. She is committed to creating urban responses that address the climate crisis through an inclusive, people-centered approach. To achieve long-term resilience, she believes that it is crucial to integrate people’s perspectives, ecosystems and climate-sensitive infrastructures in the design process. Her experience across cities in Argentina, Mexico, Italy, and the US has shaped her passion for understanding diverse cultural-ecological characteristics and celebrating them through design. She holds a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University, where she received the Prize for Excellence in Urban Design and serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Urban Design.
Diana Gruberg is a landscape designer whose work focuses on urban ecosystems and the people who sustain them. She is the Landscape Director at Gowanus Canal Conservancy (GCC) where she engages the community in creating a resilient, accessible public realm through design, planning, advocacy, and stewardship. She serves on the Gowanus Oversight Task Force to ensure follow through on City commitments to the neighborhood. Her 15 years of experience includes work at planning and design firms as well as public parks. Diana holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Political Science from Barnard College.
In 1993, four individuals had a vision for a full service, minority-owned expediting company. Outsource Consultants, Inc. was born. Over twenty five years later, the city and its skyline have changed and Outsource has flourished into one of the largest expediting firms in New York City.
Incorporated in 1998, Ellana Construction Consultants is a certified Woman-owned Business Enterprise (WBE) and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) construction consulting firm providing four core services consisting of cost management, project controls, owner representation and professional training services to a wide range of A/E/C industry clients. We are also certified WBE through the Woman’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) and SBA’s Women Owned Small Business (WOSB).
The Working Assembly is a branding and creative agency helping companies grow, shift, and evolve.
We get excited about powerful ideas that have the ability to shape brands.
We provide boutique quality at scale with an integrated approach, focusing on end-to-end brand building inclusive of strategy, verbal and visual identity, content and creative communications. Our team is successfully challenging the traditional rift between advertising and design by bringing siloed disciplines like branding, campaigns and digital into a holistic brand presence.
We specialize in key inflection points—from helping companies take a thoughtful next step, to a total strategic reinvention.
N H D M is a New York-based practice for design and research in architecture and urbanism, founded by its partners Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon. The studio pursues an expanded practice of architecture and works across disciplinary borders engaging a wide range of scales and diverse modes of practice, from built design work to speculative projects and research. Each project uniquely investigating underexplored spatial concepts in the context of the cultural, political, and economic complexities of the contemporary built environment, the work aims to be introspective and analytic yet anticipatory.
N H D M recently completed a 12,000 sf renovation of Nam June Paik Art Center, and the current projects include an 18,000 sf museum in Manhattan and a 7-story co-living prototype for marginalized youth combined with municipal educational institutions. The work of N H D M has been recognized through numerous publications and awards including 2020 Architectural Record Design Vanguard Award, 2019 Domus 100+ Best Architects, the 2018 AIANY New Practices New York award, the 2012, 2014, and 2018 AIANY Design Honor Awards, the I.D. Annual Design Review Design Distinction, and has been exhibited and presented at global venues including 2021 Venice Biennale (forthcoming), 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, the 5th and 6th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, and the 14th International Architecture Exhibition at 2014 Venice Biennale, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Center for Architecture New York, UMMA Stenn Gallery, and the Hartell Gallery among others. N H D M’s work has been supported by the Graham Foundation Grant and New York State Council of Art Grant.
