Recognition
Publications
“Stella’s 21 Grace Court Alley (1994), a scaled-down version of 125 Joralemon Street, also resembled a carriage house, replacing a small, two-story, mid-nineteenth-century brick stable located at the terminus of a quiet mews that had once served houses on Remsen and Joralemon Streets.47 In order to fit in with the scale of its neighbors, Stella cleverly designed the house to appear twice as wide and one story taller than its predecessor, a fiction necessitated by zoning that prevented additional square footage on the site. In fact, the new house was the same size as the one it replaced: half of the new facade was false. A garage door on the first floor led to an outdoor entrance court, and second-story window openings were left unglazed to offer views from an open-air terrace behind them. The third floor provided new attic space that did not count as floor area. Round arched windows and a pitched roof allowed the house to approach the charm of its setting.”
New York 2000, Robert A.M. Stern, 2006
District Lines, Magazine of the Historic Districts Council, Autumn, 2004
“An inventive and wry take on historic forms”
Sarascope Magazine, SARA, New York Council Nov. 2003
National Design Awards, “Special Recognition Award”
An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn
Francis Morrone, Gibbs-Smith
2001“Lovely old carriage houses line Grace Court Alley, with a particularly fine specimen at the terminal axis.”
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 21, 2003 “Architect wins award for carriage house design”
Brooklyn Heights Press, March 15, 2001
“...succeeds in contributing diversity, interest, wit and whimsey..”
Guide to New York City Landmarks
Landmarks Preservation Commission Fourth Edition, 2009
“..the most important decisions made by the commission concern proposed new buildings within historic districts...21 Grace Court Alley has won the commissions approval..”
21 Grace Court Alley
Brooklyn Bridge Magazine, July 1997
“Many architects told them that it was impossible, but Joseph Stella made it happen”
The Brooklyn Daily Bulletin, January 8, 1993
"the carriage house will add a nice
element at the end of the alley"
Brooklyn Heights Press, January 7, 1993, "architect creates an illusory effect"
January 3, 1993
"Mr. Stella came up with an ingenious solution"
Manhattan Townhouse Garden
Sarascope Magazine
Mar 2004
"Special recognition award"
Columbus Monument
New Rochelle, NY
The New Rochelle Sound Report Oct 2001
"The magnificent monument was created by
two artists, Joseph Stella architect"
A Moveable Theatre
Interbuild Magazine
London
"Joseph Stella provided a
simple and direct solution”
Exhibited at The National Union of Architects, London
125 Joralemon Street
“More remarkable, in a way, was Joseph Stella’s 125
Joralemon Street (1993), between Henry and Clinton
Streets, a three story, 1,700-square-foot house that replaced a tiny, distinctively suburban one-story, red brick house from the early 1950s designed by Morris Rothstein.46 With its red brick and stone-trim cladding, triplets of round arched windows, and a central gable, the new house was also intended to relate architecturally to C.P.H Gilbert’s Daniel Chauncy house (1891), next door at 129 Joralemon Street, for
which it now resembled a carriage house. “
New York 2000
Robert A.M. Stern, Monacelli Press 2006
Brooklyn Heights Press & Cobble Hill News
March 2001“..succeeds in contributing diversity, interest, wit and whimsey...”
Home Magazine February 1996
“..the design turned an eyesore into an asset for the Historic District..”
Brooklyn Heights Press May 1993
“Architect designs to replace Joralemon eyesore”
Exhibitions
Exhibition at the New York Center for Architecture, Oct 6, 2009 - Jan. 30, 2010
Context/Contrast New Architecture in Historic Districts 1967 - 2009
the office of Joseph Stella architects
New York City Bridgehampton, Long Island T 631 537 3259 E-mail: info@josephsstella.com
AIA Guide
To New York City
Fourth Edition, 2000
Norval White
“Pas mal”
August 1, 1993“..Joseph Stella came up with an inventive plan..”