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The Ives Architecture Studio is a full-service architectural firm, capable of handling any project.
Our mission is to provide our clients with quality service through the entire design process to ensure that your project is a success.

COMPANY PROFILE

We are a diversified Fair Lawn, NJ based firm founded by Joel Ives, AIA, PP, NCARB. We design new buildings, renovations, historic restorations, architectural & interior design for: education, healthcare, retail, industrial, religious, office, transportation and residential properties.

Our staff has expertise in many building types including: healthcare, industrial, education, retail, offices, religious structures, and residential. We often work on building renovations and restorations. We have been called into the legal arena to provide expert testimony and present projects before zoning and planning boards. We have been commissioned to perform “rightsizing” projects and to deal with distressed properties. We are licensed in NY, NJ, PA, FL, OH, CT, and CO.

12 OF OUR MOST UNUSUAL ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS

The Ives Architecture Studio is historically known for our problem-solving ability and designing “out-of-the-box” solutions for difficult sites. This experience has brought many clients to our door step and, has resulted in unique solutions for unusual projects.

Do you have a difficult building or site? Give us a call!

The following are some examples of our unusual projects

1. Tuna Processing Plant – Fair Lawn, NJ

The Ives Architecture Studio designed a tuna-processing plant in Fair Lawn, New Jersey for RD Foods Americas. RD Foods is based in the Philippines, Indonesia and Papua, New Guinea. Tuna is shipped at low temperature from the Pacific Ocean, through the Panama Canal, to Port Newark and eventually is processed at our 100,000 SF foot facility designed by our staff where it is cooked, canned and boxed and then shipped out throughout the region.

2. Multi-Faith Chapel – Paramus, NJ

This Chapel built within a Paramus hospital accommodates Christian, Muslim and Jewish faiths at different times of the day. By our intricate design, installation of sliding decorative wood panels, and use of electrified glass (which becomes opaque at the flip of a switch), the space can be transformed for use by different religions within seconds and can become a church, synagogue or a mosque. Since the space is enclosed within the hospital structure, we had artists paint sky and clouds on the ceiling to create a more “religious feeling.”

3. Rockland Home for Heroes

The Rockland Home for Heroes designed by the Ives Architecture Studio provides 14 new permanent affordable supportive apartments for homeless veterans on the former WW II Camp Shanks “Port of Embarkation.” It is built utilizing the foundations of WWII army barracks, just as we all stand on the foundation of the “Best Generation” of brave soldiers who came before. More than a million GIs passed through this site on their way to fight the Nazi Army, many who never returned. As a result of our project, a few who gave of themselves to serve our country will find comfort there.

4. A Barn in Iowa

The Ives Studio designed a barn structure in a remote area in Lovilla, Iowa that is 60 miles from Des Moines and the nearest full-size supermarket. This project involves a vocational school and an apartment on a 150-acre farm. The municipality only provides electricity. Heating fuel needs to be brought to the site as does well water pumped from the ground and on-site septic is provided. We like the fact there is no formal zoning board. However, this is a project built in the undeveloped rolling hills of Iowa, perfect for the cows and goats. We worked with local professionals to implement the project.

5. Bison-Elk Facility

The Ives team designed a Bison-elk Facility at the Van Saun Zoo in Paramus, NJ and another similar facility at the Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange, New Jersey. These structures have stood the test of time and have been enjoyed by generations of children and adults. Research for each project was done with input from experts at the Bronx Zoo. The Bronx Zoo saved the American Bison from becoming extinct in 1913 since the free roaming bison in the west were killed off by the insensitivity of mankind and the bison at the Zoo were used to enhance and multiply the species. Legally, you don’t need an architect when you design a building for animals and not people but, we were glad to be involved in these unusual projects.

6. Radburn Building – Fire Rehabilitation

The Ives Architecture Studio is currently located in the historic Radburn building in Fair Lawn. The building suffered a disastrous fire in 2002 and was rebuilt by the Ives team as a concrete and steel building to match the 1929 wood structure. This iconic building serves as the focal point of the Borough of Fair Lawn and is also the single most used image representing the community. Over the years, The Ives Architecture Studio has performed numerous renovations to the building as tenants come and go.

7. George Washington Bridge – Security Barriers

The Ives Group was commissioned by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey to enhance security on the George Washington Bride by providing barriers that prevent terrorists from climbing up the towers. Since the bridge is a historic structure, the barriers needed esthetic approvals and our design can be seen when driving on the upper level.

8. World Trade Center – Electrical Switchgear Building

Soon after the WTC center tragedy on September 11, 2001, the Ives team was commissioned by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey to construct the first critical building at the World Trade Center site. This building was needed quickly “in the pit” to contain the electrical switchgear for all the other buildings to come later. The project is not visible today since, it is concealed by subsequent construction but, contains the electrical switchgear for all the buildings at “ground zero” and was particularly complicated since Path Trains run below the structure. We were more than glad to be involved in this critical site and project.

9. Tuxedo Park Industrial Building

This industrial building is located on an unusual sloping site adjacent to a public park. Our client manufacturers operable skylights. The design will provide water wells and a water storage tank to supply the fire sprinklers during an emergency. All the easy industrial sites are gone so, each of our projects come with challenges. The Ives Architecture Studio is up to this task. The Building Inspector asked us to warn contractors that there are rattle snakes in the area. Many of our industrial building projects require “lateral thinking.”

10. The Aquaculture School Built on the Foundations of an abandoned water treatment plant.

Erected on the Long Island Sound in New Haven CT, the Aquaculture School is a 350-student specialty public High School with a course program centered around oceanographic studies. The design accommodates classes in sea farming, boat building, hydroponics and other occupations related to the ocean. The main building is constructed on the foundation of an abandoned water treatment plant to reduce costs.

11. Apartments Built Above Medical Office

All our clients are attempting to maximize the value of their properties. We designed two apartments built above a medical office. The Ives Architecture Studio took the project form the initial design through the Planning Board approval and to construction. This is a “mixed-use “project that requires experienced design professionals to secure approvals and to successfully complete the construction documents.

12. A building design to withstand the Passaic River overflowing its banks.

The Ives architecture studio was commissioned by a Bergen County municipality to design a structure that can withstand the Passaic River overflowing its banks during a major storm. The building is provided with removable flood panels and rests on a 3-feet thick concrete slab to create the mass needed to keep it from moving when the landscape is flooded. The building complex will have many purposes including an emergency command center. With global warming continuing and, the rise of sea-level, we expect to see other projects like this come through our office.

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT

EVERY BUILD HAS IT’S OWN STORY, HERE IS OUR MOST RECENTLY COMPLETED WORK OF ARCHITECTURE

TUNA PROCESSING PLANT – FAIR LAWN, NJ

MULTI-FAITH CHAPEL – PARAMUS, NJ

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