{"id":116770,"date":"2017-12-29T02:37:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T02:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/matei-renovates-nyc-s-historic-germania-bank-building\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T12:21:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:21:34","slug":"matei-renovates-nyc-s-historic-germania-bank-building","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/matei-renovates-nyc-s-historic-germania-bank-building\/","title":{"rendered":"MATEI Renovates NYC\u2019S Historic Germania Bank Building"},"content":{"rendered":"
When the hip photo-licensing bureau Trunk Archive<\/a> decided to expand, creating a consortium of fashion-industry creative agencies, it called on Corvin Matei<\/a> to design the new HQ. The Romanian-born, Columbia-educated talent—an alum of Polshek Partnership<\/a> and Hanrahan Meyers Architects<\/a>—was an obvious choice: His nine-year-old firm had masterminded the client’s previous New York location. The self-effacing Matei is known not for a signature look but for his meticulously detailed modernism, on display in retail spaces for Philosophy and Origins and the workplaces of Art+Commerce<\/a> and AR Media.<\/p>\n