BBS is a unique firm. Under one roof are housed almost all of the disciplines that would be required to perform the work for a new building, renovation, or complete adaptive re-use building project. The firm consists of architects, landscape architects, interior designers, LEED AP’s, planners, civil engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers and technology designers.
Our credentials establish BBS as one of the most respected architectural/ engineering firms in New York State. BBS has also been recognized nationally for our design accomplishments. BBS has been ranked as one of the leading architectural firms by Newsday and Long Island Business News in their recent publications. Our present staff is 50 employees. We are well known for our innovative design work and our focused commitment to our clients through every step of the design and construction process.
We pride ourselves for thinking “outside the box” while remaining “inside the box”. We stay “inside the box” as a first priority for our clients in order to design solutions that can be physically constructed within scheduling and budgetary parameters. We then venture “outside the box” in order to be inventive, innovative, and visionary in order to push the limits of what is possible.
We are committed to tailoring our solutions to each individual project that we undertake. Our primary function as building designers is to facilitate a physical solution that meets our clients’ needs as generated through the consensus of all project stakeholders. At the same time, it is our job to integrate each emerging design solution into the larger context of the physical surroundings and community at large; to present a relevant work of architecture that is inspirational, appropriate and cost effective.
We are “community architects”, having contributed tremendously to the promotion of relevant Community Architecture on Long Island for over 40 years. At the end of the day, it is the “community” of users and critics that define whether or not a project has successfully solved its intended purpose and multitude of design challenges. It is of paramount importance for us to understand the community in which we are designing so that we may deliver a building with the “perfect fit.”
BBS Architects, Landscape Architects & Engineers, P.C., Patchogue, NY, www.bbsarchitecture.com
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