New York practice Format Architecture Office has reorganised a 1920s apartment with custom millwork in the city's Upper West Side.
The renovated apartment by Format Architecture Office is in a Gothic Revival building on Riverside Drive, giving the project its name, Riverside Apartment.

Completed before the second world war, the original apartment building had large residences that were later converted into smaller homes, which the studio said formed "a series of unconventional layouts".
"The building was originally constructed in 1926 and arranged around opulently scaled residences with multiple bedrooms and gallery spaces," Format Architecture Office added.

"It was converted to cooperative ownership in 1968, which created a large variety of accessible unit types, but also a series of unconventional layouts, as formerly single apartments were subdivided into two or even three different units," it said. The renovation reorganised the existing one-bedroom unit to include another bedroom that doubles as an office, as well as a powder room and a reorganised galley-style kitchen. The decor was updated with custom cabinets and enlarged wood-clad corridors across the 1,000-square-foot (92-square-metre) space.

"The primary goals for the project were to create flexible connections between spaces, enhance access to natural light and maximise storage," the studio continued.
Upon entering is a foyer with a coat closet, and a cabinet with a gl...