Arct Architecture

Specialties

ARCT provides cost effective design while creating livable spaces which are elegantly detailed. We pride ourselves in our ability to work within various styles based on our client’s preferences and tastes, yet incorporating 21^st Century lifestyle and technology into our designs.

ARCT was founded in 1986 by partners Alan Rose, AIA and Carmen Tagle, AIA. In the years since, ARCT has designed many residential projects that range from custom apartment renovations and combinations to new houses and additions to large scale multifamily projects. As a full service Architectural and Interior Design firm, ARCT is capable of providing designs which are cohesive and integrated. Recent projects include several New York City apartments, a Brooklyn brownstone, weekend vacation houses in the Berkshire Hills and a house at Playa Misterio, a beachfront community about 100 kilometers south of Lima, Peru. Most recently, ARCT has been the architect for the renovation of luxury prewar condominiums including Devonshire House in Greenwich Village, and Philip House, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

History

Established in 1986.

ARCT was established in 1986 by Alan G. Rose, AIA and Carmen Tagle, AIA.

Meet the Business Owner

Alan R.

Business Owner

The primary goal that Mr. Rose has established for ARCT is to understand the problems and needs of the client and, working closely with the client, to accommodate those needs with a physical solution through cost effective design.

Before co-​founding ARCT Architecture, P.C. with Carmen Tagle in 1986, Mr. Rose had been a principal with the office of Stephen B. Jacobs & Associates. During the ten years that he was associated with the Jacobs office, Mr. Rose had been in charge of many significant projects, including award winning buildings such as 130 Barrow Street and the Printing House at 421 Hudson Street in New York City. Other projects completed under his supervision include federally subsidized conversions of commercial and institutional buildings to housing, such as the White Plains Armory into senior citizen housing. He was principal-​in charge of the adaptive reuse of the Essex and Phoenix Mills into moderate and low income housing in the Great Falls Historic District of Pâté