Designed around the way you live.
From renovations and additions to custom homes, Cohen Design/Build Architect creates thoughtful residential environments shaped around the people who live in them.
Build for Every Stage of Home Living
Custom Homes
From concept to completion, we design and build custom homes tailored to your lifestyle, architectural preferences, and long-term needs.
Home Additions
Expand your living space with seamless additions that blend beautifully with your existing home while increasing comfort and value.
Interior Renovations
Transform the most important spaces in your home with functional layouts, premium materials, and timeless finishes.
Whole-Home Renovations
Reimagine your existing home with complete interior and exterior renovations designed to improve everyday living.
A home starts with how you want to live.
From first conversation to finished vision.
Every successful project starts with understanding the people behind it. Our process is collaborative, transparent and informed by decades of architectural and construction experience.
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Listen
Every project begins with listening. We take the time to understand your goals, how you live or work, your priorities, budget and what the project needs to accomplish.
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Explore
We study existing conditions, zoning, feasibility, opportunities and constraints to establish a clear direction before the design advances.
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Design
The vision takes shape through schematic design and design development. Layouts, functionality, materials, aesthetics and details are explored and refined collaboratively.
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Coordinate
As the design develops, we coordinate the consultants and technical disciplines the project requires: structural, civil, mechanical, electrical and other specialists as appropriate.
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DOCUMENT + NAVIGATE
The approved design is developed into detailed construction documents. We address applicable codes and zoning requirements and help guide the project through the municipal review and approval process.
Architecture & Design
Take the completed architectural work to the contractor of your choice.
Integrated Design/Build
The same team carries the project forward into construction, maintaining continuity from the original design through execution.
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STAY INVOLVED
Whether we are building your project or working alongside your contractor, our architectural involvement can continue during construction as appropriate to the agreed scope of services.
Featured Projects
Selected residential and commercial work.
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Custom HomeCustom Residence — exterior
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Retail & StorefrontOak 18 Retail Mall
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Restaurant & HospitalityPancheros Restaurant
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Office & CorporateGB Corporate Office
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ResidentialCustom Residence — interior
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CommercialIT'SUGAR — American Dream Mall
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Restaurant & HospitalityHouse of Que
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Office & CorporateFamily First Medical Office
Ready To Build Your Residential Space?
Let’s talk about your vision. Our team is ready to guide you through every step of the design and build process.
FAQ
FAQs — What Homeowners Ask Us Most
Design-build combines both under one contract and one team, eliminating communication gaps, conflicting timelines, and finger-pointing between separate architects and contractors.
Timelines vary by scope, but overlapping design and construction phases typically cut total project time by up to 30% versus traditional methods.
In most cases, yes. We phase construction carefully to minimize disruption, though some projects may require temporary relocation depending on scope and safety.
Because design and budgeting happen together from day one, estimates are accurate early, making mid-project surprises rare compared to traditional bid-build models.
Cohen Design Build operates across four states — New York, New Jersey, Vermont, and Florida — handling residential projects of varying scale and complexity.