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MAPOS Mapos LLC is an team of architects and designers who understand culture and communities.

Our work is invested in the connections inherent in public places – brands, built space, landscape, art – and especially the people who inhabit them. We are an integrated team of architects, designers, and hard-to-label creative instigators.

Following their partnership on .newburgh, Mapos and Baxter Built teamed up again on a City of Kingston RFP for 615 Broad...
10/13/2026

Following their partnership on .newburgh, Mapos and Baxter Built teamed up again on a City of Kingston RFP for 615 Broadway and were awarded the project.

The 2.2-acre site sits next to the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Midtown Kingston’s Arts District. Three ground-up buildings surround the new 4,000 SF Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening Plaza, dedicated to the influential Kingston sound artist and lined with 7,000 SF of ground-floor retail.

On Broadway, Building 1 is a three-story grey brick building designed to meet historical guidelines, with a modern interpretation of the brick cornice, window placements, and a new storefront. It fills a gap in Kingston’s historic streetscape, and a wide gated entry beside it leads into the plaza. Buildings 2 and 3, five stories each, sit on the back side of the plaza.

Mapos took the project through planning under Kingston’s new Form Based Code. The development includes 68 apartments, 20% designated affordable.

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Executive Architect (AOR): Liscum McCormack VanVoorhis Architects
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Status: Planning Approval; Construction begins Fall of 2026
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We're a finalist! has been named a finalist in the 2026 Connecticut Innovation in Design Awards from , in the Architec...
10/07/2026

We're a finalist! has been named a finalist in the 2026 Connecticut Innovation in Design Awards from , in the Architecture category.

The 3,500-square-foot residence is set on a 10-acre ridge overlooking the Appalachian Trail and the Housatonic River valley. The clients envisioned a home with bold cantilevers and a "floating" quality: modern in ex*****on, yet grounded in the texture and warmth of a remote mountain retreat. The result was an "upside-down" house that uses the terrain to organize the program and enhance views.

Thank you to CTC&G and this year's judges.

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Last month, Mapos co-founder Colin Brice joined a panel at the Rural Main Street Summit, hosted by the MARK Project in R...
10/06/2026

Last month, Mapos co-founder Colin Brice joined a panel at the Rural Main Street Summit, hosted by the MARK Project in Roxbury, NY, to talk about what it takes to move the Kirkside Project forward.

Bringing the 1857 Gould family mansion back as a community-driven inn and culinary institute touches nearly every issue small towns face: design, town context, approvals, construction pricing, job creation, and the history the building carries. It was a very interesting forum, with preservation officials, municipal leaders, and local partners all working through the same questions.

Thank you to the MARK Project for the invitation and for championing this important and inspiring work in the Catskills!!

Architecture: MAPOS
Summit host & developer: Mark Project
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Dive into the most innovative bathroom ideas, from the color of the season to looks that increase light or maximize zen....
09/28/2026

Dive into the most innovative bathroom ideas, from the color of the season to looks that increase light or maximize zen. From glass bricks and colored glass to monastic minimalism, these ideas are anything but boring.

In this design featured in 's bathroom trends roundup, the 'Isabella' tiles from are arranged in a precise grid and paired with a white vanity. When choosing a color as bold as this SunnyD-like shade of orange, it can pay to keep everything else simple. 🍊

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Two hours north of New York City, on a ridge above the Rondout Reservoir, the first of twenty-two homes we’re building a...
09/24/2026

Two hours north of New York City, on a ridge above the Rondout Reservoir, the first of twenty-two homes we’re building at South Hill is nearly finished.

The house sits low against the ridge, sided in stained cedar and wrapped in a wide deck that opens onto a pool and a pool house positioned to capture the same reservoir-and-mountain views the whole site was planned around.

Nearly move-in ready, it’s the best evidence yet that South Hill’s promise - an alpine retreat and adventure getaway two hours from the city - is becoming a real, livable place.

As an architect-led development team, we’re overseeing the project from land planning through construction, ensuring alignment of design intent, cost control, and build quality at every stage.

Learn more about South Hill in our latest newsletter. Link in bio!

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We are excited to share that our High Bluff Barn has been named a 2026 SARA National Design Awards Honoree. A heavy-timb...
09/15/2026

We are excited to share that our High Bluff Barn has been named a 2026 SARA National Design Awards Honoree.

A heavy-timber, cedar-clad barn anchoring a narrow bluff-top family compound above Peconic Bay conceals structural insulated panels and a full photovoltaic roof behind its unassuming exterior, housing a garage, projection theater, game room, yoga studio, and mezzanine.

The barn's cedar-clad exterior reads as a simple agrarian form, yet it conceals a high-performance structural insulated panel (SIP) envelope. The southwesterly roof plane, hidden from view at grade, is fully clad in photovoltaic panels. Inside, the entertainment room serves double duty: a daytime play space that converts after dark into a projection theater, with surround-sound speakers and subwoofers integrated into the wall assemblies to keep the acoustic equipment out of sight.

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General Contractor Gentry Construction Company
Landscape Design John Beitel
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The vision for the High Bluff House was a minimalist barn, clad inside and out in simple, warm materials. Upstairs, that...
09/07/2026

The vision for the High Bluff House was a minimalist barn, clad inside and out in simple, warm materials. Upstairs, that vision continues in the wood ceiling beams and flooring that run through the home's more private quarters, in contrast to the open, minimalist ground floor below. Exposed beams line the hallway ceiling, while a narrow window opening lets raking light cross the floor as the sun moves. At the stair, a cluster of round pendant lights in varying sizes marks one of several considered lighting moments throughout the house.

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General Contractor: Gentry Construction Company
Lighting Designer: , Antonella Calastri & Mapos ArchitectsPhotography
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The vision for High Bluff House was a minimalist barn: clad inside and out in simple, warm materials, with the ground fl...
09/03/2026

The vision for High Bluff House was a minimalist barn: clad inside and out in simple, warm materials, with the ground floor opened fully toward Peconic Bay. Completed in 2023 in Southold on Long Island's North Fork, the 9,000-square-foot project pairs the main house with a connected barn volume, both wrapped in cedar siding under standing-seam metal roofs. Full-height glazing spans the ground floor, dissolving the boundary between the living spaces and the water beyond.

Landscape design by John Beitel threads stone stepping paths and plantings through the dune site, keeping the approach low and unobtrusive.

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General Contractor Gentry Construction Company
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The first home of a 22-home modern development in the Catskills is almost move-in ready. The 130-acre site sits on the e...
08/28/2026

The first home of a 22-home modern development in the Catskills is almost move-in ready. The 130-acre site sits on the eastern ridge of South Hill with dramatic views of the Rondout Reservoir and the Shawangunk and Catskill Mountains, which can be enjoyed from your own private pool. 🏊

Good weather, good timing, happy Friday. Can't wait to share more as the rest of the community comes together!

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At Innisfree's Lexington Avenue store, Mapos reworked one of New York's most familiar sights: scaffolding."Rather than b...
08/26/2026

At Innisfree's Lexington Avenue store, Mapos reworked one of New York's most familiar sights: scaffolding.

"Rather than being an obstacle to beauty, how can scaffolding be the catalyst for it?" That question became the starting point for a custom scaffold system built to hold plants, lighting, product, and glass panels, stripped down to its essential elements and finished in bright white to contrast the space's raw, gritty textures. Instead of something to walk around, it becomes the interior wrapper for the entire store.

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