Designing spaces for artists, innovators, and changemakers.
About Our Work
Our research and design deepens people’s abilities to be present and productive in their spaces and lives.
Featured Projects
SQBW is a versatile design firm whose clients include culture-makers and artists, commercial developers, and individuals. While we produce a wide range of projects, we excel at projects that illuminate the human experience and create an emotional impact.
Hospitality
Entry through an unassuming facade instantly transports visitors into the unexpected and invites a change of perspective.
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Residential
The same way set design allows for a play to unfold on a stage, open ended designs offer flexibility through the years.
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Cultural
Exposed, large steel rusted panels demonstrate the living, evolving nature of materials and the beauty of the project’s industrial surroundings.
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Developers
The challenge was to create a space that balanced scientific rigor with a human-centered, flexible, and inspiring design.
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SQBW collaborates with creative people and organizations
Artists
Installations and infrastructure for artists such as James Turrell, Akeem Smith and Freeman Lowe.
Innovators
Architecture with impact for vision-driven clients on a range of projects: art galleries, restaurants, wellness retreats, private residences.
Changemakers
Works with leaders and entrepreneurs, supporting their mission by translating their vision into architectural solutions that work.
Get in touch
Sebastian Quinn, Principal
Architect, NCARB, LEED AP
63 Flushing Ave, Building 58, 3B
Brooklyn, NY. 11205
+1 (917) 547-0634
sq@sebastianquinn.com
Design Lab
There’s a lot of talk these days about the clash between workers' desire to stay home and companies' desire to get people back in the office. The good news is that the two parties’ interests are actually aligned: for many workers, their homes are much better suited to productivity than the office spaces they left behind. From designing office spaces in NYC, we’ve learned that the way to bring people back to work is not through mandates or incentives, but by providing the quality offices workers need to do their jobs well.