Lisette Wong recognized in Crain’s New York Business’ Notable Leaders in Sustainability


Charlotte Wensley
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Lisette Wong, Associate Principal at Think! has been recognized by Crain’s as a New York Business Notable Leader in Sustainability. This recognition celebrates Lisette’s leadership in advancing sustainable practices, driving clean energy innovation and investments to combat climate change and improve the health, resiliency, and prosperity of our city for New Yorkers.

Lisette’s work at Think! focuses on climate action through energy-efficient building technologies and the design of affordable and supportive housing. She is a Phius Certified Passive House Consultant and LEED AP BD+C professional.

Her work emphasizes the creation of urban ecologies that integrate the built and natural environments, fostering social gathering spaces and verdant, interactive landscapes that encourage art and culture and nurture community well-being for the benefit of all in society.

Extending these values into a more pastoral context, Lisette is the co-founder of Merge Stone Ridge, an alternative art space in upstate New York housed within a compound of restored historic barns.

Congratulations to Lisette on this well-deserved recognition!

AIA NYS Excelsior Award for Bridge Rockaway


Charlotte Wensley
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The accolades for Bridge Rockaway keep coming. Last week Jack Esterson travelled to Albany to receive an AIA New York State Excelsior Award. The program highlights the best in publicly funded buildings, outdoor areas, and public art across New York State, and the architects and design professionals who support and advocate for them.

Bridge Rockaway, an innovative development, which uniquely co-locates affordable housing with light manufacturing workshops, creating a new model for urban mixed-use projects, was recognized in the New Construction category.

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2024: A Banner Year for Think!


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2024 was something of a banner year for Think! We completed over 500 affordable housing units in four significant projects in Brooklyn and the Bronx; IMPACCT Senior Residence, St Philip Neri Apartments, Betances Family Apartments and The Bridge Rockaway. The latter is the first of its kind in NYC, co-locating 174 units of affordable housing with 39,000 sq ft of light manufacturing incubator space. Each of these projects offers housing for vulnerable people and includes onsite facilities providing supportive services.

2024 also saw us achieve significant industry recognition for our projects including design awards for the Duane L Jones Recital Hall at SUNY Old Westbury and for market rate housing at 142 West 19th Street in Manhattan. The Bridge Rockaway received the ‘Downstate Project of the Year’ at the NYSAFAH Awards, while our design for Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Plaza – an affordable housing project above a new home for the landmark Malcolm Shabazz Market which is seeking Passive House certification – was awarded the Blue Ribbon Building of Excellence in the fourth round of the NYSERDA Awards.

We are delighted with the achievements of our team that have fostered these milestone projects and are excited for the projects we have on the boards for 2025.

Honorable Mention for the Duane L Jones Recital Hall


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Think!'s transformational renovation of the Duane L Jones Recital Hall at SUNY Old Westbury has received an honorable mention in the Architect's Newspaper Best of Design Awards for 2024!

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