This project is a wholesale gut renovation of and addition to a historically significant building on the Upper East Side—originally designed by Calvert Vaux for the Children’s Aid Society—to house a tutoring center and an associated non-profit foundation. The design creates the first office headquarters for the tutoring company with areas for instruction and independent study, as well as spaces for staff, tutors, and the foundation’s operations.

The renovation gracefully fits 40 tutoring offices, a boardroom, a cafeteria, and a philanthropic wing into the building and encloses the original rear-yard terraces on the second floor in glass, creating additional square footage for the cafeteria and several additional offices. Green roofs top the new enclosure.