The “Scranton Yeshiva” Yeshiva Beth Moshe project provides an updated state-of-the-art facility that supports Torah learning and student life, and ensures a marquee institution’s growth and prominence well into the future.
This project, built at the top of a hill in coal mine country, brings a reimagined modern main yeshiva building, featuring a new beis medrash, classrooms, dining room, and dormitory, to Scranton, PA. Layered materials, brick, stone, and stucco all meld together in a transitional design with traditional overtones. Siting, large windows, and building massing all maximize sunlight and views, creating an idyllic space for Torah study.

The project creates a supportive, safe, and uplifting environment that fosters learning, rehabilitation, and connection in a fun-filled, safe environment. It provides a space for dignity, comfort, and engagement for children and their families.
Designing a new home for a well-known and established organization is an unparalleled honor and responsibility. This new school and clinic for the special children of HASC features a modern, intentional design deeply attuned to its users. Smart, intuitive layouts, lighting, and tactile finishes are all carefully tailored to meet the sensory, stimulatory, and functional needs of these very special users.

Interiors by The Designers Group

The project is iconic in nature, creating a visually engaging façade with class and purpose in its articulation, with a thoughtfully planned layout that proves that great architecture can enhance the educational experience.
Designing a premier elementary school in the Lakewood community is an honor we all cherish. Combining classical limestone-look and brick elements with modern monochromatic shapes, symmetrically asymmetrical repetitive design motifs result in a transitional architectural jewel.

The North Miami Beach Kollel project creates a vibrant spiritual, social, and educational hub, serving as the heart of the community; supporting kollel learning, daily communal engagement, spiritual connection, and prayer for a growing Torah-centered population.
This kehilla center is almost campus-like in nature. It features all of the ingredients for the functioning of a vibrant community kollel—a large, spacious, bright beis medrash and multipurpose hall connected by a double-height lobby, a secondary bet midrash for the Sephardic community members, flexible lecture rooms, and a dedicated library, all designed to create a comfortable learning environment with flexibility for multiple communal uses.

The project creates a space that is both fun and functional, supporting the organization’s holy mission, creating a homelike, inviting and calming environment for our most vulnerable families, while engaging donors, volunteers, and the broader community.
Helping create a vision for what the built form can accomplish for one of the most famous world-class organizations within the Jewish Community has been an honor and a privilege for the entire Rise team. This Chai Lifeline building balances playful, welcoming elements with a professional, functional layout, addressing the needs of children, families, staff, and visitors within a cohesive architectural composition.

Interiors and renderings by CMR design

The amenity-rich project delivers a self-contained, welcoming campus that balances scale and comfort, supporting student life and growth in a dignified, inspiring, warm, and welcoming setting.
This three-building campus combines limestone, glass, and wood to create a dignified beis medrash environment with a homely dormitory and active gym spread on a campus, allowing for a delicate balance between the holy and the mundane.

Interiors and renderings by Krasie Benedikt

The project delivers a distinctive, iconic building that balances multiple functions and uses, utilizing architecture and design to enhance the sense of place and user experience for students and visitors.
This boys’ elementary school in St. Louis features a neo-classical inspired colonnade, with layered, intimate spaces separating public access to the adjacent wedding hall from the private school areas.

The Community Kollel project delivers a welcoming and inspiring environment for kollel members and the community, establishing a landmark that elevates the learning landscape in the Passaic/Clifton area.
This Kollel design exhibits neo-classical references re-envisioned with modern elegance resulting in a grand and prestigious edifice bringing honor for a citadel of Torah. Elegant finishes with fine detailing bring about a warmth that encourages approachability and homeliness.

In collaboration with HH Designers

This multi-building yeshiva renovation and expansion project Planned Development accommodates the current and future growth needs of a rapidly growing yeshiva in Chicago. The current zoning applied only to the current building and limits expansion of the student body or use. The PD consolidates many lots in an industrial zone and is designed to allow for special zoning for a fully functional yeshiva, with standalone dormitory, dining, and gym buildings. Key to the project is the expansion of the current building to accommodate both mesivta and beis medrash programs in state-of-the-art facilities.
Through adaptive reuse and creative programming, a strategic vision for the yeshiva’s growth was developed that is both affordable and forward-looking. Utilizing existing structures as best suited allows for affordable development while meeting the growing needs and focusing construction dollars to where they have the most impact—aiding the students in their path of growth.

The project creates a welcoming community hub that supports gathering, learning, growth, reflection, and contemplation, serving as both a spiritual and social center for the wider Jackson community.
This Chabad House exudes warmth and approachability, with a mix of layered materials creating a modern façade. The forward-thinking design is equally impressive on the interior, designed with flexibility and careful spatial arrangement to adapt to varying needs throughout the Jewish calendar.

The project updates and modernizes the experiential feel of the space, while preserving the integrity and character of the existing. The addition of a flexible event space enhances functionality while a full refresh of interior finishes enhances user experience throughout.
This interior renovation updates an antiquated and tired space through new finishes, seating and lighting, blending modern design with the existing sanctuary’s character. In addition, a waterfront multipurpose room was added to the building balancing a clean, modern design with the existing Spanish Mediterranean style building.

The project delivers a dignified and inviting space that is well-lit and acoustically balanced to enhance and encourage intense and deep prolonged studying. Rich carpentry and stonework join together to create a rooted yet contemporary environment.
The interior of this premier Lakewood Kollel features a beis medrash with tall windows and stone accents, accenting the height; a ceiling and Aron Kodesh exhibiting a blend of crisp lines and soft curves, combining modern gestures with traditional design elements, bringing a sense of familiarity, warmth, and strength to the space.

Realizing an organization’s mission through the built form is a daunting and exciting task. The project provides a welcoming environment that supports spiritual growth and healing. The design creates a safe, warm, and loving space in a cold, distant world that reflects the organization’s mission, enveloping disaffected youth in warmth, love, and caring against the harshness of the world around them.
This Kollel features a Brutalist-style forbidding concrete structure cut open with warmth, light, and air emphasizing openness and comfort, through utilizing materiality and modern design elements. An airy glass and warm wood atrium, with a modern ski-lodge-inspired interior, creates a warm, enveloping entry and lounge area. Minimalist materials and modern design elements carried throughout the interior reimagine the traditional in a warm, caring interpretation.

The project delivers a beautiful, operational school for the Satmar community; activating a long-abandoned site into a well-organized, thriving educational environment with amenities for the community.
This Chestnut Ridge school redesign transformed an abandoned, incomplete steel skeleton into a fully realized, functional building, reimagining both exterior and interior architecture. Designing within predetermined constraints made the quest for efficiency in design and layout all the more challenging and thrilling.

In collaboration with Max Space Design

This shul, designed for the heimishe/yeshiva crowd, is warm, inviting, and approachable. The understated exterior design utilizes a residential-style massing and warm finishes and materials to complement the shul’s warm and inviting atmosphere.
Through massing, material, color, and lighting, and close collaboration with the interior designer, the entire design works towards furthering the shul’s mission and identity, providing a warm, heimishe environment while being a comfortable place to daven, learn, and connect.

In collaboration with Susan Strauss Design

Built for students as young as three, the facility successfully fosters the environment for the early, impressionable years of the educational journey. The project encourages social interaction and creates comfortable learning spaces, setting the stage for a positive educational experience from the start.
The Hillel Early Learning Center employs modern design strategies to enhance the learning experience for young students. A playful design with natural light and warm finishes creates a welcoming environment. Spacious classrooms, flex areas, and in-classroom amenities create an ideal educational setting.