Michael David Kirchmann

In 1997, he joined SOM in New York City, where he became a Director of the New York office. [9] Notable completed projects include the corporate headquarters of Oracle in Paris, the Arcapita headquarters in Bahrain, and the Park Hotel in Hyderabad, which is the first LEED Platinum certified hotel in India.[10]

In 2007, and after a 10-year tenure at SOM, Kirchmann founded GDSNY, a real estate development, asset management, lending, and architecture firm with offices in New York. Notable projects at GDSNY include 1245 Broadway, 28&7, 407-417 Park Avenue, 120 Tenth Avenue, 177 Franklin Street, the Emerson, 149 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Baychester Houses in the Bronx, and the Dogpound gyms in New York and Los Angeles,[11] and 25 Mercer Street in Manhattan.[12]

Kirchmann is a frequent lecturer and juror at Harvard University, New York University, Cityscape, MIPIM, the Architectural Association, Parsons School of Design, and the University of Pennsylvania. He taught in the Masters of Science in Real Estate program at Columbia University from 2010 to 2015 with SOM partner Chris Cooper and Vishaan Chakrabarti.[13]

Kirchmann has designed more than 4,000 units of low-income housing that have been completed in New York City, including the redevelopment at Arverne View (formerly known as Ocean Village) in Rockaway, Queens, a region that was devastated by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.[6]

In 2015 Kirchmann designed the extensive façade renovation of the low income, 625-unit Marcus Garvey Village spread across nine city blocks, in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Originally designed in 1973 by Kenneth Frampton, the project achieved notability at the time for its innovative urban planning approach to low-rise, high-density affordable housing.[14][15] The renovated property was awarded the Building Brooklyn Award for Affordable Housing Preservation[16] and the Affordable Housing Magazine Award of Excellence.[17]

In 2016 Kirchmann collaborated with Fabien Baron to design the Dogpound,[11] an exclusive gym located in the West Village and reportedly frequented by Hollywood celebrities and Olympic athletes, including Tom Holland, Hugh Jackman, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Adriana Lima, Lewis Hamilton, and Kaia Gerber.[18][19] Kirchmann went on to design the Dogpound in West Hollywood in 2019.

Kirchmann appeared in the 2017 season of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York with real estate broker Fredrik Eklund, who shows several units[20][21] from Kirchmann's sold-out development at 25 Mercer Street.[12]

Prior to starting renovation work on 25 Mercer Street for what would eventually become a luxury condominium development in two historic cast-iron buildings in SoHo,[7] Kirchmann collaborated with British artist Shantell Martin, who installed drawings on two floors of the buildings, as well as light artist Matthew Schreiber, American Ballet Theatre dancer Kathryn Boren, and fashion photographer Nigel Barker. Some of Martin's drawings remained intact throughout construction and became part of the foundation of the building.[22][23][24]

• Roger Duffy
• T. J. Gottesdiener
• David Childs
• Fabien Baron
• Kirk Myers

• GDSNY official website