How We Can Help
Your Partners in Design.
Your Vision, Our Expertise
The principal leads every engagement — present at the first meeting, key milestones, and final walkthrough, and aware of every schedule and client goal throughout.
The result you imagined, protected at every stage.
Grounded in sustainability, resilience, and operational efficiency, Echo’s team of industry specialists craft future-ready workplace interiors and residences that elevate your culture and wellness.
We don't execute briefs. We enter a process of discovery
— and we stay until the work is built, not just drawn.
Full architectural services from feasibility through construction documents
— only after rigorous questioning of what the space could be.
We work across residential, commercial, cultural, and mixed-use project types.
Architecture
Project Types
Regulatory
Board Approval
International
Fee Structure
Private Residential - Condominiums - Cultural Institutions - Developer Projects - Creative Businesses
DOB - LPC - BSA - CB - HPD and equivalent jurisdiction. Full Regulatory complexity - handled completely. Nothing surprises us.
95%+ first-submission rate on co-op and condo board packages. The documentation is thorough by design.
Select projects through established partnerships: Dubai - New Delhi - France - Seoul - and Beyond
Fixed fee or percentage of construction cost depending on project scope. Discussed at consultation.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Feasibility and programming
Schematic design
Design development
Construction documents
DOB filing and approvals
Co-op and condo board packages
Contractor bidding and selection
Contractor, Engineer, and Vendor Partnerships
understanding what the project is really asking for before any design begins
spatial concepts, massing, floor plan options explored fully before committing
spatial concepts, massing, floor plan options explored fully before committing
permit-ready drawings built for complex regulatory environments
Department of Building, Landmarks Preservation Committee, and Community Boards
95% first-submission approval rate across the practice
we know who builds well in New York and who doesn't
strong relationship with a diverse and accomplished team of professionals to exceed every project’s needs
Interior design as an extension of the architecture — not a separate service applied afterwards.
When we design interiors, every decision is born from how the client actually lives, works, and moves through space.
Nothing is decorative for its own sake.
Interior Design
Approach
Standalone
Materials
Trade Access
Project Types
Interiors are designed as part of the architecture — not layered on top of it. The two are inseparable in our process.
Interior design is also offered independently for projects where the architecture is already established.
We specify for quality over time. The test of a material is how it looks at ten years, not ten days.
Full trade access to furniture and material resources not available to the public. Savings passed to the client.
Residential · Boutique hospitality · Creative offices · Cultural spaces
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Space planning
Material and finish specification
Millwork and custom joinery design
Lighting design
Furniture selection and procurement
Art and object integration
Designer and artisan coordination
Styling and project close-out
furniture layout, circulation, adjacencies planning— resolved before anything is specified
every surface, every texture, selected for how it ages and not just how it looks on day one
cabinetry, built-ins, and bespoke elements drawn and detailed in-house
natural and artificial, layered for how the space will actually be used
Department of Building, Landmarks Preservation Committee, and Community Boards
placement, lighting, framing — the project doesn't end at the walls
vast experience partnering with designers and ensuring what was specified is what gets built
final walk-through and installation supervision
Construction Administration
The vision that was found gets built — not a version of it. Construction oversight is not an optional add-on.
It is the phase where everything either holds together or unravels apart.
We stay present until the last door is hung correctly.
Why It Matters
The Problem
Cost Savings
Standalone
Trades
Most design failures happen during construction, not during design. The drawings are only as good as the oversight behind them.
Many architects hand off to the contractor at permit. We don't. The principal remains present from groundbreaking to punch list.
Clients have saved 30–40% vs large firm models through our technical fluency and contractor relationships. (Verizon Innovation Lab, 15,000 SF)
Construction oversight is also available as a standalone service for projects designed by other architects.
Union and non-union labor · General contractors · Specialty subcontractors · Millwork fabricators · Stone yards
WHAT’S INCLUDED
General contractor
Contract Negotiation
Budget and schedule management
Inspections and regular site visits
Submittal and shop drawing review
RFI management
Change order review
Punch-list and close-out
we work with contractors we trust, and we know the difference
scope of work, payment schedule, penalty clauses reviewed before signing
real numbers, tracked against real milestones, reported clearly
not occasional check-ins. Presence at every critical phase
ensuring what the contractor orders matches what was designed
every question from the field answered promptly and in writing
every variation assessed for necessity, cost, and impact on timeline
nothing is signed off until the work is right