re-ply hasn’t just been a good little project. It’s become a huge success. It's gone bi-coastal by partnering with another firm. And has a waiting list in both New York and San Francisco.

We're developing off shoots. And forging a blueprint for architecture that responds in real time to real moments. Ablaze with ideas and initiatives that recycle waste into architecture and design.

These past two years BVN has become not just an architecture firm but an incubator for big ideas, fast action and real environmental change.

With re-ply the team invented a stylish, cost-effective and recycled ‘kit-of-parts’ for outdoor dining, to help NYC’s cherished restaurants, cafés and bars to safely reopen. Other opportunities have emerged too – the Chelsea Flower Show; Rockefeller Ice Rink Pop-Up; the Meatpacking District Outdoor Dining Festival.

A year on and re-ply continues to populate the city with almost 30 installations. It’s spreading out to Miami and California and Vail. And soon - London and Sydney. The designs are evolving and expanding every week now incorporating pop-up retail, co-working spaces and even glamping cabins.

Next on the horizon: a collaboration with American Institute of Architects and friends, to help define a new and permanent design framework, for al fresco dining in New York.

What re-ply opened up for the city was not just new hospitality spaces, but other ways of thinking about how the city could emerge from lockdown with a more flexible approach.

BVN New York is now working with the Alfresco NYC coalition, the NYCxDESIGN Design Corps, Design Advocates, AIA through a series of workshops. These will culminate in the New York City Open Restaurants program.