Gerner Kronick + Valcarel Architects, P.C.
Above & Beyond
GKV’s Innovative Diversified Practice Continues to Expand & Transcend the Industry Standard

by Caitlin Fennessy

In the field of Architecture, experience and attention are vital. GKV Architects devote to their loyal clientele a superior level of service uncommon in the design industry. Manhattan based Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel, Architects, PC, formed in January of 1995, is an award-winning mid-size architectural and design firm focusing on quality base building and interior design solutions. The firmís founding principals, Randy Gerner, AIA, Richard Kronick, AIA, and Miguel Valcarcel, AIA, have been working together for 26 years. They have built their reputation with an extensive portfolio totaling more than 40 million square feet encompassing work in the corporate, residential, restoration, hospitality and institutional fields in the Tri-State area and abroad.

GKV’s impressive practice transcends industries, size, scope, and even international borders as they continue to expand their international portfolio into Europe, the Middle East and beyond. GKV is constantly evolving along with emerging technology and new techniques and braced for imminent change; yet their dexterity for innovation in office spatial design remains constant, albeit ever-expanding in breadth. A key focus of the firm involves specialty design work for the financial, legal, insurance and entertainment industries. The majority of their work focuses on programming, building evaluation, space planning, new interior design, adaptive re-use of existing structures, and new building design work. GKV’s success has led to the practice’s steady growth. While modest about such success, it is undoubtedly due largely in part to their paramount reputation for innovative design, execution and enthusiastic business ethic.

Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel, Architects is preeminent in the industry and distinguished from other architectural firms not only by their broad range of expertise, but also by their rare dedication and attention to detail, due fundamentally to inimitable Partner attention. GKV’s founding partners’ primary reason for forming their own firm was to increase their involvement in design and project management, and decrease the time devoted to personnel management necessary in larger firms. GKV’s mid-size of 40 Architects makes them sizable enough to contend with larger competitors, yet unique in that Partners are intimately involved in each project from inception to completion of construction, ensuring more control, overview and creativity by the firm’s senior members.

GKV is renowned industry-wide for their progressive creativity in designing work environments within challenging spaces. Their designs epitomize a fresh marriage of creativity and functionality that facilitates the ultimate success of a business by enhancing employee relationships and spurring creativity and efficiency in an open workplace. GKV prides itself in not producing formula designs; each project undertaken is treated independently. Of supreme importance at GKV is listening intently to the client’s wishes to create architecture that expresses their individuality and identity. This practice combined with GKV’s incomparable on-site presence allows for clearer, more direct communication, and ultimately ensures the client’s wishes are clearly manifest in the final design.

Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel, Architects, PC celebrated their fifteenth year of business this past January. Given their track record and internationally expanding practice, coupled with a steadily improving market, this mid-sized firm’s industry prowess is unassailable and certainly makes them one to continue to watch.