by Jorge Fontan | Last updated May 30, 2023 | Apartment Renovations, Architects, Residential
I am Jorge Fontan, owner of Fontan Architecture, a New York City based architecture and design firm working on residential design projects throughout NYC. Below are a few of the residential renovations we have completed over the past recent years. SoHo Loft...
by Jorge Fontan | Last updated Nov 19, 2021 | Architects
Architects design buildings and as an architect myself, I find that many people do not often understand what goes into a building design. In this post we will outline the new building design services an architect may provide. I am an architect in NYC and owner of...
by Jorge Fontan | Last updated Jul 3, 2023 | Architects, Architectural Services, General Architecture
Plan, Section, and Elevation are different types of drawings used by architects to graphically represent a building design and construction. A plan drawing is a drawing on a horizontal plane showing a view from above. An Elevation drawing is drawn on a vertical plane...
by Jorge Fontan | Last updated Jul 9, 2023 | Architects
I am Jorge Fontan, an architect, and owner of Fontan Architect, a New York Architecture Firm. I have been blogging about architecture since 2016 and launched a Youtube Channel in 2019. I posted my first Youtube Video around ten years before I decided to get serious...
by Jorge Fontan | Last updated Nov 24, 2021 | Architects, General Architecture
I am Jorge Fontan an architect in New York and owner of Fontan Architecture. I have been blogging for a few years now on architectural issues, mostly technical or project-specific posts, to offer information to my readers. This time I would like to write a more...
by Jorge Fontan | Last updated Feb 20, 2022 | Architects, General Architecture
There are different types of architectural firms offering a wide range of services. Some firms only do design and do not do technical work whereas some firms only do technical work and do not do much design. A full service architecture firm will do both and will work...