About the Practice

Common
Projekts

We think most buildings are trying too hard. Ours aren't.

Common Projekts is a New York architectural design firm working across residential, commercial, and renovation projects. The practice was founded on a simple idea: good architecture isn't about adding more. It's about getting fewer things exactly right.

Every project starts with what the space actually is. Not what it could be dressed up to be, but what its structure, light, and material offer on their own terms. The work proceeds from there.

We handle projects from early concept through construction administration — drawings, specifications, permit filings, contractor coordination. The full scope, with one point of contact throughout.

Approach

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Material First

Concrete, steel, stone, wood — each material has its own logic. We don't fight it. We let material properties drive decisions about form, detail, and finish.

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Structural Honesty

We don't hide the building. Exposed structure, honest connections, surfaces that show what they are. The discipline of reduction as a design strategy, not a cost-cutting measure.

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Spatial Clarity

Clear circulation. Defined volumes. Light that arrives with intention. We're skeptical of complexity for its own sake — space should be legible the first time you walk in.

30+
Projects Completed
NYC
Primary Market
Full
Service Scope
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Point of Contact
David Wayne, founder and principal of Common Projekts

Principal

David
Wayne

Founder · Architectural Designer

David Wayne founded Common Projekts and runs every project himself — from the first rough plan through the final site walkthrough. He works in New York City, across renovations, interiors, and new construction.

He reads Rudolph, Breuer, Ando, and Tange less as influences to copy than as a bar for how seriously to take the work — structural expressionism, material precision, spatial restraint, civic weight.

The practice stays small on purpose. One designer, one point of contact, the whole way through.

Key Collaborators

BuildOps
General Contractor
Dualcore
General Contractor
Brooklyn Millworks
Custom Millwork
MEC Architect, LLC
Permitting / Filing