Attn Attn Architecture & Design PLLC is an award-winning, full-service Architecture and Interior Design studio based in New York City. Project locations span the globe, with typologies that include residential, commercial, hospitality, civic, and speculative.  Specialties include interior renovations, single-family homes, low to mid-rise new construction, multi-family & mixed use developments, adaptive reuse, and brownstones.

Attn Attn is directed by Egbert Miles Chu, AIA, a Registered Architect in the states of California and New York. Egbert has been practicing architecture and design at top firms in San Francisco and New York City since 2001, before founding Attn Attn in 2016. Egbert has served on the adjunct faculty at Parsons/The New School for Design since 2011, and previously at the New York Institute of Technology. He holds an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley in Architecture and Business Administration, and a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University, where he was awarded a William Kinne Traveling Fellowship. Egbert is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Our Approach

Great spaces depend on a deliberate balance of creative intuition and technical precision. We approach every project through a lens of functional clarity and human experience, viewing architecture and design as a constant dialogue between disciplined logic and personal expression.

The core of our work is driven by the essential physics of a space: program, circulation, the manipulation of light and views. We focus on the experiential—relationships between building and environmental context, how a view is framed and visual connections, how people naturally move through, occupy, and use a space, and how spatial proportions relate to the human scale.

While we are fundamentally style-agnostic—adapting to the specific stylistic needs of each client and project—our aesthetic is unified by a commitment to clarity and restraint. We lean into a curated sensibility of distilled geometries, clean lines, and simple but potent palettes, ensuring that even the most complex projects feel calm and intentional.

Our process is deeply collaborative. Design direction is driven by our clients’ functional needs, stylistic tastes, and individuality. We guide clients from initial concept through construction, strategically sequencing each phase for efficiency and providing transparent communication each step of the way. The result is a highly organized process from beginning to end, yielding spaces that are functionally optimized, stylistically unique, and visually distilled to their most essential, beautiful elements.

Execution is just as critical as design. We have cultivated a trusted network of engineers, expediters, contractors, and craftsmen to leverage for each project. Our deep technical understanding of building codes and construction processes help us anticipate challenges to prevent costly mistakes and revisions, and we have demonstrated success in efficiently securing approvals with reviewing agencies to avoid unnecessary delays.  We aim to cut through the complexity of building so clients can focus on what’s most exciting: the overall vision for the project. 

We look forward to working with you on your next project.