Studio V Architecture

Studio V has been highlighted for its adaptive reuse design of important New York City sites, including the $400 million renovation of Macy's Herald Square, named by Architectural Record the largest retail project in North America in 2012 and 2013,[1] and the Empire Stores on the Brooklyn waterfront.

He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was a Fulbright Fellow to the United Kingdom.

After taking a subsequent role as Design Principal at Walker Group/CNI, Valgora opened his own Manhattan-based firm, STUDIO V Architecture, in 2006.

Valgora's work through his own firm has focused on the transformation of New York's waterfront, and the validation of the East River as the city's “Next Central Park.”[11] He is leading a team to design the Empire Stores on the Brooklyn waterfront, which will transform seven abandoned warehouses into a mixed-use tech campus with deployable barrier walls in the event of a superstorm.

[12][13] Valgora has also been working for four years to create the master plan for Astoria Cove, a waterfront community in Queens.