Daniel Goldner is a New York City based American architect who with his architecture firm "Daniel Goldner Associates' (established in 1980) specializes in apartment and condominium buildings in the forms of both new and converted repurposed structures. Among the buildings he has designed are 99 Franklin street in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan., 172 Montague street in Brooklyn Heights, the Pencil Factory building also in Brooklyn, 153 Charles Street in Greenwich Village, and 19 Rockwell place in Fort Greene in Brooklyn. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
In 1979 as a young architect Goldner's design for a New York City apartnent was shown in New York Times Magazine . [6]
Goldner is the architect of "The Pencil Factory' in Greenpoint, Brooklyn named after the nearby Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory, and is a mix of a pre-existing 1872 building which was built for the factory and converted for residential use and an original condo building inspired by factory with scores of new units. [7] The architect's Newpaper describes the project as "a syncopated colored brick addition and perforated aluminum garage". [8]
Writing of Goldner's building at 153 Charles Street in Manhattan in his "Guide to ContermporaryNew York City Architecture" John Hill describes it in part in stating ..."Daniel Goldner's design staggers deep balconies to give punch to the narrow facade on Charles Street... [9]
Goldner notably designed the Iornworkers Local 580 building in the Dutch kills section of Long Island City in the New York City borough of Queens.. The structure he designed employed fourteen different. types of metals in its composition (including iron,steel, bronze, aluminum, stainless steel, brass, and other exotic and non-ferrous metals). The facade of the building is of sometimes actually employed as a training tool for the ironworkers. [10] [11] . Goldner received a 2004 AIA award for the project. [12]