54th Street NYC

Located just steps from Museum of Modern Art in Midtown Manhattan, this 54th Street residence sits within one of New York City’s most architecturally and culturally layered blocks. From within the home, views extend directly into MoMA’s sculpture garden—an unusual and valuable adjacency that reinforces both the importance of context and the need for precision when documenting existing conditions in dense urban environments.

Pointknown was engaged to capture the full interior of the property and deliver a complete set of CAD plans to support future design and renovation.

The Approach

Working within a tightly constrained Manhattan footprint, our team deployed a combination of mobile LiDAR scanning and structured photographic capture to document the space efficiently and without disruption.

While the final deliverables were issued as 2D CAD drawings, the project was developed in 3D from the outset—allowing for internal coordination, cleaner geometry, and a more reliable translation of real-world conditions into usable design documents.

This approach ensures that what is drawn behaves as expected when design work begins.

Deliverables

Floor Plans (CAD)

Interior Elevations

Building Sections

Coordinated 3D Model (internal workflow)

Why It Matters

In buildings like this—where architectural layers, renovations, and tight adjacencies are the norm—accurate documentation is not a luxury. It is the foundation for everything that follows.

By building from a coordinated 3D understanding and delivering clear, structured drawings, we provide design teams with a dependable baseline—so they can focus on design, not interpretation.

Measure Once. Design Right.