ADP Architects 2025: A Year of Growth
December 22, 2025
ADP Architects would like to wish our dear friends, clients and industry partners a wonderful and warm holiday season. Thanks to each one of you, our Chelsea, New York City-based team has grown from serving building owners and preserving historic New York City buildings to being trusted to renovate luxury hotels, spearheading adaptive reuse projects and designing novel venues for entertainment.
This year we welcomed several new members to our team who have been instrumental in advancing our design approach, as well as documenting the project processes that have brought many years of success to our firm:
Brigida Capicotto, AIA, Project Manager;
Teresa Andres, MArch, Architectural Designer; and
Megan Mueller, MArch, Architectural Designer.
After 40 years of developing a robust architectural portfolio that strives to preserve the historic urban fabric that makes New York City unique, our Founding Principals David C. Acheson, AIA, and Michael F. Doyle, FAIA, opened an exciting new chapter for ADP Architects, ensuring the firm’s longevity.
Drew Hartley, AIA, Principal, will carry ADP’s legacy forward, stewarding our Founding Principals’ mission of preserving New York City’s historically significant buildings while further cultivating ADP’s body of high-end residential, luxury hospitality, and historic adaptive reuse projects.
40 Years of building an architectural office from two to 30 people was no easy feat. After years of bootstrapping with ears to the ground, a commitment to exceptional client service, and a profound passion for the historic landscape of New York City, Founding Principals David C. Acheson, AIA, and Michael F. Doyle, FAIA, built an architectural legacy that can be seen from the steps of St. Bartholomew’s Church on Park Avenue to the sparkling McKim, Mead, & White marble façade of The Metropolitan Club on Fifth Avenue.
What began as the aligned passion of two Harvard GSD classmates has transformed into a thriving practice that has greatly impacted the historic built environment of New York City and continues to bring the core tenets of architectural design and traditional craft to projects of grander scales. From touching sacred sites to graceful residences, brownstones to slender highrises, modern retail storefronts to cavernous historic bank halls, Mick and Dave’s architectural sensibilities serve as a compass for our firm’s future and an inspiration for our new work.
