History
Architects Rule is an architecture firm dedicated to bringing creative design and high-quality construction together to produce architecture that makes our clients happy. Paul Athineos, Architects Rule's principal architect, founded the firm on the principle that good architecture combines craft, detail, materials, and form for the purpose of giving our clients what they want. To do that, we listen and we work. We enjoy doing both. Our clients' needs, wants and desires give shape to all our designs.
Specialties
Mr. Athineos is also a Certified Code Enforcement Officer in New York State. He is chairman of Head-Of-The-Harbor Architectural Review Board and a certified New York City asbestos investigator. With more than 25 years of experience in design, construction management and code consulting, Paul knows how to design a client's dream home or commercial building (restaurants, medical offices, retail spaces and more) within budget and on schedule. Mr. Athineos's hands-on approach to design and construction comes from spending his childhood in and around a family-owned furniture workshop where he observed European craftsman bring wood to life. (In fact, the cabinet making gene goes back two generations to Athens, Greece.)