Topos Architects

Peter is a very talented architect and perhaps more rare is of high integrity. We would welcome the opportunity to work with him and his team again.

Peter Baltay and Juan Guillen have handled design and management for us on two large projects. The first was a complete gutting and buildout of an office condo with 8 offices and open work space. Fabulous, creative design that did not break the bank. Now he is working with us refurbishing a school campus for a private school. Peter and Juan have been dedicated and relentless in helping us through the city planning department to get necessary permits. A very complicated process they’ve handled really well. I know I will always go to these guys any time I need an architect or project manaager. They are great, honest, and get the job done well.

Peter Baltay certainly knows how to design a house (and we love the design of our house) but when things get hard like interior details he isn’t terribly helpful. His design services «include» interior work, such as tile, but what we found is that he doesn’t do interior work in thorough manner. We needed a 3^rd party interior designer so in a sense you’re paying double for design help.
He is competent but basically not very hard-​working — when the going gets tough for him he gets irritated or passes the ball to one of his employees.
He recommended a contractor to us who turned out to not be very conscientous. I suspect that Peter recommends him so that the contractor will give Peter good deals on his own spec projects.
We paid Peter Baltay almost $ 20,000 to do construtcion management. This was not a good value for $ 20K. There are other construction management professionals that would have been better at overseeing the project. We felt that he represented the interest of the contractor more than ours during construction.
In short, we would suggest people hire Peter Baltay with caution. The design work is good, but we would suggest parting ways after you have design approval from the city.