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PHOTOS BY MATTHEW WILLIAMS

When it comes to living space, Russian architect Peter Kostelov knows how to spin straw into gold. “New York is one of the more densely populated cities,” he says. “It’s an island; it cannot expand. There can only be transformation.”

Peter, who has won awards for his modernist residential designs in Russia, and his wife, Olia Feshina, an artist and fashion designer, moved from Moscow to Manhattan in 2013. “We wanted to work in

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