Queens Community College Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center, Bayside, N.Y.
The $4 million conversion of a former print shop and loading dock at Queensborough Community College into a new 8,000-sq-ft resource center, with 2,000 sq ft of new construction, was a straightforward job once the designs were in place. Aside from diverting a campus roadway six or seven feet, the custom steel storefront system’s most challenging aspect was perhaps the different types of glazing on the curtainwall and the non-standard grid pattern of the mullions.
Collaboration on the new Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archive was key on the project, with stakeholders including the Kupferberg family, the Dormitory Authority of New York, CUNY, Queensborough College, and the existing Holocaust resource center on the campus, which was previously housed in the basement of the college library.