Best Cultural/Worship: Construction team overcomes Hurricane Sandy
The new 220,000-sq-ft Whitney Museum of American Art is located at 99 Gansevoort St. in Manhattan’s meatpacking district, downtown from its previous location on the Upper East Side. The museum, a six-story building with two additional floors below grade, has an adjacent 8,500-sq-ft outdoor plaza and views of the Hudson River and High Line Park on either side of the structure.
“From its 18,000-square-foot column free gallery that features reclaimed wood flooring throughout, to the exposed ceilings, showcasing the Whitney’s MEP systems installed with exacting precision … the Whitney invites dialogue, exploration and bares itself for all of New York City to see,” says Joseph R. Byrne, vice president and operations manager of the project’s general contractor, Turner Construction Co.