In just under 11 months, the project team transformed a 30-year-old big-box store into a new benchmark for experiential retail via a scope of work that included selective demolition of existing retail interiors, elevator modernization and a comprehensive interior fit-out totaling approximately 80,000 sq ft.
Formerly a New York City Dept. of Sanitation operations facility, the 5.5-acre park provides sports fields, playground, kayak launching zone and Manhattan’s first public beach.
The 50,000-sq-ft facility features a 550-seat auditorium, a 100-seat black box theater, rehearsal and instructional spaces, flexible computer science classrooms and the school’s first art gallery.
Transforming the 44,000-sq-ft stone chapel built in 1910 into a modern, high-performing concert hall while also adding a new 20,000-sq-ft subterranean arts wing required deep collaboration and trust among the team to navigate complex structural, acoustic and sequencing issues.
The $108-million project enhances multimodal access to Randall’s Island recreational amenities by replacing aging infrastructure with two new vehicular ramps that eliminate substandard left-hand merges and reduce congestion.
Timely completion of the 70,000-sq-ft academic facility was critical to launching a new nursing education program, addressing an urgent regional health care workforce need.
Serving as the front door to Wilson Medical Center campus, the six-story, 183,000-sq-ft tower features 120 private patient rooms, an expanded emergency department and an accessible new entrance and relocated helipad.
Substantial asbestos and lead-based paint abatement was required prior to rebuilding the interior of this historic 1950s-era industrial building for the 36,000-sq-ft expansion, which provides new opportunities for artists and guests to experience glassblowing.
As the world’s first vertically stacked film studio, the 145-ft-tall, 775,000-sq-ft structure yields eleven 60-ft-tall column-free sound stages—five at grade and six two stories above, each spanning roughly 18,000 sq ft.
Design and construction work in New York City “remains resilient, with strong momentum in transportation infrastructure, residential, office and health care sectors,” Collins says.