With a commercial hydroponic farm on its roof, the eight-story, 120,000-sq-ft Arbor House in the South Bronx is not a traditional New York City affordable-housing structure.
This $17.7-million project renovated and expanded New London Hall, the oldest building on the Connecticut College campus, creating a new graduate-level science facility with collaborative space for teaching and research.
One-quarter-inch-thick perforated aluminum screens with a 70% Kynar gold metallic coating line the interior of the 150-ft atrium of New York University's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library.
Helping to remedy space constraints, the 38,000-sq-ft expansion last year of the Alternative School for Math & Science in Corning, N.Y., was the first in the school's history.
The $104-million project to rehabilitate New York City Hall's historical elements included a building-wide infrastructure system upgrade and enhancements to meet new fire and life safety codes.
Two trade groups and the New York City Dept. of Buildings (DOB) are scheduled to give oral arguments on Dec. 17 before a state judge in a case involving the prefabricated building units of Atlantic Yards' B2 tower. A factory at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is making the units for developer Forest City Ratner Cos.' $117-million modular high-rise, the first residential tower at the Atlantic Yards site. But the trade groups—Mechanical Contractors Association of New York (MCANY) and the Plumbing Foundation City of New York (PFCNY)—charge that the prefab work is being done without licensed trades people and sued DOB
From a $1.3-billion water treatment plant to a $5.6-million highway interchange, the winners of this year's Best Projects competition were not limited by value or scope of work.
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