Creating the new BAM Strong theater complex at the Brooklyn Academy of Music required heavy lifting to redevelop the Harvey Theater and transform two adjacent properties through new construction and renovation, says the team.
The 800-ft-tall glass tower at One Manhattan Square required a massive structural effort to support a 1.2-million-sq-ft building that houses 815 condominiums and 100,000 sq ft of indoor and outdoor amenities.
With a nationwide shortage of protective respirator masks at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, every second counted in expanding manufacturing capacity.
Complicating inherent challenges of renovating the central dome atop the botanical garden’s Palms of the World Gallery of the 55,000-sq-ft conservatory, built in 1902, was the need to maintain ideal interior climate conditions for its tropical plant collection during the year-long construction phase.
The good neighbor policy for the three-story, 67,000-sq-ft assisted living and memory community began with the safe demolition of an existing synagogue and multifamily house, with all hazardous materials abated with no effects on adjacent residences.
Spanning five passenger rail tracks, the 500-ft-long steel box girder bridge connects both halves of the university campus and their surrounding neighborhoods.
It took intensive planning and tremendous teamwork to install the new Metro North Railroad/Atlantic Street Bridge in busy and congested downtown Stamford, Conn., and to prevent any serious disruption to commuter rail service as well.