The Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center, which offers long-term care to children with complex clinical conditions and disabilities, had been based on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan for a century. But an expiring lease forced the center to relocate to Yonkers, N.Y., where it built a 137-bed, 165,000-sq-ft facility on the top of a hill.
Leaking roofs in the former stable complex that served as the police station in 2002 for Manhattan's Central Park forced the precinct to relocate to a temporary structure next door until the complex was repaired.
Since being completed in 1915, Waterbury, Conn.’s 90,000-sq-ft government center has suffered a great deal of wear and tear—and in early 2000, vandalism—which ultimately led to the building being closed for multiple code violations.
About 400,000 people live within a 10-mile radius of this 15-acre property in suburban Marlboro, N.J., that has had industrial tenants from as early as 1912.
While the idea of a net-zero energy building—one that generates at least as much energy as it consumes—may be laudable, large-scale examples are few and far between. But this Massachusetts school, which combined two campuses into a new single structure, has surpassed its green goals and is the commonwealth's first state-owned net-zero building.
As part of an effort to make Boston's Logan International Airport safer, greener and more secure, workers upgraded a major parking garage from the 1970s and the supporting roadway system.
Resorts World in Queens, New York City's first and only casino, is a 763,000-sq-ft redevelopment of the historic Aqueduct Raceway that was built in 1894 and where such champions as Secretariat and Man O' War raced.
Continuing a long-term expansion project, the Jay Peak ski resort in northern Vermont near the Canadian border has added a hotel and water park to become more of a four-season destination.
To modernize New York's world famous trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange, the project team took what worked there for decades and improved on it.
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