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The first two phases of the World Trade Center Downtown Restoration program were 17 years in the making, launched in early 2002, just after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and reaching substantial completion in 2019 under the $20-billion effort to create 10 million sq ft of new facilities.

The team that built the new Americas headquarters for Shiseido—a Japanese cosmetics, skin care, hair care and fragrance company—transformed a dilapidated building at 390 Madison Ave. in Manhattan into a nine-story corporate base.

As part of New York City’s first major bridge crossing since 1964, the $318-million second phase of the Kosciuszko Bridge was completed four years ahead of schedule and on budget, says its team.

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.

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 One Vanderbilt Avenue mixed-use project broke ground in 2016 and reached completion earlier in 2020.