The owners of this water treatment plant sought to tap the solar market to generate electricity. But, since the plant sits on more than 500 acres of protected land, 110-ft by 110-ft solar panels could not be easily set up in conventional locations.
The simple, elegant design of the eight-acre memorial gracing the 16-acre World Trade Center site in some ways belies the complicated history of the redevelopment.
An old ticket booth and turnstiles were considered a less-than-dignified entrance to the historic 52-acre Brooklyn Botanic Garden that spreads out alongside Prospect Park.
The project team razed an aging brick wing of the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., to make way for a larger $296-million, state-of-the-art complex.
On the Brooklyn waterfront where war ships were made a century ago, a developer has taken a three-story, 9,400-sq-ft brick Italianate structure and joined it to a new glass-and-steel, 23,000-sq-ft wing to function as a combination cultural facility and museum.
Work remained scarce last year as the economic recovery continued its slow pace, but that did not stop the contenders for this year's Best Projects competition from putting their best work forward.
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