The master plan New York’s Lincoln Center decided to undertake in early 2000s required opening up the campus of performing arts centers and increasing engagement with the city at large. The renovation and expansion of the Juilliard School, which is, in addition to a performing arts school, also a place of study in multiple disciplines, was a particularly challenging project. But long before the team started analysis on all the different acoustical needs of the existing 1969 building and the additional 39,000 sq ft of space, the approach was laid down that would guide the entire capital plan. Photo Courtesy
With its highly-sustainable design and luxury finishes, The Lucida is a first-of-its-kind condominium on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The 20-story 500,000-sq-ft building represents the redevelopment of 11 contaminated Brownfield lots. Multiple “green” aspects were added to the building’s design, which is seeking LEED-NC Silver certification. A strict air quality plan was enforced, including the use of low VOC paints, glues and carpets and air-tight sealing of units. More than 20% recycled and regional material content was used and more than 80% of construction waste was recycled. Water runoff is reduced by the courtyard garden, which uses a lightweight soil that
Every construction project demands collaboration, but the new $178 million, 1,800-student Union City High School in Union City, N.J., offers an elaborate example. It was among many notable aspects – such as a three-acre artificial turf field atop the 360,000-sq-ft structure’s roof – earning it recognition as the region’s top K-12 Education project. Photo Courtesy of Epic Management Related Links: Best of 2010 The partnership paired the school district, which needed to replace two aging high schools, with a huge supporting cast: the state, which chose the effort as a high-profile but much scrutinized “demonstration project”; the city, which wanted
The new 70,000-sq-ft 3-story Westchester Community College Gateway Center was developed to help the college bolster its focus on workforce development. The V-shaped building, designed by Ennead Architects of New York City, includes state-of-the-art classrooms, seminar rooms, a lecture hall, computer labs and language labs equipped with leading-edge technology to integrate students learning English into the fabric of the campus. Photo: STV Related Links: Best of 2010 The building consists of two wings that embrace a green courtyard and are connected by a multi-story transparent glass lobby and welcome center. A horizontal zinc column forms the upper level of the
Any museum aims to be as popular as the hotspot about which oft-quoted baseball Hall of Fame legend Yogi Berra once said, “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” Photo Courtesy Of ikon.5 Architects Related Links: Best of 2010 But often people standing outside Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center on the campus of Montclair State University in Little Falls, N.J., didn’t know what it was. “A lot of people thought we were sort of a storage shed next to the [minor league baseball] stadium,” says Dave Kaplan, the museum’s director. That dilemma inspired a $1.5 million effort to transform
With its $61 million New York–Presbyterian Hospital–Greenberg 14 Addition Bovis Lend Lease LMB of New York raised the roof on the acute-care facility’s fully functioning Greenberg patient tower. Photo: Bovis Lend Lease Related Links: Best of 2010 “There was a constant juggling of services and shutdowns—power and fire alarm,” says Maggi Sedlis Goldstein, owner’s representative with Sedlis Goldstein Group of New York for New York-Presbyterian. “It was the most interesting project I have ever worked on.” The existing 12-story Greenberg Pavilion was originally constructed by Bovis to accommodate a future expansion. When the hospital determined it needed more space, it
The shimmering profile of One Jackson Square – which wraps around an angular, eight-pointed lot where Eighth and Greenwich avenues meet in Manhattan – is really just what happens when a determined project team faces a daunting puzzle. Photo: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Related Links: Best of 2010 “Often, a project that has complex constraints or inputs results in a richer, more sophisticated output,” says David Penick, project officer for Hines, the developer of the $35 million, 35-unit luxury residential building that opened late last year. “[Architect Kohn Pedersen Fox’s] theme to unify the design of the building involved this
Situated on a 53-ft-by-53ft site at the foot of Madison Avenue, the 50-story, 155,000-sq-ft One Madison Park is one of the most slender buildings in Manhattan. Bringing this graceful structure to the New York skyline presented the team with a host of design and construction challenges. Photo Courtesy Of CetraRuddy Related Links: Best of 2010 The $140-million 620-ft-tall condominium tower is built on a poured-in-place concrete structure wrapped in a glass and aluminum hybrid curtainwall. The building includes several 4- to 6-story “pods,” which cantilever to the north and east of the building. Working on a 5,175-sq-ft footprint at the
In a dramatic illustration of the adaptive reuse of an existing facility, the $92 million Paramount Center represents the transformation of an aging movie house and the adjacent and abandoned Washington Street building into a vital mixed-use center of learning and life in the heart of Boston’s Theatre District. Photo Courtesy Of Ammann & Whitney Consulting Engineers Related Links: Best of 2010 “This theater was a Boston landmark, which had been closed for decades and was in such disrepair it was unrecognizable inside,” says Peggy Ings, associate vice president of government and community relations at Emerson College, owner of the
Considered an engineering marvel when built in 1889, the 1.2-mi Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge had burned and fallen into disrepair after 85 years of carrying commuter and freight traffic 200-ft above the Hudson River. Years passed before the nonprofit organization Walkway Over the Hudson stepped forward with plans to provide public access to the bridge in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., succeeding in transforming the structure into a New York State historic park in time for the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson sailing up the river that now bears his name. Photo Courtesy Of Mclaren Engineering Group Related Links: Best of 2010 “[The project]
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