New York Construction Projects

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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.

Wells Fargo’s modern New York flagship is a 500,000-sq-ft space across nine floors of the 30 Hudson Yards skyscraper in lower Manhattan.

Long Beach Island’s sole highway connection with the mainland has been significantly enhanced via the six-year, $319-million project that rehabilitated the existing three-mile causeway and added a parallel structure.

What was once an imposing 1.3-mile interstate-grade highway barrier isolating Bronx neighborhoods  now is a pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly urban arterial boulevard that provides residents with a connection to parks and the Bronx River waterfront while also preserving access for commercial trucks.

Sarah Lawrence College has a new “front door”—the 35,000-sq-ft Barbara Walters Campus Center in Westchester County, N.Y. An adaptable social and academic gathering space, the center is named after the school’s famous journalist alumna.

Cornell University has transformed a 107-year-old industrial building on its Ithaca, N.Y., campus into the new Mui Ho Fine Arts Library.

Racing against the spread of COVID-19, the project team collaborated in a design-build effort to create a 1,000-bed field hospital in less than a month.