New York Construction Projects

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In the middle of the last decade, New York came up with a plan to upgrade two of its aging public schools and to lease the valuable air rights above them to a condo developer.

The idea behind Verizon's new campus in Waltham, Mass., is to showcase the future of 4G LTE technology for fast Internet access on devices such as cellphones.

With soaring, curved glass walls, this federal courthouse building at Niagara Square, a high-profile site in downtown Buffalo, N.Y., took four years to build.

To expand its North American presence, BASF Corp. built a five-story, 325,000-sq-ft headquarters in suburban Florham Park, N.J.

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.

For years, Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning in Ithaca, N.Y., was housed in four separate and distinct buildings.

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.

To extend Manhattan's No. 7 subway line westward, a massive $1.1-billion construction effort was undertaken to dig new tunnels.

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.