The $119 million home of the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer & Imaging Center is designed to meet the changing medical and social requirements for diagnosing and treating breast cancer. Related Links: Best Of 2009 The 16-story, 240,000-sq.-ft. facility offers a full range of state-of-the-art diagnostic imaging and outpatient treatment services along with cancer prevention and support services under one roof. Housed in the same facility are offices and research facilities for MSKCC’s team of breast cancer specialists and laboratory scientists. Located on Second Ave. between 65th and 66th Streets, the Center includes a pharmacy and
The $125 million Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center rose from a sloping courtyard between New York-Presbyterian Hospital’s Milstein Hospital Building at 165th Street in Manhattan and the Herbert Irving Pavilion and will provide advanced cardiac care to patients. Related Links: Best Of 2009 “The hospital keeps expanding and growing as demands for providing health care to the community change,” says owner’s representative Peter Romano, principal of Peter Romano and Co. of Pelham, N.Y. “It’s a signature building.” Structural engineer Thornton Tomasetti of New York incorporated three intriguing facades: a climate wall, a glass-enclosed atrium and a cable net
Cooper Union’s goal to build an iconic, green academic building is fully realized in Thom Mayes’ stunning new structure at 41 Cooper Square. Related Links: Best Of 2009 The $150 million, nine-story facility features a double skin façade with a sculpted layer of perforated stainless steel wrapped around a glass and aluminum window wall. Inside a 20-ft. wide grand staircase surrounded by an undulating lattice ascends four stories through a sky-lit atrium. Housed within the new building are the Albert Nerken School of Engineering and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences along with facilities for the School of Art and
The roadway that snakes its way between Brooklyn and Queens is one of New York City’s busiest and is notorious for its congestion and high accident rates. The most recent in a series of BQE rehabilitation projects, completed in December 2008, reconstructed the dilapidated, serpentine, section of the highway between 61st St. and Broadway in Queens at a cost of $129 million. Related Links: Best Of 2009 Improvements included resurfacing/replacing pavement, realigning the roadway, widening lanes, creating breakdown shoulders and constructing a highway exchange at Broadway. Twelve bridges were rehabilitated including replacement of the superstructures on six of the spans.
The congregation of the Church of St. Aloysius in Jackson, N.J., was growing, and by 2001 the 500 seats in its church, as well as the size of its school, were not big enough to accommodate everyone. The Diocese of Trenton, the owners of the church, embarked on a master plan to build a new, 1,100-seat place of worship Along with the diocese, the congregation itself was involved in approving the new master plan. Related Links: Best Of 2009 “The process had to find a way for consensus between those disparate opinions,” says Scott Erdy, principal of Erdy McHenry Architecture,
A jam-packed Citi Field – the new home of the New York Mets – is a heavy place. After all, that adds up to 45,000 baseball fans cheering atop more than 12,000 tons of structural steel, along with the 1-million-plus bricks enclosing the 1.4-million-sq-ft ballpark in Queens. Related Links: Best Of 2009 It’s not the kind of facility that typically sits atop soft, fill-based soils. But the $800-million-plus Citi Field is built over meadows with virtually no rock beneath. “There’s no bottom, essentially,” says Scott Hamburg, senior project manager for Bovis Lend Lease, half of the construction manager joint venture
The $163 million Dey Street Concourse Structural Box, part of the new Fulton Street Transit Center complex, added a concourse and subway tracks and platforms beneath Dey Street between Church Street and Broadway. The concourse will eventually connect the Transit Center and the permanent PATH terminal at the World Trade Center site. Related Links: Best Of 2009 “The successful completion of the structural box for the Dey Street underground pedestrian concourse was the result of exceptional teamwork between owner and contractor, as well as the cooperation we encountered from the community and stakeholders during construction,” says Hsin Wu, P.E., construction
The $68 million Cooper Square Hotel is part of the vanguard of sleek contemporary structures standing in mark contrast to the low-rise tenements that have characterized Manhattan’s Cooper Square since the 1850’s. Related Links: Best Of 2009 But whereas the other new buildings stand apart from the surrounding tenements, Cooper Square Hotel incorporates one of the red-brick buildings into the structure. This interesting integration of the old and the new was not by choice, but in the end added to the overall design. Original plans for the hotel called for the demolition of three brick tenements occupying the building site.
For the people of Deer Park, Long Island and its surrounding areas, the construction of the Arches during this tough economic period gives them a reason to be at least cautiously optimistic. Designed to emulate a European-themed shopping village with covered walkways, an outdoor ice skating rink and water fountains, the $180 million open air center is expected to generate millions of dollars in tax revenue, which will help alleviate the burden on the town’s residents. It has also generated hundreds of jobs, both full and part time, for local residents. Related Links: Best Of 2009 The largest outlet center
Gregs G. Thomopulos, P.E., Chairman & CEO of Stanley Consultants of Houston, was elected president of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers for a two-year term. FIDIC represents globally the consulting engineering industry. Thomopulos has been on the organization’s executive committee for six years. His election marks the first time in 20 years that a U.S. citizen holds the position, which only three other Americans have held in FIDIC’s nearly 100-year history. Dynamic Lighting Solutions in Pearland announced Robert C. Horswood joined the company as utility sales representative, Eastern Division. He graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s