Last week, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden unveiled a final set of plans for a new Visitor Center pavilion designed by architects Weiss/Manfredi to pursue LEED Gold certification from USGBC. The building would join the LEED Platinum-certified Queens Botanical Garden Visitor's Center, which was the first LEED Platinum-certified building anywhere in New York City. When completed, the 22,000-square-foot Visitor Center will be the first new structure at the Botanic Garden in over 20 years. Funtionally, the pavilion will include an orientation room for visitors, a shop, event space, restrooms, and a cafe.
Weiss/Manfredi principal Marion Weiss described the structure as "chameleon-like," built into a berm in the Botanic Garden's northeast corner in order to blur the distinction between structure and natural landscape. Specific green design features will include reycled-content building materials, a passive solar site orientation, a geothermal system, and a green roof. The project, which will be located adjacent to the Botanic Garden's northern parking lot at 900 Washington Avenue, is scheduled to break ground later this summer and be completed sometime during the spring of 2011. Weiss/Manfredi's design has already earned an Award for Excellence in Design from the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.
- Botanic Garden Unveils Plans for 'Green' Visitor Center (GreenBeat Brooklyn/Brooklyn Eagle)
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center (Weiss/Manfredi)
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden
- Queens Botanical Garden Earns NYC's First LEED Platinum Rating (gbNYC)
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Going Green
I think it is fantastic how we are using renewable energy and going green in so many ways. I think we also need to do things like reducing our energy usage, like installing geothermal heat pumps to replace high energy heating and cooling systems.
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