The New Housing New York Legacy Project, a joint effort between the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development and the New York Chapter of the AIA, announced the winner of its first design competition for affordable and sustainable housing back on January 17th. The competition is part of Mayor Bloomberg’s New Housing [...]
February 3rd, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | ContinuedGreen Roofs
NYC-Based Industrial Owner Pantheon Will Green Its Portfolio
New York City-based Pantheon Properties, which owns nine industrial buildings in the New York area (mostly in North Jersey, the image to the left is of a property in Bayonne) and Florida, will retrofit its portfolio to green standards over the course of the next twenty-four months. Moreover, it will now evaluate future acquisitions based [...]
January 26th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Checking In With 11 Times Square and 101 Warren Street
I’ve been running all over Manhattan this week and unfortunately haven’t found much time to post. As luck would have it, though, my travels did take me past the sites of two interesting high-rise projects which I thought I’d quickly point out.
I’ve actually posted about the first before. 11 Times Square, at the corner of [...]
Toyota Tiles: The Future of Urban Green Roofs?
Inhabitat has a great post today about green roof tiles manufactured by a subsidiary of Toyota called the Toyota Roof Garden Corporation. These 20″ square tiles are intended to be put down like carpet, and their base can connect directly into existing irrigation systems, thus making the tiles self-watering. The tiles are only two inches [...]
January 10th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
From the Botanical Garden to Silvercup Studios: Going Green in the Borough of Queens
While (some of us anxiously) wait and see if the Mets’ CitiField will join the new ballpark in Washington for the Nationals in seeking LEED certification, a variety of other ambitious green projects are either underway or in the works over in Queens.
The Queens Botanical Garden
The first, the Queens Botantical Garden’s Sustainable Landscapes and [...]
The Green Exchange
A Chicago-based development firm is waiting to receive zoning approvals from the city in order to proceed with a 250,000 square foot mixed-use project at 2545 West Diversey Avenue on Chicago’s North Side. Once the approval is handed down, Baum Development LLC plans to invest $30 million into the former Frederick Cooper Lamp Company building [...]
December 1st, 2006 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
More on GreenOrder, LEED-CI, Green Roofs
Couple of quick links below to follow up on some recent posts.
GreenOrder, Inc. (link to its website in the sidebar) has been named to Inc. Magazine’s “Green 50.” I posted about GreenOrder not that long ago after reading an interview that its CEO, Andrew Shapiro, had given to the New York Times. The way Shapiro [...]
Halloween Links
Chicagoland temple seeks nation’s first-ever LEED certification for a synagogue.
First LEED for Commercial Interiors Gold Rating in New York City awarded to Herman Miller’s National Design Center.
Closer to home, a sixty-seven story residential tower called The Metropolitan, across the Hudson over in Jersey City, got the green light from the local planning board last [...]
Green Roofs Again
I can’t seem to get off this green roof kick. This is a terrific resource called Green Roofs for Healthy Cities. I also stumbled across this article in the New York Daily News from a couple of weeks ago.
July 26th, 2006 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued