Battery Park City
Vivavi Teams With Sheldrake to Open Green Furniture Store at Riverhouse
Josh Dorfman and our friends at Vivavi have teamed with The Sheldrake Organization to open an Eco Pop-Up Store at the developer’s Riverhouse condo in Battery Park City. As you’ll recall, the project is aiming for a LEED Platinum rating and recently earned significant green press after Leonardo Di Caprio purchased an apartment in the 32-story, 264-unit tower. The store, which is a fully-furnished Unit 8D, adjacent to the Riverhouse sales center, is open to the public 7 days a week, and features pieces from 18 different green-minded designers, including Brave Space, Modern Bamboo, and Animavi, as well as a Team 7 dining room and office furnishings from Knu Furniture. Vivavi is calling the Pop-Up Store the first of its kind within a residential building in New York City, and it’s certainly the first to exclusively feature green living products.
Popularity: 20% [?]
23Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
ML: Green Construction Booming in Manhattan (Photos)
Last Thursday, I spent an afternoon out of the office and took some construction progress photos of a number of the LEED projects that we’ve presented here at gbNYC. I started out on 42nd Street at SJP Properties’ LEED Gold hopeful 11 Times Square before heading downtown to Battery Park City’s Riverhouse (seeking LEED Platinum) and Goldman Sachs Tower (Gold). We haven’t written about it yet (we will) but I finished up with some shots of Related’s Robert A.M. Stern-designed Harrison condominium development on 76th and Amsterdam which is aiming for Silver. As you’ll see, steel at 11 Times Square is well out of the ground and lagging just a few floors behind the tower’s concrete core.
Popularity: 28% [?]
2Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Handel Architects’ Millennium Tower Residences in Battery Park City
The 35-story Millennium Tower in Battery Park City (”BPC”), developed by Millennium Partners and completed last year, was one of the first residential high-rises to earn a LEED Gold rating in New York City (The Solaire & The Helena). The unassuming brick-and-aluminum-clad condominium building, designed by Handel Architects with Steven Winter Associates serving as green consultants, incorporates an honest commitment to cleaner water and air and lower energy costs. gbNYC recently discussed the building in the aftermath of its installation of the first microturbines in the city pursuant to the new rule which was enacted by Mayor Bloomberg last December.
Popularity: 12% [?]
7Apr2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Installation of City’s First Microturbines Under New Code Completed in Battery Park City
Last week, RSP Systems installed the first microturbines in New York City pursuant to a new rule for their installation and use that Mayor Bloomberg signed into law last December. RSP installed a set of Capstone C60 Microturbines at LEED Gold-certified Millenium Tower Residences in Battery Park City. Under the rule, approved microturbines can be installed in certain locations on both commercial and residential projects, including within weatherproofed enclosures, on roofs, or within rooms that have two-hour fire doors.
Popularity: 17% [?]
11Mar2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Albanese’s Visionaire in Battery Park City Casts Eyes on Platinum
In the wake of the Albanese Organization’s Verdesian rental building achieving LEED Platinum last month, we thought it would be a good time to check in with the Verdesian, Albanese’s next foray into sustainable living at Battery Park City. A 33-story condominium tower designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli, which also served as architect at the Verdesian and Albanese’s LEED Gold Solaire rental building on the north end of Battery Park, the Verdesian’s 251 units were 40 percent sold as of this past October. The 500,000-square-foot project is aiming for LEED Platinum and should be ready for occupancy later this year. The curving, sail-like façade of the tower, which is located on the southern end of Battery Park at 70 Little West Street, faces the Hudson River and provides for water views in every unit. The Starwood Capital Group serves as Albanese’s joint venture partner in the $310 million effort.
Popularity: 15% [?]
4Feb2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
The First LEED Platinum Residential High-Rise: Battery Park City’s Verdesian
Developers Chris and Russell Albanese announced last week that their twenty-six story Verdesian rental building in Battery Park City has officially received LEED Platinum from USGBC, the first apartment building in the country to earn the designation. Five years ago, the Albanese Organization opened the neighboring Solaire building, which was the first green residential high-rise in the country. Russell Albanese, whose father and uncle built 100 United Nations Plaza in the 1980s, said that “[a] green building runs more efficiently, expends less energy and is easier to maintain. What might cost a few dollars more now will be less expensive to operate in the near and long-term future.”
Popularity: 16% [?]
17Jan2008 | Meredith Taylor | 0 comments | Continued
Manhattan Commercial Green Building Survey with Spotlight on Green Rehabs
This week’s issue of Crain’s New York Business includes the paper’s most recent Real Estate Report, which focuses on green building projects in New York City’s commercial and residential sectors. gbNYC has previously discussed many of the new commercial projects presented in the article, titled Eco-towers on the rise, including 7 WTC and the other […]
Popularity: 20% [?]
16Oct2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Wastewater Treatment at the Solaire & Proposed NYC Incentives for Water Conservation
New York City is considering a capital incentive that would reimburse developers for each gallon of water that they conserve above a one thousand gallon per day yearly average. Dave Praeger (author of the recently-published Poop Culture, a book that discusses, among other things, the environmental impact of wastewater and sewage) toured the Solaire in […]
Popularity: 8% [?]
22Aug2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Goldman Sachs’ Gold Headquarters in Battery Park City
Goldman Sachs broke ground on its new 740-foot, 42-story headquarters building- which will stand on the last available commercial development site in Battery Park City, just to the north of Cesar Pelli’s American Express Building along West Street between Vesey and Murray Streets- back in late 2005. Originally planned for occupancy in 2009, the project […]
Popularity: 32% [?]
13Aug2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Green Roofs, Cool Cities: Apple’s Green Roofs Take Shape in Queens
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I wrote about how Queens is leading the charge to green New York City’s rooftops earlier this year, so I’m pleased to see that Vanessa Rae and the folks at RiverWired’s weekly Pulse video podcast have put together a terrific production about Gotham’s green roofs focused primarily around the city’s […]
Popularity: 8% [?]
19Jul2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Greening Your Life: The Lazy Environmentalist
Josh Dorfman’s book, The Lazy Environmentalist, Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living was released a few weeks ago and if you haven’t picked up a copy yet, I strongly urge you to do so. It’s absolutely the most comprehensive green resource that I’ve come across to date. Of particular interest to this blog, Chapter […]
Popularity: 5% [?]
21Jun2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Pending Imminent Decision, 50 West Street Could Seek LEED Gold
A decision due early this week from downtown’s Community Board 1 will, in part, determine the fate of a proposed sixty-three story, LEED Gold hotel and residential building designed by Helmut Jahn at 50 West Street. Developer Time Equities hopes to stack an additional twenty floors on the forty that it, by law, […]
Popularity: 8% [?]
18Jun2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Architecture and Sustainability Meet at Riverhouse in Battery Park City
One particular critique of LEED that I frequently hear about is how the rating system does not recognize design excellence. Integrating sustainable elements into green architecture that captures the imagination is a challenge, and many architects believe that LEED should provide recognition to projects that are able to do so successfully.
The Sheldrake Organization’s 31-story, 264-unit […]
Popularity: 17% [?]
9Apr2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued-
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