Steelworks Lofts on North Fourth Street in Williamsburg is a 130,000-square-foot condominium project designed by AvroKO. It’s the firm’s first residential project and contemplates the adaptive reuse of industrial space that was formerly the headquarters of Lewis Steel Products back in the 1930s. Developer Fifth Square Partners is aiming to reclaim and repurpose as many materials as possible in connection with construction. It has also retained New York-based Greener By Design to landscape an 8500-square-foot green roof.
November 25th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "adaptive reuse"
Monday LEEDoff: 200 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo Harvests 7200 Tons of Demolition Debris
A project in downtown Buffalo, New York is taking LEED’s Materials & Resources credit category quite seriously and expects to collect close to 7,200 tons of demolition material during the $68 million rehabilitation of what was once the Thaddeus J. Dulski Federal Office Building into the mixed-use 200 Delaware Avenue. Designed by architects Pfohl, Roberts and Biggie, the project team is slowly razing the existing 15-story building that dates from the 1970s and sorting each component of the structure, from its pipes and wires to light fixtures. According to co-developers Uniland Development Co. and Acquest Development, the effort should conserve 6,434 tons of concrete exterior panels, 570 tons of interior concrete and brick, 200 tons of steel and metal, and 10 tons of aluminum.
February 18th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
$50M OEM Headquarters in Brooklyn Receives LEED Silver
New York City’s new $50 million Office of Emergency Management (“OEM”) headquarters in Brooklyn, which I wrote about back in December, earned its LEED Silver rating from USGBC on Wednesday. The four-story building was designed by Swanke Hayden Connell Architects and is located on Cadman Plaza East near the Brooklyn Bridge. The project was funded [...]
August 17th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 3 comments | Continued
Definition of Sustainable Building Must Encompass Urban Infrastructure
Yesterday’s rush hour chaos in Midtown was an explosive reminder that twenty-first century sustainable building practices are meaningless in the absence of reliable infrastructure able to support a dense urban environment. While Con Edison is spending $20 million this year to maintain New York City’s steam pipes, much of Gotham’s infrastructure- from utilities to mass [...]
July 20th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 3 comments | Continued