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Queens Botanical Garden Visitor’s Center Earns NYC’s First LEED Platinum Rating

The Queens Botanical Garden Visitor’s Center officially received its LEED Platinum rating today from USGBC. The Center is the first building in New York City to earn Platinum under LEED for New Construction and features a number of innovative green design features, which we’ve profiled here at gbNYC previously. The 16,000-square-foot Center opened to the public back in September and was designed by New York City-based BKSK Architects.

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19Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued

AIA Names Queens Botanical Garden’s Platinum Visitor’s Center a Top 10 Green Project

The American Institute of Architects’ Committee on the Environment (”COTE”) announced today that BKSK Architects’ Visitor’s Center at the Queens Botanical Garden, which was designed to achieve New York City’s first LEED Platinum rating, has been named to COTE’s 2008 list of Top Ten Green Projects. The release of COTE’s compilation was (presumably) timed to coincide with today’s Earth Day celebrations, and the Visitor’s Center is without question deserving of the accolade. gbNYC, in fact, named the project #1 on our 2007 list of top New York City green buildings. The Visitor’s Center was selected from over 100 entries; the other nine winners include Kieran Timerlake Associates’ Yale University Sculpture Building and Gallery.

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22Apr2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued