All Posts Tagged With: "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.
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23Jul2008 | 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.
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7Apr2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
DiCaprio at Riverhouse, Lake Windermere, & Platinum Audobon Society HQ
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of March 30, 2008, including Leonardo DiCaprio’s purchase of a condo unit at the Sheldrake Organization’s Riverhouse in Battery Park City, which is pursuing a LEED Gold rating from USGBC, the New York Times’ profile of the 7000-square-foot model home at the Lake Windermere project in Connecticut in the context of large, yet purportedly green, residential development, and a new LEED Platinum-level headquarters for the National Audobon Society on Varick Street, designed by FXFOWLE.
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7Apr2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Thoughts on The Lucida & Cook + Fox’ Platinum Offices: gbNYC Interviews Rick Cook
gbNYC was thrilled to have the opportunity to recently chat with Rick Cook of Cook + Fox Architects about one of his firm’s green projects- The Lucida- which is currently seeking LEED certification on the corner of East 85th Street and Lexington Avenue on the Upper East Side. The project touts itself as the first residential condominium project in the neighborhood to seek a LEED rating, which is an important first given that The Brompton and The Laurel have since joined the local green chase. Mr. Cook spoke to us about specific green features at The Lucida- from its hybrid wall window system to blast-furnace concrete transfer slab- and also offered thoughts on his firm’s office space and the LEED system generally.
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19Mar2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | 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.
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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.
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4Feb2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Sustainable Architecture & Social Responsibility: Mercy Corps’ Platinum Action Center in Battery Park City
Mercy Corps today officially unveiled its Action Center to End World Hunger, a $5.4 million, 4,000-square-foot interactive education facility in Battery Park City that should open up this fall. Designed by Edwin Schlossberg’s ESI Design, the Center will seek a LEED Platinum rating from USGBC. The Battery Park City Authority chose Mercy in the wake of September 11 to create a Downtown cultural space that would raise local awareness about global issues; Mercy is a provider of international relief and development funding that earned a 2007 Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
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25Jan2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 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.”
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17Jan2008 | Meredith Taylor | 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 […]
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13Aug2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued-
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