Anbau Properties and BKSK Architects have teamed up for another luxury green condominium project, this time at 124 West 23rd Street in Chelsea. As you’ll recall, BKSK designed the Upper West Side’s Harsen House (see image) for Anbau, whose 22 units sold out in just seven months and is awaiting formal LEED certification from USGBC. Despite the horrific lending climate, Bank of New York Mellon recently provided Anbau with an acquisition and construction loan for the project. The 16-story tower will offer 34 residences and 4000 square feet of ground floor retail. BKSK will implement similar green features at 124 West 23rd Street as Harsen House, and Anbau will seek an unspecified level of LEED certification for the project. Anbau paid $19 million for the project’s 55,000-square-foot footprint.
October 3rd, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "BKSK Architects"
Upper West Side’s First Green Condo Complete on 72nd Street
We’ve written previously about the Harsen House; the 16-story, 22-unit project at 120 West 72nd Street broke ground in late 2006 and developer Anbau Enterprises sold the project out within a scant seven months. The building was designed by BKSK Architects (designers of the Queens Botanical Garden Visitor’s Center, which recently earned Gotham’s first LEED Platinum rating) with interiors by Andres Escobar. Green design elements include hot water radiant heat, FSC-certified oak floors, ducted kitchen hoods which ventilate air directly outdoors, and energy-efficient, floor to ceiling windows. Anbau recently announced that it has completed the 60,000-square-foot project after inking retail heavyweight Sleepy’s (The Mattress Professionals) to a long-term lease for the Harsen House’s 4000-square-foot ground-floor retail space.
July 21st, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
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.
June 19th, 2008 | 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.
April 22nd, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Video: PlentyTV at Queens Botanical Garden
Tobin Hack and PlentyTV visit the Queens Botanical Garden in this video, which has some great clips of last month’s ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Garden’s Visitor & Administration Center, which will be the first building in New York City to earn a LEED Platinum rating from USGBC. In addition to the exterior shots of the [...]
October 22nd, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
gbNYC Previews BKSK’s Platinum Visitor Center at Queens Botanical Garden
A few weeks ago, I had the unique opportunity to tour the Queens Botanical Garden’s new Visitor & Administration Center, which hopes to earn New York City’s first LEED Platinum rating from USGBC. (It’s currently on track for 53 of the 69 possible LEED points; 52 are required for a Platinum rating). I’d written about [...]
July 17th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued