All Posts Tagged With: "green building"
Seeking LEED Silver, 100 Park Avenue Bucks Market, Inks Anchor Tenant
SL Green’s 100 Park Avenue was the first of Park Avenue’s International Style high-rises. Located at the corner of East 40th Street, the modern glass and steel tower was completed in 1949 and replaced the Murray Hill Hotel, which dated from 1883 and whose residents put up a fierce battle against the new development. The building’s current owner, SL Green, is wrapping up an 18-month, $72 million capital improvement program that includes a LEED for Existing Buildings (”LEED-EB”) application aiming for a Silver rating from USGBC. The project includes upgraded building infrastructure, a new facade and windows, and a new lobby and elevators; BOMA named the tower its Best Renovated Building of the Year for 2007. Last week, accounting and consulting firm BDO Seidman signed a 121,441-square-foot lease across the tower’s 9th through 11th floors.
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11Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
ML: Helmut Jahn’s 50 West Street Breaks Ground in Pursuit of Gold (Video)
Time Equities broke ground in a ceremony back in June on 50 West Street, a 65-story, $600 million, 580,000-square-foot mixed use tower that will rise along Rector Street, just a few blocks south of the World Trade Center site. The New York-based developer anticipates LEED Gold certification for the project upon a 2011 completion date. The base of 50 West Street will include a 5-star hotel offering 155 units, as well as retail space, with 280 condominium units sitting above. Designed by Helmut Jahn, the project will include a variety of sustainable design features ranging from automated blinds to a green roof, efficient plumbing fixtures, and renewable and recycled-content construction materials specified by architects of record Gruzen Samton. 50 West will be Jahn’s first executed design here in New York City since the CitySpire back in 1987.
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11Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
JetBlue’s Terminal 5 at Kennedy Airport: Green But No LEED
Despite its green design features, JetBlue’s new $743 million Terminal 5 at Kennedy Airport will not be seeking a LEED rating. The project’s planning and design management firm Arup has deemed certification “not possible because of the airport’s existing energy infrastructure.” Architect Gensler’s design for T5 includes extensive daylighting and windows, and given JetBlue’s commitment at the corporate level to sustainability, it’s a bit curious that the project will not pursue certification from USGBC, though precise details about how JFK’s electrical grid precludes a LEED application are not available . T5 will give travelers the option of walking through Eero Saarinen’s TWA Terminal, a modernist landmark that has been incorporated into the T5 design program.
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7Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Century-Old 14 Wall Street Earns 2008 Energy Star Designation from EPA
Regardless of your perspective, it’s critical to keep in mind that the most sustainable of buildings is the existing building, particularly when retrofitted for energy efficiency improvements and other green enhancements. Capstone Equities and The Carlyle Group’s 14 Wall Street- which dates from 1912- recently earned a 2008 Energy Star award. The 37-story tower, which stands along Nassau Street between Wall and Pine, across from the New York Stock Exchange, was designed by Trowbridge & Livingston and was designated as a New York City landmark in 1997. There are now twenty commercial buildings in New York City that have received the Energy Star designation from EPA, including Cass Gilbert’s New York Life Insurance Building at 51 Madison Avenue.
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6Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Galapagos Art Space Opens Green Doors in Dumbo
The Galapagos Art Space- formerly of Williamsburg- opened last night at 16 Main Street in Brooklyn. The 10,000-square-foot performing arts space will no longer be hosting rock bands, but expect a mix of theater, cabaret, dance, orchestral music, and puppetry in the coming weeks. Galapagos includes a 1600-square-foot indoor lake that helps cool the space and a major design focus was recycled-content material; 90 percent of steel used in construciton was recycled while poured concrete includes 30 percent recycled material. The project is in the midst of pursuing an unspecified LEED rating; when conferred, it would be the first for any performing arts venue in New York City.
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Johnson Hall of Science: LEED Gold at St. Lawrence University
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based design firm KlingStubbins, in cooperation with Croxton Collaborative Architects, has achieved a LEED Gold rating from USGBC for the Johnson Hall of Science at St. Lawrence University; the project is the sixth for which KlingStubbins has earned LEED certification during 2008. The 122,000-square-f0ot building will house the biology and chemistry departments and is St. Lawrence’s first phase of a project which will also call for the construction of an additional 120,000 square feet. The school’s four existing science buildings will be renovated over the next three phases to create additional academic space for physics, math, geology, and computer science. Johnson Hall scored 41 LEED points, is oriented on a north/south axis, and is separated into two interconnected wings in order to provide maximum daylight to interior program spaces.
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5Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Green Space Abounds at Mount Hope Community Center in South Bronx
Designed by the Croxton Collaborative Architects, the Mount Hope Community Center in the South Bronx will offer a gymnasium, conference center, computer labs, classrooms and play areas at East 175th Street between Townsend and Walton Avenues when it opens sometime later this summer. The 4-story, 44,000-square-foot project will include a number of sustainable design features, though it does not appear that the project team is pursuing any third-party rating. Landscape contractor Plant Fantasies- a certified WBE (woman-owned business enterprise) is installing three levels of outdoor terrace space, including two green roofs, one of 3600 square feet, the other 900 square feet. The outdoor greenery was designed by Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, which specified drought-resistant soil and shrubbery.
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5Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
ML: Glass Tower Hall at SUNY Cortland Earns LEED Certified Rating
SUNY Cortland’s Glass Tower Hall dormitory building recently received LEED certification from USGBC. The $12.6 million project was completed back in August of 2005 and is the school’s newest residence hall, housing upper-class and transfer students.The 194-bed dorm includes a bicycle room that’s large enough to store a bike for every student, as well as charging stations for hybrid automobiles. Standard LEED features include efficient HVAC systems, windows, and insulation. The design team, which included Ashley McGraw Architects and Burt Hill Kosar Rittlement Associates, also specified a number of sustainable features for the project’s landscaping, including narrow sidewalks, efficient lighting, and native shrubbery.
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4Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Litchfield House: Zero Energy Saltbox in Connecticut
The saltbox is one of the country’s oldest home construction techniques and an excellent example of American colonial architecture. Dating from the 1600s across New England, the saltbox’s shed roof and single story would face north with little to no glass in an effort to deflect winter winds. The two-story side of the design faced south, using large windows to passively collect solar energy. The Litchfield House is an effort to implement the principles of the historical saltbox using modern green building techniques. Perhaps the biggest difference in the Litchfield House from a traditional saltbox is that the house’s large roof faces south instead of north, allowing a rooftop photovoltaic system to collect nearly 13,000 watts of solar power annually.
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3Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Green Harlem Brownstone, Battery Park City Primer, & Natural Gas v. Water
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of July 27, 2008, including an overview of Battery Park City’s green residential towers, the public opening of a LEED-hopeful, $4.6 million Harlem brownstone that features denim jean insulation, and concern over New York City’s water reserves given looser permitting requirements for natural gas drilling.
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Sales Tax Exemption Proposed for Garden State Green Building Products
New Jersey may soon be the first state in the U.S. to offer a sales tax exemption for certain green building products. Bill S-1778, introduced by state senator Bill Baroni (R- Mercer/Middlesex) would provide consumers with an exemption from New Jersey’s seven (7) percent sales tax for EnergyStar-rated residential appliances, including refrigerators, ceiling fans, and fluorescent light bulbs. Although other states- including Vermont- have offered similar temporary green product sales tax exemptions, the New Jersey legislation would be the first to go permanently on a state’s books. The program would be called “Buy Green, Save Green,” and the bill is also being sponsored by Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt, a Democrat from Camden.
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1Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Shoppers Will Soon Meet Their Other Face at LEED Gold 510 Madison Avenue
Although Apple recently backed off leasing office space at Macklowe Properties’ LEED Gold hopeful 510 Madison Avenue, the developer does have some fresh good news to share in advance of today’s planned topping off of the 350,000-square-foot, 30-story tower. Famed luxury watch purveryor Tourneau has inked a 3300-square-foot lease for retail space at the building’s East 53rd Street corner. Macklowe Chairman and CEO Billy Macklowe told the New York Post that the property should be ready for occupancy by the end of the year. Although Macklowe has only inked one office tenant to date (investment outfit Jay Goldman & Co.), Mr. Macklowe is confident that the tower will perform as planned. “I think all markets cycle,” he told the Post. “We’re still in the Plaza District, the premier business district in Manhattan.” The Post reports that the project’s shimmering glass curtain wall- already rising along Madison Avenue- is debuting to rave reviews from neighboring tenants. Asking rents for the retail space secured by Torneau were $600 per square foot.
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30Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
HSBC Close to Joining Silverstein at LEED Gold 7 World Trade Center
Last June, HSBC announced a five-year, $100 million partnership to address global climate change, agreeing to work with The Climate Group, Earthwatch Institute, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and the World Wildlife Fund in order to quantify the impact of climate change on the world’s cities, forests, and rivers through extensive field research. Yesterday, sources told GlobeSt.com that the bank is close to continuing its sustainable efforts by leasing 300,000 square feet across seven of the final ten floors available at Larry Silverstein’s LEED Gold 7 World Trade Center. Should the deal close, HSBC would likely sell its 500,000-square-foot headquarters tower at 452 Fifth Avenue in Midtown. Asking rents for the final ten floors at 7 WTC are hovering between $75 and $85 per square foot, and HSBC’s deal is rumored to be “at term sheet at the moment.”
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