All Posts Tagged With: "LEED Platinum"
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.
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.
19Mar2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
Green Building in Crisis? Bear Stearns Meltdown May Drown Beer Belly Building
Late yesterday, Crain’s reported that JPMorgan Chase will move its investment banking operations into the former offices of Bear Stearns on Madison Avenue at 47th Street in Midtown, which JPMorgan purchased on Monday in the aftermath of Bear’s meltdown last week. The decision places the proposed LEED Platinum Beer Belly Building project at 5 World Trade Center in jeopardy- if not completely shelving it- though according to a spokesman the bank is still considering its options in connection with the site. Crain’s also reports that JPMorgan will continue negotiating with the Port Authority about building at 5 WTC, but the same spokesman “couldn’t say what might be built . . . or when a decision would be reached.”
18Mar2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
Progress Towards Platinum: Update on Mark Helder’s 439 Metropolitan Avenue
Next Monday, March 10, Brooklyn Independent Television will air an episode of Brooklyn Review featuring the Reclaimed Home blog’s interview with architect Mark Helder, whose 439 Metropolitan Avenue project in Williamsburg is aiming for Gotham’s first mixed-use LEED Platinum rating. The segment will be part of the news magazine program’s A Walk Around the Blog series, which profiles different Brooklyn bloggers. We presented Mr. Helder’s project a few weeks ago here at gbNYC in relatively little detail, noting that it will house his architecture studio, two duplex condominium residences, a ground-floor art gallery, and feature passive solar design, radiant flooring, photovoltaics, and indoor air quality reaching HEPA standards.
6Mar2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
KPF on the Move to Tishman Speyer’s 11 West 42nd Street
Kohn Pederson Fox, architects of the future LEED Platinum Beer Belly Building headquarters of JPMorganChase at the World Trade Center site, as well as LEED Gold-certified Court Square Two in Long Island City, is moving its offices from 111 West 57th Street south to Tishman Speyer’s 11 West 42nd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues. The firm has inked a long-term deal for 65,000 square feet across the tower’s 8th, 9th, and 18th floors, where asking rents were in the neighborhood of $67 per square foot. The 32-story building, which was originally called the Salmon Tower, was built back in 1927 and originally designed by architects York & Sawyer.
5Mar2008 | 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.
4Feb2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Ithaca Opens Platinum Doors on $18M Business School by Robert A.M. Stern
Last Tuesday, Ithaca College unveiled its new 38,000-square-foot, $18 million School of Business building, designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects. The project is aiming for a LEED Platinum rating and will include a Center for Sustainable Management to incorporate green business principles into Ithaca’s MBA program. The project team, which also included Gilbane Building Co., used a computer model to passively design the structure according to solar movement. The project also features a green roof, graywater system, and locally-sourced construction materials.
1Feb2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 3 comments | Continued
439 Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg: New York City’s First LEED Platinum Mixed-Use Development?
Helder Design announced today that it will seek Gotham’s first LEED Platinum rating for a mixed-used project at 439 Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The development broke ground back in August and should wrap up sometime this summer. It will house Helder’s architecture studio, as well as two duplex condominium residences and a ground-floor art gallery. Designed by Netherlands native Mark Helder, who moved his firm to New York back in 2002, the south-facing green building will feature passive solar design, radiant flooring, photovoltaics, and efficient ventilation and insulation systems.
29Jan2008 | 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.
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.”
17Jan2008 | Meredith Taylor | 0 comments | Continued
Deutsche Bank Demo to Resume; JPMorgan Still Hopes for Platinum Beer Belly Building to Rise at 5 WTC by September
On Tuesday, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (“LMDC”) announced that it reached an agreement with its construction manager, Bovis Lend Lease, to hire a new subcontractor that will complete demolition efforts at the former Deutsche Bank Building on 130 Liberty Street. Work at the site has stalled for close to five months now in the [...]
10Jan2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Greensburg, Kansas to Rebuild Public Buildings at LEED Platinum in Aftermath of May Tornado
Last May, the city of Greensburg, Kansas was devastated by a tornado that killed ten people and injured over fifty of its 1,400 residents- as you can see from the image, the level of destruction was almost incomprehensible. Back on December 17, though, the city passed a resolution to rebuild its public buildings greater than [...]
3Jan2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: Gale International/U-Life Northeast Asia Headquarters, Incheon, South Korea
HOK’s New York office recently released its design for a five-story, 55,000-square-foot commercial office building in the Songdo International Business District (“IBD”) in Incheon, South Korea (online renderings of the tower do not appear available yet). Developed by Gale International in collaboration with POSCO E&C, the Gale International/U-Life Northeast Asia Headquarters Building will aim for [...]
24Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued-
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