All Posts Tagged With: "MoMA"
Green Hotel in Brooklyn, Acclaim for MoMA’s Home Delivery, Merrill Out at Ground Zero, & Top 50 Blogs for Architecture Majors
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of July 13, 2008, including Brooklyn’s first green boutique hotel, the Nu Hotel, a review of MoMA’s much-anticipated Home Delivery exhibition of prefabricated houses, Merrill Lynch’s decision to stay put at the World Financial Center, and a decision from the ESDC on Columbia’s LEED-ND Manhattanville expansion plans.
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20Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Home Delivery & BURST*: MoMA Launches Online Journal for Prefab Exhibition
MoMA, as you’ll recall, has commissioned five architects to build prefabricated homes in the parking lot adjacent to the museum where 2008 Pritzker Prize winner Jean Nouvel’s 53 West 53rd Street tower will eventually rise. Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling will open up on July 20 and feature residences designed by KieranTimberlake Associates, Lawrence Sass of MIT, Douglas Gauthier and Jeremy Edmiston, Oskar Leo Kaufmann and Albert Ruf, and Richard Horden. The museum recently launched a blog that details each team’s progress in creating and assembling its respective homes for the exhibition; the first dwelling will arrive at the site for assembly on May 22.
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2Apr2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Modular Homes’ LEED-Certified Model Home to Debut in Robbinsville, NJ
Modular Homes, Inc. (“MHI”) is an Edison, New Jersey-based custom modular home builder that will break ground in April on what it hopes will be a LEED-certified model home in Robbinsville, New Jersey. MHI homes are built from wood and individual modules are delivered with maximum dimensions of 16’ wide x 75’ long x 14’ high. Homes arrive on site with all finishes, as well as doors, cabinets, appliances, and lights, installed. Modular construction is obviously much more environment-friendly than traditional construction, as individual components are prefabricated off-site.
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12Mar2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
53 West 53rd Street: Jean Nouvel Tower Set to Rise Above MoMA
Jean Nouvel’s design for a new seventy-five story tower at 53 West 53rd Street, adjacent to the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, was unveiled late last week. Hines, which will develop the property, purchased the 17,000-square-foot site from MoMA for $125 million earlier this year. Construction won’t get underway until sometime in 2009, but […]
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19Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued-
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