All Posts Tagged With: "Robert A.M. Stern"
Related’s Time Warner Center Seeks -EB, Named 2008 BOMA Office Building of the Year
Back in late April, the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Building Owners and Managers Association named the Related Companies’ Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle its 2008 Office Building of the Year (for buildings larger than 1 million square feet). Related is currently seeking a LEED-EB rating for the 80-story, 2.8 million-square foot tower, which was completed back in 2004. In order to confer the award, BOMA ranked buildings on a scale of 1-80 based on categories that included environmental and energy management, emergency preparedness, and tenant relations.
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5Jun2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Green Depot Manhattan to Open at Bowery Landmark
Brooklyn-based green building materials and products supplier Green Depot announced yesterday that it will begin construction on a 3,000-square-foot Manhattan showroom at 222 Bowery, between Price and Spring Streets. Designed by architects Studio Mapos, the project should get underway on May 1 and will seek a LEED (presumably under Commercial Interiors) Gold or Platinum rating. The Queen Anne-style 222 Bowery was landmarked in 1998 and is currently a six-story loft co-op.
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24Apr2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
gbNYC Audiocast, Episode 5: Greening Ground Zero
Episode 5 of the gbNYC Audiocast reviews the ongoing redevelopment efforts at the former World Trade Center site in light of recent remarks from Larry Silverstein about construction progress at the site, as well as uncertainty over the future of KPF’s Beer Belly Building in the aftermath of JPMorgan Chase’s pending acquisition of the failing Bear Stearns. As you’ll recall, in addition to the Freedom Tower, a number of high-profile towers that will pursue LEED certification are currently under construction at the site, including 200, 175, and 150 Greenwich Street, designed by Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, and Fumihiko Maki, respectively. Episode 5 discusses each of these towers in detail, as well as the Robert A.M. Stern-designed Four Seasons Hotel which will rise at 99 Church Street.
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24Mar2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
CUNY’s 280 Buildings Get $110M Greener
The Baruch College newspaper The Ticker has a nice wrap-up this week of all the green initiatives going on at CUNY schools across the City. CUNY is New York’s largest university system, with 23 campuses and 280 buildings. Over the past ten years, CUNY has invested $110 million in upgrading its facilities to make them more eco-friendly. The science lab at Bronx Community College, for example, runs entirely off solar panels on its roof, and two more solar roofs are planned at LaGuardia Community College and Kingsborough Community College. CUNY’s first eco-friendly science building just opened at Lehman College and additional sustainable science buildings are planned for City College and Brooklyn College.
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20Mar2008 | Meredith Taylor | 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.
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1Feb2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 3 comments | Continued
CUNY Continues To Wave Its Green Flag
The City University of New York (”CUNY”) announced a budget request earlier this week for $77 million to build a new sustainable library on the campus of Bronx Community College (”BCC”). The North Instructional Building and Library, designed by Robert A.M. Stern, will be constructed for LEED Silver certification and is expected to be […]
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9Jan2008 | Meredith Taylor | 0 comments | Continued
List of Green Building “Firsts” Emphasizes Need for LEED V3
The June 2007 issue of Urban Land included a list of ten “green building firsts”, ranging from a LEED Certified police station in San Diego to a Gold convent (designed by Perkins Eastman) in Corapolis, Pennsylvania. As Charles Lockwood noted in the introduction to his piece, the diversity of projects- both by use and geographic […]
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25Jul2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: HB Nitkin Group’s Greenwich Armory
Robert A.M. Stern Architects appears to be on the verge of seeing its design for Greenwich, Connecticut’s first private LEED project break ground, a nine three-story luxury townhouse development at Mason Street and Havemeyer Place. The design contemplates the conversion of the former Greenwich Armory building as part of the development, which would include a […]
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23Jul2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued-
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