All Posts Tagged With: "sustainable design"
ML: Princeton’s Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding
Boston-based Anna Beha Architects (”ABA”) has designed a renovation and expansion of Princeton University’s Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, whose building dates from 1901 and was formerly one of the school’s eating clubs. The project recently broke ground and contemplates a 5080-square-foot addition to the original, Italianate-style base building, which will house 18,8000 square feet of programming, office, and classroom space. The architect’s challenge was to reclaim the building’s original design, which it discovered through researching the university’s archives had been buried by a series of poorly executed previous renvovations. ABA was charged with creating useable outdoor space, as well as visible entry points into the structure.
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18Aug2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | 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
Intervale Green: Affordable, Sustainable, & Wired in the Bronx
Intervale Green is a $45 million, 127-unit affordable housing development under construction in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. Project sponsor WHEDC teamed with energy consultant Steven Winter Associates to reduce the building’s expected energy costs by 35 percent through numerous sustainable design elements, including the installation of EnergyStar appliances and light fixtures. Other green design features include two different green roofs, low-e windows, and non-toxic paints and sealants- important because the Morrisania neighborhood holds the unfortunate distinction of the highest asthma rate in the Bronx
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2Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Green Meets Prefab in Midtown: MoMA Reveals Designers for Interactive Prefab Home Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art announced yesterday that it has commissioned five architects to build prefabricated homes in the parking lot adjacent to the museum where Jean Nouvel’s ambitiously sustainable 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 […]
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9Jan2008 | 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 […]
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24Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Streetscape Improvement Project Seeks to Energize, Green Downtown Newark (NJ)
The Newark Downtown District Streetscape Improvement Project is a $17.5 million effort to upgrade 56 blocks of downtown Newark, New Jersey. The project broke ground back in June and includes three distinct phases over the course of the next three years. The first phase, which wrapped up back in October, included areas adjacent to the new […]
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21Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
The Top 5 Green A/E/C Firms (by Number, Percentage of LEED-APs)
Coordination. Integration. Beyond the bells and whistles of sexy, but expensive, green design features such as green roofs or geothermal heating and cooling systems, sustainable construction is about a truly collaborative effort between owners, designers, and contractors. While the former are certainly more likely to earn a project on the local paper’s front page, educated […]
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18Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: SUNY-Binghamton’s Cascade & Windham Dormitories, Vestal, NY
Last week, the Cascade and Windham residential buildings at SUNY-Binghamton’s Mountainview College (top and bottom in the image, respectively) each officially received a LEED Certified rating from USGBC. The two four-story, 70,000-square-foot dorms cost $23 million to build and are the 19th and 20th in the USGBC’s Upstate New York Chapter area to earn LEED […]
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10Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Monday LEEDoff: 20 Times Square at Port Authority Bus Terminal- Gold Core and Shell
In a major turnaround from its seedy Fun City days, Eighth Avenue has made a major case that it’s Manhattan’s greenest thoroughfare. Though the strip has retained much of the gritty flavor that makes it a favorite among tourists and unwitting theatergoers, new green towers from the New York Times and Hearst, plus the speculative […]
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3Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | 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
1347 Bristow Street in the Bronx: LEED Silver for $5/sf Premium
In a letter to the editor that appeared in this week’s edition of Crain’s, Richard M. Cherry, President of the Community Environmental Center (“CEC”), described his organization’s experience at 1347 Bristow Street in order to make a general point about green building cost premiums. The $3.7 million project, a twenty-five unit apartment building in the […]
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16Nov2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued-
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