Even before this fall’s meltdown on Wall Street and the expected slowdown in new construction, many commentators were speculating that green retrofits would be the next frontier for sustainable buildings. Indeed, we’ve already seen a number of high-profile renovation projects announced here in the New York City area this year, including M1 Real Estate’s green makeover of the historic Argonaut Building. Up in the Bronx, Taconic and Denham Wolf are currently in the process of pursuing an unspecified level of LEED-CS certification for the landmarked American Bank Note Building in Hunts Point.
November 18th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Taconic Investment Partners"
Cook + Fox to Perform Green Makeover at “Disturbing” 375 Pearl Street
375 Pearl Street stands at the base of the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge and has been primarily a telephone switching center, most recently for Verizon, since it opened in 1975 to uniformly negative architectural reviews. (Paul Goldberger of the New York Times called the tower “disturbing.”) Earlier this week, renderings for a comprehensive, LEED-certified makeover of the 1.3 million-square-foot building, designed by Richard Cook of Cook + Fox, were unveiled. The $350 million rehab, which was reported by Steve Cuozzo of the New York Post yesterday, comes on the heels of Verizon’s $172 million sale of most of the building to Taconic Investment Partners (which actually purchased a condominium interest in the tower, as Verizon will retain the 8th through 10th floors). Cook’s design calls for the stripping of all exterior limestone off the tower and the installation of an efficient glass curtain wall.
May 14th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued