All Posts Tagged With: "USGBC"
Upper West Side’s First Green Condo Complete on 72nd Street
We’ve written previously about the Harsen House; the 16-story, 22-unit project at 120 West 72nd Street broke ground in late 2006 and developer Anbau Enterprises sold the project out within a scant seven months. The building was designed by BKSK Architects (designers of the Queens Botanical Garden Visitor’s Center, which recently earned Gotham’s first LEED Platinum rating) with interiors by Andres Escobar. Green design elements include hot water radiant heat, FSC-certified oak floors, ducted kitchen hoods which ventilate air directly outdoors, and energy-efficient, floor to ceiling windows. Anbau recently announced that it has completed the 60,000-square-foot project after inking retail heavyweight Sleepy’s (The Mattress Professionals) to a long-term lease for the Harsen House’s 4000-square-foot ground-floor retail space.
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21Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
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
NBBJ Earns Manhattan’s Ninth LEED-CI Rating at 2 Rector Street
Global architecture firm NBBJ recently earned a LEED Silver rating from USGBC for its new New York City offices at 2 Rector Street downtown. The space is the ninth in Manhattan to cop a LEED for Commercial Interiors rating, and joins a number of other design professional spaces that have earned the designation. Three of NBBJ’s five U.S. offices have now earned LEED certification; the firm’s offices downtown occupy 15,917 square feet across the 25th floor of the 80-year-old building. The firm spent over five months reconfiguring its space, and signed a 10-year lease that takes advantage of a number of tax incentives offered to businesses relocating to Lower Manhattan. NBBJ principal Timothy Johnson said that the firm “had to solve the puzzle of taking an 80-year-old building with older infrastructure and making it sustainable.”
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18Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Newark’s Lincoln Coast Cultural District Set to Open New Jersey’s First Urban LEED Homes
The first mixed-use buildings in an urban location in the state of New Jersey to pursue a LEED rating are set to officially open next week in Newark. The Washington Street Townhomes, which are awaiting a formal LEED Gold rating from USGBC, will consist of six 3800-square-foot buildings, each featuring two residential units with commercial space on the first floor. The development is being spearheaded by the Lincoln Coast Cultural District, a community development corporation which is aiming to develop a comprehensive arts and cultural district in Newark’s Lincoln Park. The district will ultimately boast 11 LEED-certified buildings, as well as seek a LEED for Neighborhood Development (”LEED-ND”) rating.
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17Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Credit Markets, Lack of Tenants May Trim Vornado’s LEED Silver Harlem Tower
Just before Bon Jovi opened up Saturday night’s All-Star Concert in Central Park, a Major League Baseball rep encouraged the crowd to “tune in” to the new MLB Network once it launches in 2009. Late last week, though, a report surfaced that Vornado, which will develop the $435 million, 21-story Swanke Hayden Connell-designed LEED Silver Harlem Tower at the corner of 125th Street and Park Avenue that’s meant to house the new network, is planning on cutting the building’s size by close to a third due to its inability to secure financing for the project. Vornado has also had difficulty securing any tenants in addition to MLB; the developer had been negotiating with Midtown-based Inner City Broadcasting, the country’s second-largest radio company that targets African-American listeners, but has yet to officially secure a lease with the broadcaster, while a rumored retail lease with Macy’s never materialized either.
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14Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
ML: Gold Weeksville Heritage Center by Caples Jefferson Breaks Ground in Bed-Stuy
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Pamela Green, executive director of the Weeksville Heritage Society, along with other Brooklyn and city leaders, broke ground in a ceremony last Wednesday on a new 19,000-square-foot educational and cultural center at 1698 Bergen Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The $19.5 million Weeksville Heritage Center, designed by architects Caples Jefferson, will seek a LEED Gold rating from USGBC. Weeksville- now known as Bedford-Stuyvesant- was an African-American community that began in Brooklyn in 1838 as a refuge for slaves fleeing the South.
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14Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Alterations to Times Tower, More Bike Shares, & Southampton Green Building Code
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of July 6, 2008, including alterations to the Times Tower in light of yet another climber, with which Renzo Piano is “okay,” the potential for an increased number of local, European-style bike share programs, groundbreaking at Serviam Gardens in the Bronx, and a push towards green building codes in Southampton on Long Island.
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13Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Green Hotel From Peter Moore Associates Set for Bowery
A new 63-room boutique hotel is slated for construction between Houston and Prince Streets across from the New Museum of Contemporary Art at 250 Bowery. The tower is tentatively scheduled to open in early 2009 after renderings were revealed close to three years ago. Designed and developed by Peter Moore Associates, the hotel will feature a number of green design elements ranging from a green roof and geothermal heating and cooling system to efficient plumbing systems and various renewable and recycled construction materials. The project is expected to seek a LEED Platinum rating. The Bowery hotel would join another planned green downtown boutique- the stalled Greenhouse 26, designed by Arpad Baksa.
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10Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Law Firm Purchases Manhattan’s “Original” Green Building for $70M
700 Broadway calls itself New York City’s “original” green building; the 10-story, 100,000-square-foot tower dates from 1891 and is the former home of the National Audubon Society, which purchased the building in 1989 while it was abandoned during a much seedier era in the Village. The organization sold the building in 2006 to the Lincoln Property Company for $53 million and (as we wrote about recently) moved earlier this year to the seventh floor of 225 Varick Street. The Audubon Society has outfitted that space with a number of green design features in pursuit of a LEED-CI Platinum rating from USGBC. Oddly enough, a local plaintiffs’ law firm that has likely made millions prosecuting claims arising out of exposure to decidedly non-green building materials such as asbestos and lead paint has purchased 770 Broadway for $70 million.
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8Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | Continued
Time Warner Center Cops National Building of the Year Honors
Related’s Time Warner Center, which won BOMA’s regional competition for commercial office buildings greater than 1 million square feet back in the spring, has been named The Office Building of the Year (”TOBY”) for 2008-2009 by the Building Owners and Managers Association International in the 1 million-square-foot or greater category. The tower earned the honor at BOMA’s annual conference a couple of weeks ago in Denver and joins 13 other awardees in a number of building types. The international honor comes after the Time Warner Center won at both the local and regional level.
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7Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
ML: Skanska USA to Seek Empire State Building’s First Platinum Rating
Skanska USA, the U.S. division of Swedish construction giant Skanska AB, is retrofitting the 32nd floor of the Empire State Building in pursuit of a LEED for Commercial Interiors Platinum rating from USGBC. Ranked by Engineering News-Record as America’s number 1 green contractor for 2007, Skanska USA’s area general manager Steve Pressler explained the firm’s philosophy behind the move in a press release, noting that Skanska’s “push for Platinum LEED certification not only aligns with our core business philosophies, but demonstrates to our current and existing clients our commitment to the green movement.” The construction giant signed a deal for a 15-year lease on the tower’s 32nd floor and will take 24,400 square feet upon moving from its current headquarters at 136 Madison Avenue.
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7Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Brooklyn (Green) Building Awards, No Green at Xanadu, Long Island’s Biggest Green Building, & 14 Floors Empty at 7 WTC
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of June 29, 2008, including a number of green buildings earning spots on the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce’s 8th annual Building Brooklyn Awards, bad news at Ground Zero on a number of fronts, missing green features at the $2 billion Xanadu project in the New Jersey Meadowlands, and the unveiling of what will soon be Long Island’s largest green building.
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5Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
New York City’s First Green Billboard Set for Times Square
Times Square is about to receive New York City’s first green-powered electronic billboard. Tokyo-based Ricoh Company, Ltd. will install a 47 by 126 foot sign on the Reuters Building (3 Times Square, at the northwestern corner of 42nd Street and 7th Avenue) that will draw power from 45 solar panels and 4 wind turbines. In what should be an interesting twist, if the photovoltaics do not receive sufficient sunlight or winds are not strong enough to drive the turbines, the sign will simply not illuminate. According to Ricoh, the installation should account for a reduction of 18 tons in carbon dioxide per year.
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3Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued-
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