Originally opened in 1939 as a four-lane span, the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge has expanded over the years to accommodate the roughly 200,000 vehicles that cross over it daily.
The first of more than 20 special pre-K to 12-grade schools planned worldwide, the $51.9-million Avenues: The World School in Manhattan was adapted from an old, historic warehouse.
With a commercial hydroponic farm on its roof, the eight-story, 120,000-sq-ft Arbor House in the South Bronx is not a traditional New York City affordable-housing structure.
This $17.7-million project renovated and expanded New London Hall, the oldest building on the Connecticut College campus, creating a new graduate-level science facility with collaborative space for teaching and research.
One-quarter-inch-thick perforated aluminum screens with a 70% Kynar gold metallic coating line the interior of the 150-ft atrium of New York University's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library.
Helping to remedy space constraints, the 38,000-sq-ft expansion last year of the Alternative School for Math & Science in Corning, N.Y., was the first in the school's history.