The shimmering profile of One Jackson Square – which wraps around an angular, eight-pointed lot where Eighth and Greenwich avenues meet in Manhattan – is really just what happens when a determined project team faces a daunting puzzle. Photo: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Related Links: Best of 2010 “Often, a project that has complex constraints or inputs results in a richer, more sophisticated output,” says David Penick, project officer for Hines, the developer of the $35 million, 35-unit luxury residential building that opened late last year. “[Architect Kohn Pedersen Fox’s] theme to unify the design of the building involved this
Situated on a 53-ft-by-53ft site at the foot of Madison Avenue, the 50-story, 155,000-sq-ft One Madison Park is one of the most slender buildings in Manhattan. Bringing this graceful structure to the New York skyline presented the team with a host of design and construction challenges. Photo Courtesy Of CetraRuddy Related Links: Best of 2010 The $140-million 620-ft-tall condominium tower is built on a poured-in-place concrete structure wrapped in a glass and aluminum hybrid curtainwall. The building includes several 4- to 6-story “pods,” which cantilever to the north and east of the building. Working on a 5,175-sq-ft footprint at the
In a dramatic illustration of the adaptive reuse of an existing facility, the $92 million Paramount Center represents the transformation of an aging movie house and the adjacent and abandoned Washington Street building into a vital mixed-use center of learning and life in the heart of Boston’s Theatre District. Photo Courtesy Of Ammann & Whitney Consulting Engineers Related Links: Best of 2010 “This theater was a Boston landmark, which had been closed for decades and was in such disrepair it was unrecognizable inside,” says Peggy Ings, associate vice president of government and community relations at Emerson College, owner of the
Considered an engineering marvel when built in 1889, the 1.2-mi Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge had burned and fallen into disrepair after 85 years of carrying commuter and freight traffic 200-ft above the Hudson River. Years passed before the nonprofit organization Walkway Over the Hudson stepped forward with plans to provide public access to the bridge in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., succeeding in transforming the structure into a New York State historic park in time for the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson sailing up the river that now bears his name. Photo Courtesy Of Mclaren Engineering Group Related Links: Best of 2010 “[The project]
The $4 million conversion of a former print shop and loading dock at Queensborough Community College into a new 8,000-sq-ft resource center, with 2,000 sq ft of new construction, was a straightforward job once the designs were in place. Aside from diverting a campus roadway six or seven feet, the custom steel storefront system’s most challenging aspect was perhaps the different types of glazing on the curtainwall and the non-standard grid pattern of the mullions. Photo Courtesy Of TEK Architects Related Links: Best of 2010 Collaboration on the new Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archive was key
The legendary Philip Johnson was behind the structures of the New York Pavilion for the 1964 Worlds Fair Exhibit in Queens, two of which have stood abandoned for forty years as the rest of the fair’s site turned into ruins. The third, the open-air cylindrical Theaterama, however, has been hosting up to 300 performances a year. When Caples Jefferson Architects were brought in to design a new home for Queens Theater-in-the-Park, to house offices and a cabaret for 90 people and a reception hall for 600, the team walked a fine line between paying tribute to Johnsons’ design and doing
By the time the $200 million Red Bull Arena opened in March in Harrison, N.J., the project had seen two owners, several financing plans, and multiple designs. But the 25,000-seat soccer stadium – capped by an undulating 360-degree cantilevered fabric roof – was still spot on goal, winning the Best of 2010 jury’s nod for sports project of the year. Photo Courtesy Of Rossetti Related Links: Best of 2010 Originally conceived seven years ago as a simpler $80 million facility, the new home of Major League Soccer’s Red Bull New York draws inspiration from a sister structure that its owner,
The new four-story Rego Center mall in Queens was launched in a boom market, and progressed through a recession, but it still opened up with a quintet of large anchors this year with Kohl’s, Century 21, Costco, Toys “R” Us, and TJ Maxx stores. The $410 million project, which blends an outdoor canopy-covered section with interior spaces, also added a Best of 2010 title of top retail project in the region. Photo Courtesy Of Bovis Lend Lease Related Links: Best of 2010 The 600,000-sq-ft complex on Junction Blvd. in Rego Park is on a 6.6-acre site that once housed a
Construction of a $16 million the Fire Department of New York Rescue Co. 3 headquarters in the Bronx created a 22,000-sq-ft home for one of the city’s oldest operating fire-rescue units. Photo Courtesy: LIRO Related Links: Best of 2010 “What makes this building unique is that it embodies the essential balance between functionality, such as equipment and fire trucks, and it is a comfortable home for firefighters to live while on duty,” says New York City Department of Design and Construction Deputy Commissioner David Resnick. Ennead, New York, designed the building as a modern interpretation of a traditional firehouse, acknowledging
The new 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park, which will stretch 1.3 miles along the borough’s East River edge, will be the largest park in Brooklyn in 150 years when it is finished.
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