With its atypical floor plates, many cantilevered floors and irregular balcony spacing and locations, 56 Leonard has been dubbed the Jenga building, since it resembles the children’s tower block game.
Seeking to provide education, recreation and training services to residents of Newark, the city’s housing authority wanted a facility where people could gather, exercise and boost skills in a rapidly transforming digital-based economy.
The 650,000-sq-ft Bristol-Myers Squibb Princeton Pike project sought to achieve LEED Gold certification by putting in place several unique design solutions that include a central ice storage plant, a supply air grid that allows for the lowest horsepower fan operation for each of its four buildings, charging stations, a roof-mounted photovoltaic array system, a daylight harvesting control system for LED light fixtures and groundwater collection for the cooling tower.
The retaining wall along Union Turnpike was reconstructed through the portion of the road adjacent to Grand Central Parkway and Jackie Robinson Parkway between Austin Street and 126th Street.
The Ford Amphitheater and Seaside Park Community Arts Center project on the historic Coney Island boardwalk brings a unique addition to New York City’s cultural and historical sites, says the submitter.
The reconfiguration of the existing antenna spire at the top of the Empire State Building improved service for various broadcast FM radio stations in the building that reach more than 16.4 million radio listeners throughout the tristate area.
The Wavertree historic vessel is a rare example of a 19th-century British three-mast full-rigged ship and one of the few remaining riveted wrought-iron vessels in the world.