Hunter’s Point, a 30-acre parcel of former industrial land located along the eastern shore of the East River in Long Island City, Queens, has long been under redevelopment.
To handle the massive scale of this $1-billion, 3.8-million-sq-ft mixed-use project, the multinational and multifirm construction teams split the project into two phases designed and built concurrently.
Completed in April in New York City, this 12-story condominium building stands out with its curvaceous metal exoskeleton—fabricated in Italy—in a design that incorporates architecture, art and technology.
The 10-month fast-track project constructed on a South Pacific island country with scarce resources was completed two months before the 2017 Pacific Mini Games in Vanuatu.
Expansion of this coatings plant in Shanghai province—an investment that chemical maker BASF estimated at $163.7 million in a 2017 announcement—delivered to the German owner and its local partner a facility that includes new production lines, a solvent recovery unit and other infrastructure.
The project team built Lebanon’s first flight simulator training center, part of the Middle East Aviation Academy, near Beirut’s International Airport.