The Woolworth Building, an iconic tower that was the world’s tallest in 1913, has been transformed into a mixed-use skyscraper—though it still has its Cass Gilbert-designed neo-Gothic facade, soaring arches and gargoyles.
The historic Pershing Barracks at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., built in 1895, needed a major rehabilitation to serve its next residents—270 cadets and six officers across 135 rooms.
The distinctive 62-story ARO—a curving tower wrapped in glass and interlocking composite metal panels—added dramatic flair to Manhattan’s theater district when Algin Management opened the 426-unit residential property.
The 300-room citizenM New York Bowery Hotel in Manhattan took a momentous detour from its original cast-in-place concrete design—switching to a module system and resulting in the country’s tallest modular hotel.
Building the nonprofit Fisher House Foundation’s two 16-bedroom houses—where military and veterans’ families can stay free of charge while a loved one is receiving care at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the Bronx—was no typical homebuilding effort.
After a Schenectady, N.Y., factory that produced enamels, varnishes and other resins for more than 80 years—and had a history of chemical spills—finally closed in 1997, New York’s environmental authorities designated the property a state Superfund site for both groundwater and soil contamination.
A $60-million expansion and modernization effort has transformed the Elmira-Corning Regional Airport terminal from an outdated, crowded facility where airlines couldn’t grow their operations into a state-of-the-art hub—all without disrupting regular operations.
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