This story originally appeared on ENRNewYork.com. Four teams have been selected to compete for a $2.4-billion project to design, build, finance, operate, and maintain the LaGuardia Airport Central Terminal Building (CBT), says a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) spokesman. PANYNJ will conduct $1.2 billion in infrastructure upgrades in addition to the project, he says. The four teams—which include architecture firms Gensler and Kohn Pedersen Fox, contractors, equity members, and other key firms—were selected out of 16 that responded to the authority's RFQs last October:Aerostar New York Holdings LLC, New York, which includes Fentress Architects, and a
Image courtesy NYU The New York City Planning Commission has approved a modified version of NYU’s Washington Square expansion plan. Related Links: Experts Debate NYU’s Controversial Expansion The New York City Planning Commission has approved a modified version of New York University’s Washington Square expansion plan. The university’s 2031 Core Campus plan, which was approved on June 6, calls for four new buildings and about 4 acres of public parks and publicly accessible open spaces. Public hearings and a city council vote on the plan are expected this summer. Stringer The modified plan includes reductions in the heights of the
New York City’s adoption of new green building codes are expected to result in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 5% and saving $400 million by 2030, says a recently released report from the Urban Green Council, the U.S. Green Building Council’s New York chapter. The codes are also expected to divert 100,000 tons of asphalt from landfills each year; reduce greenhouse gas emissions citywide by 5%; and lower the costs of lighting energy by 10%. The city has so far enacted 29 of 111 recommendations made by a task force established two years ago to detail steps the city should
Click on the slide show button to view additional images. Area architects may not have had to claw their way in but they recently put their design and engineering skills to the test on an animal-rescue mission to design warm, weatherproof, portable and safe shelters for New York City’s stray cats. The designers volunteered their time and resources to design and build the shelters for the second annual Architects for Animals competition, part of the non-profit Mayor’s Alliance for New York City’s Animals. There are more than 10,000 stray cats in New York City, says Co Adaptive Architecture, a Brooklyn-based
Cornell University and its partner, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, have won New York City's competition to build a $2-billion-plus applied sciences campus on Roosevelt Island, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced December 19. The partnership team beat out seven other bidders for the mayor's Applied Sciences NYC initiative, launched last winter, which aims to build or expand a state-of-the-art engineering and applied sciences campus in the city. Rendering Courtesy of Cornell University The announcement follows Cornell’s news last week of a $350-million donation made to support the project. Cornell did not initially release the source of the donation, however, it recently confirmed
The 40-year-old Delancey and Essex Municipal Parking Garage in downtown Manhattan will receive a new cable fa'ade, under a recently announced $4-million NYC Department of Transportation renovation project. Photo courtesy Micheielli + Wyetzner Architects The renovated garage will include a 17-ft supergraphic. A construction manager for the work has not yet been chosen, and the project will go out to bid in September, says a spokesperson for New York-based Michielli + Wyetzner Architects, which designed the façade for the five-story concrete structure. Construction is expected to begin by early 2012 with completion anticipated by the end of 2012. The design
A final design has been completed for the $150 million New Brunswick Gateway Transit Village, a 632,000-sq-ft mixed-use building located at the intersection of Somerset Street and Easton Avenue in downtown New Brunswick, New Jersey. It will link the campus of Rutgers University, as well as the larger community, to the local train station. Rendering courtesy of Meltzer/Mandl Architects, PC Meltzer/Mandl Architects of New York designed the transit village and completed the final documents for construction on the project, which first broke ground in January 2010. The development team includes New Brunswick Development Corporation and Pennrose Properties. Gateway Transit Village
The entry deadline is fast approaching for an international competition to design a Holocaust Memorial for the Atlantic City Boardwalk in New Jersey. Photo courtesy Wikipedia Atlantic City plans to build a Holocaust Memorial The final registration deadline is March 15, 2010. First-stage submissions are due on April 1, 2010. Jurors include architects Wendy Evans Joseph who helped design the U.S Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.; former Pritzker Prize winner Richard Meier; and Daniel Liebeskind, who designed the master plan for the World Trade Center site. The competition is being sponsored by the Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial Corporation, a