Design Team Unveiled For SPARC Life Science And Public Health Innovation Hub In Kips Bay, Manhattan

Rendering of SPARC Kips Bay with Innovation East at right, looking south from Bellevue Hospital on First Avenue near 27th Street, via edc.nyc

The above renderings show three buildings largely clad in glass curtain walls. Their podium levels feature bronze-hued vertical fins and mullions and are shown topped with landscaped terraces. The western and central structure have monolithic massings and are connected by two skybridges. The building on the eastern end of the parcel features a more lively design with several series of stepped setbacks topped with landscaping, and bronze vertical elements that extend the full height of the structure.

Sketch of SPARC Kips Bay vision, by Ennead Architects and Dattner Architects

Sketch of SPARC Kips Bay vision, by Ennead Architects and Dattner Architects

Sketch of SPARC Kips Bay vision, by Ennead Architects and Dattner Architects

Ennead Architects and Dattner Architects will design the project’s 700,000-square-foot education building, which will house three integrated CUNY schools: Hunter College School of Nursing, CUNY Graduate School of Health & Health Policy, and Borough of Manhattan Community College, in addition to a new health and science career-focused public high school. Ennead Architects will lead the new building’s overall design, serving as design lead and the architect of record on filings. Dattner Architects will spearhead the design of the site and the NYC Public Schools/Department of Education elements of the project’s design.