Updated renderings have been revealed for the New York Climate Exchange, an environmental research facility and climate solutions center planned for Governors Island in New York Harbor. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in collaboration with MNLA, Buro Happold, and Langan Engineering, the $700 million project will consist of a 400,000-square-foot research and education hub anchored by Stony Brook University. The complex’s two all-electric buildings will be connected by a distinctive photovoltaic canopy and will use sustainable mass timber as their primary structural material. The development site is generally bound by Craig Road South along the waterfront, the Oval green lawn and West Way to the west, and several historical landmark buildings to the north above Division Road.
The main aerial rendering above depicts the complex and its eye-catching curvilinear solar canopy. The buildings will both be enclosed in large expanses of glass, allowing for ample natural lighting. Below is a closer perspective of the campus offering a better glimpse at the surrounding greenery and exterior elements of the new buildings.
Rendering courtesy of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
The New York Climate Exchange will feature classrooms, exhibition spaces, greenhouses, mitigation technologies, and workforce development opportunities with over 6,000 green job trainees annually. The institution will offer academic and community programs including a “semester abroad” on Governors Island, as well as fellowship and internship programs.
The structures will utilize solar and geothermal systems that will largely be produced on site, and each building will be elevated by eight feet to better protect from sea level rise and storm surges.
The project will also introduce approximately five acres of open green space, and will restore the existing Liggett Hall with new student dormitories and faculty housing seen below.
Rendering courtesy of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
The Simons Foundation, alongside Simons Foundation International, pledged a combined total of $100 million as matching gift support to the project in April 2023. Bloomberg Philanthropies has also announced a $50 million contribution.
The project site currently serves as the operations center for the Billion Oyster Project’s shell collection station, and the Governors Island Teaching Garden.
Final design work for The New York Climate Exchange is expected to be wrap up early next year, followed by groundbreaking in fall 2026. The facility is planned to open in the fall of 2029.
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It is good to see this project in spite of the horribly misguided mistakes made by climate deniers currently in office. New York is now taking the correct action. I hope others follow.
“horribly misguided mistakes made by climate deniers currently in office” ???? Don’t know about that.
You believe the liar in chief and his cult members it seems and not scientists who know about what is happening to the planet we live on. Just like what the cigarette companies once said. “More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette!”
Who is paying for this facility?
From the NY Climate Exchange website:
“New construction, renovation, and operational costs for The Exchange are expected to be $700 million. About $150 million in funding will come from previously allocated city capital funding. Another $100 million will be donated by the Simons Foundation. Bloomberg Philanthropies has committed to an additional $50 million toward the project. The Exchange and its partners will raise another ~$400 million and cover operational costs of The Exchange. There will be no additional cost to New Yorkers.”
I was thinking the same thing, who is financing this. I hope not the city.
I wish they would seek funding to restore the houses on officer’s row.
What in the hell purpose does this $700 million construction project serve? 700 million dollars. That’s a million dollars. But then count from one to 700. That’s how many millions of dollars. All that counting you’ve just done is the price tag of this terrific waste of money that no one (except bureaucrats who don’t want to be there) will want to use! What, is it supposed to be some shrine to celebrate our ridiculous efforts at reducing greenhouse emissions? Architecturally, it’s forgettable, but that’s too assess from just a couple models.
You guys, people are reluctant to bankroll a supertall skyscraper in Manhattan that will be among the tallest in the world and certainly the most advanced because of uncertainty in office leases, but then they greenlight this thing which is guaranteed to be underutilized! We could have had something like the supertall that the United States can be proud of and that will impress the tourists and make our skyline look terrific and modern, but instead we get something that will go on unused the day it opens…
Wait I count from 1 to 700 to get to 700? This is the dopiest goofball post ive read in awhile. We are all lucky your input is contained to this forum and has zero gravity in the real world
With huge new offshore wind farms now canceled, this whole project seems almost quaint.
Why is it called Governors Island ?
Google can be your friend:
The Native Lenape refer to the island as Paggank,Pagganck,or Pagganack. All of these names literally translate to “Nut Island”, likely in reference to the many chestnut, hickory, and oak trees on the island. The Dutch explorer Adriaen Block called it Noten Eylandt, a translation, and this was Anglicized into Nutten Island, a name that continued to be used until the late 18th century. The name “Governor’s Island”, with an apostrophe, stems from the British colonial era, when the colonial assembly reserved the island for the exclusive use of New York’s royal governors. The current name without an apostrophe was made official in 1784
Will this be flooded as sea level rises? Or when the next Sandy hurricane visits?
Interesting. I think that it’s great. Looks like someplace far, far from the city. That’s a good retreat.
I hope they have a sound design for flood mitigation and the solar canopy has internal drainage and/or snow slide protection, because New England..
please— for construction use NO TIMBER….stell… concrete… carbon fiber… bricks…
Timber has a much lower carbon footprint than dirty concrete, steel and bricks.
Lol ! Climate Change / Global Warming is FAKE ! Carbon is an integral part of photosynthesis. Only gullible uninformed people believe such absurd nonsense as CC/GW. See the proof at cvhoax dot com
Forgive him he watches Fox Nooz and is a Cult member. LOL. Unfortunately he is not looking out the window much these days. Sea level rise…That only occurs on Mars. Flooding…only in the bible Wildfires…only if you make movies. In one lifetime temperatures have risen visibly and continue to rise. Foolish people want to deny this. You cannot fool mother nature.
Left hysteria.
It has nothing to do with “left hysteria”. It’s about the pursuit of science and understanding how the world works, and then how our actions have an effect on those multitudes of processes that govern nature on this planet. Which thus govern this planet’s habitability.
Go look at nearly every other country in the world. The US is singularly unique in its mischaracterization of climate science at such a large scale. You are an example of this.
2024 was the hottest year on our instrumental record, and 2023 was the hottest before that. We have clear evidence that the global temperature is increasing at .2C or more per decade. You and the original denialist want to push that number higher, essentially committing millions of people to suffering. It’s reprehensible.
Seth, I feel sorry (not really) for how much the orange man has brainwashed you to believe he cares about you and the people that voted for him. It’s clear who you voted for in the last election and how little you praise science & real world observations beyond the Fox News freak show
This is not a political topic.
DGold, tell that to Seth then. He’s the one that started all this and you fed the fire with your bllsh*t rambling
Saying it’s not a political topic after trying to bash every person that called you out on your “left hysteria” and climate change denial is pure hypocrisy & mental instability at its finest.
Well…
There goes the pace and quiet of Gov. Island!!!
That island was given to the people of NYC.
Soon there will be so many developments there that the island will be closed of to the general public.
Mark my words!!
Really sad!!
Do you not realize how many annual events happen on governors island in a year? Their jazz age lawn party, 5k and 10k marathons, ice sculpture contests, food, music & poetry festivals just to name a few.
“That island was given to the people of NYC.” I mean duhhh why else would they host these public events there in the first place if it wasn’t meant for us New Yorkers (and tourists are welcome too) to visit.
Another expensive cathedral to the religion of global warming. Time for the taxpayers to stop subsidizing this cult.
From the NY Climate Exchange website:
“New construction, renovation, and operational costs for The Exchange are expected to be $700 million. About $150 million in funding will come from previously allocated city capital funding. Another $100 million will be donated by the Simons Foundation. Bloomberg Philanthropies has committed to an additional $50 million toward the project. The Exchange and its partners will raise another ~$400 million and cover operational costs of The Exchange. There will be no additional cost to New Yorkers.”
I hope you and the other climate deniers that voted for the Oompa Loompa’s Small Dick Energy freak show in charge of America right now suffer the most from his destructive policies and Mother Nature
Typical name-calling from the left. ALWAYS from them. Always.
Sure DGold, you go ahead and think republicans uphold the best values and rights for every American. And I’m sure Nancy Mace only said “tranny, tranny, tranny,” last year against Sarah McBride to make her giggle, or Majorie Taylor Greene heckling like a spoiled brat during Biden’s State of The Union. Talk about being a goody two-shoes
Don’t forget about the Nazi rally at Madison square garden last year, when local storefronts boarded up their windows before his cult followers came to New York City. As if that demographic isn’t bending over for 47 and destroying our city and country faster than the Third Reich did to Berlin and Germany
Snowflake. Whatever happened to “F@cl your feelings”?
“Typical name-calling from the left. ALWAYS from them. Always.”
As if republicans never said a lie or name-called once. Oh wait, never mind, your rotting orange cult leader just did all of that and more yesterday at the CPAC. He can’t even keep his mouth shut about the election that he won in November without spewing more baseless claims that have already been debunked.
DGold, you should consider changing your screen and to DBag. Your slander and rogue political bias paints an even worse picture for you extreme right-wing boneheads.
FYI, it’s not ALL taxpayers that are helping to fund this Christopher as you’re implying
A final vestige of the prior administration and progressive agenda. I am shocked there isn’t any outrage that it doesn’t include affordable housing..
We should take all the $$ pointed at this and use it to fund the MTA..
Connected by a solar roof, and use sustainable hardwood. So there will be absolutely no environmental destruction here: Thanks.
How will this be used? Resesrch you? And when they walked in the door. O first place in second place it’s it’s worked so hard for so long to only have someone with natural advantages
Can you please proofread your comment next time? No idea what saying, or asking.