Educational

Façade Installation Nears Completion on FIT’s New Academic Building at 220 West 28th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan

By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Façade installation is nearing completion on Fashion Institute of Technology‘s ten-story New Academic Building at 220 West 28th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan. Designed by SHoP Architects, the 110,000-square-foot structure is engineered to LEED Gold standards and will yield classrooms, administrative offices, review and exhibition spaces, and a student quad illuminated by skylights. Forte Construction Corp. is the general contractor for the property, which sits on a shallow plot between Seventh and Eighth Avenues on the northernmost edge of the FIT campus.

Read More

Pace University’s 15 Beekman Street Nears Completion in Financial District, Manhattan

By Michael Young

Construction is nearing completion on 15 Beekman Street, a 27-story campus expansion for Pace University in the Financial District. Designed by Manish Chadha of Ismael Leyva Architects and developed by SL Green Realty, the 338-foot-tall tower will yield 213,084 square feet with classrooms, dorm rooms, a dining facility, library, and learning center. New Line Structures & Development is the general contractor for the property, which is alternately addressed as 126-132 Nassau Street and located at the corner of Beekman and Nassau Streets.

Read More

The Gilder Center Opens at The American Museum of Natural History on Manhattan’s Upper West Side 

By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

YIMBY attended the grand opening of the Gilder Center, a new five-story wing of the American Museum of Natural History at 415 Columbus Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Designed by Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang with Davis Brody Bond as the executive architect, the $465 million project involved the construction of 190,000 square feet of new exhibition space and 40,000 square feet of renovations to existing portions of the museum. Buro Happold was the façade consultant; W&W Glass, LLC supplied and installed the engineered custom curtain wall facades, skylights and entrance systems; Arup performed structural engineering and acoustic and audiovisual consulting; and Tishman Construction Company of New York was the general contractor for the facility, which is located by the intersection of Columbus Avenue and West 79th Street.

Read More
Rendering of the New York Climate Exchange - Courtesy of SOM

Stony Brook University and SOM Selected to Complete $700M Climate Research Campus on Governors Island

By Sebastian Morris

A project team led by Stony Brook University and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has been selected to complete a $700 million climate research and education campus on Governors Island. Stony Brook University will anchor the 400,000-square-foot campus, known formally as The Cen­ter for Cli­mate Solutions. The education and research hub will debut as New York Climate Exchange.

Read More
Fetching more...