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550 Tenth Avenue Rises Steadily in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan

Construction is rising on 550 Tenth Avenue, a 47-story residential skyscraper in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. Designed by Handel Architects and developed by Gotham Organization and Goldman Sachs Asset Management JV, the 520-foot-tall structure will yield 430,000 square feet and 453 rental units, with 137 reserved for affordable housing, as well as 9,000 square feet of retail space, over 20,000 square feet of amenities, and 26,764 square feet of administrative office space for Covenant House. GO Covenant LLC is the owner and Monadnock Construction is the general contractor for the property, which is located along Tenth Avenue between West 40th and 41st Streets.

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Rendering of Iron Horse Labs at 309 East 94th Street - Perkins & Will; Elevate Research Properties

Renderings Reveal 200,000-Square-Foot Research Lab at 309 East 94th Street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

Elevate Research Properties, the life sciences subsidiary of Taconic Partners, has revealed plans to construct a 200,000-square-foot life sciences project at 309 East 94th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The building will debut as Iron Horse Labs, named after New York Yankees legend Lou “Iron Horse” Gehrig who was born at the same address.

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Metals in Construction Magazine’s Design Challenge Encourages Ideas for Office-to-Residential Redevelopment

It’s time for the yearly Design Challenge competition by Metals in Construction magazine, a publication of the Steel and Ornamental Metal Institutes of New York. The goal each year is to generate ideas about the role of architecture in helping to solve social problems. This year the challenge with a $15,000 grand prize is to redevelop a New York City office tower for market-rate housing.

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