PROJECT: 731 Lexington Avenue
PROJECT LOCATION: 731 Lexington Avenue at 59th Street
New York, NYCLIENT: Vornado Realty TrustPROJECT SIZE: 1,387,250 sq. ft.TYPE OF BUILDING: Mixed-Use BuildingCONSTRUCTION VALUE: $462,000,000ARCHITECT: Schuman Lichtenstein Claman Efron Architects, Cesar Pelli & Assoc. Inc.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
731 Lexington is a 53-story, 1.4 million sf, mixed-use building containing retail space on the lower floors and 900,000 sf of commercial space up to the 28th floor, including the space occupied by Bloomberg. The 30th – 53rd floors contain 105 high-end residential condominiums. This project was constructed on the old Alexander’s Department store site, and was one of the last square blocks remaining in New York City. The midtown construction site was bordered by two busy avenues, Lexington and Third, as well as 58th and 59th Streets which are both approach streets to the outbound 59th Street Bridge. Based on this location, lane closures were very difficult, so the logistic plan was developed by staging the delivery of steel and other construction materials inside the property line whenever possible. The retail and commercial portions of this mixed-use building were constructed with structural steel with concrete on metal deck. The residential portion of the building is reinforced concrete. The curtain wall system is glass and aluminum.
PROJECT: Cadman Plaza – U.S. Federal Courthouse
PROJECT LOCATION: Cadman Plaza
Brooklyn, NYCLIENT: GSAPROJECT SIZE: 632,000 gsfTYPE OF BUILDING: Courthouse ComplexCONSTRUCTION VALUE: $265,000,000ARCHITECT: Cesar Pelli/HLW International LLP & R.M. Kliment & Frances Halsband
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The new courthouse will contain approximately 632,000 gsf of space including underground parking. It will initially include 12 district and five magistrate courtrooms and chambers, with provision for future expansion to 25 courtrooms and 28 chambers. It will also contain a Jury Assembly area, office space for court and court-related agencies, a U.S. Court of Appeals library and secure prisoner circulation/detention system. Judges’ chambers will be grouped in a “collegial” arrangement on separate floors from the courtrooms.The building will comprise two basic architectural elements consisting of a 15-story tower and a six-story link structure. This link structure will contain the main building entrance and atrium, and will serve as the connecting structure between the existing and new courthouses. In order to integrate the two buildings, direct public and restricted circulation connection will be provided within the new link. This will allow the two buildings to function as one Court complex, with a single consolidated main entry point. In addition to the above-grade building elements, the new courthouse also includes three levels of construction completely or partially below grade. The exterior elevations are composed of a coated aluminum and glass curtain wall with a limestone façade. The distinctive curve massing of the upper tower will be a visual entry marker near the entry to the Brooklyn Bridge. The courtrooms and judges’ chamber interiors contain architectural wood paneling and millwork. The public spaces contain a variety of finishes including marble wall panels, travertine tile and terrazzo flooring.
PROJECT: Icahn Stadium, Randall’s Island Track & Field Complex
PROJECT LOCATION: New York, NY
CLIENT: New York City Economic Development CorporationPROJECT SIZE: 86,443 sq. ft.TYPE OF BUILDING: Track & Field Sports ComplexCONSTRUCTION VALUE: $38,000,000ARCHITECT: The Hillier Group
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Bovis Lend Lease constructed the new track and field sports complex on Randall’s Island. The new facility serves as the City’s new major outdoor track facility, replacing the recently demolished Downing Stadium. The scope involved the management of the development of this new track and field sports complex, infrastructure and other related improvements on Randall’s Island. The new facility includes a fully irrigated 400 meter world-class “Mondo” track with an associated sodded turf field in the center, 5,000 permanent spectator seats to accommodate competitive track and field events, equipment storage spaces, locker rooms, sports medicine offices, training and conditioning facilities, administrative offices and a second natural turf playing field. This development also includes parking lots, a stadium roof, public transportation and circulation improvements, as well as upgrades and expansions of existing utilities. Bovis Lend Lease completed the interior fit-out of all restrooms, locker rooms, office and public spaces.
PROJECT: Weill Medical College of Cornell University Ambulatory Care & Medical Education Building
PROJECT LOCATION: New York, NY
CLIENT: Cornell Medical CenterPROJECT SIZE: 340,000 sq. ft.TYPE OF BUILDING: Medical Education BuildingCONSTRUCTION VALUE: $135,000,000ARCHITECT: Polshek and Partners LLP
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Weill Cornell is a new 340,000 sf building which will constitute the first step in what is envisioned as a state-of-the-art expansion of the campus for this prestigious medical school. In addition to housing advanced clinical facilities for departments such as Dermatology, Hypertension, ENT, IVF and Cardiology, the structure will provide a central medical conference center and physician training center in its Clinical Skills and Teaching Center. The ground floor lobby will be served by a secure and convenient vehicle drop-off to facilitate patient arrival and departure. Escalators from the lobby will take visitors up to the Patient Welcome and Resource Center on the second floor. Conceived as a gem-like glass icon, the white ceramic fritted glass curtain wall is cut into long vertical facets. These gently sloped vertical surfaces reflect the gothic motif of the original New York Hospital campus across York Avenue, while its luminous curtainwall suggests a new direction for healthcare: precise, elegant and unexpectedly refined.