PROJECT: Hearst Tower
PROJECT LOCATION: 57th Street and 8th Avenue
New York, NYCLIENT: The Hearst CorporationPROJECT SIZE: 858,000 sq. ft.TYPE OF BUILDING: Commercial Office BuildingCONSTRUCTION VALUE: $360,000,000ARCHITECT: Foster & Partners/Adamson Associates
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Turner provided construction management services for a 46-story glass and steel, 858,000 s.f. commercial office building for the Hearst Corporation. The building was built within and above the existing six story Hearst office building, built in 1928. The existing 1928 Landmark façade was integrated into the tower, designed by Foster and Partners, and restored. The structural frame, standing 598 feet tall, is enclosed with a panelized glass curtain wall system with stainless steel diagrid cladding. The triangulated steel frame uses 21% less steel than a traditionally framed building, saving 2000 tons of steel. The project also included improvements to the Columbus Circle-59th Street Subway station; with four new stairways, a new entrance on 57th street, installation and maintenance of three ADA compliant elevators, and repositioning of the existing turnstiles to improve circulation for the 100,000 riders who use this station daily. The building will serves as the corporation’s world headquarters and is recognized by the US Green Building Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) as a certified project.
PROJECT: Memorial Sloan-Kettering New Research Building
PROJECT LOCATION: New York, NY
CLIENT: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterPROJECT SIZE: 690,000 sq. ft.TYPE OF BUILDING: Research BuildingCONSTRUCTION VALUE: $420,000,000ARCHITECT: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
This project includes the construction of a 23-story, 690,000 s.f. new research building, which will be constructed in two phases. The proposed research tower is located on the hospital's main campus in New York City. The new facility is set to house programs in cancer biology, genetics, experimental pathology and therapeutics. The project plans to become the first laboratory in the nation to notch “silver” certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. Other notable features include one of the deepest basements ever dug in Manhattan, a modular interior design that allows for differnet laboratory configurations, and heavy-duty electrical, mechanical, and HVAC systems suitable for a modern research facility. The building’s skin integrates masonry, glass and terra cotta with a predominantly masonry base that aims to blend into the mostly residential neighborhood.
PROJECT: RPI - Performing Arts Center
PROJECT LOCATION: Troy, New York
CLIENT: Rensselaer Polytechnic InstitutePROJECT SIZE: 250,000 sq. ft.TYPE OF BUILDING: Performing Arts CenterCONSTRUCTION VALUE: $125,000,000ARCHITECT: Nicholas Grimshaw and Davis, Brody Bond
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
This 250,000 sq.ft. experimental media performing arts center (EMPAC) is being constructed for RPI University in Troy, NY. The project includes box in box construction for the theatre, studios, radio station with isolation slabs and a 1200 seat concert hall. Major structural elements include lagged shoring walls, caissons, mini piles, pile caps and grade beams, concrete super-structure, steel framing and composite decks. Exterior elements include frameless curtainwall system with integrated hot water heating system, zinc standing seam metal roof, and insulated metals panels. Shoring wall construction started June 2004.
PROJECT: Time Warner
PROJECT LOCATION: Columbus Circle
New York, NYCLIENT: Time WarnerPROJECT SIZE: 758,000 sq. ft.TYPE OF BUILDING: Mixed-Use FacilityCONSTRUCTION VALUE: $150,000,000ARCHITECT: Perkins & Will
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Time Warner occupies approximately 758,000 s.f. of the 2,700,000 s.f. mixed-use facility at Columbus Circle. The new facility merges Time Warner corporate and executive offices, and Turner Broadcast Sales’ offices with broadcast, studio, technical, and office space. In addition, there are common areas and amenities, which include a conferencing center, a 4,000 s.f. data center, centralized mail and copy area, commissary and media screening center.
PROJECT: Brooklyn College Library
PROJECT LOCATION: Brooklyn, New York
CLIENT: Dormitory Authority of the State of New YorkTYPE OF BUILDING: LibraryARCHITECT: Buttrick White & Burtis LLP, Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Renovation of 172,650 sq. ft. of existing space and additional 105,000 sq. ft. of new space in the occupied Library.