Construction Tour: 12 West 48th Street
North facade from West 48th Street.
Exterior facade installation is wrapping up at DNA Development’s 12 West 48th Street, a new stand-alone white box property with flexibility to accommodate office and retail. Designed by Ennead Architects, the project is adjacent to Rockefeller Center and includes 30,939 square feet of space across four floors, with a basement and fifth floor rooftop terrace for tenants. Ceiling heights range from 15’-8” at the upper floors to 20’ at the ground floor. An angled glass façade clads the 48th Street frontage and opens up the views along the street.
North facade from West 48th Street.
Looking up at the north facade.
Future ground floor entry.
North facing views from the fourth floor.
North facing views from the third floor.
North facing views from the third floor.
Third floor facing south towards rear terrace.
Future rooftop terrace at the fifth floor.
Future rooftop terrace at the fifth floor.
Architect: Ennead Architects; Developer: DNA Development; Program: Office, Retail; Location: Midtown, New York, NY; Completion: 2019.
Construction Update: Koch Center for Cancer Care
Facade installation is nearing completion at the Koch Center for Cancer Care, which will feature two science and medical facilities sharing a single site on the Upper East Side waterfront. Memorial Sloan Kettering will offer outpatient treatment programs with its 750,000-square-feet cancer care facility. CUNY-Hunter College will house academic science and nursing facilities in their 336,000-square-foot Science and Health Professions building.
The building massing breaks down what would be a dense extruded volume into a series of smaller, interconnected chunks. Voids in the overall massing allow for outdoor terraces.
The facade features terra cotta and glass panels of varying sizes that create a vertically oriented pattern. Vertical terra cotta fins of varying depths also contribute to the pattern while offering shade and mitigating the effects of solar heat gain and glare.
Architect: Ennead Architects with Perkins Eastman; Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti; MEP Engineer: Jaros Baum & Bolles; Curtainwall Consultant: Entek Engineering, LLC, Heintges & Associates; Client: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, CUNY-Hunter College; Program: Outpatient Cancer Care and Research; Location: Upper East Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2019.
Tour: 415 Red Hook Lane
South façade from Boerum Place.
Construction is wrapping up at 415 Red Hook Lane, a residential rental tower in Downtown Brooklyn from developers Quinlan Development Group and Lonicera Partners. Designed by Ennead Architects, the 21-story, 108-unit tower sits at the corner of Red Hook Lane and Livingston Street.
Close-up of the south facing window wall façade..
A window wall clads the south facing façade, with a more solid brick and punch window design for the other three elevations.
Looking up at the south façade from Livingston Street.
West façade from Boerum Place.
Close-up of the northwest façade.
Residents will have access to amenities that include a fitness room, lounge, rooftop terrace, residential and bike storage, and laundry facilities. The rooftop terrace features panoramic views of Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights.
The view north towards Downtown Brooklyn from the rooftop terrace.
The view of Boerum Place with the Midtown skyline beyond.
The view west towards Brooklyn Heights and the East River waterfront from the rooftop terrace.
Architect: Ennead Architects; Developers: Quinlan Development Group and Lonicera Partners; Program: Residential; Location: Downtown Brooklyn, New York, NY; Completion: 2017.
Construction Update: Koch Center for Cancer Care
Northwest corner from East 74th Street.
Construction is underway at the Koch Center for Cancer Care, which will feature two science and medical facilities sharing a single site on the Upper East Side waterfront. Memorial Sloan Kettering will offer outpatient treatment programs with its 750,000-square-feet cancer care facility. CUNY-Hunter College will house academic science and nursing facilities in their 336,000-square-foot Science and Health Professions building.
Northeast corner from FDR Drive.
The building massing breaks down what would be a dense extruded volume into a series of smaller, interconnected chunks. Voids in the overall massing allow for outdoor terraces.
Looking up at the east facade.
Facade installation is underway at the east and south facades. The facade features terra cotta and glass panels of varying sizes that create a vertically oriented pattern. Vertical terra cotta fins of varying depths also contribute to the pattern while offering shade and mitigating the effects of solar heat gain and glare.
Facade panels installed at the southeast corner.
Southeast corner from FDR Drive.
Close-up of the facade panels at the southeast corner.
Southeast corner from FDR Drive.
Panels installed at the south facade.
West facade from East 73rd Street.
Architect: Ennead Architects with Perkins Eastman; Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti; MEP Engineer: Jaros Baum & Bolles; Curtainwall Consultant: Entek Engineering, LLC, Heintges & Associates; Client: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, CUNY-Hunter College; Program: Outpatient Cancer Care and Research; Location: Upper East Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2019.
NYU Langone Medical Center Expansion
Checking in on the progress at two projects underway for the NYU Langone Medical Center's campus transformation.
NYU Langone Medical Center is undergoing a major effort to renovate and expand its campus in the Kips Bay neighborhood. Already, the master plan has seen major renovations to Tisch Hospital. Now, two major new construction projects from Ennead Architects and NBBJ are underway simultaneously as the Science Building and the Kimmel Pavilion both rise at either end of the campus.
NYU Langone Science Building
At the corner of East 30th Street and the FDR Service Road, the NYU Langone Science Building will provide 10 floors of laboratory space dedicated to research within its 365,000 square foot tower. The tower is predominantly clad in a glass curtain wall that features glass fins and a white, horizontal frit pattern that both work to mitigate the sun's impact on its eastern and southern exposure. Currently, the building's steel superstructure is one floor from topping out and curtain wall installation has begun on the lower half of the tower. LEED Gold is being targeted for the tower.
Southeast corner from the FDR Drive Service Road.
Close-up of the southeast corner of the tower facade and mockup of the stone cladding at the ground floor.
Looking up at the east facade from the FDR Drive Service Road.
Looking up at the southeast corner from East 30th Street.
Looking up at the south facade from East 30th Street.
Close-up of the southeast corner of the tower facade.
Southwest corner from East 30th Street.
Close-up of the southwest corner of the tower facade.
Southwest corner from East 30th Street.
Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Pavilion
Located adjacent to Tisch Hospital at the northern edge of the medical campus, the Kimmel Pavilion's 830,000-square-foot tower will bring modernized patient care to the campus. The project includes high-efficiency operating rooms and single-bed inpatient rooms with a connection to Tisch Hospital at imaging and procedural floors. Presently, the steel superstructure has reached floor 18 of 21 and installation of the tower's curtain wall has begun on the western facade.
Northeast corner from East 34th Street and FDR Drive.
Northwest corner from First Avenue and East 34th Street.
West facade from First Avenue.
Close-up of the west facade.
Close-up of the west facade.
Architects: Ennead Architects with NBBJ; Client: NYU Langone Medical Center; Program: Healthcare; Location: Kips Bay, New York, NY; Completion: 2018.
