Construction Update: The Studio Museum of Harlem
North facade from West 125th Street.
Construction is ongoing at the new 82,000 square foot home for The Studio Museum in Harlem, with the steel superstructure nearing topping out. Designed by Adjaye Associates, the massing of the museum features a stack of one and two-story volumes with large apertures that allow the public to glimpse the activity within.
Northwest corner from West 125th Street.
South facade from West 125th Street.
South facade from West 125th Street.
Architects: Adjaye Associates (Design Architect), Cooper Robertson (Architect of Record); Construction Manager: Sciame Construction with McKissack & McKissack; Client: The Studio Museum in Harlem; Program: Museum; Location: Harlem, New York, NY; Completion: 2024.
Construction Update: Pier 97
Construction is underway on the renovation of Pier 97 at Hudson River Park, a conversion of the pier to park space. Designed by !melk, the pier park will feature a playground with water spray features, a synthetic turf field, a sloping sun lawn, sculptural shade structures, an elevated walkway with seating, an “all-ages” slide and a sunset deck complete with bistro tables, chaise lounges and two-tiered walls with seating. A comfort station located north of Pier 97 will include solar panels on the roof along with a food concession, public restrooms and a park maintenance area.
Landscape Architect: !melk; Client: Hudson River Park Trust; Program: Park; Location: Hell’s Kitchen, New York, NY; Completion: 2023.
Construction Update: High Line Moynihan Connector
Woodland Bridge from the High Line.
Construction is underway on the High Line Moynihan Connector, an elevated public-pedestrian pathway linking the High Line’s Spur at West 30th Street and 10th Avenue with Moynihan Station. The project is led by a public-private partnership between Empire State Development (ESD), Friends of the High Line, and Brookfield Properties. SOM and James Corner Field Operations are jointly responsible for the design of the elevated pathway. Currently under construction, the 600 foot long Woodland Bridge will run along West 30th Street and feature deep soil beds with trees lining the pedestrian path. At the eastern end of the bridge, a second 600 foot long bridge, the Timber Bridge, will run north along Dyer Avenue to the public plaza at Manhattan West. That bridge’s design will feature a Warren truss made of sustainably sourced wood. Completion of the connector is set for the spring of 2023.
Woodland Bridge from West 30th Street.
Closeup of the Woodland Bridge structure.
Closeup of the Woodland Bridge structure.
Woodland Bridge from West 30th Street.
Woodland Bridge from West 30th Street.
Closeup of the Woodland Bridge structure.
Woodland Bridge from The Spur at the High Line.
Architect: SOM; Landscape Architect: Field Operations; Client: Empire State Development (ESD), Friends of the High Line, and Brookfield Properties; Program: Park; Location: Hudson Yards, New York, NY; Completion: Spring 2023.
Construction Update: 180 East 88th Street
Construction has wrapped up at residential condominium tower 180 East 88th Street on the Upper East Side. Developed and designed by Joe McMillan’s DDG with partner Global Holdings, the 50-story tower features a facade of nearly 600,000 handmade Kolumba brick from Petersen Tegl. Concrete arches accent the middle and the top of the tower.
East facade of the tower from 3rd Avenue.
Residential entry from 3rd Avenue.
East facade of the tower crown.
Mid-tower arches.
Looking up at the north facade.
Residential entry from East 88th Street.
Residential lobby.
Model Residence
Inside, the tower offers 46 half and full floor condominiums ranging in size from lofts to five-bedroom homes, as well as a triplex penthouse. Residences feature elliptical entry galleries, custom wainscoting, coved ceilings, wide plank Austrian white oak flooring, and picture rails. Kitchens feature custom designed white lacquer cabinetry by Molteni & C Dada, honed statuario marble slab countertops and backsplash with brass inlays, wine refrigerators, Gaggenau appliance packages, stone-crafted kitchen islands, Fantini fixtures in natural brass, and custom bronze kitchen hoods.
Elliptical entry gallery.
Living room and kitchen.
Kitchen island detail.
Primary bathroom.
Powder room.
Residential Amenities
Residents have access to a wide assortment of amenities on eight floors including a residents’ lounge, game room, children’s playroom, wine room, private fitness and yoga studio, and a partial indoor basketball court and soccer pitch.
Residents’ lounge.
Game room.
Children’s playroom.
Wine room.
Private fitness.
Yoga studio.
Indoor basketball court.
Architect: Joe McMillan’s DDG (Design Architect), HTO Architects (Executive Architect); Developer: DDG; Program: Residential Condominium; Location: Upper East Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2020.
Construction Update: 1 Eagle Street - Eagle + West
Southeast corner from West Street.
Exterior wall installation is wrapping up at Greenpoint Landing’s fourth market rate site Eagle and West, a two tower development by Brookfield Properties that will offer 745 residential rental units. Designed by Jason Long of OMA New York, the 30 and 40-story towers feature a massing that recalls a ziggurat and its inverse.
Southeast corner.
The form of the taller southwest tower features four inverted cantilever phases on the 14th, 21st, 28th, and 36th floor that extend the cantilever to a total of 50 feet from the base structure to the top floors. At each cantilevered phase, engineered steel truss platforms were installed to support and take the load of the cantilever during construction. Once the platforms are removed, the cantilevered slabs are supported by sloping columns designed to transfer the load back to the structure and hung columns reinforced with multi strand post tension to support the structure suspended from above, like a suspension bridge. The post tension multi strand reinforcing, protected by plastic sleeves, is pulled at the top of each column to bring them into tension to support the cantilever.
South facade.
Precast concrete panels with 8 foot square windows clad the towers and feature angled planes that change orientation with each block of setbacks and cantilevers.
Close-up of the precast facade panels.
North facade from Greenpoint Landing’s waterfront park.
The two towers are linked by a bridge that contains a pool and fitness center with Manhattan skyline views.
Looking up at the north facades of Block D.
Residential entry with canopy.
Residential reception desk under construction.
Amenity lounge under construction.
Looking up at the east facade and the hanging platform for the overhang cladding.
Close-up of the overhang cladding and facade maintenance track.
View west towards Midtown Manhattan from the south tower terrace.
Greenpoint Landing’s waterfront towers.
North facade from Hunters Point South Park.
Northeast corner.
Architect: OMA New York with Beyer Blinder Belle; Structural Engineer: DeSimone Consulting Engineers; MEP and LEED: Cosentini Associates; Facade: Thornton Tomasetti; Waterfront Landscape Architect: James Corner Field Operations; Interior and Landscape Architect: Marmol Radziner; Concrete: Highbury Concrete; Developers: Brookfield Property Partners, Park Tower Group; Program: Residential, Retail, Park; Location: Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2022.
Construction Update: The Perelman Center
Southeast corner with 1 World Trade Center (left) and 7 World Trade Center (right) behind.
Installation of the primary curtain wall facade has wrapped up at the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center. Designed by REX, the massing features a cube that is elevated and rotated above the complexity of program at and below grade. The cube is wrapped in a facade of translucent, veined marble laminated within insulated glass. When completed, the Perelman Center will house three auditoriums to produce and premiere original works of theater, dance, music, film, and opera.
Southeast corner.
East facade.
Northeast corner.
Northeast corner.
East facade.
Southeast corner.
Architect: REX (Design Architect), Davis Brody Bond (Executive Architect); Client: Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center; Program: Performing Arts Center; Location: Financial District, New York, NY; Completion: 2023.
Construction Update: 57 Marcus Garvey Boulevard - Atrium at Sumner
Northwest corner from Marcus Garvey Boulevard.
Superstructure has topped out at the Atrium at Sumner, an affordable senior housing development in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Designed by Studio Libeskind, the 10-story structure sits on vacant land on the NYCHA Sumner Houses campus. When completed, the development will provide approximately 190 units, along with an indoor garden, a central atrium, and a multi-use performing arts space at the ground floor.
Northwest corner from Marcus Garvey Boulevard.
Northwest corner from Marcus Garvey Boulevard.
Southwest corner from Marcus Garvey Boulevard.
Northeast corner.
East facade.
North facade.
Northwest corner from Marcus Garvey Boulevard.
Architect: Studio Libeskind; Structural Engineer: LERA Consulting Structural Engineers; Mechanical Engineer: FISKAA Engineering; Client: Selfhelp Community Services, RiseBoro Community Partnership, Urban Builders Collaborative/Lettire; Program: Residential, Community Center; Location: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2023.
Construction Update: 470 Columbus - Charlotte of the Upper West Side
Southeast corner from Columbus Avenue.
Facade installation is wrapping up at The Roe Corporation’s residential condo building Charlotte of the Upper West Side at 470 Columbus. Designed by BKSK Architects, the facade features red brick and fins of Italian-made terra-cotta with a iron-spot finish by Ceipo. These facade elements are part of the building’s overall Passive House design, which typically leads to a reduction in energy usage of up to 90 percent for heating and cooling and exceptional air quality. Each residence has its own individualized ventilation and heating and cooling system.
Looking up at the east facade facing Columbus Avenue.
Southeast corner from Columbus Avenue.
Architect: BKSK Architects; Interiors: Alyssa Kapito Interiors & BKSK Architects; Developer: The Roe Corporation; Program: Residential Condo; Location: Upper West Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2022.
Construction Update: 378 West End Avenue
Southwest corner from West End Avenue.
Facade installation is nearing completion at Alchemy Properties’ 18-story residential condo tower at 378 West End Avenue on the Upper West Side. Designed by COOKFOX Architects, the tower replaces a former Collegiate School building from the 1960’s. The tower facade features a beige and a deep red brick with large floor to ceiling windows and metal accents such as decorative screens at balconies. An adjacent 12-story building at 378 West End Avenue by Schwartz & Gross is undergoing a restoration and will be combined with the tower to create 66 condominium residences.
Looking up at the south facade of the tower (background) and the West End Collegiate Church (foreground) from West 77th Street.
Looking up at the north facade from West 78th Street.
Brick and window installation at the north facade.
Northeast corner from Broadway.
Architect: COOKFOX Architects; Developer: Alchemy Properties; Program: Residential Condo; Location: Upper West Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2022.
Construction Update: FIT New Academic Building
Superstructure is rising at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s new academic building on the Garment District campus. Designed by SHoP Architects, the 9-story building will contain classrooms, administrative offices, review and exhibition spaces, and a center for student life.
Rendering by SHoP Architects.
Architect: SHoP Architects; Client: Fashion Institute of Technology; Program: Education; Location: Garment District, New York, NY; Completion: 2023.
Adjaye Associates · Harlem · 2025