With the City Council’s recent – and final – approval, Durst Fentner can begin construction on Bjarke Ingels’ striking rental pyramid on 57th Street between 11th Avenue and the Hudson River.
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The Great NYC Heating Oil Changeover (Is Not Why You’re Sweating)
What, you weren’t thinking about your apartment building’s boiler? Well, why not?
It’s Complicated: New York City Green Buildings Balk At, Earn LEED Certification
By Stephen Del Percio on February 22, 2011 in LEED Commentary, Manhattan, Market Analysis, New York City, Upper West Side
With Henry Gifford’s lawsuit against USGBC as an early 2011 backdrop to the local green building scene, New York City buildings of various sizes and uses are simultaneously earning and not pursuing formal LEED certification.
Down On The Riverside: Scott Stringer Unloads On Extell’s Riverside Center Mega-Development
By David Roth on September 1, 2010 in LEED-ND, Manhattan, New York City, Upper West Side, Urban Planning, Zoning
Community Board 7 demanded more sustainability from Riverside Center, a mega-development on the UWS. Now Borough President Scott Stringer is doing the same.
Plans For Extell’s Riverside Center Receive Another Thumbs Down
It’s one thing for bloggers to demand sustainability. It’s another, entirely more awesome, thing when citizens do it. That’s what’s happening on the Upper West Side.
Extell Feeling Heat On Upper West Side Mega-Development Riverside Center From… Upper West Siders
The sharpness of the elbows getting thrown at the Fairway olive bar are nothing compared to what Extell Development Company has faced during its attempt to sell Upper West Siders on Riverside Center, an ambitious 3 million-square-foot mega-development slated to stretch between 59th and 61st Streets and between West End Avenue and the West Side Highway.
Fish-texting, Nairobi, and Wikipedia: Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation Looks to the Future
By Sarah Wesseler on February 16, 2009 in Intellectual Property & Technology, Manhattan, New York City, Software, Upper West Side
Columbia’s architecture school is plotting a bold future for how the profession will design and deliver 21st century projects.
Columbia’s Manhattanville Expansion to Participate in LEED-ND Pilot Program
Columbia announced today that its seventeen acre Manhattanville expansion project, designed by Renzo Piano and SOM, has been accepted into the LEED for Neighborhood Development (“LEED-ND”) Pilot Program. (image of the project site looking west from Broadway along 125th Street via Columbia). Interestingly, the news comes immediately in advance of the start of the City’s […]
