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Category Archives: Green Design
Glassy Re-Clads Boost Energy Efficiency But Confound Critics
As owners and regulators ponder how to handle the aging of towers built during the time of the first oil shocks, in the 1970s, architects and engineers nationwide are proving that a new skin can make a middle-aged building more energy efficient—but only sometimes make it look more elegant. Continue reading
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One World Trade Center
One World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, is the main building of the new World Trade Center under construction, expected to be completed sometime in 2013, in Lower Manhattan. The tower will be located in the northwest corner of the 16-acre (65,000 m²) formerly the World Trade Center site bounded by Vesey, West, Washington and Fulton streets. Continue reading
From the Architectural Fact Sheet for the Freedom Tower (SOM, 2005):
Freedom Tower’s program is 2.6 million square feet of office space, plus tenant
amenity spaces, observation decks, world-class restaurants, and the Manhattan
Television Alliance (MTVA) broadcast and antennae facilities, all supported by
both above and below-grade mechanical infrastructure for the building and its
adjacent public spaces. Continue reading
Bank of America Tower- the site remembered.
And the facade? “There’s a tremendous amount of preservation work to be done,” Mr. Durst said. For six weeks, workers have been removing items from the interior to be preserved; little of the interior structure will be saved except for an elliptical entrance, which will be rebuilt. Continue reading
New York City’s second-tallest building is also its greenest
While designers across the globe are busy finalizing designs for the ultra-modern green skyscrapers ahead of their times, one particular high rise building on New York’s 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue has already become one. Bank of America Tower has won the “platinum” certification from U.S. Green Building Council, the non-profit council that promotes environmentally friendly construction and design. Continue reading