The project for the New York City Economic Development Corporation will culminate with a new 700,000-square-foot academic building to be used by three separate CUNY schools and a new high school for STEM careers.
Project Timeline
As the project develops, we will continue to update this page so that the life of the building is documented.
2024
Establishing a shared vision for the project up front is key to all subsequent conversations. Additionally, creating a communication process that offers regular feedback and updates helps individual groups understand how they fit within the bigger picture, easing the way for compromise and collaboration.
Establishing a shared vision for the project up front is key to all subsequent conversations. Additionally, creating a communication process that offers regular feedback and updates helps individual groups understand how they fit within the bigger picture, easing the way for compromise and collaboration.
Circular design and construction represent a paradigm shift in the industry, emphasizing sustainability and centering the need to reduce resource consumption and a building’s embodied carbon footprint. The Design of Deconstruction will be the first step in our circular design process. It will require the design team to work closely with the construction and demolition teams to integrate our circularity analysis, design concepts, and embodied carbon research into a feasible, yet ground-breaking plan for the deconstruction of existing structures. We will act as an instigator and a convener, pushing teams to think bigger, more creatively with the underlying purpose of maximizing social and environmental impact.
Establishing a shared vision for the project up front is key to all subsequent conversations. Additionally, creating a communication process that offers regular feedback and updates helps individual groups understand how they fit within the bigger picture, easing the way for compromise and collaboration.
In our work we design to maximize useful daylight, optimize the building envelope, reduce energy-use through high-efficiency building performance across all systems, electrify, eliminate fossil fuels, integrate renewables, reduce, and sequester embodied carbon through material choices, and draw down atmospheric carbon naturally via restorative landscapes.
Establishing a shared vision for the project up front is key to all subsequent conversations. Additionally, creating a communication process that offers regular feedback and updates helps individual groups understand how they fit within the bigger picture, easing the way for compromise and collaboration.
2025
Establishing a shared vision for the project up front is key to all subsequent conversations. Additionally, creating a communication process that offers regular feedback and updates helps individual groups understand how they fit within the bigger picture, easing the way for compromise and collaboration.
Establishing a shared vision for the project up front is key to all subsequent conversations. Additionally, creating a communication process that offers regular feedback and updates helps individual groups understand how they fit within the bigger picture, easing the way for compromise and collaboration.
Circular design and construction represent a paradigm shift in the industry, emphasizing sustainability and centering the need to reduce resource consumption and a building’s embodied carbon footprint. The Design of Deconstruction will be the first step in our circular design process. It will require the design team to work closely with the construction and demolition teams to integrate our circularity analysis, design concepts, and embodied carbon research into a feasible, yet ground-breaking plan for the deconstruction of existing structures. We will act as an instigator and a convener, pushing teams to think bigger, more creatively with the underlying purpose of maximizing social and environmental impact.
Establishing a shared vision for the project up front is key to all subsequent conversations. Additionally, creating a communication process that offers regular feedback and updates helps individual groups understand how they fit within the bigger picture, easing the way for compromise and collaboration.
In our work we design to maximize useful daylight, optimize the building envelope, reduce energy-use through high-efficiency building performance across all systems, electrify, eliminate fossil fuels, integrate renewables, reduce, and sequester embodied carbon through material choices, and draw down atmospheric carbon naturally via restorative landscapes.
Establishing a shared vision for the project up front is key to all subsequent conversations. Additionally, creating a communication process that offers regular feedback and updates helps individual groups understand how they fit within the bigger picture, easing the way for compromise and collaboration.
2026
Establishing a shared vision for the project up front is key to all subsequent conversations. Additionally, creating a communication process that offers regular feedback and updates helps individual groups understand how they fit within the bigger picture, easing the way for compromise and collaboration.
Establishing a shared vision for the project up front is key to all subsequent conversations. Additionally, creating a communication process that offers regular feedback and updates helps individual groups understand how they fit within the bigger picture, easing the way for compromise and collaboration.
Circular design and construction represent a paradigm shift in the industry, emphasizing sustainability and centering the need to reduce resource consumption and a building’s embodied carbon footprint. The Design of Deconstruction will be the first step in our circular design process. It will require the design team to work closely with the construction and demolition teams to integrate our circularity analysis, design concepts, and embodied carbon research into a feasible, yet ground-breaking plan for the deconstruction of existing structures. We will act as an instigator and a convener, pushing teams to think bigger, more creatively with the underlying purpose of maximizing social and environmental impact.
Establishing a shared vision for the project up front is key to all subsequent conversations. Additionally, creating a communication process that offers regular feedback and updates helps individual groups understand how they fit within the bigger picture, easing the way for compromise and collaboration.
In our work we design to maximize useful daylight, optimize the building envelope, reduce energy-use through high-efficiency building performance across all systems, electrify, eliminate fossil fuels, integrate renewables, reduce, and sequester embodied carbon through material choices, and draw down atmospheric carbon naturally via restorative landscapes.
Establishing a shared vision for the project up front is key to all subsequent conversations. Additionally, creating a communication process that offers regular feedback and updates helps individual groups understand how they fit within the bigger picture, easing the way for compromise and collaboration.