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[NYguy]

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http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article...TATE/110109986



By Amanda Fung

SL Green Realty Corp., New York City's largest commercial landlord, and its partner Jeff Sutton announced Monday they have closed on a $90 million, five-year construction loan to build a mixed-use development at 180 Broadway in lower Manhattan. The new building will primarily be home to Pace University dormitory.

The 24-story building will replace an existing two-story structure on the site, located across the street from the $1.4 billion Fulton Street transit hub, which is currently being constructed.

“We believe this property, when combined with the openings of the transit hub and the World Trade Center related developments, will be an ideal home to premier retail tenants looking to take advantage of the resurgence of this Broadway corridor,” Andrew Mathias, SL Green's president, said in a press statement.

[ardecila]

That's a NEW building? It looks like a really poorly-done recladding job of a poorly-done 60s office building.

They need to shake it up a bit. Shift some windows out of alignment, and do a Beaver House-type thing (but sans the awful yellow).

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

that cant be new! please tell me thats not getting built!!!

[Busy Bee]

Ha! Only in New York. Everything old is new again. Hello bland dreary 60's low modern! Welcome and delight in it!

[ardecila]

Only in a post-Mad Men world does this make sense.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

Ha! Only in New York. Everything old is new again. Hello bland dreary 60's low modern! Welcome and delight in it!

But hey, at least the students will have access to some of the city's best transit...

[NYC4Life]

Oh damn, I thought from that pic the building already existed. Can't believe it's a proposal.

[Don098]

I like that it blends in with its surroundings...refreshing not to see yet another glass facade in my opinion. And it's not like it's going to be seen from afar...just infill. Man, let it go guys.

[Dac150]

Looks like the design is trying to mirror the one of their dormitory at One Pace Plaza.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Dac150

Looks like the design is trying to mirror the one of their dormitory at One Pace Plaza.

You are quite right.

[Obey]

The base and the rest of the building don't match, they should've have gone with one style or the other.

[NYguy]

A big year for this one as well...

http://lowermanhattan.info/construct...ter_17608.aspx

Fulton Street Transit Center

*The following information was last updated on December 24, 2010.

Main building construction to mobilize January 2011 (contractor Schiavone/Plaza Construction); steel installation starts Feb. 2011 through fall 2011.

[NYguy]

http://www.lowermanhattan.info/news/...all_44041.aspx

January 12, 2011

Fulton Transit Crane Install to Close Broadway

The new year brings the start of Fulton Street Transit Center superstructure construction.

To begin steel erection, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) plans to install a tower crane at the main-building site at Broadway and Fulton Street. The operation will limit traffic on Broadway during the weekend of January 29th.

Starting at 8 p.m. on Saturday, January 29th, Broadway from Fulton to John will be reduced to one moving lane, with all pedestrian traffic diverted to the west side of Broadway. A full road closure of Broadway will occur from 1 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Sunday, January 30th. All Broadway traffic will be detoured to Ann Street. Traffic enforcement agents and flaggers will be posted at all times.

To construct the new Fulton Transit Center building, MTA crews will also close the sidewalk and two eastern lanes of Broadway from Fulton to John Street starting January 24th. Work on the new complex is proceeding in several areas of Lower Manhattan, with components either already or planned to be completed the coming years. The entire Transit Center is slated for completion in mid-2014.

[NYguy]

http://lowermanhattan.info/news/3_qu...ard_28201.aspx

Questions for Richard Kress, Fulton Transit Ctr.

January 28, 2011

The “solar reflector shell” may sound like something NASA would affix to the international space station. Rather, it is headed to Lower Manhattan to help guide subway riders through the new Fulton Street Transit Center.

The shell was conceived and designed by James Carpenter Design Associates, the Tribeca-based firm hired to draw in and shape the light that will fill the Transit Center’s main building. Also called the “oculus,” the shell was inspired by the skylights at the center classical domes like that of the Pantheon in Rome.

But the Transit Center’s oculus takes the concept even further, extending upwards 110 feet from the building’s roof in an angled cylindrical form -- effectively forming a light-soaking tube inside which daylight will ricochet as deep down as the 4/5 subway platform.

Richard Kress is Carpenter’s architect and principal designer of the solar reflector shell. His work can be seen nearby at 7 World Trade Center, where he contributed to the “water-clear” glass façade that both reflects and blends in with the atmospheric colors around it. It also uses a coating to boost the “green” standard by rejecting heat energy while retaining natural light.

We asked Mr. Kress about the details of the Fulton Transit Center’s oculus, and how it will change the way subway commuters experience both natural and electrically lit spaces.



How will the new Fulton Street Building take advantage of natural light?

Mr. Kress: The geometry of the external enclosure, coupled with the internal reflector surface and the tilt of the glazed oculus, has been optimized to harness light and re-direct it down into the lower depths of the station, allowing the commuter to be instantly orientated to the sun light. The solar reflector shell is comprised of a supporting “double curved surface,” a delicate cable-net that diffuses and reflects incoming light through the use of perforated aluminum panels. By harnessing the available daylight less electrical light will be needed.

What are some of the design elements that you’re using in the Transit Center’s lighting scheme?

The most dynamic element of the solar reflector shell will be the facetted surface of a series of perforated diamond and triangular shaped panels. The panels are made of a special diffused reflective aluminum, which capture the ever-shifting nature of the zenith light in the sky above. The dynamic effect between the facetted shell geometry and the perforated diffused reflective aluminum material will make an ever-changing three-dimensional mural of daily and seasonal light and sky colors.

What are your favorite parts of this project?

The central atrium space was developed to harness, modulate and redirect natural light down into the building giving a buoyant an iconic interior for New York City commuters and tourists. Passengers arriving and departing from street level or from the subway platforms will be experience a unique luminous threshold day and night.

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Taken March 2, 2011

[Obey]

Nice photo!

[NYguy]

Great photo. This is one of the underrated developments Downtown, but people will love it when it's built.

[patriotizzy]

I just saw the renderings in the first couple of pages, and I have to say it looks great. Can't wait to see the dome come into place.

[NYguy]

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[pico44]

Wow, I guess I never realized until just now after seeing that picture, just how amazing the vista will be from Broadway. Youre going to have this beautiful glass dome in the foreground, with a couple of Bunshaft masterpieces in the background and plenty of gorgeous prewars populating the space in between.

Too bad that piece of junk in the left foreground spoils the view a little bit.