Green Building | Inhabitat New York City - Part 3

NYC Has Lowered Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 12% Since 2005

NYC Has Lowered Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 12% Since 2005

Good news, New York! We are on track to hit the PlaNYC goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2017! Mayor Bloomberg made the announcement yesterday as he kicked off Climate Week. Our GHG levels are 12 percent below the 2005 baseline, and

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NYC Landmarks Commission Green Lights Twisty Tower Near the High Line

NYC Landmarks Commission Green Lights Twisty Tower Near the High Line

A new twist on an old building will be joining the skyline of the Meatpacking district. With breathtaking views of the High Line and an integrated planting bed system around the building, it should fit right in with the neighbors. 837 Washington Street is a new creation from Morris Adjmi Architects, one of the premier firms in New York. The project features a four-story glass and steel commercial space atop a pre-existing 1938 warehouse on the edge of the Gansevoort Market Historic District. Just this month, the Landmarks Preservation Commission gave the building the green light.

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Last Surviving Ellis Island Ferry Transformed Into Historic Houseboat

Last Surviving Ellis Island Ferry Transformed Into Historic Houseboat

The home of Victoria and Richard MacKenzie-Childs is no ordinary houseboat. This floating oasis is in fact the last surviving Ellis Island Ferry, and a pretty swanky pad. Recently photographed by Navid Baraty, this incredible home is a studio and showroom for Victoria and Richard's designs including furniture, jewelry, hand thrown terra cotta pots, lighting, and rugs. Hit the jump for a look inside!

Energy Efficient Long Island Home Built As Though It Were Made With Light & AIr

Energy Efficient Long Island Home Built As Though It Were Made With Light & AIr

Breezy and beautiful come to mind when viewing this home in Eastern Long Island. The Amangansett Home was designed by Francois de Menil Architect for a family with two young children. Making use of solar passive design, a butterfly roof and other energy efficient strategies, this long and narrow home is both simple in form as well as function. Built as though it were made of light and air, this three bedroom home takes advantage of its site for both the views and the breezes.

Greenbelt Brings LEED Certified Residences & An Eco-Friendly Arts Center to Brooklyn

Greenbelt Brings LEED Certified Residences & An Eco-Friendly Arts Center to Brooklyn

From the Navy Yard to Brooklyn Bowl, this borough of Brooklyn is ahead of the game with LEED certified buildings. Brooklyn celebrates another first with Greenbelt on Manhattan Avenue, the area's first certified LEED gold residence building. The neighborhood is extra lucky because Greenbelt's ground floor is home to the Center for Performance Research, an eco-friendly public space for dance and art performances, classes, and rehearsal studios.

Angular Glass Winter Garden at SUNY New Paltz Is Inspired by Nearby Mountain Ridge

Angular Glass Winter Garden at SUNY New Paltz Is Inspired by Nearby Mountain Ridge

A rock-climber's paradise, the Shawagunk Ridge, visible from the State University of New York in New Paltz, forms such an intrinsic part of the school's student life that ikon.5 architects incorporated its shape into the new campus commons. Prefabricated using natural and recyclable materials such as glass and steel, the inviting winter garden extension acts as the University's new gateway, and livens up what has long been a neglected space. It is also oriented to harvest plenty of natural daylight and warmth, and features a heat recovery system.

Blesso Properties Creates Innovative Eco-Urban Designs for NYC Real Estate

Blesso Properties Creates Innovative Eco-Urban Designs for NYC Real Estate

A few years ago, the green Noho loft of Matt Blesso caught our attention, thanks to its gorgeous rooftop garden. But Mr. Blesso is not just an owner of a great eco-friendly apartment -- his firm, Blesso Properties, specializes in developing sustainable luxury properties for New York City real estate. With a commitment to sustainability, conservation, and recycling, Blesso’s properties are not only beautifully designed, but gorgeously green.

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The Lucida: Luxury Eco Condo is the First LEED Residence on the Upper East Side

The Lucida: Luxury Eco Condo is the First LEED Residence on the Upper East Side

Luxury meets green at the Lucida, a 20 story condominium building on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The building was designed by Cook + Fox with interior decor by S. Russell Groves with the aim of taking eco-conscious living to glamorous new heights. A sleek glass and cubic exterior sets the building apart and takes up a whole block along Lexington Avenue between 85th and 86th Street. Cook + Fox designed the residential building to ensure that families had a connection to the environment through lots of natural light penetration made possible by the high performance facade. The building is the first LEED Certified residential project on the Upper East Side.

Parsons Design Workshop Transforms Highbridge Park Pool With Eco-Friendly Splash House Pavilion

Parsons Design Workshop Transforms Highbridge Park Pool With Eco-Friendly Splash House Pavilion

New York's city pools have been totally packed as of late, thanks to the mega heat wave that's been baking the city, and while the Big Apple does boast some pretty awesome swimming pools, more often than not, our public pools leave much to be desired. But graduate students in a Design Workshop at Parsons are changing that for one lucky pool in Manhattan. Working in collaboration with the city Parks Department, the architecture students designed an eco-friendly outdoor pavilion for the Highbridge Pool and Recreation Center in Washington Heights. Called the Splash House, the new structure maximizes the facility's space while providing all of the necessary amenities for summertime swimmers. The Splash House is currently under construction and it will officially be up and running by next summer!

Saipua: A Quaint Red Hook Shop Made From Reclaimed Barn Wood by Tacklebox

Saipua: A Quaint Red Hook Shop Made From Reclaimed Barn Wood by Tacklebox

Nestled in the far reaches of artist-inhabited Red Hook, Brooklyn, the Saipua shop has been selling their hand made soaps and flowers since 2006. Quickly growing over just a few years, the store needed to expand- and went to friend and architect Jeremy Barbour of Tacklebox to take on the project. The resulting new shop is part storefront, part workshop, with rustic reclaimed barn wood that perfectly compliments Saipua’s delicate and simple handmade wares.

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MANIfold Architects Cut Out Sections of a Brooklyn Brownstone to Flood It With Natural Light

MANIfold Architects Cut Out Sections of a Brooklyn Brownstone to Flood It With Natural Light

Brooklyn's historic brownstones are coveted gems of architecture in city that's fast filling up with glassy condo buildings and new construction. But what brownstones' boast in terms of character and classic design, they lack in that open, airy feel that so many desire. One family living on Brooklyn's Park Place, however, decided to overcome the lack of daylight with a complete renovation. MANIfold Architecture Studio opened up the core of the building by cutting away sections of the walls and floor to allow natural light to flow through the entire interior.

NYC Port Authority Bus Terminal Now Boasts World’s Largest LED Media Facade

NYC Port Authority Bus Terminal Now Boasts World’s Largest LED Media Facade

The NYC Port Authority Bus Terminal (PABT) just got a major facelift to jazz up the otherwise ugly steel facade. Now boasting the world's largest LED transparent media façade, the PABT has been launched into the 21st century with around the clock media, advertisements and displays. The 6,000-square-foot Mediamesh facade, designed and installed by GKD Metal Fabrics, uses 1.325 million LED diodes to create the 265,000 pixel image. Not only does the new media hide the terminal’s 1970s-era steel overlay, but also provides shade and encourages natural ventilation.

Fishers Island Modern Glass Pavilion Blurs the Lines Between Inside & Out

Fishers Island Modern Glass Pavilion Blurs the Lines Between Inside & Out

Rarely does a garden get built before the home, but such is the case with the Fishers Island glass pavilion after a fire destroyed the original historic home. Designed by Thomas Phifer for Tom Armstrong, a former director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Miesian pavilion is made from steel and glass in order to take in views of both the garden and the nearby Long Island Sound. Blurring the lines between the indoors and the outdoors, the home is filled with natural daylight and is shaded by a large screened canopy surrounding the building.

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LEED Platinum Seeking Battery Park Community Center Will Have a Musical Water Wall

LEED Platinum Seeking Battery Park Community Center Will Have a Musical Water Wall

Battery Park City, already home to some of the greenest apartment and condo buildings in the Big Apple, will soon add another major sustainable building to its portfolio. Set to open this fall, the Digital Water Pavilion in the Battery Park City Community Center by Hanrahan Meyers Architects is a 55,000 square foot structure designed as a "built landscape" that's aiming for LEED Platinum certification. The star of the new center is a 550-foot curved glass wall etched with a digital bar code that can be activated by smartphone wielding visitors to play a specially written composition by composer Michael Schumacher. The design seamlessly incorporates sustainability, music, and our surrounding landscape into an interactive destination.

Crosby Street Hotel is the First LEED Gold Certified Hotel in NYC

Crosby Street Hotel is the First LEED Gold Certified Hotel in NYC

The Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo was recently awarded LEED Gold Certification by the US Green Building Council, making it the first LEED Gold Certified hotel in New York City. The stately building is situated on one of the last remaining truly quiet, cobble stoned streets in the SoHo neighborhood and is an elegant green escape from the hustle and bustle of the nearby Broadway shopping district. The hotel boasts water efficient landscaping, FSC certified wood products, energy efficient lighting, local and recycled materials, rooms filtered with air directly from outside and green housekeeping. The architects of the Crosby Street Hotel, Stonehill & Taylor Architects, designed 61 percent of the site as "open space" which provides enhanced air filtration and use of natural light indoors.

A TreeHouse Grows on Governors Island (and a Picnic Party to Paint It!)

A TreeHouse Grows on Governors Island (and a Picnic Party to Paint It!)

If you (like me) are a New Yorker who has been deprived of cool outdoorsy stuff like treehouses your whole life, here is your chance to get in on some good old arboreal home action! When we last saw him, artist Benjamin Jones was asking everyone on the interwebs to make his dream of constructing a sustainable treehouse on Governors Island a reality. Well guess what popped up there just a few weeks ago? Click through our gallery to see the pics Benjamin was kind enough to send us and read on to find out about the PAZainting Picnic Party that will be held this weekend to add some color to complete this branch-enveloped masterpiece.

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Brooklyn College Breaks Ground on Green Performing Arts Center

Brooklyn College Breaks Ground on Green Performing Arts Center

Just last week, we reported that the Theater for a New Audience began construction on a new LEED-seeking theater, and now we’ve learned that another green performing arts center in the borough is also in the works. Brooklyn College broke ground this May on

Secret Greenwich Village Roof Deck Inspired By New York’s Rooftop Water Towers

Secret Greenwich Village Roof Deck Inspired By New York’s Rooftop Water Towers

If you take a wooden water tank from any NYC rooftop, lay it on its side, slice it open and unfurl it, you get this amazing rooftop deck in Greenwich Village. Designed by GRAFTWORKS, the 1,100 sq. ft. wooden rooftop deck gives you stellar views of the Manhattan skyline including the Empire State Building, gorgeously framed in the deck's indoor patio door. Undulating ribbons of deck provide built-in lounge chairs and the ends curl up to reveal planters that also double as safety barriers to keep you away from the edge. We wish we were outside and lounging here right now!

LEED-Seeking Theater for a New Audience Breaks Ground on Dramatic Black Box Building in Brooklyn

LEED-Seeking Theater for a New Audience Breaks Ground on Dramatic Black Box Building in Brooklyn

Brooklyn’s budding cultural district will soon raise the curtain on a new classic theater. Just Last Friday, construction started on the Theater for a New Audience, a Hugh Hardy designed flexible theater created specifically for the performance of Shakespeare

High Line Structural Engineering: Elevating the Design of New York’s Preserved Rail

High Line Structural Engineering: Elevating the Design of New York’s Preserved Rail

Our extensive coverage of Section 2 of the High Line has concentrated on the aesthetic and architectural experience of the park created by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and landscape designers James Corner/Field Operations. The design team has received much of the credit for this unprecedented urban intervention, and rightly so, but none of it would have been possible without the innovative work by structural engineering firms Robert Silman Associates and Buro Happold. Faced with the challenge of incorporating a modular building system into an existing structure, the structural team devised simple details and quickly adapted to field conditions in order to renovate and create a park that preserves resources while seamlessly incorporating 21st century urban infrastructure.

EDUN’s Loft-Like New York Showroom & Offices Are Awash With Reclaimed Materials

EDUN’s Loft-Like New York Showroom & Offices Are Awash With Reclaimed Materials

Eco fashion brand, EDUN, launched by Ali Hewson and Bono, has an amazing new office space in SOHO full of reclaimed materials. Designed by New York-firm, Spacesmith, the 8,600 sq ft loft like office space and showroom embraces EDUN’s commitment to sustainability. White-washed reclaimed wood walls and locally handcrafted reclaimed furniture reflect the company's ideals and also show off their fashions in the best light.

The FIGMENT Festival Brings a Creative Recycled Art World to Governor’s Island

The FIGMENT Festival Brings a Creative Recycled Art World to Governor’s Island

While the forecast last weekend called for rain, rain and more rain, hordes of New Yorkers (many in exotic garb ranging from butterfly wings to tutus) trekked it out to Governor's Island for the annual independent art festival known as FIGMENT. We took a tour to explore the wildly imaginative (and in most cases, recycled) art that popped up amidst the trees and historic sites of the island. From saran wrap sculptures to salvaged material treehouses, click through our gallery to see the sights we did!

INTERVIEW: NY Passive House President Ken Levenson on the Booming Passiv Haus Movement

INTERVIEW: NY Passive House President Ken Levenson on the Booming Passiv Haus Movement

We at InhabitatNYC have barely been able to contain our excitement as we’ve followed the progress of various Passive House projects in the tri-state area. In addition to these finished works, several projects under construction in and around the city are following

Architect Ryan Enschede Tackles Climate Change Through Sustainable Building in NYC

Architect Ryan Enschede Tackles Climate Change Through Sustainable Building in NYC

Ryan Enschede believes that we have lost our understanding of how to build in relation to the climate, and the Brooklyn-based architect and designer has dedicated his career to changing that mindset. Enschede’s work centers around the idea that architectural

Whitney Museum Breaks Ground on New LEED Seeking High Line Building Designed by Renzo Piano

Whitney Museum Breaks Ground on New LEED Seeking High Line Building Designed by Renzo Piano

After decades of talking about expansion, the Whitney Museum broke ground this Tuesday, May 24 on its brand new 200,000 square foot building, designed by starchitect and Inhabitat favorite Renzo Piano. Overlooking the High Line Park in New York City's Meatpacking District, the stunning new museum will house the Whitney's entire permanent collection -- only 10 percent can fit in the museum's current space in the Upper East Side. The 6-story building is an asymmetrical transparent glass structure that boasts 13,000 square feet of outdoor gallery space. Whitney officials expect it to receive at least LEED Silver, putting the institution on a growing list of LEED-certified NYC museums.

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