Nearly thirty years after EE&K’s landmark masterplan for Battery Park City, Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects’ design for the final two parcels of land in Battery Park City, Sites 23 and 24 is emerging from the ground. The Liberty Green & Liberty Luxe Apartments, which are joined at their base, were designed to respond to their context. The western façades are orderly and reserved to address the residential character of the avenue. The eastern façades facing the city have their own identity, expressed by large-scale...
While school budgets are being taxed by declining revenue, escalating construction costs and skyrocketing transportation expenses, our need to provide high performance, forward thinking educational environments for our children and communities remains a constant.
Over the past few decades, our aspirations to provide these state-of-the-art schools were often met by replacing existing school buildings and sites with new facilities on “green field” sites. In many cases, new buildings on these sites may now be out of reach. However,...
The historic building boom that has so dramatically remade Shanghai’s skyline in the past decade has produced one of the most startling urban transformations ever seen. While the boom has resulted in a glittering collection of trophy buildings and stand alone icons, its effect on the vitality of Shanghai’s legendary street life has been less benign. With the design of the Huishan North Bund, EE&K has introduced a new approach to large scale waterfront development to China’s financial center and most dynamic metropolis.
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It’s not Florianópolis, the island paradise off the coast of Brazil where Pat McKeever and her husband, Jim, had planned to retire. And it’s not Fort Bragg, California, where they owned and ran a bed-and-breakfast in a Victorian farmhouse overlooking the Pacific. But it’s not a bad view from the third-floor window of the two-year-old two-family townhouse near Rockaway Beach where they moved to be near their grandchildren. There are the neighbors’ tidy houses, many of the same design and all of the same recent vintage, each clad in...
