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    <title>Weiss/Manfredi's LEED Gold-Hopeful Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center Pavilion</title>
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&lt;p&gt;Last week, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden unveiled a final set of plans for a new Visitor Center pavilion designed by architects Weiss/Manfredi to pursue LEED Gold certification from USGBC. The building would join the LEED Platinum-certified Queens Botanical Garden Visitor's Center, which was the first LEED Platinum-certified building anywhere in New York City. When completed, the 22,000-square-foot Visitor Center will be the first new structure at the Botanic Garden in over 20 years. Funtionally, the pavilion will include an orientation room for visitors, a shop, event space, restrooms, and a cafe. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Weiss/Manfredi principal Marion Weiss described the structure as &amp;quot;chameleon-like,&amp;quot; built into a berm in the Botanic Garden's northeast corner in order to blur the distinction between structure and natural landscape. Specific green design features will include reycled-content building materials, a passive solar site orientation, a geothermal system, and a green roof. The project, which will be located adjacent to the Botanic Garden's northern parking lot at 900 Washington Avenue, is scheduled to break ground later this summer and be completed sometime during the spring of 2011. Weiss/Manfredi's design has already earned an Award for Excellence in Design from the Public Design Commission of the City of New York.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://greenbeatbrooklyn.blogspot.com/2009/07/botanic-garden-unveils-plans-for-green.html"&gt;Botanic Garden Unveils Plans for 'Green' Visitor Center&lt;/a&gt; (GreenBeat Brooklyn/Brooklyn Eagle)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.weissmanfredi.com/projects/brooklyn-botanic-garden-visitor-center.php"&gt;Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center&lt;/a&gt; (Weiss/Manfredi)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbg.org/"&gt;Brooklyn Botanic Garden&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.greenbuildingsnyc.com/2008/06/19/queens-botanical-garden-visitors-center-earns-nycs-first-leed-platinum-rating"&gt;Queens Botanical Garden Earns NYC's First LEED&amp;nbsp;Platinum Rating&lt;/a&gt; (gbNYC)&lt;/li&gt;
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    <title>Leasing Activity Continues at LEED Gold-Certified 7 World Trade Center</title>
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    <description>&lt;span class='print-link'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;Steve Cuozzo reported earlier this week in the Post that Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) is heading downtown from West 57th Street to sublease 58,000 square feet on the 30th and 31st floors of 7 World Trade Center from Dutch bank ABN Amro, which signed up for 140,000 square feet 3 years ago but never moved into the space. Italian insurer Generali will take 17,000 square feet from ABN, and two undisclosed financial services firms are close to signing deals for the remaining space. Cuozzo notes these transactions in the context of 7 World Trade Center's &amp;quot;continued appeal even as demand for downtown office space has lagged amid expectations that huge amounts of space will soon be put up for grabs by such firms as Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch.&amp;quot; How much of that appeal stems from its LEED certification is difficult to quantify, but it's clear that Larry Silverstein is enjoying a competitive advantage in an incredibly challenging commercial leasing market thanks, in some part, to his tower's green design features. The 52-story 7 World Trade Center is currently 83 percent leased and was the first commercial office building in New York City to earn LEED Gold certification from USGBC. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/07072009/business/bmi_dances_its_way_downtown_178006.htm"&gt;BMI&amp;nbsp;Dances Its Way Downtown&lt;/a&gt; (NYP)&lt;/li&gt;
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    <description>&lt;span class='print-link'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;Democracy Now! is an independent daily TV/radio news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The nationally-broadcast program is currently building a new studio at 207 West 25th Street that is aiming for LEED Platinum certification under USGBC's Commercial Interiors rating system. The 8500-square-foot space was initially slated for only LEED Silver, but is now on track for Platinum in the range of 43 to 49 total credits, with particular emphasis on recycled-content and reused materials. Dennis Darcy, owner of Brooklyn Interiors, which is serving as the project's construction manager, created a customized materials tracking system for the project along with systems architect Justin Laman. (The duo now offer their services through a new firm called Green Logic NY). According to Laman, &amp;quot;every -CI or -NC project can use this system to ensure they get all the points they deserve but, most importantly, it will help achieve many points they might have thought were out of reach. Using this type of system allowed us to do things like identify 90 percent recycled-content steel, manage all IAQ information, and maximize the use of rapidly renewable materials.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Democracy Now!'s new space was once a printing house, which allowed the team to refurbish its factory-style windows and bring natural daylight deep into the interiors. All of the wood used in the renovation is FSC-certified and insulation is manufactured from recycled denim. The team uploaded every material receipt and LEED certification document into a project-specific website. It also created a customized database for Democracy Now! to view real-time updates on the project's progress. Darcy believes that Green Logic NY's tracking system will assist other clients as they pursue LEED certification. &amp;quot;It makes going green easy for everyone, as it should be,&amp;quot; he said. The project should be completed by the end of the summer.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Now Approved, Javits Center Expansion Project to Seek LEED Silver</title>
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    <description>&lt;span class='print-link'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;The long-anticipated but delayed expansion of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on the far West Side is finally moving forward after approval last week from the Public Authorities Control Board. Designed by a joint effort of FXFOWLE and Chicago-based architects A. Epstein &amp;amp; Sons International, the 100,000-square-foot project will add 40,000 square feet of exhibition space at a modest $387 per square foot price tag, as well as completely replace the building's leaky roof. In tune with the dicey economy, the project is a scaled-down version of a 2004 plan that would have added 1.35 million square feet of space at a cost of $4.4 billion (or $2850 per square foot). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The $463 million project will seek LEED Silver certification and include a 6.5-acre green roof, transparent glazing that will replace black-mirrored exterior glass, and upgraded mechanical systems that should result in a 26 percent reduction in the building's energy use. Interior LED lighting will also be installed to illuminate various types of signage. Construction work should be completed sometime in 2013 and work on the installation of a temporary, 100,000-square-foot prefabricated temporary swing space between West 39th and 40th Streets is scheduled to begin this week. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Javits Center opened back in 1986 and was originally designed by Pei Cobb Freed. We'll be glad to see work finally moving forward and are equally pleased to note that it will incorporate the foregoing green design features. Here's hoping that the development of Hudson Yards- just to the south of the Javits Center site- won't be all that far behind. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://archpaper.com/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID=3618"&gt;Not Just a Fixer-Upper&lt;/a&gt; (The Architect's Newspaper)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fxfowle.com/projects/civic/jacob-k-javits-convention-center-renovation-and-expansion.php"&gt;Javits Center Renovation &amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;Expansion&lt;/a&gt; (FXFOWLE)&lt;/li&gt;
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    <title>Daniel Libeskind Leaps Into Prefab Market: Other A-List Architects to Follow?</title>
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&lt;p&gt;You may have read about Daniel Libeskind's 5500-square-foot prefabricated home when it was unveiled a few weeks ago, but I thought it was important for us to mention the design here at gbNYC briefly before we head into the holiday weekend. Mr. Libeskind is calling the two-story house &amp;quot;unprecedented;&amp;quot; its price tag, for prefab, certainly is: $2.8 to $4.2 million depending on where the house is installed. The house will be manufactured mostly from wood with an aluminum exterior cladding and draw some of its power from a solar installation. The design includes four bedrooms and four bathrooms; a stainless steel staircase connects its two floors. The interiors emphasize a natural flow of space, including the kitchen which is part of what Mr. Libeskind calls the home's &amp;quot;grand room.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, Mr. Libeskind, who created the master plan for the World Trade Center redevelopment, has only worked on two residential projects during his career (one of which, according to the &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt;, is a private home in Connecticut). Berlin-based Proportion is marketing and distributing the house but shying away from calling it prefab, instead emphasizing Mr. Libeskind's involvement in the design down to the home's smallest details. The company is building a prototype in Datteln, Germany, and expects to begin sales in earnest later this summer. Proportion is also aiming to enlist other high-profile architects to create an entire line of prefabricated homes, so it will be curious to see how this initial effort with Mr. Libeskind proceeds in the coming months.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/greathomesanddestinations/12iht-relib.html?_r=2"&gt;Libeskind Designs a Prefab Home&lt;/a&gt; (NYT)&lt;/li&gt;
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    <title>"Amorphous Thin Film Glass" to Power MStudio's 100 Varick Street Hotel</title>
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    <description>&lt;span class='print-link'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;Developer Charles Fridman filed plans last week for a 26-story hotel at the corner of Varick and Watt Streets that would incorporate a malleable, thin-film solar panel glazing to the building's exterior. The glazing, which has been dubbed &amp;quot;amorphous thin film glass,&amp;quot; would generate an estimated 80 to 100 kilowatts of electricity, which should translate into $40,000.00 to $50,000.00 in energy savings annually. Mr. Fridman has retained Anthony Morali of MStudio as the project's architect; MStudio plans on incorporating a number of other unspecified green design features into the project, though it's unclear at this point whether 100 Varick Street will pursue any third-party certification. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mr. Morali told the &lt;em&gt;New York Observer&lt;/em&gt; that the photovoltaic technology is applied as a gas to the glazing, which allows the glass itself to be much thinner (and malleable) than conventional glass. The installation at 100 Varick Street would be the first time the technology is employed here in New York City (the &lt;em&gt;Observer&lt;/em&gt; does note that a similar type of installation encloses rooftop mechanical systems at the Conde-Nast Building in Times Square). As always, we'll have more details as the project moves forward, which, according to Mr. Fridman, won't be for at least another six months while permits and other approvals are procured from the Department of Buildings.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.observer.com/2009/real-estate/sun-rise-new-hudson-square-hotel-use-solar-technology-rare-new-york"&gt;New Hudson Square Hotel to Use Solar Technology&lt;/a&gt; (NYO)&lt;/li&gt;
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    <title>1211 Avenue of the Americas: LEED-EB Program Certifies Its Largest Building</title>
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    <description>&lt;span class='print-link'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;Beacon Capital's 1211 Avenue of the Americas (on Sixth Avenue between West 47th and 48th Streets) recently earned LEED-EB Silver certification from USGBC. The 45-story, two million-square-foot tower is the largest building that has been certified to date under the LEED for Existing Buildings rating system (it's unclear to us whether the project sought certification under LEED-EB Version 2.0 or Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance- we'll clarify in the comments if possible). Specific green features incorporated into the retrofit include efficient and reduced-content mercury lighting, low-flow plumbing fixtures, and new glazing that boosts the amount of daylight that reaches the tower's interiors. 1211 Avenue of the Americas earned BOMA's &amp;quot;Best Operating Office Building&amp;quot; award in 2008 for buildings larger than one million square feet; current tenants include the &lt;em&gt;New York Post&lt;/em&gt;, Fox News Channel, and the Fox Business Network. The tower was developed by the Rockefeller Group as headquarters for the Celanese Corporation in 1973; 1211 Avenue of the Americas is one of the three &amp;quot;XYZ&amp;quot; towers that line the western side of Sixth Avenue (the Y and Z towers are the McGraw-Hill Building at 1221 and the Exxon Building at 1251). Rockefeller sold its interest in 1211 in 1980; the building's original architects were Harrison &amp;amp; Abramowitz &amp;amp; Harris. Cushman &amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;Wakefield currently serves as managing agent.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/06232009/business/bway_midtown__gown_lease_175654.htm"&gt;Realty Check&lt;/a&gt; (NYP)&lt;/li&gt;
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    <description>&lt;span class='print-link'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the new greenbuildingsNYC! I'm thrilled to be unveiling the new site to you today thanks to the incredible effort of our web developer partners, Engine Industries, and real estate partners Elegran Real Estate &amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;Development Services. This relaunch has been a long and difficult climb and I can't thank Engine and Elegran enough for all of their hard work. Rather than diving straight back into new content,&amp;nbsp;I thought we'd take a couple of days to introduce you to the new features of the site; I hope you'll bear with us as we work out some of the kinks. By registering with us, you'll be able to interact with the site by submitting green building events of interest to our events calendar, products and materials to our new products gallery, and residential and commercial listings into our green real estate marketplace. Each of these features is accessible through the navigation bar. Over the next few weeks, we'll be rolling out a social network and will reveal those details to you shortly. In the interim, please explore the new site and let us know what you think in the comments below; the old gbNYC was not accepting comments due to a technical glitch in Wordpress. Elegran, Engine, and I look forward to building a much more robust online New York City green building community here at gbNYC and hope you will continue to visit, comment, and participate as we push this effort forward in the coming months.&lt;/p&gt;
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    <description>&lt;span class='print-link'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aragon Construction is set to begin work on a new home for the Mandell School at the Chetrit Group's Columbus Square development on the Upper West Side early next year. The 50,000-square-foot school will accommodate up to 650 students through the eighth grade and occupy Columbus Square's entire second floor, as well as parts of the ground floor and basement. The school was designed by New York City-based J.R.S. Architects, Inc. and, although it's unclear whether the project will formally obtain LEED certification, it has been designed with a number of sustainable design features, including recycled-content rubber flooring, efficient lighting, occupancy sensors, and daylight harvesting, as well as recycled-content interior wood paneling. The school will also offer students an 8000-square-foot outdoor terrace. The school's new location at Columbus Square will consolidate three existing locations across the Upper West Side; images below are of an earlier 9000-square-foot project also executed by J.R.S. Architects for the school. Columbus Square itself is a 320,000-square-foot, three-building development on Columbus Avenue between West 97th and West 100th Streets.&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.njand.com/news/green.php/2009/06/02/mandell_school_goes_green_with_60_000_sf" target="_self"&gt;Mandell School Goes Green&lt;/a&gt; (NJ &amp;amp; Co.)&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jrsarchitect.com/featuredprojects/project/54" target="_self"&gt;Mandell School&lt;/a&gt; (J.R.S. Architect)&lt;/li&gt;
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    <description>&lt;span class='print-link'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks, perhaps, to a $5 million facelift and LEED-EBOM application, 515 Madison Avenue (at East 53rd Street) has been a recent bright spot in an otherwise unspectacular Manhattan commercial real estate market thus far in 2009. Recently, three deals were finalized at the 42-story tower: (1) a 22,300-square-foot, 15-year lease at $65 per square foot on the building's fourth and fifth floors for the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; (2) a 9100-square-foot, 10-year lease for communications company Kreab &amp;amp; Gavin Anderson Worldwide, which will take the entire 18th floor at $65 per square foot; and (3) 1900 square feet to Hamilton Investment Funds over five years for half of the tower's 27th floor at $67 per square foot. Newmark Knight Frank chair Jeffrey Gural owns the neo-classical 515 Madison, which was built in 1931 and originally designed by J.E.R. Carpenter. Gural retained Rosen Johnson Architects in connection with the building's renovation project, which included an expansion and upgrades to the building's lobby. The porte-cochere (carriage door) Madison Avenue entrance was redesigned to emphasize the building's signage by allowing natural light to penetrate its canopy. In addition to its pending LEED-EB application, the building is also pursuing LEED-CI certification for its 13th and 14th floors, where green design features include recycled-content carpets, lighting occupancy sensors, and dual-flush toilets. Gural plans on renovating additional floors in the tower to LEED-CI specifications moving forward. 515 Madison joins a number of other Plaza District office buildings that are seeking LEED certification, including 510 Madison and 545 Madison, both of which we've discussed previously here at gbNYC.&lt;/p&gt;
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    <title>The Visionaire: New York City's First LEED Platinum-Certified Condominiums</title>
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    <description>&lt;span class='print-link'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Albanese Organization&amp;rsquo;s Visionaire in Battery Park City earned formal LEED Platinum certification from USGBC yesterday. The 33-story, 500,000-square-foot condominium is the first LEED Platinum set of condos in New York City, and joins Albanese&amp;rsquo;s 26-story Verdesian rental building, which is also certified Platinum and similarly located in Battery Park City. The 251-unit tower was designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli and features a building-integrated photovoltaic system that provides 48 kW of electricity, while 35 percent of the building&amp;rsquo;s electric load will be sourced from Green-e certified renewable energy sources. The Visionaire also features an insulated low-e curtain wall and a single master switch at the entrance to each unit allows residents to simultaneously turn off lights in every room. Units are also set up for automated control of window shades. Turner Construction, which served as the project&amp;rsquo;s general contractor, aimed to recycle over 85 percent of construction waste and ensured that all construction materials contained a minimum of 20 percent recycled content; 50 percent of all materials used to construct the tower were sourced within a 500 mile radius.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px"&gt;Check out the press release below, as well as link to our archive of articles here at gbNYC about this important project.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Visionaire, America&amp;rsquo;s Most Sustainable Residential&lt;br /&gt;
Condominium, Receives LEED&amp;reg; Platinum Certification&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Marketing Directors, Inc. is the exclusive sales and marketing agent of The Visionaire. Homes are available; visit &lt;a href="http://www.thevisionaire.com" title="www.thevisionaire.com"&gt;www.thevisionaire.com&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px"&gt;- The Albanese Organization&amp;rsquo;s third sustainable development in NYC is its greenest -&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px"&gt;New York (June 2, 2009) &amp;ndash; The Albanese Organization announced today that its latest green residential development, The Visionaire, has received LEED&amp;reg; Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), marking it as the greenest residential condominium in the United States and the only LEED Platinum condominium on the east coast.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px"&gt;Located in Manhattan&amp;rsquo;s Battery Park City, The Visionaire has set a new benchmark for LEED-certified residential developments, offering energy savings of more than 40 percent and capturing all 10 of the energy LEED optimization credits available. The building features a high-efficiency air filtration system that conditions, filters and supplies fresh air to each home. A water treatment system recycles water and provides make-up water for the HVAC system cooling tower.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px"&gt;&amp;ldquo;The Visionaire is the premier example of green residential development and this achievement is the result of a dedicated and experienced team of professionals working toward the common goal of improving the built environment,&amp;rdquo; said Russell Albanese, president of The Albanese Organization.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px"&gt;Designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, the 35-story curved-glass-facade development was completed in fall 2008 and contains 247 homes. Additional sustainable elements include a rooftop garden that harvests rainwater for irrigation of the garden, building-integrated solar panels that harvest a portion of the building&amp;rsquo;s electric load, a central heating and cooling system powered by natural gas, which contributes to a substantially lower peak electric grid demand.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px"&gt;Each home features wood flooring harvested in conformance with Forest Stewardship Council certified standards, which promotes forest re-growth, and the kitchens include renewable bamboo cabinetry and Energy Star&amp;reg; appliances. Environmentally safe paints, adhesives and sealants are used throughout the homes as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px"&gt;LEED is the USGBC&amp;rsquo;s system for designing and constructing the world&amp;rsquo;s greenest, most energy efficient, high-performing buildings. LEED verifies environmental performance, occupant health and financial return and was established for market leaders to design and construct buildings that protect and save precious resources while also making good economic sense.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px"&gt;&amp;ldquo;Through sustainable building there is an unprecedented opportunity to respond to the most-important challenges of our time, including global climate change, dependence on non-sustainable and expensive sources of energy and threats to human health,&amp;rdquo; said Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO and founding chair of USGBC. &amp;ldquo;Building operations are nearly 40 percent of the solution to the global climate change challenge and The Visionaire shows what can be achieved through green technology.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px"&gt;The Visionaire team includes developer The Albanese Organization in conjunction with Starwood Capital, design architect Pelli Clarke Pelli, project architect SLCE, interior designer Tim Button of Stedila Design, environmental design consulting and LEED administration firm Atelier Ten, mechanical and electrical engineering firm Cosentini Associates, structural engineering firm DeSimone and construction manager Turner Construction.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px"&gt;In addition to The Visionaire, The Albanese Organization completed the first green residential building in North America, The Solaire, which received a LEED Gold rating from USGBC in 2003. The developer also completed America&amp;rsquo;s first LEED Platinum residential high-rise, The Verdesian, in 2006. For all three Battery Park City developments, Pelli Clarke Pelli served as design architect.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px"&gt;Battery Park City is a residential enclave that has become the hub of sustainable living in New York City. One-third of the waterfront community is dedicated to open space for recreational activities, and in fall of 2010, New York City&amp;rsquo;s first LEED-certified pre-K through 8th grade school, PS 276M, will add a welcomed and important element to the family friendly neighborhood.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px"&gt;&amp;ldquo;With The Visionaire, the Albanese Organization has exceeded expectations and set a new standard for green development in Battery Park City, New York and the entire country,&amp;rdquo; said James F. Gill, chairman of Battery Park City Authority.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-images"&gt;
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    <description>&lt;span class='print-link'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;Designed by Craig Konyk of Brooklyn-based Konyk Architecture, the Hydra House was completed some time ago for a design competition that sought a concept for a twenty-square-foot parcel of land in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Konyk's striking submission contemplates a single-room structure with bold red neoprene rubber walls that would serve as a retirement home for the senior citizen that frequents Atlantic City's casinos and other attractions. The Hydra House's bed, kitchen, storage, and even shower fold up into the side of one wall like a Murphy bed, creating one continuous interior volume of space for the retiree to enjoy in any number of ways. The house is prefabricated with a single piece of steel tubing; exterior glazing is insulated and low-e. Konyk is still attempting to pique a developer's interest in the Hydra House; the project is featured in &lt;em&gt;Prefab&lt;/em&gt; by Bryan Burkhart and Allison Arieff.&lt;/p&gt;
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    <title>14 Maple Avenue Features Country's Largest Biowall, Seeks New Jersey's Third LEED Platinum Rating</title>
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    <description>&lt;span class='print-link'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;Developed jointly by the Morristown Parking Authority and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, 14 Maple Avenue in Morristown, New Jersey is on track to become New Jersey&amp;rsquo;s third LEED Platinum-certified building. We noted the the four-story, 40,000-square-foot project briefly here at gbNYC last fall and thought we&amp;rsquo;d check back in after it opened up just a couple of weeks ago. Designed by Lambertville, New Jersey-based Minno &amp;amp; Wasko Architects, the project applied for 11 credits under LEED&amp;rsquo;s Sustainable Sites category, 4 in Water Efficiency, 13 in Energy and Atmosphere, 6 in Materials and Resources, and 5 in Innovation and Design, including education programs for staff and tenants and a green cleaning program.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Specific green design features include a geothermal heating and cooling system, 99 percent construction debris diverted from landfills, a graywater system, a green roof, and a rooftop photovoltaic system. One of the more unique green design features at 14 Maple Avenue is a three-story interior biowall. The living wall is attached to a concrete wall and is connected to the building&amp;rsquo;s HVAC system, filtering air before it circulates into individual offices. Minno &amp;amp; Wasko was also able to recycle structural materials from the Epstein Department Store, which formerly occupied the site.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Construction costs totaled around $9.5 million; after ground broke back in January of 2007, construction took 20 months to complete. In addition to office space for the Parking Authority and Dodge Foundation, 14 Maple Avenue tenants also include The Seeing Eye Inc., the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, the Morristown Partnership and the Morris Arts Council. The project should earn formal LEED Platinum certification by the end of the summer.&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a target="_self" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/article/www.njbiz.com');" href="http://www.njbiz.com/weekly_article.asp?aID=999105.6301026.1016249.4924248.7545181.858&amp;amp;aID2=78164"&gt;Parking Authority Opens Eco-Friendly HQ&lt;/a&gt; (NJBIZ.com)&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a target="_self" href="http://www.greenbuildingsnyc.com/2008/09/02/791-parking-spaces-for-platinum-new-jerseys-greenest-building-set-to-open-in-morristown/"&gt;791 Parking Spaces for Platinum&lt;/a&gt; (gbNYC)&lt;/li&gt;
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    <title>PassivHaus in Windsor Terrace, $1.3B in Stimulus to NYC, &amp; High Line Preview</title>
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    <description>&lt;span class='print-link'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Brooklyn Cohousing project in Windsor Terrace &lt;a target="_self" href="# http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=5&amp;amp;id=28482"&gt;to use PassivHaus design techniques&lt;/a&gt; , could be city's most energy efficient building.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;$1.3 billion in stimulus dollars &lt;a target="_self" href="# http://www.nypost.com/seven/05282009/news/regionalnews/stealth_1_3b_stimulus_for_city_171345.htm"&gt;are coming to New York City&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a target="_self" href="# http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/05/26/broadways-final-curtain-call-on-vehicles/"&gt;More reactions&lt;/a&gt; to Broadway traffic ban in Times Square.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Sundance Channel &lt;a target="_self" href="# http://www.sundancechannel.com/digital-shorts/"&gt;produces video preview&lt;/a&gt; of High Line park, set to open June 8.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Gotham &lt;a target="_self" href="# http://newyorkpostopinion.com/seven/05262009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/build_em_now_170981.htm"&gt;needs more modern office space&lt;/a&gt; ; by 2010, 64 percent of office buildings will be more than 50 years old (national average is 24).&lt;/li&gt;
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    <title>Gotham's First Green Pizzeria to Open Ovens at 132 East 56th Street</title>
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    <description>&lt;span class='print-link'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;Owner-chef Edward Sylvia is planning on transforming a former Quiznos space at 132 East 56th Street (between Lexington and Park Avenues) into New York City's first green pizza parlor. Pizza by Cert&amp;eacute; should be open for business sometime this fall and offer locally-sourced ingredients, recyclable boxes, biodegradable utensils, and even thyme and basil grown within the 1200-square-foot restaurant itself.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pizza by Cert&amp;eacute; intends to seek an unspecified level of LEED certification and will incorporate green design features ranging from a graywater system to efficient baking ovens that will capture excess heat and turn it into electricity. Hard construction costs should run Mr. Sylvia around $600,000.00- which is about double the price tag for the same size pizzeria without any green features- but Mr. Sylvia tells &lt;em&gt;Crain's&lt;/em&gt; that he expects to recoup the green building premium thanks to energy and other cost savings.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pizza by Cert&amp;eacute; would join Pizza Fusion in my hometown of Ridgewood, New Jersey among local pizzerias pursuing LEED certification; Pizza Fusion is aiming to become the first LEED-certified restaurant in the entire state of New Jersey. We'll have more details on Pizza Cert&amp;eacute; here at gbNYC as they become available.&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090524/SMALLBIZ/305249968" target="_self"&gt;Pizza Parlor Goes Eco-Chic&lt;/a&gt; (Crain's)&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.greenbuildingsnyc.com/2009/01/26/leed-certified-pizza-fusion-ridgewood-nj/" target="_self"&gt;Pizza Fusion - Ridgewood&lt;/a&gt; (gbNYC)&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.greenbuildingsnyc.com/category/real-estate/green-restaurants-real-estate/" target="_self"&gt;Green Restaurants&lt;/a&gt; (gbNYC Archive)&lt;/li&gt;
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