50 Harrison Street – Hoboken Business Center Hoboken, NJ Nastasi Architects 2018
55 Newark Street – Multi Family Hoboken, NJ Nastasi Architects 2018
400 Jackson Street – Multi Family Hoboken, NJ Nastasi Architects 2018
The Embankment – Elevated Park Development The Embankment, Jersey City, NJ Marchetto Higgins Stieve Architects 2017
88 Regent Street – Mixed Use Tower Liberty Harbor North, Jersey City, NJ Marchetto Higgins Stieve Architects 2017
Dykes Residential Towers
Weehawken, NJ Marchetto Higgins Stieve Architects 2017
Private Residences
Exuma Cays, Bahamas
Highbourne Cay Yacht Club 2009
Jewish Children’s Museum
Brooklyn, NY Gwathmey Siegel &Associates, Architects 2004
Dell Lake House
Austin, TX Gwathmey Siegel &Associates, Architects 2003
Dell Marina
Austin, TX Gwathmey Siegel &Associates, Architects 2003
Allen County Public Library
New York, New York Gwathmey Siegel &Associates, Architects 2003
World Trade Center Design Competition
Journal Square Tower – Mixed Use Tower
New York, NY Gwathmey Siegel, Richard Meier, Steven Holl, Peter Eisenman, Laurie Olin & ARUP 2002
Port Imperial – Multi-Family
New York, New York Gwathmey Siegel &Associates, Architects 2002
Monticello Triangle – Multi-Family
New York, New York Gwathmey Siegel &Associates, Architects 2001
Panoramic Hudson Yards – Mixed Use Tower
New York, New York Gwathmey Siegel &Associates, Architects 2000
Queen Anne Academic Center
New York, New York Gwathmey Siegel &Associates, Architects 1999
PATH Plaza Journal Square, Jersey City, NJ Marchetto Higgins Stieve Architects 2017 West New York, NJ Marchetto Higgins Stieve Architects 2016 Jackson Hill, Jersey City, NJ Marchetto Higgins Stieve Architects 2016 Hudson Yards, New York, NY CetraRuddy Architects 2015
Prince George Community College, Largo, MD Pfeiffer Partners Architects 2015
Addition to the Rockefeller Arts Center
SUNY Fredonia
Deborah Berke Partners 2013
432 Park Avenue - Mixed Use Tower Macklowe Properties, New York, NY Rafael Vinoly Architects 2012
Center for Biological Imaging - Washington University - Master Plan
Washington University, School of Med., St. Louis, MO Rafael Vinoly Architects 2010
Quadrangle Offices : Seagram’s Building
Apartment Central Park South
Mid-Manhattan Library
Quadrangle 14th Floor: Seagram’s Building
Basketball Hall of Fame
Springfield, Massachusetts Gwathmey Siegel &Associates, Architects 1998
Cameron Museum of Art
New York, New York Gwathmey Siegel &Associates, Architects 1998
PepsiCo
Purchase, New York Gwathmey Siegel &Associates, Architects 1999
Universal Studios
New York, New York Gwathmey Siegel &Associates, Architects 1996
Barry Yanku Portfolio 2018
55 Newark Street Hoboken, NJ - 2018
View at Court Street
88 Regent Street Jersey City, NJ 2017
The 88 Regent is one of the first highrise projects in the Liberty Harbor North Redevelopment Plan. This 560,000 GSF Mixed Use Tower includes 392 Residential units, 41,000 SF of Amenities and 15,000 SF of Retail at the base. Also included is a 300 car Parking with a large amenity deck on the top deck. The tower is divided into three distinct zones as illustrated in this rendering . The project was presented to planning and approved with three deviations from the Redevelopment Plan and all responding to site specific conditions. The base of the tower 9 feet below the DFE, Design Flood Elevation requiring special flood proofing elements. The 12 floors directly above have a mixture of residential and amenity uses. The transition to a tower occurs on the 13 where a double height amenity floor occurs and tower above has residential units with Amenity spaces at the top. Construction is slated for 2020.
Modularity : Plan and Elevation Development The integration of a unitized curtainwall and modular plan layouts were the drivers in the proportions of the plans and elevations. The plans were controlled by the setback requiremments, views of manhattan and locations of the entrances governed primarily by the flood elevation. There is a seven foot grade change from one edge of the building to the other. These are the early development sketches illustrating the southern facde and the upper portion of the tower was twisted to get the views to the east of Manahattan.
Also illustrated are the studies of positioning the entrances which had to navigate the level of grade and the cores fixed by egress requirements.
The Embankment Master Plan Jersey City, NJ 2017
Monticello Triangle Jersey City, NJ - 2017
Prince George Performing Arts Center Renovation and Addition Washington, D.C. - 2016
Plan Development:
Add Alternate and Phasing Studies: The sketches to left illustrate the many explorations we went through to get the project within budget.
Rockefeller Arts Center Addition and Renovation Fredonia, NY - 2014 Gwathmey Siegel Associates Architects
Project Management: Develop the custom Zinc Facade for a Performing Arts Academic Building . This building is attached to the I.M. Pei Fedronia Performing Arts Center . Pei’s parti was similar to his other campus masterplan where the entire campus was constructed out of architectural Concrete. Attaching a new facility while applying a change in materials was both challenging aestetically as well as technically challenging. My role on this project was to weave in all the requirements of the Construction Manual provided by the SUCF.
Ther are twoprimary materials on this project which were used to express an integration of the dominant concrete materia on campus while weaving a metallic and glass box. To keep the custom facade within budget it was necessary to develop a sytem on components that woud reduce the cost by forming a standardized kit of parts while maintaining the unique variations of the metal screen language.
Seperation of Occupanncies:
The set was comprised of a grid of plans so the very complex integration of circulation with its network of egresses from adjacent buldings could be accompished. The demands on eggress from the existing building through this new addition created a series of safeareas to assure the safe and legal egress of occupants. Adding to the complexity were the Studios for Pottery along side dance both requiring special characteristic to insure that the uses would not delude the egress stategy.
The upper floors were confined to calssrooms and Dance Studios as the lower portion was dedicated to pottery and exterior courtyards with kilns. All the specail mechanical equipment was place on the roof. Isolation of sound as well as olfactory issues created by the equpment had to be maintained.
432 Park Avenue Residential Tower New York, NY - 2012 Rafael Vinoly Architects
57th Street Facade : The composition of a pure tower was interrupted by a seven story building which was designed to take advantage of it’s frontage on 57th Street.
Plaza and Retail : Model showing retail at first floor and first cellar. The cellar is designed to conect the Plaza and 57th Street Retail entrance connecting the three entrances for the development.
Plaza and Site Entrance : In this design iteration, the entrance to the residential component was isolated from the larger plaza design to create a semiprivate entry sequence.
432 Park Avenue is an extraordinary project being built by Harry Macklowe at the corner of Park and 57th that will be the tallest residential structure in New York City on completion. This 1,400 foot tall mixed use tower has many features that have never been tested previously in the marketplace or in the construction industry. Its footprint is less than one hundred feet square. From its inception this project was modeled three dimensionally with Rhino, Max and printed on 3D printers, including all of the engineering that was used to test the structural, mechanical and enclosure systems as well as the aerodynamic properties. The tower has an 18 to 1 slenderness ratio, setting it apart technologically from all of its predecessors. The development is primarily residential with a commercial component at its base. The structure is reinforced concrete at strength of 14,000 psi. The design mix is a concrete known as SCC, or Self Consolidating High Performance Concrete. The columns at the base are close to six feet square and they taper as they reach the top. The floor to floor height is fifteen foot six giving the residential floors large volumes. The windows, like the footprint of the structure, are square. The glazing units are three lights thick, which was necessary to meet the energy code. With six openings per side the glass was engineered to the maximum sheet size. At 2,100 pounds each, the glass was designed to bear its own weight without cracking due to the large size. Park Avenue Building : A floating cube at the corner of Park and 56th marked the main ground level.
Plaza and Commercial and Support Spaces: The building sits on two zoning lots. Each lot has it’s own FAR formula which added to the complexitiy of the buildings programmed space below the Plaza and above the buildings Entrance Lobby. The Zoning Lot’s divide the Tower in equal halfs therefore the division of the floors above the Lobby were configured to maximize rentable retail spaces closer to grade and posing challenges to the Amenitiy Floors above.
Stacking and Zoning :
Structure and Fenestration :
Plaza and Site Planning: Zoning played a large role as constraints of a divided Zoning Lot created limited options.
Mechanical Systems and Fenestration: Given the small footprint of the building and the adjacent lots placement of air intake and exhausts were compositionally challenging. The color coded illustration above shows where louvers were placed.
Exterior Wall Systems
Lot Line Windows: The western facade has a lot line condition which imposes programmatic restrictions for types of spaces allowable in the tower due to fresh air requirements of habitable spaces.
Retail 57th and Plaza: The 57th Street conditions require special street wall requirements. Due to the nature of 57th Street the facade has to maintain the commercial facade to be colinear with adjacent buildings. Additionally the height of the building has also been set by the zoning envelope of the commercial corridor.
Systems and Subsets: To maintain the regularity of the facade the design of the window accomodated many varied envelop conditions depending on usage of facade in the tower.
Mechanical Plant and Entrance:anchoring the corner with the same proportional motif and module using transparency opposed to porousity of the tower. Programatically limited by footprint and corner location. Roof had the cooling towers for the lower half of building.
432 Park Entrance:a underpass cut though the building allowing for the Park Avenue address. Also a escalator from street to lower level retail. Possibly a food venue.
Park Avenue Details: facade designed completely of glass framing making the box almost transparent.
Park Avenue Building
Amenities for Residence: Just above he Residential Lobby was the amenities for the residential tower. Due to zoning and use the stairs went from in the core to flanking the tower. The orange shows the distribution of the spaces including the blue lower level commercial entity. Mechanical spaces are shown in grey and illustrate the intense integration required to get all the services into the narrow tower ans at the same time keep elevators intact while shifting stairs to a pressurized type allowing for commercial use.
Pre-function and Dinning
Spa
Pool
Lobby and Amenities Section:
Residential Floors and Studies: The residential component took up 70% of the program space. The tower had one scissor stair in the middle freeing up space in tower for a smaller core. The Elevators were single shaft and were the first of there kind in use as high speed very tall building design. The combination of core size in small tower and the large windows governed the layouts. There were many constraints making layouts very challenging. Ventilation and thermal comfort were also issues that needed timely research to maintain the thermal conditioning need for the large volumes.
Pool and Spa:
Pre-function and Dinning:
Exercise and Conference Center:
Residential:
Construction Photos:
Lake House Austin, TX - 2005 Gwathmey Siegel Associates Architects
The second level houses a master bedroom suite, a family study, four children’s bedrooms and a roof deck. The house is the first structure in a phased site development, which will include a boat house, pool house and pool, as well as outdoor sports facilities. The full ensemble of buildings included an Arena, Riding complex and Boat House.
Basketball Hall of Fame Springfield, MA - 2005 Gwathmey Siegal Associates Architects At the heart of the project is the Center Court Atrium, organized around a basketball court that will serve as a forum for clinics and special events. Visitors glimpse the atrium while ascending in glass elevators. The Honors Ring, the first museum experience in this procession, is suspended within the spherical volume. Surrounding second-floor, galleries frame multiple views into the spherical atrium and Center Court. Intersecting volumes define the building’s exterior. A curved roof spans the retail and museum spaces; a 100-foot-high sphere contains the Center Court; and rectilinear volumes contain the theater and the north and south arcades. A 150-foot-high spire supports a beacon that incorporates the Hall of Fame’s logo, which illuminates the sphere at night. Events with up to 10,000 visitors can take place in the south parking lot. The museum also includes a tourist information center, a new avatar of the existing Basketball Hall of Fame, a pedestrian bridge over the Amtrak rail lines to Springfield’s Riverfront Park and a pedestrian Walk of Fame connection to downtown Springfield.