Construction Update: Koch Center for Cancer Care
Facade installation is nearing completion at the Koch Center for Cancer Care, which will feature two science and medical facilities sharing a single site on the Upper East Side waterfront. Memorial Sloan Kettering will offer outpatient treatment programs with its 750,000-square-feet cancer care facility. CUNY-Hunter College will house academic science and nursing facilities in their 336,000-square-foot Science and Health Professions building.
The building massing breaks down what would be a dense extruded volume into a series of smaller, interconnected chunks. Voids in the overall massing allow for outdoor terraces.
The facade features terra cotta and glass panels of varying sizes that create a vertically oriented pattern. Vertical terra cotta fins of varying depths also contribute to the pattern while offering shade and mitigating the effects of solar heat gain and glare.
Architect: Ennead Architects with Perkins Eastman; Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti; MEP Engineer: Jaros Baum & Bolles; Curtainwall Consultant: Entek Engineering, LLC, Heintges & Associates; Client: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, CUNY-Hunter College; Program: Outpatient Cancer Care and Research; Location: Upper East Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2019.
Construction Update: New Patient Pavilion for Penn Medicine
North facade from South 34th Street.
Construction is underway at Foster + Partners' New Patient Pavilion for the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine) in Philadelphia. The flexible inpatient facility will hold 500 patient rooms and is envisioned as a model for the hospital of the future.
Looking up at the northwest corner.
West facade from Civic Center Boulevard.
Southwest corner from Convention Avenue.
South facade from Convention Avenue.
Southeast corner from Convention Avenue.
View of the site from Penn Park.
Architect: Foster + Partners; Client: Penn Medicine; Program: Healthcare; Location: Philadelphia, PA; Completion: 2021.
Construction Update: Koch Center for Cancer Care
Northwest corner from East 74th Street.
Construction is underway at the Koch Center for Cancer Care, which will feature two science and medical facilities sharing a single site on the Upper East Side waterfront. Memorial Sloan Kettering will offer outpatient treatment programs with its 750,000-square-feet cancer care facility. CUNY-Hunter College will house academic science and nursing facilities in their 336,000-square-foot Science and Health Professions building.
Northeast corner from FDR Drive.
The building massing breaks down what would be a dense extruded volume into a series of smaller, interconnected chunks. Voids in the overall massing allow for outdoor terraces.
Looking up at the east facade.
Facade installation is underway at the east and south facades. The facade features terra cotta and glass panels of varying sizes that create a vertically oriented pattern. Vertical terra cotta fins of varying depths also contribute to the pattern while offering shade and mitigating the effects of solar heat gain and glare.
Facade panels installed at the southeast corner.
Southeast corner from FDR Drive.
Close-up of the facade panels at the southeast corner.
Southeast corner from FDR Drive.
Panels installed at the south facade.
West facade from East 73rd Street.
Architect: Ennead Architects with Perkins Eastman; Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti; MEP Engineer: Jaros Baum & Bolles; Curtainwall Consultant: Entek Engineering, LLC, Heintges & Associates; Client: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, CUNY-Hunter College; Program: Outpatient Cancer Care and Research; Location: Upper East Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2019.
NYU Langone Medical Center Expansion
Checking in on the progress at two projects underway for the NYU Langone Medical Center's campus transformation.
NYU Langone Medical Center is undergoing a major effort to renovate and expand its campus in the Kips Bay neighborhood. Already, the master plan has seen major renovations to Tisch Hospital. Now, two major new construction projects from Ennead Architects and NBBJ are underway simultaneously as the Science Building and the Kimmel Pavilion both rise at either end of the campus.
NYU Langone Science Building
At the corner of East 30th Street and the FDR Service Road, the NYU Langone Science Building will provide 10 floors of laboratory space dedicated to research within its 365,000 square foot tower. The tower is predominantly clad in a glass curtain wall that features glass fins and a white, horizontal frit pattern that both work to mitigate the sun's impact on its eastern and southern exposure. Currently, the building's steel superstructure is one floor from topping out and curtain wall installation has begun on the lower half of the tower. LEED Gold is being targeted for the tower.
Southeast corner from the FDR Drive Service Road.
Close-up of the southeast corner of the tower facade and mockup of the stone cladding at the ground floor.
Looking up at the east facade from the FDR Drive Service Road.
Looking up at the southeast corner from East 30th Street.
Looking up at the south facade from East 30th Street.
Close-up of the southeast corner of the tower facade.
Southwest corner from East 30th Street.
Close-up of the southwest corner of the tower facade.
Southwest corner from East 30th Street.
Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Pavilion
Located adjacent to Tisch Hospital at the northern edge of the medical campus, the Kimmel Pavilion's 830,000-square-foot tower will bring modernized patient care to the campus. The project includes high-efficiency operating rooms and single-bed inpatient rooms with a connection to Tisch Hospital at imaging and procedural floors. Presently, the steel superstructure has reached floor 18 of 21 and installation of the tower's curtain wall has begun on the western facade.
Northeast corner from East 34th Street and FDR Drive.
Northwest corner from First Avenue and East 34th Street.
West facade from First Avenue.
Close-up of the west facade.
Close-up of the west facade.
Architects: Ennead Architects with NBBJ; Client: NYU Langone Medical Center; Program: Healthcare; Location: Kips Bay, New York, NY; Completion: 2018.
New York-Presbyterian Hospital’s David H. Koch Center
Curtain wall installation is underway at New York-Presbyterian Hospital's new outpatient center and maternity ward on the Upper East Side.
Construction has topped out and curtain wall installation is underway at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital's 17-story, 733,500-square-foot multi-specialist outpatient center and maternity ward on the Upper East Side.
Designed by Pei Cobb Freed, the building's exterior wall features a bronze and white toned frit pattern that will create an overall pattern of wavy vertical lines. Curtain wall has currently reached the second floor and overall completion is expected by 2018.
Northeast corner from York Avenue.
Façade installation at the northeast corner.
Looking up at the east façade from York Avenue.
Looking west along East 68th Street.
Southeast corner from York Avenue.
Curtain wall at the southeast corner.
Looking up at the south façade from East 68th Street.
Architect: Pei Cobb Freed (Design Architect), HOK (Architect of Record); Client: New York-Presbyterian Hospital; Program: Outpatient Center, Maternity Ward; Location: Upper East Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2018.
