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Douglas Durst’s big vision

Douglas Durst is thinking BIG, and early indications are that we should all be grateful. The developer and his partners at Durst Fetner Residential have tapped Bjarke Ingels , the Dane who contributes the first two letters to the name of his design firm Bjarke Ingels Group, for a most unusual apartment building at a most inauspicious location the West Side Highway at West 57th Street—according to The Wall Street Journal.

Publication Crain's New York Business
Date 2012-07-23
Author Erik Ipsen

New Face of Design

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels is rapidly becoming one of the design world's rising stars, with projects like the Danish Pavilion in Shanghai, a building that resembles a coiled snake at rest, and Copenhagen's Harbour Baths project, a crisp, wooden structure that gives lightness to the type of civic gathering space that is typically built with a sober rigidity. Now excavation work has begun on what will be his first New York project to date: a roughly 750-unit apartment building on the corner of the West Side Highway and 57th Street that's likely going to be one of New York's most talked about new structures in years.

Publication The Wall Street Journal
Date 2012-07-22
Author Robbie Whelan

Landlords turn on green plumbing

It's hard for an office building to be greener than the new Bank of America Tower. The 54-story, 2.1 million-square-foot LEED Platinum-certified Goliath features everything from a state-of-the-art air-filtration system and its own co-generation plant that supplies 65% of the tower's energy, to something a bit more basic that most people don't talk about.

Publication Crain’s New York Business
Date 2012-07-22
Author Anne Field

Federal Government Agrees to Occupy Six Floors at New Trade Tower

The federal government announced on Wednesday that it would become the third tenant of 1 World Trade Center. As a result, more than half of the space inside the fast-rising tower has now been leased.

Publication The New York Times
Date 2012-07-18
Author Vivian Yee

One WTC, Still Rising, Signs New Tenant

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced Wednesday that it had signed a lease for six floors with the U.S. General Services Administration, finalizing a commitment made back in the administration of President George W. Bush.

Publication Wall Street Journal
Date 2012-07-18
Author Eliot Brown
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