Some of the Bright Lights of New York's Businesses Are Powered by Wind
The use of wind power by owners of commercial real estate in New York City is rising rapidly, but from a very low base, according to energy service companies, which supply the power to businesses.
Date 2009-04-02
Author Jane L. Levere
Real-estate family scions poised to gain
Make no mistake. The Dursts, long one of the most aggressive and least risk-averse of the families, have been busy. The family that led the redevelopment of a sleepy Third Avenue in the 1960s and a tawdry Times Square in the 1980s broke ground on a speculative office tower on West 57th Street and 12th Avenue soon after Sept. 11. More recently, the organization built the 2.1 million-square-foot Bank of America Tower at 1 Bryant Park. And then there were the deals that got away. Mr. Durst bid aggressively on the Freedom Tower, Hudson Yards and then some of the former holdings of developer Harry Macklowe. “We won by losing,” says Mr. Durst.
Date 2009-01-11
Author Andrew Marks
The New School to Honor Douglas Durst at 2008 LaGuardia Award Dinner
Annual Benefit Raises Scholarship Funds for The New School. Hosted by New School President Bob Kerrey and Featuring Keynote Speaker Will Rogers.
Date 2008-09-09
One Bryant Park: Making a Point on the Skyline
Like a shard of quartz thrusting up from Manhattan bedrock, The Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park almost effortlessly tapers 1,200 feet to the tip of its spire—a naturally occurring element in the New York skyline. But creating this urban icon took the monumental coordination of 25,000 tons of structural steel, eight steel fabricators, and a cunningly engineered, cost-saving column design. The collective result is a high-performance tower with equal doses of practicality and poetry.
Date 2008-04-03
Documenting Performance: Does it need to be so hard?
The Editor's Commentary in the Fall 2008 issue of High Performing Buildings (HPB) distilled some of the "Lessons Learned" over the first year of publishing HPB. The commentary stated "getting energy performance data should be easy but what we've learned in our first year is that energy consumption can be a complex issue, and the data that are available need some analysis."
Date 2008-02-01
Author Adam W. Hinge, P.E., Member ASHRAE; and Donald J. Winston, P.E., Member ASHRAE,