Elmhurst Community Library

projects   |   2018

Elmhurst Community Library

The borough’s second-busiest library engages the community it serves with a transparent and welcoming structure that is alive with activity day and night.

Flushing Commons

New York City's Flushing Commons embraces steel framing for the differing uses and layouts of a mid-rise residential tower and commercial building.

East Side Access: Manhattan Caverns

One of the largest transportation infrastructure endeavors ever undertaken in the United States, the megaproject will provide new Long Island Rail Road service to Manhattan’s East Side with an eight-track expansion beneath Grand Central Terminal.

Lenfest Center for the Arts

In a high-performance cultural center on Columbia University's new campus, Renzo Piano Building Workshop looks to the neighborhood's industrial tradition. Steel and aluminum make this multi-program building robust functionally and aesthetically.

Jerome L. Greene Science Center

Clarity, openness, quiet, and energy- sparing ingenuity make the new headquarters of Columbia University's Mind Brain Behavior Institute a remarkable workplace for cutting- edge research and community health promotion. The crystalline Greene Center gives its neighborhood a view of science in vitro.

USTA Grandstand

Part of a ten-year redesign of the entire Billie Jean King National Tennis Center campus, a new, relocated Grandstand plays with translucency with an innovative canopy of 486 PTFE-covered panels.

USTA Arthur Ashe Stadium Roof

The more than 23,000 seats at the largest tennis stadium in the world were not originally designed to have a roof overhead, but after rain hindered the US Open for five consecutive years, the United States Tennis Association sought a solution.