All Projects tagged “LEED Gold

United Nations Headquarters Facades

Nestled along the East River in New York City, the United Nations Headquarters has long been admired as the physical embodiment of global diplomacy and collaboration. Designed in 1947 by a collaborative team of esteemed architects including Le Corbusier, Wallace K. Harrison, and Oscar Niemeyer, the […]

Weill Cornell Medical College Belfer Research Building

Designed by Ennead Architects, an 18-story laboratory building for Weill Cornell Medical Center fosters interdisciplinary research behind an advanced facade that references the crystalline glass vocabulary of the adjacent Weill Greenberg Center as well as the scale of the surrounding residential fabric. The north, east, […]

Pier 4 Condominiums

Pier 4, located in the Seaport District, extends roughly 400 feet into Boston Harbor. Once the site of the famous Anthony’s Pier 4 restaurant, the pier has been redeveloped for mixed use with expansive public spaces, including the continuation of the Harbor Walk around the […]

4 World Trade Center

A 61-story glass-and-steel tower at the southeast corner of the new World Trade Center site; the 947-foot-tall skyscraper will include 56 office floors (1.8 million square feet) and 5 floors of retail space. Heintges was engaged as the façade design consultant to the design architect during all phases of design and bidding, and during construction administration for the tower’s curtain wall and atrium/lobby enclosure.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center, designed by Weiss/Manfredi Architects, is the centerpiece of the Garden’s Master Plan for its next 100 years of service. With an undulating facade in plan, it follows the contours of the existing berm into which the building is sited. Visitors […]

Columbia University Northwest Corner Science Building

A modern addition to the historic Columbia University campus, this multidisciplinary facility is primarily clad in anodized aluminum rainscreen panels that articulate the building’s truss structure. Heintges was engaged by the architects for the design and engineering of the full exterior envelope.

Barnard College Diana Center

A seven-story mixed-use building and student center, designed to replace Barnard College’s two-story McIntosh Center, provides the compact, urban campus with an illuminated focal point along its Broadway border. A skeptical board of trustees, partial to conventional brick-and-mortar, was persuaded by an all-glass facade design […]

Riverhouse

Located at the south end of Rockefeller Park in lower Manhattan, the Riverhouse is a high-rise condominium featuring the first double skin facade on a residential building in New York City and the first to achieve LEED Gold certification in Battery Park City. The predominant […]