Architectural Record: The Reimagining of New York’s Brawniest Buildings are Showcased at the Latest Edition of Record on the Road
As relayed in the name of the event, the focus was on the transformation of industrial buildings in New York—specifically hulking, workhorse edifices erected in the late 19th and early-20th centuries on the waterfront-abutting fringes of both Manhattan and Brooklyn. Featured speaker Rick Cook, founding partner of COOKFOX Architects, presented two projects including St. John’s Terminal, the recently opened new headquarters of Google’s Global Business Operation housed within—and atop—a sprawling brick-clad structure built in 1934 as the southern terminus of a long-defunct elevated freight rail line that once skirted Manhattan’s West Side (famously reborn as the High Line). Roughly two miles to the north of St. John’s Terminal in the West Chelsea Historic District, another ambitious COOKFOX-led adaptive reuse project is currently underway at Terminal Warehouse, a rail-linked 1891 freight storehouse that many New Yorkers—at least those around during the 1980s and 90s—know best as the former site of the notorious Tunnel night club. That building is currently being converted into a 1,150,000-square-foot “groundscraper,” complete with a lush courtyard inserted into its center, for commercial office tenants.
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