Brooklyn, N.Y.
Gary Shoemaker Architects

Photography © Jock Pottle/Esto

A project to verify the virtues of going green

Program: Designated as a pilot project, this new manufacturing facility will focus on the research and development of converting wasted glass into a high-added-value engineered stone that could eventually be used in sustainable architecture throughout the nation. The facility will be housed in a former military base, within close proximity to 1,000 tons of waste glass per day and a surplus of inner-city workers.

Solution: Faced with the overwhelming task of a gut rehab of the worst building on the base, the client became its own general contractor. Thus, much of the basic construction work and metal fabrication was undertaken in-house, with estimated construction cost savings of up to 70 percent. When the facility is completed next year, this skillfully designed model of sustainability will both experiment with and provide prototypes of innovative and smart materials to be incorporated into this stone product.

For more images please see the November 2003 issue or Architectural Record.

The Winners: Orange Innovations | Hotel Habita | Sekii Ladies Clinic | Start-Up Offices | Inn at Price Tower | Darwin Centre | Apple SoHo | Stealth/Ogilvy | Gannett/USA Today Corporate Headquarters | ImageNet

The Finalists: Automated Trading Desk Technology Campus | Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery | University of Washington | Herman Miller MarketPlace | Beacon Communications Office | New Academic Complex, Baruch College, CUNY | Mott Children's Center

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