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Engine Company 75
Bronx, N.Y.
Richard Dattner & Partners Architects
The Little Engine House that Could

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Two fire department companies
and a battalion chief share the first new firehouse built
in New York City in fifteen years. Sited on a corner in a
residential neighborhood, the new building uses striated,
contrasting concrete blocks to express an essential civic
function, while respecting the scale of the surrounding neighborhood.
A corner tower recalls the fire observation towers once protecting
New York.
The single-story apparatus floor at the
street intersection allows fire vehicles to exit in four directions.
An l-shaped, two-story building section surrounds the apparatus
floor, housing dormitories for fire personnel on the upper
level, and battalion offices, dining room, and kitchen on
the lower level. On the east facade of the firehouse artist
Mierle Ukeles has outlined a full-size ladder truck in concrete
and glass blocks.
Formal name
of building:
Engine Company 75, Ladder Company 33, Battalion 19
Location:
Bronx, N.Y.
Gross square
footage:
13,650 sf
Total construction
cost:
$3.7 million
Client:
N.Y.C. Dept of Design & Construction, Division of Structures
Fire Unit
Architect's firm:
Richard Dattner & Partners
Architects, PC
154 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Tel 212.247.2660
Fax 212.582.4857
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