WASA to Design
AmeriCares HQ
Wank Adams Slavin Associates LLP, based in New York City, has
been selected by Reliance Property Group to design a new world
headquarters for the AmeriCares Foundation, a global nonprofit
disaster relief organization. The new headquarters complex will
be located in Stamford Park in Stamford, Conn.; the charity
is currently located in New Canaan, Conn.
WASA will be transforming a 1920s factory into a modern office
complex and warehouse. The redesign will result in 24,650 sq.
ft. of office space for the charity along with a 51,000-sq.-ft.
warehouse that AmeriCares will use to store the supplies it
ships throughout the world.
It will include a new, dedicated entrance for AmeriCaresto project
the charity's profile in the community.
Gwathmey Siegel Starts Design
The Related Cos., New York, has selected Gwathmey Siegel
& Associates to design a 22-story residential tower with
40 apartments on Astor Place in Manhattan.
It is the first residential building in Manhattan designed
by Gwathmey, which is noted for among other accomplishments,
designing the addition to the Guggenheim Museum; Morgan Stanley
Dean Witter world headquarters; and the Science, Industry
and Business Library in Manhattan. Ismael Leyva, of Ismael
Leyva Architects will be the residential architect for the
building.
The building will also house retail on the main floor and
parking below grade. It will replace a parking lot and be
across the street from Cooper Union and around the corner
from the Public Theatre.
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