OPUS Condominium Designs Revealed

Designs were revealed for OPUS Condominiums, a new 64-unit luxury condominium project at 2770 Broadway at 107th Street in New York, N.Y.

The 22-story project is being developed by The Clarett Group, headed by co-founders Veronica W. Hackett and Neil C. Klarfeld and is expected to be completed in early 2005. The condominiums are being designed by Randy Gerner, a principal of Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel Architects, P.C.

OPUS will have no more than four apartments per floor and only two per floor on the top five tower stories. Each home will feature oak strip flooring, high ceilings with expansive, floor-to-ceiling windows designed specifically for OPUS, solid core four-panel doors and designer hardware.

New Police and Fire HQ Planned for Long Island

Swanke Hayden Connell Architects is providing architectural, interior design and graphic design services for a new Police and Fire Marshall headquarters for Nassau County in Long Island, N.Y.

Located in Westbury, N.Y., the 300,000-sq.-ft. facility will house all of Nassau County's Police Department headquarters functions as well as the majority of police bureaus and squads, the Fire Marshall headquarters, and the arson/bomb squad. The center will include communications and information systems and forensic labs. In addition, the program includes a 300-seat assembly hall, a public business transaction entrance, and a police museum.

Pending legislative approval, construction on the $110 million project is expected to begin in the spring with completion scheduled for late 2005.

EYP to Do 5,000 Sq. Ft. Fit-out

Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, Architecture & Engineering, P.C. was selected to design a 5,000-sq.-ft. fit-out of the 25,000-sq.-ft. Genomics Institute, a collaboration of the New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center, Albany Medical College, and Health Research Inc.

Located in Troy, N.Y.'s RPI Technology Park, the facility was originally constructed in 1990 as private laboratory space. The project is funded by a grant from the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research.

EYP will design and oversee the construction of 3,000 sq. ft. of active laboratory space and 2,000 sq. ft. of procedure and preparatory rooms. The firm will also design complex engineering systems, including ventilation, heating, electrical, fire protection, and plumbing. The project is scheduled to be completed in June.