Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant

The largest of the City’s wastewater treatment plants, Newtown Creek exemplifies the enlightened collaboration of a public agency, architects and engineers to achieve both community acceptance and design excellence for a utilitarian project type. Richard Olcott and James S. Polshek, Design Partners The design and planning framework for Newtown Creek employs a “kit-of-parts”: structures and […]

The New York Botanical Garden, Garage and Intermodal Facility

The materials – precast concrete and channel glass with a metal trellis infill – visually link the facility to buildings within the Garden proper, carrying the Garden’s identity and mission beyond its walls and into the community. In creating a vital transit intersection for commuters and visitors to the Garden, we designed the exterior walls […]