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August 19, 2008
Housing Acclimates to Waves of the Future
eOculus [AIA NY Newsletter]
by Lisa Delgado
Last month, Forest City Ratner sponsored an American Institute of Architects NY Chapter event on historic preservation. This month, they're ponying up to sponsor a forum on housing and new technologies.
As our million new neighbors predicted by PlaNYC descend by 2030, housing will make up an ever-greater portion of the fabric of our city. So what are some of the most promising directions for its design? According to William Stein, FAIA, principal of Dattner Architects, and Andrew Knox, AIA, partner at Edelman Sultan Knox Wood / Architects, one trend is the confluence of green design and affordable housing, which are recently coming together in projects that are equally light on the environment as on the pocketbook.
NoLandGrab: One current affordable-housing project by Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue Committee has had to scrap its marquee green-design feature — rooftop solar panels — thanks to the shadow that would be cast over it by Forest City Ratner's humongous Atlantic Yards project.
Posted by eric at August 19, 2008 1:57 PM