In the Media: 565 Broome in Metals and Construction

565 Broome in Metals and Construction

The latest edition of Metals and Construction, the magazine of the Steel Institute of New York, features 565 Broome, a pair of elegantly mirrored, 25-story, residential glass towers. One of the first certified, zero-waste luxury apartment buildings in New York City—and the tallest structures in SoHo—565 Broome features 115 apartments, a library, gym, rooftop pool, four terrace pools, social spaces, and 42 parking spaces on the third floor.

The article highlights a key structural challenge for the team involving “the setback creating the 11th-story terrace,” which was resolved by “using a big transfer beam to move out the columns on the lower portion of the building and bring in the columns on the upper part of the tower.”

The article describes how the client secured an existing, dilapidated annex to a youth center and charter school to assemble a rectangular site for the towers. As part of the deal, the developers promised to include a basketball court below 565 Broome accessible to the youth center and school. To create the column-free space needed for the court, our structural engineers designed the ground floor over the basketball court as a 24-inch-thick voided concrete slab spanning 50 feet.

565 Broome was designed by RPBW Renzo Piano Building Workshop and developed by Bizzi & Partners, Aronov Development, and Halpern Real Estate Ventures, with SLCE Architects (as AOR), Ettinger Engineering Associates (MEP), and construction managers Triton Construction Company and Plaza Construction.

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