One Vanderbilt, in the heart of New York City, was built to be climate friendly, but the design landscape and city rules have changed. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK – One Vanderbilt, a commanding new skyscraper in the heart of Manhattan, seems to be reaching for the future. One of the world’s tallest buildings, it pierces the sky like an inverted icicle and fuses seamlessly with an expanding network of trains and other transport at its foundations.
particularly in New York City, which in recent years has adopted some of the most ambitious climate laws in the world, including a ban on fossil fuels in new buildings. The 77-storey building, 20 years in the making, sits just west of Grand Central Station. Given its marquee location and remarkable ambitions, it opened in late 2020 to less fanfare than one would imagine. At the time, the Covid-19 pandemic was raging and few were in the mood to celebrate a new office tower.
The truth is that most buildings in New York, big or small, old or new, are bad for the environment. Boilers and furnaces burning fuel in basements are the city’s single largest producer of carbon dioxide, emitting more than double the amount from millions of cars and trucks on its roads. SL Green is New York’s largest commercial landlord, with icons such as the Lipstick Building and Eleven Madison in its trophy case. Its chief executive, Mr Marc Holliday, said: “Our stock-in-trade for many years was taking older buildings, redeveloping them and making them energy efficient.”
One striking aspect of One Vanderbilt’s design is its stormwater reclamation system. Rain that touches its terracotta and glass facade is transferred to a pair of giant concrete bathtubs and pumped to the cooling towers above. A series of pipes on the 73rd floor of One Vanderbilt carry hot water and heat away from the building’s power generators, which produce their own electricity using natural gas. PHOTO: NYTIMES
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