Concept art to illustrate potential uses of galvanization in a wide range of industries.
American Galvanizers Association
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The San Francisco International Airport (SFO) celebrates a milestone today as it completes the design and construction of a new Airport Traffic Control Tower and prepares to transition the facility over to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA will install air traffic control equipment in the building and conduct training and testing with the goal of rendering it operational in the summer of 2016. When it opens, the new tower will provide air traffic controllers with an improved work environment in a structure that meets the latest seismic building codes. “With this new Airport Traffic Control Tower, SFO is again leading the way with innovative, sustainable design,” said Airport Director John L. Martin. “This facility will provide both a functional space for our partners at the FAA and an iconic landmark which will be recognizable to travelers around the world. I am grateful for the creativity and hard work that took this project from concept to reality.” The new tower concept design was created by airport master architecture firm HNTB, with the detailed design work accomplished by Fentress Architects, the design partner with Hensel Phelps on the design-build team. The resulting 221-foot-tall torch-shaped tower and offset control “cab” creates a distinctive form that sets a new design standard while being seismically sound and meeting the FAA’s strict requirements. The tower ascends in a graceful flare, with a ribbon of glass running the vertical length - reflecting sunlight during the day and illuminated by interior lighting at night. The new tower also strikes a harmonious chord with the surrounding architecture. Located between Terminals 1 and 2, the tower and base building complement the iconic features of SFO’s International Terminal. “The FAA is proud to be working closely with San Francisco International Airport on this project,” said FAA Western-Pacific Regional Administrator Glen Martin. “When we start using the new tower next year, we’ll be operating out of a building that is outwardly striking, infused with green environmental features, and constructed according to the strictest, modern seismic standards.” With the major construction of the building complete, the FAA now takes over to ready the interior with radar, servers, receivers, transmitters, and other necessary electronic equipment. The new tower is expected to be operational by the middle of 2016. Construction was extensive and required the utmost in skill and experience. The new air traffic control tower is the tallest vertical self-centering post tension concrete structure in the US. The cab roof is cantilevered, the foundation is massive, and the three-story building at the base contains office space, a public circulation area and a roof garden. -
Greenville has an unusually vibrant downtown, active with local businesses, restaurants and entertainment. Main Street was remade by Lawrence Halprin in the 70’s and remains a handsome street with a mature canopy of Willow Oaks. The corner of Main and Washington was the home of the Woolworths lunch counter that was the site of a famous sit-in by four young black men in 1960. Since then this corner has been the center of town, even though the lunch counter went to museum and the building is gone. One of the keys to Greenville’s revitalization was the creation in the early 80’s of the Piazza Bergamo, named after a sister city. The Piazza was home to events and concerts for 25 years but had become worn, and the concerts had devolved into weekly loud beer parties. It was time for change. Civitas was originally engaged by Hughes Development to conceive of a new role for the public space as part of a new mixed-use development on the Woolworths site. Civitas led a community engagement process that determined that people were ready for a more restrained, comfortable and attractive plaza for daily use, with the potential for smaller occasional events. Seating, sun and shade, water, color, and plants were used to make a place to wait, meet, chat, have a meal, and enjoy the active street life that makes Greenville enjoyable. The plaza design is themed from the history of the region as a place of weaving. Layers and folds of patterns, a long fountain and urban couch form that spine that attracts people to engage and relax. -
Terminal update and new concourse completed with Fentress Architects. -
In July 2014, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a series of initiatives to further the successful growth of Downtown Brooklyn into a thriving, 21st century Downtown. Among those was an opportunity to “Reinvent the Brooklyn Strand”— by connecting Downtown Brooklyn to its waterfront through a reimagined series of disconnected parks, plazas, and greenways between Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Bridge Park that have enormous potential to become the great promenade and gateway to Brooklyn. In response to this vision, over 40 stakeholder groups from the Downtown Brooklyn community worked together to offer suggestions for what a “re-imagined Brooklyn Strand” could look like, complete with new connections and improvements that will reinvent this linear park to make it one of the borough’s great destinations and help make Brooklyn Bridge Park truly accessible by creating a seamless connection to major transit hubs in Downtown Brooklyn. In March 2015, this long-term, community driven vision for the area developed by a design team led by WXY, was presented at a public meeting held in partnership with Community Board 2. The suggestions are preliminary and will require thorough review and due diligence by City agencies.