Location
1 Mead Way, Bronxville
Completion
2004
Client
Sarah Lawrence College
Square Footage
60,000 SF
Architect
Ennead Architects LLP
LEED
Certified
Sarah Lawrence College - Heimbold Visual Arts Center
Sciame was the Construction Manager responsible for the construction of the new Heimbold Center, which brings Sarah Lawrence’s visual arts department under one roof. While accommodating the schools various space needs, the design meets safety and environmental standards that make the new Visual Arts Center LEED compliant. The new Center has six studio spaces that will be used interchangeably for sculpture, painting, and visual fundamentals.
Other program elements include faculty offices, general teaching classrooms, a soundstage, a darkroom, print making facilities, a visual resources library, and a 200-seat auditorium. The building is integrated into the landscape and the surrounding campus through a design that is sensitive to the undulating topography of the campus and the scale of surrounding structures.
Entrances and exits to the Center are designed to encourage students and faculty to use the building as a passageway through the campus so that the visual arts can be integrated with daily academic and student life. The use of skylights and open spaces between levels reinforces a sense of transparency, allows sunlight to permeate throughout the building, and provides a view of artists at work.
Project Awards
AIA New York Building Type – Educational Facility Design Honor Award
Sustainable Design Merit Award
American Institute of Architects – NYS Chapter
Award for Excellence in Design
NY Construction News – Best of 2004
Higher Education Award of Merit
131 Duane Street - June 2021. Project Team:
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Project Spotlight: New York City Center Renovation Project @nycitycenter
Location: 131 West 55th Street | Completion: 2011 | Size: 165,000 SF / 2,200 Seat Theater | Client: New York City Center | Architect: @enneadarchitects
Exterior Restoration Architect: @dattnerarch | LEED Silver
Sciame was the Construction Manager responsible for the renovation of the New York City Center. The center produces the Tony-honored Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert® series and is home to some of the country’s leading dance companies, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Paul Taylor Dance Company and Morphoses, as well as Manhattan Theatre Club, one of New York’s leading theater companies.
Sciame Construction along with Ennead Architects were responsible for the exterior restoration and interior renovations necessary for the landmarked theater’s ongoing mission of making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience. This two-phased project included the façade restoration and theater back-of-house interior renovations over an extended summer period in 2010, followed by a major renovation and restoration of its historic interiors in the summer of 2011.
The interior work included replacing stage technical systems with state-of-the-art equipment, improved auditorium seating and sightlines, expanded restrooms and concession areas, and the restoration of historic paint and lighting. The project dramatically improved amenities for both artists and audiences.
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2006 - Bronx Library Center | 310 East Kingsbridge Road, Bronx | 80,000 SF | Client: New York Public Library | Architect: Richard Dattner & Partners Architects | LEED: Silver | 📸: Jeff Goldberg / @estophoto
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Sciame was the Construction Manager responsible for the Bronx Library Center, which was created with one major goal: to serve as the central library of the Bronx’s thirty-four branch libraries.
The Bronx Library Center is the first NYPL branch to be LEED certified. The building includes many sustainable features, such as use of daylight, lighting controls, enhanced ventilation, and energy efficient systems that make use of “green” recycled and regional materials. Sciame was able to meet the challenge of obtaining a LEED Silver Rating while keeping the project under budget and ahead of schedule.
The 80 foot high, five-story building features a distinctive swooping roof design, a complex high performance curtain wall that provides natural light while preventing glare, and granite on the exterior that complements the brick texture of the library’s surrounding neighborhood.
Interiors feature natural materials such as granite wall surfaces, clear maple millwork, and terrazzo floors. The dramatic sloping ceiling on the fourth floor is clad with perforated acoustic maple panels, as are the walls in the 150-seat auditorium located on the concourse level.
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