Façade & Envelope

74 Grand Street

This project, for a new building in the SoHo Cast Iron Landmark District, called for the re-use of a Landmarks protected cast iron façade. The façade, a superb example of a unique architectural heritage, was salvaged from the building that once stood on the site. Reuse of the original facade presented many design and technical […]

Façade & Envelope

74 Grand Street

This project, for a new building in the SoHo Cast Iron Landmark District, called for the re-use of a Landmarks protected cast iron façade. The façade, a superb example of a unique architectural heritage, was salvaged from the building that once stood on the site. Reuse of the original facade presented many design and technical […]

Façade & Envelope

285 Lafayette Street

285 Lafayette is an historic 5-story warehouse (originally The Hawley and Hoops Building built in 1886) with a 5-story addition that was added in 2002. During renovations in residential units it was discovered that the 5-story addition had numerous construction deficiencies that compromised safety and performance. The corrective work required a re-analysis of the structural […]

Restoration

The Montauk Club

The Montauk Club building located in the Park Slope Historic District was designed by Francis Hatch Kimball in 1891. The building’s unique exterior decorative features employ the vocabulary of the Venetian Gothic style combined with motifs from the Native American Indian Tribe of Montauk. The building is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful […]

Restoration

River Lofts

This luxury residential development was completed in 2003. It was quickly discovered that there were serious construction deficiencies. After several years of unsatisfactory forensic work with other professionals,  Bone/Levine Architects was engaged to do a comprehensive investigation of the building envelope, interior construction conditions and building systems.. On the facades there was widespread masonry failure. […]

Restoration

Yorkville Bank Building

Yorkville Bank Building at 1511 Third Avenue was designed by architect Robert Maynicke in 1905, and expanded by architect P. Gregory Stadler in 1923. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Yorkville Bank building as an Individual Landmark in 2012. BLA was engaged in 2014 to develop a preservation program for the monumental […]

Restoration

171 Duane Street

171 Duane is a cast-iron facade loft building built in 1803 located in the Tribeca West Historic District The building was converted to artists-in-residence lofts in 1970. In 1999, in the context of a routine roofing investigation, our team observed that the building was leaning and the parapet was separating from the roof. Subsequent investigations […]

Restoration

Keystone Building

Located in Boston’s Financial District, this 32-story reinforced concrete structure with a travertine-clad façade was designed by noted architect Pietro Belluschi. The original façade design, while innovative, lacked adequate waterproofing details. Within a few years of completion in 1971 cracking of the travertine cladding had developed. The building had undergone several repair programs, addressing both […]

Restoration

Manhassett Apartments

The Manhasset is one of the grand apartment houses of upper Broadway. The 12-story structure stretches a full block from 108th Street to 109th Street and the facades extend into deep courtyards at the north and south elevations. This extensive system of masonry is topped by an ornate two-story mansard roof structure. The restoration work […]

Restoration

Packer Collegiate Institute

The Packer Collegiate Institute is a preparatory school, originally founded as The Brooklyn Female Academy in 1845. The current campus is an assemblage of seven distinct buildings in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, the oldest building erected in 1854, and the latest modifications completed in 2000. The preparatory school serves grades PreK-12 and supports after-school […]

Restoration

Powell Building

The Powell Building was designed by Carrere & Hastings and erected in 1892. It was converted to Co-ops in 1970. Bone/Levine Architects first inspected  the building in 1999. The results of the inspections, concluded that many of the terra cotta and limestone ornamental elements were fatigued and required reconstruction.he project included restoration of cast iron […]

Restoration

Whitehall Building

The exterior restoration and repair program on the former Whitehall Building was one of the most extensive masonry envelope renovations executed in New York City at the time. The 32-story structure is among the oldest structural steel framed buildings of its size. Because of the harsh environment at its waterfront location at the southern tip […]

Restoration

Singer Building

Regarded as a critically important early New York City skyscraper, this work of the renowned architect Ernest Flagg presented unique preservation problems. The restoration project called for much of the original lattice system to be removed in order to stabilize terra cotta and allow for repair of the underlying structural steel frame. The work included […]

Restoration

Cooper Union

In 1998 Bone/Levine Architects prepared for the Cooper Union a document prescribing the specifics of a long-term comprehensive renovation program for the historic Foundation Building. Services included the preparation of a complete set of survey documents, forensic research, preparation of wall sections indicating construction assemblies and architectural features, documentation of the history of alterations, coordination of […]