Top of the Rock Redevelopment – AISC 2025 IDEAS² Award Winner for Excellence in Adaptive Reuse
The idea of installing attractions at the top of a 90-year-old urban icon is enough to make anyone’s stomach drop, but the team behind New York City’s Top of the Rock Redevelopment pulled it off (at a hugely complex and challenging jobsite, no less). Some 40,000 lbs. of steel reinforcement give tourists a new way to connect with the modern skyline as well as the city’s past as they recreate an iconic photograph that continues to define early 20th-century high-rise construction.
Owner: Tishman Speyer, New York
General contractor: Gilbane Building Company, New York
Architect: Montroy DeMarco Architecture LLP, New York
Structural engineer: Gilsanz Murray Steficek, New York
Attraction consultant: THG Creative, Pasadena, California
Steel team:
Fabricator/detailer: North American Manufacturing Corp., Maspeth, N.Y. *AISC full member, AISC-certified fabricator*
Erector: Maspeth Welding, Inc., Maspeth, N.Y.
Source: www.aisc.org / https://www.aisc.org/awards-and-competitions/ideas2-awards/ideas2-awards-archives/top-of-the-rock-redevelopment/ Photo Credit: Diane Bondareff, AP Images for Tishman Speyer
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