As architects and engineers specializing in the preservation of New York’s buildings, we don’t just like to work on the City’s landmarks, we also like to work in them. For the past 13 years, SUPERSTRUCTURES has called the Art Deco environs of 32 Avenue of the Americas—the landmarked AT&T building—home. It’s been a good fit, but we’ve outgrown our Tribeca location and have decided to move to 14 Wall Street in mid-2020.

On this day in 1908, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) celebrated the opening of its new home at 30 Lafayette Avenue—now the Peter Jay Sharp Building—in grand style. In 2018, SUPERSTRUCTURES prepared a Conditions Report to guide ongoing restoration of this Brooklyn landmark.

Our current project for the Queens College Fitzgerald Gym is a $10 million roof replacement which utilized a state-of-the-art membrane—its first application in a New York building.

The New York Landmarks Conservancy's recent "Mystery Landmark" turned out to be familiar to us: Newtown High School, subject of our Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award-winning restoration in 2012.

On this day in 1940, ground was broken on the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel (now the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel) which would link Red Hook, Brooklyn with the Battery on the southern tip of Manhattan. In 2006, SUPERSTRUCTURES conducted an investigation of the tunnel’s four ventilation buildings and provided design and construction administration services for the restoration of these structures.

Guy Mazza of Prosoco presented “Restoration Cleaning: Turning Back the Hands of Time” on October 16th. The latest seminar in our monthly continuing education series, his talk examined the dos and don’ts of the building cleaning process for about 90 clients and colleagues in our classroom.

Kingspan, the maker of the Optim-R vacuum insulation panels used in our project for NYU's Carlyle Court, features the project as a case study on their website.

With our focus on building envelope restoration, our work includes a lot of roof projects. In fact, in terms of square footage, some years have us working on more roofs than facades.

David May, RA, a founding partner of SUPERSTRUCTURES, participated in the workshop Increasing and Stabilizing Property Value in Today’s Market presented by FirstService Residential, contributing to a breakout session on Exterior Projects.

The latest edition of Retrofit magazine profiles our work on NYU's Carlyle Court, a project that utilized vacuum insulation panels (VIPs) to achieve high R-values on the building's roof and terraces within a minimal profile.