The restoration or replacement of terra cotta is often a key element of our exterior restoration projects for New York City’s historic buildings, including currently at Bayside High School in Queens. Given SUPERSTRUCTURES' extensive experience with terra cotta, we are all too familiar with ways in which improper fabrication or installation may give rise to problems with this generally sturdy material. At Bayside High School, we’ve employed a uniquely stringent inspection program, having the contractor lay out each of over 7,000 terra cotta units for our review before installation.

This co-op on Manhattan’s Upper West Side used their required FISP (Local Law 11) façade assessment by SUPERSTRUCTURES as an opportunity to prevent future damage by correcting, stabilizing and refining the existing components of the façade system. The Park Ten is a handsome residential high-rise located between Central Park West and Lincoln Center. Its landscaped forecourt extends the greenery of the park to the entry portal to the building, where a colonnade with neoclassical travertine arches references the design of the nearby Metropolitan Opera and Avery Fisher Hall.