Lenox Health Greenwich Village

Silman, A TYLin Company, was on the design team for the comprehensive renovation of the Lenox Health Greenwich Village building in New York, New York.

Located within the Greenwich Village Historic District, the 5-story, double-dentured structure was designed as a National Headquarters for the National Maritime Union of America by Albert Ledner & Associates and completed in 1964.

Following the building’s acquisition by Northwell Health, the design team undertook a comprehensive restoration and renovation to transform it from a medical office building into the city’s first free-standing emergency department.

Lenox Health Greenwich Village is directly adjacent to multiple New York City subway lines, with a station entrance at the southeast corner of the site. The design team established rules for limiting impacts to the subway, working closely with New York City Transit Authority (NYCT).

The upgraded Lenox Health Greenwich Village includes surgical facilities, imaging services, a modern ambulance bay, which required a cutout in the building’s shell below new built-up channel lintels, and offices for outpatient services.

Project Highlights:

The design team removed a large portion of a second story that was added during the 1970s and reinforced it with carbon fiber reinforcement to accommodate high-tech equipment for emergency services on the main floor.
Silman’s work included the design of new rooftop mechanical equipment on steel dunnage behind an architectural screen.
In preparation for future installation of MRIs at the fifth floor, Silman removed approximately 2000 sf of floor structure and replaced it with non-magnetic structure include in concrete joists reinforced with stainless steel rebar.
Extensive coordination was required between architecture, MEP, and structure.
An Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) method was used to engage the subcontractors starting at the beginning of the Construction Document phase.

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