CultureNOW - One Bryant Park: COOKFOX (formerly Cook + Fox) Architects

One Bryant Park
Recent Architecture: Workplace

Architect
COOKFOX (formerly Cook + Fox) Architects

Dates

2010

Landmark Designations

Sustainable Design

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Rick Cook discusses the development of the first green skyscraper in Times Square.

Rick Cook Rick Cook is a Partner at COOKFOX Architects, a firm devoted to creating beautiful, environmentally responsible, high-performance buildings. Over the past 25 years as a New York City architect, he has built a reputation for innovative, award-winning architectural design. For 14 years, Rick led the firm Richard Cook & Associates, where he cultivated a broad portfolio ranging from master planning to various commercial and residential projects, with special expertise in integrating contemporary design with sensitive, contextual architecture in historic Landmarks districts. In 2003, Rick combined his established firm with Bob Fox to form COOKFOX Architects based on a transformative vision: beautiful design guided by high standards of sustainability and a commitment to excellence enriched by the collaborative process. Its work includes three LEED Platinum projects in New York City: the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park, Skanska USA’s office in the Empire State Building, and COOKFOX’s own office interior. In the summer of 2006, Rick and Bob joined Bill Browning and Chris Garvin to form Terrapin Bright Green LLC, a strategic consulting firm that crafts high-performance environmental strategies for large-scale developments, corporations, and governments. Rick’s work has been showcased at the National Building Museum, in the New Yorker, and in feature programs on PBS, the Discovery Channel, and National Geographic. He speaks frequently on sustainable design and urbanism, including presentations at the UN and for the Economist. Rick received a Bachelor of Architecture degree cum laude from Syracuse University, where he was named a Hull Scholar, a Gillette Scholar, and was awarded the Norman J. Wiedersom Traveling Fellowship to study in Florence. As an undergrad student, Rick won the Soling Competition for his design of a Midtown skyscraper.

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Designed to set a new standard in high-performance buildings, for the office workers who occupy the tower and for a nation awakening to the modern imperative of sustainability, the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park is a 55-story, 2.2 million sf project that is the first commercial high-rise to achieve LEED Platinum certification.

Drawing on concepts of biophilia, or people’s innate need for connection to the natural environment, the vision was to create the highest quality modern workplace by emphasizing daylight, fresh air, and an intrinsic connection to the outdoors. The building’s floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall minimizes solar heat gain through low-e glass and heat-reflecting ceramic frit while simultaneously providing exquisite views. Waterless urinals, greywater recycling, and rainwater harvesting systems save millions of gallons of potable water and reduce the building’s water consumption by nearly 50%.

With an under-floor air system and 95% filtration, fresh air delivered to offices can be individually controlled and is actually cleaner when it is exhausted from the building. Recognizing its impact in the heart of a dense metropolis, thermal ice-storage tanks in the building’s cellar produce ice at night, reducing the building’s peak demand on the city’s over-taxed electric grid. In addition, an onsite 4.6 megawatt cogeneration plant provides a clean, efficient power source for nearly 70% of the building’s annual energy requirements.

One Bryant Park represents a shift in thinking about modern building design, achieving at scale many of the green building movement’s most transformative ideas for water and energy conservation, material efficiency, and indoor environmental quality. It has fundamentally transformed the market for large-scale commercial developments. In the city defined by the modern skyscraper, the tower also makes a highly visible statement on regeneration, urban stewardship, and global citizenship for the twenty-first century.

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Location

One Bryant Park
42nd St & Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
United States

One Bryant Park

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