The best way to understand the many facets of climate change in New York City, is by traveling along its waterways.
Welcome aboard Yacht Manhattan or Manhattan II, for the AIANY Climate Change Tour: Resiliency, Sustainable Architecture and the Future of NYC! Learn about how climate change is affecting our city and people. As well as the actions NYC is taking to mitigate pending threats and reduce its carbon footprint.

This tour will address the pressing need for sustainable design and greater resiliency. It delves into how New York City is reducing fossil fuel consumption, strengthening its natural habitats, and reimagining its transportation infrastructure. The tour will also explore the importance of the environmental justice movement in New York City.

Get a compelling and comprehensive view of the steps that teams are taking to address storm surges, intense rains and hotter temperatures. These interdisciplinary teams consist of urban planners, architects, landscape architects, developers and community groups.

Then, admire many up-close examples of green buildings and sustainable designs. Those that reduce energy consumption, water usage and pollution while creating healthy living environments.

Next, experience new wetlands and tidal marshes along the tour route that play a role in mitigating storm surges, fostering diverse ecosystems and creating new park space.

Last but not least, see first hand the importance of the environmental justice movement in New York City. People of color and low-income families have often been pushed into low-lying neighborhoods. Neighborhoods that are the most prone to flooding, have the highest levels of pollution and suffer most from the urban heat island effect.

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AIANY Alrededor de Manhattan Tour Arquitectura (en español)

#Detalles de esta gira:

– 2.75 horas
– Presentado y narrado en español por un guía del Instituto Americano de Arquitectos – Nueva York (AIANY)
– Elegantes mesas privadas asignadas a cada reserva. Cada mesa cuenta con una sección acolchada, una gran ventana exterior que se puede abrir y particiones transparentes.
– $86 por persona para 4 o más adultos y $68 por estudiantes mayores de 14 años, $106 por persona para 2 o 3 adultos.
– Se ofrece a bordo de Manhattan o Manhattan II (yates inspirados en la década de 1920)
– Para navigar la isla entira de Manhattan
– Asientos con clima controlado en el interior y asientos al aire libre disponibles
– Se ofrece una cerveza, vino, champán o refresco de cortesía. Se pueden comprar bebidas adicionales y comidas.
– AIA CES 1.5 a 2.5 LU HSW – Se ofrecen créditos de educación continua.

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#Únase a nosotros a bordo de las cubiertas de teca de nuestros elegantes yates estilo años 20, el Manhattan y el Manhattan II, y disfrute de los sitios arquitectónicos de la ciudad de Nueva York, como se ven mejor desde el agua.

El recorrido “Alrededor de Manhattan” está narrado por miembros del capítulo de Nueva York del Instituto Americano de Arquitectos (AIANY). Es lo suficientemente general para los visitantes pero rico en detalles para los locales.

A bordo de los yates, experimente un recorrido cómodo y único a lo largo de los ríos Hudson, East y Harlem desde el observatorio cerrado y climatizado en la cubierta trasera, o pasee por las cubiertas exteriores para tomar aire fresco y la luz del sol con una bebida de cortesía en la mano.

En este crucero de 2,75 horas, circunnavegará la isla de Manhattan (pasando por debajo de los 18 puentes) mientras contempla monumentos, arquitectura, parques e infraestructura.

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##Los aspectos más destacados de la arquitectura de la ciudad de Nueva York que veremos durante esta gira de AIANY incluyen:

– Los rascacielos clásicos de Manhattan, incluidos los edificios Empire State, Chrysler y Woolworth, así como el World Trade Center.
– La nueva generación de supertalls (rascacielos de más de 300 metros de altura) que ahora dominan el horizonte de Midtown.
– Los nuevos parques, muelles y monumentos que forman parte del renacimiento posindustrial de la ciudad de Nueva York.
– Las obras de arquitectos ganadores de premios nacionales e internacionales, incluidos muchos arquitectos españoles y latinoamericanos.
– Ahora es posible un mayor acceso al puerto con costas diseñadas ecológicamente que crean hábitats ricos, muchos diseñados por destacados arquitectos paisajistas.
– La Estatua de la Libertad, Ellis Island y el monumento más nuevo: el Parque FDR Four Freedoms de Roosevelt Island.
– Las obras maestras de la ingeniería de Nueva York: los puentes de Brooklyn y George Washington, así como los puentes giratorios menos conocidos a lo largo del río Harlem.
– La adaptación de Highline como un parque lineal elevado y su papel en el desarrollo de West Chelsea y Hudson Yards.
– La historia de la renovación urbana posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la vivienda pública a lo largo de los paseos marítimos del Lower East Side y East Harlem.

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Join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for a special networking architecture cruise focused on a wide range of waterfront projects designed or built by women. AIANY guide Julie Engh, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, will welcome several expert guest speakers (TBA), who collectively will provide lively narration covering architecture and engineering landmarks from all eras of the city’s history, as well as current urban planning and environmental issues impacting urban waterfronts. We’ll cruise the Hudson, East and Harlem Rivers, and explore women’s contributions to the recent transformation of an industrial waterfront to one of booming real estate development, ecologically-driven landscape design, and resilient infrastructure. Tour features include iconic Art Deco spires, historic engineering marvels, adaptive reuse, and progressive waterfront parks.

Featured women-led projects will include the Statute of Liberty Museum, Pier 55 (a dramatic public park and performance space in the Hudson River), Governors Island, Hudson River Park and Long Island City waterfront projects, Pier 42 (a critical missing link of public access along the shoreline), Rockefeller University, the East River Waterfront Esplanade, the new Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport, the Domino Sugar Refinery Development, and American Copper Buildings.

Special guest speakers will include:

Julie Engh, Assoc. AIA: Julie is a project manager at Urban Projects Collaborative, an owner’s representative firm representing mission-driven organizations. As a founding member of the AIANY Architecture Tour Committee, Julie helped develop the AIANY boat and walking tour programs and has guided a variety of tours across both platforms.

 Signe Nielsen, FASLA: Signe is a Principal at Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, and has been practicing as a landscape architect and urban designer in New York since 1978. Her body of work has renewed the environmental integrity and transformed the quality of spaces for those who live, work and play in the urban realm. 

Cameron Ringness: Cameron is an architect, artist and poet originally from Cleveland, Ohio, living and working in New York City. She was the lead designer of the new Statue of Liberty Museum on Liberty Island with FXCollaborative Architects and is currently the lead designer for the new Children’s Museum of Manhattan to be completed in 2021.

Hayes Slade: Hayes is the 2019 AIANY Chapter President and a Principal at Slade Architecture, which creates thoughtful and impactful architecture based on a considered examination of program potential, user perspective, and material sensibility. She co-authored Design Guidelines for NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and Slade Architecture has been part of the NYC Design Excellence Program at the NYC Department of Design and Construction for four terms. 

Ayumi Sugiyama: Ayumi is the Director of Cultural Projects at SHoP Architects, and has expertise in the design and delivery of complex urban projects with significant public space programs and complicated stakeholder groups. Ayumi has acted as project director for several of the firm’s most prominent and award-winning projects, including the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn and the American Copper Buildings and the New Academic Building at FIT in New York.

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Statute of Liberty Museum: 

https://www.fxcollaborative.com/projects/175/Statue%2520of%2520Liberty%2520Museum/

Pier 55, Governors Island, Hudson River Park, and Long Island City waterfront projects, Pier 42 and Rockefeller University:  

https://www.mnlandscape.com/projects

East River Waterfront
SHoP’s 14 million sf plan for the East River Waterfront Esplanade and Pier 15 brings an innovative approach to the integration of the city and its post-industrial urban edge, capitalizing on the opportunity to function as a recreational space totally unique to Manhattan. Unable to be rooted in the picturesque tradition prevalent in parks around the city, instead the park seeks to embody the heritage of its long history as a working waterfront and at the same time embrace the many urban anomalies, such as the FDR Drive. The design takes a systematic approach to revitalizing an area once overflowing with waterfront activity by focusing on connecting the city to the water’s edge, activating the waterfront year-round by providing new cultural, community, commercial and recreational nodes along its entire length.

Pier 17
SHoP’s design for the new Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport re-imagines the mall to create a mix of boutique and large restaurant and retail spaces. The new 300,000 sf design echoes the typical New York streetscape, with smaller individual structures housing shops and restaurants, separated by open-air pedestrian thoroughfares. Two large floors stretch out above the small shops as a roof, each measuring 60,000 sf. Enormous glass garage-style doors descend in bad weather to seal in the lower levels of the complex, offering protection from the elements while still opening up previously blocked views of the Brooklyn Bridge. The new Pier 17 will completely transform the existing building into a vibrant destination that builds on Lower Manhattan’s commercial resurgence, continued residential growth, and evolution into a 24/7 live/work/play community.

Domino Sugar Refinery Development / 325 Kent
With Two Trees Management Company, SHoP and Field Operation’s master plan for the Domino Sugar Refinery Development replaces a city-approved 2010 plan with a new proposal that adds 60% more publicly-accessible open space on a new, highly accessible street grid; provides for a new 24/7 mix of office, residential, neighborhood retail, community facilities while retaining original commitments for affordable housing; and a new form of open architecture that connects the existing neighborhood to the new quarter-mile waterfront. The plan envisions a new skyline for Brooklyn—one that relates to the height of the Williamsburg bridge to the south and scales down to meet the neighboring lower buildings. The buildings are porous, featuring large openings that allow light and air to penetrate through the site and into the neighborhood beyond.

325 Kent, or Site E, is the first complete building as part of SHoP’s master plan. Retail storefronts occupy the ground floor perimeter, carefully sized to encourage continuity with the neighborhood’s pattern of smaller, independent businesses. Above, the residential floors step up in terraces from the east, forming a connection to the existing neighborhood. After over a year of on-site testing to study materials that would age gracefully and contribute to the dramatic industrial character of the area, two different sheet metals were chosen for the exterior—copper for the lower floors, and zinc above. The copper panels were installed without a factory produced finish, creating a dynamic building surface that will weather and patina over time, drawing in visitors and engaging the public as it adapts over the course of its lifespan.

American Copper
Previously the location of a razed power plant on First Avenue between 35th and 36th Streets, the American Copper Buildings have become a dynamic landmark on Manhattan’s East Side. Responding to an existing master plan for the block and the constraints of an envelope described by New York City’s zoning code, the two towers, reaching to 48 and 41 stories respectively, take on their characteristic form. The three-story skybridge was then located at the point at which the two towers are closest together. Lounge and amenity spaces for tenants—including the lap pool and gym—are located at the bridge level, while the roof of the north tower houses a second swimming pool and a rooftop bar overlooking the entire city. At grade, a through-block passageway opens to a new public park on the river side of the site. A structure as alive as the city it inhabits, the striking set of towers are already becoming icons on the Manhattan waterfront. The buildings’ façade will patina over time, transforming from the red copper they are today to a mint green that evokes the Statue of Liberty, just down the river from the project’s site. 

Every year during Fleet Week, we partner with Turnstile Tours to offer a memorable boat cruise about the military history of New York Harbor.  We will focus on the activity of the Harbor during World War II.  We will depart from Chelsea Piers, aboard the beautiful motor yacht Manhattan and visit the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn Army Terminal, and USS Intrepid, as well as other historic and military sites along the New Jersey and Brooklyn shores. Along the way, we share the stories of sailors, shipbuilders, longshoremen and merchant mariners who built New York Harbor into the heart of the American war effort. So step aboard and enjoy this educational cruise with us out in the Harbor.