Stemming from the belief that we deserve to live in environments that have a positive impact on our health, happiness and wellbeing, Delos has engaged leading doctors, scientists, architects, designers, and thought-leaders to identify, develop and integrate features and technologies that create a healthy interior environment. As the pioneer of the WELL Building Standard® and founder of Wellness Real Estate™, Delos transforms indoor environments by placing health and wellness at the center of design and construction decisions. “Health in the Built Environment” will explore the principles behind engineering healthy spaces, providing insight into marrying design and construction processes with evidence-based health and wellness technologies.
New York City’s attention on the Tech and Information Technology Sector is well publicized, but several of the City’s life sciences research and healthcare institutions are also partnering with the City of New York to stimulate economic development, create more livable public environments, and leverage intellectual leadership in achieving scientific and clinical breakthroughs.
Andrea Lamberti, Partner at Rafael Viñoly Architects will discuss how a recent project—the master plan for Rockefeller University—demonstrates this trend through innovation that preserves historic structures and a majestic landscape, while simultaneously increasing open space.
From Hudson Yards to Atlantic Yards and One Vanderbilt to One World Trade Center, New Yorkers in every neighborhood are faced with the newest towers in development. 190 million square feet of commercial space, however, is comprised of existing stock in need of revitalization. In order to remain competitive and preserve New York’s unique culture, owners are opting to transform these facilities into Class A office space or high-end residential properties. Pat Hauserman, First Vice President with Tishman Construction, an AECOM company, will share how these transformations elevate our city and explain the significant community, business and sustainable benefits of repositioning occupied buildings.
Exploring design at the intersection of time, place, program and identity, Ms. Rodriguez will discuss her work as catalysts for change throughout the boroughs of New York City. Her talk will address the importance of design at the intersection of architecture and the public realm—an approach that creates buildings that forge lasting and memorable connections to their immediate sites as well as the community at large. At its best, architecture can also redefine a neighborhood (the Frank Sinatra School for the Arts now anchors the Kaufman Arts District in Queens); recontextualize a long-standing debate (as does the Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum); repurpose a building typology for societal good (as Schermerhorn House now shelters the formerly homeless, low-income artists and a non-profit performance space); and serve as an example of how institutional vision can create unique public buildings at the intersection of culture and transportation (New York Botanical Garden Parking Garage). Ms. Rodriguez will examine design as it operates in both visible and invisible ways in our City—all in the service of catalyzing change in the public realm.