Following a competitive Request for Proposals process, the Department of Design and Construction (DDC) and the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) selected the team of Scalamandre-Tully Construction Manager Joint Venture to serve as Design Builder, with Selldorf Architects, Design Architect, and Urbahn Architects, Executive Architect, for a new Administration and Personnel Building at the Harper Street Yard in Queens.

In continuous operation 24 hours a day, the program for the new building includes offices, storage, and fleet maintenance spaces for DOT’s Fleet Management and Roadway, Repair and Maintenance (RRM) divisions. Additionally, the project will modernize and improve the infrastructure across approximately 170,000 sf of the active industrial site, providing, for the first time, clear wayfinding amongst newly organized zones for workers and vehicles. Further improvements to the Yard include a landscaped shoreline edge with a garden and communal areas for staff, and covered parking with electric vehicle charging stations. Passive and active flood mitigation measures are fully integrated into the building and site design to meet or exceed FEMA, City and State resiliency standards. The project is seeking LEED Gold certification.

The Harper Street DOT Facility is Selldorf Architects’ fourth project of this type in New York City – projects that take more typically behind-the-scenes or infrastructure buildings and elevate them through design excellence. Doing so raises awareness of climate change and demonstrates the ways that design can contribute to creating a more resilient and sustainable city. Related projects include the Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility on the Brooklyn waterfront, the largest of its kind in the United States, and two wastewater management buildings for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection on the Gowanus Canal.

Read more on the project page here.

(Renderings by Selldorf Architects)