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Google NYC's new adaptive-reuse HQ design by Gensler and COOKFOX opens at Hudson Square

2024-02-27T12:52:00-05:00

Google’s brand new New York City headquarters inside St. John’s Terminal at Hudson Square has opened following the completion of a five-year and $2.1 billion project designed by COOKFOX Architects and Gensler.

The renovation of the two-block-long former rail terminus yields a total of 1.3 million square feet of new offices. Another nine stories were added above the existing structure. The building will house some 3,000 employees of the tech giant, who said in a blog post that its design is responsive to a research-driven office strategy and supports a new workplace model that’s meant to foster greater collaboration, creativity, and growth.

Image: courtesy of Google

After restoring the original three floors remaining from its peak usage in the 1930s, the design team created a welcoming space defined by an exterior cut facade detailed on its northern side with reused rail beds that had been leftovers and are kept semi-exposed to create a visible linkage between past and present.

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COOKFOX to design Bruce Springsteen archive at Monmouth University

2023-10-19T15:47:00-04:00

COOKFOX has announced plans for a new musical archive and education center dedicated to preserving Bruce Springsteen’s legacy on the campus of Monmouth University in New Jersey.

The new Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music (BSACAM) will be realized as a 29,000-square-foot repository of The Boss’s five-decade catalog and includes a space for a 230-seat theater, exhibition galleries, and study center dedicated as a showcase of musical traditions in the country he has so influenced through song.

The project is said to be located not far from where Springsteen penned the lyrics to his breakthrough 1974 album, Born to Run.

Image courtesy COOKFOX/Monmouth University

An homage to Springsteen’s post-industrial ethos is represented by the architect’s material choices for the building, which is comprised of weathering steel, concrete, and timber elements. Visitors will enter the rectangular two-story single volume through a central access path built to resemble the iconic J...

COOKFOX's 555 Greenwich office complex in Manhattan nears completion

2023-05-08T17:19:00-04:00

*Editor's Note: The 555 Greenwich project officially topped out on April 22, 2022, and is slated for completion in 2023. Details below have been adjusted for accuracy.

COOKFOX’s 555 Greenwich project, a 270,000-square-foot, 16-story office tower in the heart of New York City’s Hudson Square, is near completion. As reported on NewYorkYimby, images by Michael Young show the installation of the building's brick facade and windows.

Rendering: Vocon, image courtesy COOKFOX

The structure will seamlessly combine with the adjacent 1931-built 345 Hudson to form a singular full-block building. The development was led by Hudson Square Properties, a joint venture of Trinity Church Wall Street, Norges Bank Investment Management, and Hines. The combination of 555 Greenwich and 345 Hudson aims to be a benchmark for sustainable and environmentally responsible office development.

Rendering: Vocon, image courtesy COOKFOX

The new building will feature geothermal and radiant heating and cooling, full el...

Google will buy St. John’s Terminal building in Hudson Square for $2.1B

2021-09-21T14:47:00-04:00

Google announced plans to purchase the St. John’s Terminal building in Hudson Square for $2.1 billion during the first quarter of 2022. The tech giant already leases the former freight terminal, which is currently undergoing a major renovation and addition as part of the company’s new 1.7 million-square-foot campus in the neighborhood. The deal marks the priciest sale of a single office building in the country since the pandemic, as well as one of the most expensive ever recorded.

View more details about St. John's Terminal by COOKFOX on their Archinect profile by clicking this link.

COOKFOX designs terraced office tower overlooking the High Line

2020-06-03T20:39:00-04:00

A recently completed project by COOKFOX brings a 10-story office tower shaped by "biophilic design" principles to a site directly overlooking the High Line in New York City.

The 160,000-square-foot building includes 15,000 square feet of outdoor terraces, with each level of the tower featuring some sort of physical outdoor connection.

Top: A view of the tower from the High Line, Bottom: A view of the large entry doors.

Ground floor areas are marked by an entry lobby and a large garage door that opens along the entire width of one storefront, which is shown in the images above as an art gallery space.

One of the terraces overlooking the High Line.

Created according to a light-and-air approach to office design, the includes "Large, light-filled floors with a state-of-the-art overhead air distribution system are adaptable to a wide range of users, engineered for comfort and high-performance, with highly filtered outdoor air and high-performance building controls," according to the fir...

A pedestrianized train tunnel will anchor COOKFOX's renovated and expanded Terminal Warehouse in New York

2020-01-31T14:08:00-05:00

COOKFOX Architects and developers L & L Holding Company and Normandy Real Estate Partners have been granted approval by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission for a wide ranging restoration and expansion of the historic Terminal Warehouse in New York City's Chelsea district. The architects will restore and build upon an existing former commercial distribution structure that once served as a vital node between Hudson River-based mercantile traffic and New York City.

Top: A frontal view of the restored warehouse. Bottom: Street level view of the warehouse with the office addition visible at the top of the structure. Images courtesy of COOKFOX.

The structure is marked on its ground level by a 670-foot-long tunnel that was once used by trains that directly connected nearby docks with the commercial facilities, New York YIMBY reports. In the latest iteration of the building, the former train tunnel will become a pedestrian shopping street filled with public seating and comme...