2024-05-01T19:13:41-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149944699/an-extraterrestrial-presence-on-the-bronx-skyline Nam Henderson 2016-05-11T13:57:00-04:00 >2016-05-11T13:57:43-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/9x/9x38zxvib6p3en3w.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>A 240-by-240-by-240-foot concrete fortress, as tall as a 24-story apartment building and all but windowless, rising north of Mercy College and the Hutchinson Metro Center complex...In recent years, motorists saw the structure clad with silver- and charcoal-colored aluminum panels. These were set in a saw-tooth pattern that makes the enormous cube blend gauzily with the sky or stand out like an impenetrably dark mesa</p></em><br /><br /><p>David W. Dunlap writes about a recent visit to the new Public Safety Answering Center (PSAC)&nbsp;II building in the Bronx. Designed by SOM, the project features the debut installation&nbsp;Active Modular Phytoremediation System&nbsp;designed in collaboration with&nbsp;Center for Architecture Science and Ecology' (CASE).</p><p>To learn more that system check out <a href="http://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/breathe-in-case-puts-its-green-wall-system-to-the-test_o" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this</a>&nbsp;article by Architect Magazine</p>