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 — NYT
David W. Dunlap writes about a recent visit to the new Public Safety Answering Center (PSAC) II building in the Bronx. Designed by SOM, the project features the debut installation Active Modular Phytoremediation System designed in collaboration with Center for Architecture Science and Ecology' (CASE).
To learn more that system check out this article by Architect Magazine
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