CJS Architects was tasked with designing the Sands Family YMCA, a 75,000 square-foot state-of-the-art multi-use facility that took the place of the 100-year-old Canandaigua YMCA.
Bafitis has been newly honored for his commitment to shaping how his professional community thinks about housing. The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects recently awarded him a Citation of Design Excellence in recognition of nine consecutive years of leadership of the chapter’s highly influential Housing Committee, and for “committing to over a decade of activism on housing advocacy efforts in New York City through the Chapter.”
Schools typically age faster than the funding to fix them is allocated. For some municipalities this leads to a continuing cycle of deferred maintenance and the natural wear-and-tear process accelerates
The largest construction contractor association in New York City is calling on Mayor DeBlasio to follow the lead of other major cities like Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, San Francisco and the State of New York in defining construction as an essential service and exempting the industry from work stoppages.
The new legislation requires that any building 25,000 square feet or larger will need to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030 from a 2005 baseline, increasing to an 80 percent reduction requirement by 2050
Infill urban housing concept by award-winning architects and planners behind thousands of low-income units published in report, “Designing New York: Quality Affordable Housing.”
RKTB Architects, the award-winning architecture, design and planning firm, recently announced the promotion of two of its accomplished designers to key positions.
