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Kostow Greenwood Architects LLP, is a New York City-based architecture firm, specializing in broadcast and live arts facilities, interior architecture and historic preservation and renovation and urban revitalization projects. Serving commercial, nonprofit and institutional clients, the firm was founded in 1987, and is led by principals Michael Kostow and Jane Greenwood. Kostow Greenwood is a Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise.
Kostow Greenwood is “known for their expertise in studio and theatre design" [1] most notably for CNN’s New York City broadcast studios, which at the time of its construction, houses what is considered the largest newsroom on the East Coast of the United States, [2] and sympathetic renovations of landmark New York City theater and auditorium buildings including many for The Shubert Organization, the Centennial Memorial Temple for the Salvation Army, [3] the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies Headquarters, and the conversion of the Loew’s Metropolitan Theatre into the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Each of these three historic renovations received Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards from the New York Landmarks Conservancy, [4] [5] [6] its highest honors for excellence in preservation. [3]
Michael Kostow holds a B.A. in Architecture from Lehigh University and a Masters in Architecture from Yale University. Jane Greenwood, who also serves as the firm's Managing Director, graduated from Pratt Institute School of Architecture. Both are LEED Accredited Professionals and members of the American Institute of Architects.
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SANDI / IIDA Project of the Year, 2015, International Interior Design Association South Florida Chapter, Fir Tree Partners Miami
ULI Global Awards for Excellence Winner, 2014, Urban Land Institute, SteelStacks Art and Cultural Campus [28] [29]
Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award, 2013, The New York Landmarks Conservancy, Centennial Memorial Temple at the Salvation Army NY Regional Headquarters [3] [4]
Annual Building Award, New Construction, 2007, Queens Chamber of Commerce, Cambria Heights Library
Design Honor Award for Religious Art and Architecture, 2003, Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art, and Architecture (IFRAA)/Faith & Form, Loew’s Metropolitan Theater / Brooklyn Tabernacle [18]
Building Brooklyn Award, Community Facility2003, The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Loew’s Metropolitan Theater / Brooklyn Tabernacle [12]
New Studio Excellence Award, 2002, Broadcast Engineering, MTV Networks
Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award, 2002, The New York Landmarks Conservancy, Loew’s Metropolitan Theater / Brooklyn Tabernacle [5] [13]
Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award, 1994, The New York Landmarks Conservancy, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies Headquarters [6]
Certificate of Merit, 1994, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, 109 Prince Street [30]
Citation of Merit, 1993, The Victorian Society in America, 109 Prince Street [30]
The Jefferson Market Branch of the New York Public Library, once known as the Jefferson Market Courthouse, is a National Historic Landmark located at 425 Avenue of the Americas, on the southwest corner of West 10th Street, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, on a triangular plot formed by Greenwich Avenue and West 10th Street. It was originally built as the Third Judicial District Courthouse from 1874 to 1877, and was designed by architect Frederick Clarke Withers of the firm of Vaux and Withers.
McCarren Park is a public park in Brooklyn, New York City. It is located on the border of Williamsburg and Greenpoint and is bordered by Nassau Avenue, Bayard Street, Lorimer Street and North 12th Street. The park contains facilities for recreational softball, volleyball, soccer, handball, and other games. It is also used for sunbathing and dog-walking. It also includes the McCarren Play Center, which consists of a recreation center and a pool. McCarren Park is maintained by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
The United Palace is a theater at 4140 Broadway in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The theater, occupying a full city block bounded by Broadway, Wadsworth Avenue, and West 175th and 176th Streets, functions both as a spiritual center and as a nonprofit cultural and performing arts center. The architect, Thomas W. Lamb, designed the theater as a movie palace, which opened on February 22, 1930, as one of five Loew's Wonder Theatres in the New York City area. The theater's interior decor, incorporating elements of numerous architectural styles, was supervised by Lamb and Harold Rambusch.
Lettie G. Howard, formerly Mystic C and Caviare, is a woodenFredonia schooner built in 1893 in Essex, Massachusetts. This type of craft was commonly used by American offshore fishermen, and is believed to be the last surviving example of its type. She was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989. She is now based at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City.
The Barclay–Vesey Building is an office and residential building at 140 West Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The 32-story building was designed in the Art Deco style by Ralph Walker of Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker, and was Walker's first major commission as well as one of the first Art Deco skyscrapers. It occupies the entire block bounded by West Street to the west, Barclay Street to the north, Vesey Street to the south, and Washington Street to the east, abutting the World Trade Center.
The Montauk Club is a social club located in a Francis Kimball-designed building in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The Club provides dining and drinking services.
Margot McCoy Gayle was an American historic preservationist, activist, and writer. She led the effort to designate the SoHo Cast Iron Historic District, which preserved Victorian era cast-iron architecture in New York City.
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. (WJE) is an American corporation of architects, engineers, and materials scientists specializing in the investigation, analysis, testing, and design of repairs for historic and contemporary buildings and structures. Founded in 1956, WJE is headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois, and has over 600 professionals in twenty offices across the United States. WJE personnel are specialized in architectural, structural, and civil engineering; materials conservation, chemistry and petrography, and testing and instrumentation.
The New York Landmarks Conservancy is a non-profit organization "dedicated to preserving, revitalizing, and reusing" historic structures in New York state. It provides technical and financial skills to owners of historic properties. In the half century since its 1973 founding, the conservancy has provided more than $60 million in grants and loans.
The Federal Building and Post Office is a historic main post office, courthouse, and Federal office building at 271-301 Cadman Plaza East in the Downtown Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. The original building was the Brooklyn General Post Office, and is now the Downtown Brooklyn Station, and the north addition is the courthouse for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York, and is across the street from and in the jurisdiction of the main courthouse of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, the Theodore Roosevelt United States Courthouse. It also houses offices for the United States Attorney, In 2009, the United States Congress renamed the building the Conrad B. Duberstein United States Bankruptcy Courthouse, after chief bankruptcy judge Conrad B. Duberstein.
Brooklyn Tabernacle is an evangelical non-denominational megachurch located at 17 Smith Street at the Fulton Mall in downtown Brooklyn, New York City, United States. The senior pastor is Jim Cymbala.
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel is an American preservationist, historian, author, and television producer. She is an advocate for the preservation of the historic built environment and the arts. She has worked in the fields of art, architecture, crafts, historic preservation, fashion, and public policy in the U.S. She is the author of 24 books, numerous articles and essays, and recipient of many honors and awards. She is a former White House Assistant, the first Director of Cultural Affairs in New York City, and the longest serving New York City Landmarks Preservation Commissioner.
Hoffmann Architects, Inc., d/b/a Hoffmann Architects + Engineers, is a private architecture and engineering firm based in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, with offices in New York City and Alexandria, Virginia. Founded in 1977 by Hungarian-born architect John J. Hoffmann, the firm specializes in the rehabilitation of the building envelope, including facades, roofs, plazas, terraces, and parking structures, as well as historic / landmark building restoration.
Andrew Berman is an architectural and cultural heritage preservationist in New York City. He is known for being an opponent of new housing construction in New York City.
EverGreene Architectural Arts (EverGreene) is the largest specialty contractor in the U.S., providing design, restoration, conservation, and adaptive reuse services to commercial, government, institutional, sacred, and theater clients. Established in 1978 by Jeff Greene, EverGreene has grown from a small mural painting studio to a company of artists, conservators, craftsmen, and designers that work throughout the United States and abroad.
The Valencia Theatre is a church building at 165-11 Jamaica Avenue in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens in New York City, United States. Designed by John Eberson as a movie palace, it opened on January 11, 1929, as one of five Loew's Wonder Theatres in the New York City area. The theater has been occupied by the Tabernacle of Prayer for All People since 1977. It is a New York City designated landmark.
Françoise Astorg Bollack is an architect, educator, preservationist, and writer on architecture and preservation. Her activities bridge the fields of education, criticism and architectural practice. Her research focuses on the creative possibilities that arise from designing with existing and/or historic buildings. Her method is based on the analysis of successful built work.
58 Kent Street is a three-story, open plan building in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in New York City. It is part of the Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory historic district, a complex that operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The crowdfunding platform Kickstarter purchased the building in 2011 and completed an extensive renovation. Kickstarter staff worked there from 2014 through the COVID-19 pandemic, during which the company transitioned to a fully remote workforce; the building was sold in 2023.
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