Three Arts
New York County
Revitalizing a Historic Building for Sustainable Senior Housing
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Three Arts
8 Stories
62 Affordable units
51,520 Total sq ft.
- Gut Rehabilitation
- Anticipated Completion: 2026
- Total project cost: $40,331,194
- Total project cost per sq. ft.: $782.44
- Award: $1,000,000
- PHI EnerPHit Component Method
- Certification
- Enterprise Green Communities
Project Description
Three Arts will be a 62-unit rehabilitation project that revitalizes an existing historic building as sustainable and affordable senior housing in Manhattan’s Upper West Side neighborhood. West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing and the entire project team, including Curtis + Ginsberg Architects, Dagher Engineering, and Steven Winter Associates, are motivated to make Three Arts a leading case study for the sustainable reuse of historic buildings. The property will be all-electric and air sealed, using package terminal heat pumps for space conditioning, air source heat pumps for domestic hot water, and centralized energy recovery ventilation. The revitalized and restored building aims to achieve Passive House Institute’s EnerPHit certification while also complying with the rules of the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and the U.S. Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation.
Project Status: Construction Documents
Market Sector: High-Rise Multifamily
Developed by: West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing (opens in new window)
Designed by: Curtis + Ginsberg Architects (opens in new window)
Notable Technical Attributes
- High-performance envelope
- Triple-pane windows
- Heating/cooling - packaged terminal heat pump (PTHP)
- Domestic hot water – CO2 air source heat pump (ASHP)
- Heat pump clothes dryer
- Centralized energy recovery ventilation (ERV)
- Minimum efficiency reporting value (MERV) 13 filtration
- Domestic hot water controls – demand control sensors with leak detection monitoring in units and/or common areas.
Resilience, Passive and Active Survivability
- Building is located outside of the 500-year floodplain
- An area of refuge for residents
- Water supply back up
- Storm water management
- Permeable surfaces
- Planted surfaces
- Green Roof
Site Features
- Two electric vehicle charging stations
- Within ¼ mile of a bus stop
- Within ½ mile of other mass transit
Media
Sean Flynn of Curtis + Ginsburg discusses Three Arts, a NYSERDA Buildings of Excellence Award Winner
The Buildings of Excellence Competition
The Buildings of Excellence (BOE) Competition is a $75 million competition that has distributed monetary awards over five rounds. Kicked off in early 2019, BOE recognizes and rewards the design, construction, and operation of resilience, climate-friendly multifamily buildings that are healthier for residents and their communities.
Designing and developing clean and resilient buildings that are good for both businesses and residents is at the core of this competition.
The honorees are visionary architects and developers who take the lead in achieving beautiful, zero-emission buildings that improve quality of life and inspire the industry to follow their example toward a climate-friendly future. Their projects are beneficial for the environment, highly profitable, and provide them a competitive edge in the marketplace.
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