ULI GLOBAL AWARDS for EXCELLENCE: 2019 Winners

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GLOBAL AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE

2019 WINNERS AND FINALISTS COVER PHOTOS Clockwise from top left: Guoco Tower, Singapore (©SOM); Gathering Place, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States (©Barrett Doherty); Scioto Peninsula Cultural District, Columbus, Ohio, United States (©Brad Feinknopf); Lingnan Tiandi (Lntd) Lot 1, Foshan, Guangdong, China (©Shui On Land); 1800 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (Antonio Fiol-Silva); International Market Place, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States (©Mariko)

BACK COVER PHOTOS Clockwise from top left: Crosstown Concourse, Memphis, Tennessee, United States (©McGinn Photography); Ink Block, Boston, Massachusetts, United States (©Joe Prezioso); Pier 17 at the Seaport District, New York, New York, United States (©Howard Hughes Corporation); Gathering Place, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States (©Shane Bevel); Hoffman-Madison Waterfront (The Wharf Phase I), Washington, D.C., United States (Hoffman-Madison Waterfront); Cornell Tech Campus, New York, New York, United States (©Iwan Baan)

©2019 by the Urban Land Institute. All rights reserved. Reproduction or use of the whole or any part of the contents of this publication without written permission of the copyright holder is prohibited. CONTENTS

About the Urban Land Institute �� 2

About the ULI Global Awards for Excellence �� 3

2019 Winners �� 4

1800 Arch Street (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) �� 4

Cornell Tech Campus (New York, New York, United States) �� 6

Empire Stores (Brooklyn, New York, United States) �� 8

Gathering Place (Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States) �� 10

Guoco Tower (Singapore) �� 12

Hoffman-Madison Waterfront (The Wharf Phase I) (Washington, D.C., United States) �� 14

International Market Place (Honolulu, Hawaii, United States) �� 16

Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) (Shanghai, China) �� 18

Lingnan Tiandi (LNTD) Lot 1 (Foshan, Guangdong, China) �� 20

Moscow Street Program (Moscow, Russia) �� 22

Scioto Peninsula Cultural District (Columbus, Ohio, United States) �� 24

2019 Finalists �� 26

150 North Riverside (Chicago, Illinois, United States) �� 26

Crosstown Concourse (Memphis, Tennessee, United States) �� 27

Frick Environmental Center (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) �� 28

H Queen’s (Hong Kong, China) �� 29

Ink Block (Boston, Massachusetts, United States) �� 30

The Mark (Seattle, Washington, United States) �� 31

Pier 17 at the Seaport District (New York, New York, United States) �� 32

Renaissance Downtown Lofts (Denver, Colorado, United States) �� 33

2019 Jury �� 34

ULI Global Awards for Excellence 2019 | 1 ABOUT ULI

150 North Riverside Bike paths created by the Moscow Street Program

About the Urban Land Institute ULI Project Staff

The Urban Land Institute is a global, member-driven Paul Bernard organization comprising more than 45,000 real estate and Executive Vice President, Education & Advisory Services urban development professionals dedicated to advancing the Institute’s mission of providing leadership in the Gretchen Sweeney responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining Senior Director, Awards thriving communities worldwide. Sarah Kraatz ULI’s interdisciplinary membership represents all aspects Associate, Awards & Advisory Services of the industry, including developers, property owners, James A. Mulligan investors, architects, urban planners, public officials, real Senior Editor estate brokers, appraisers, attorneys, engineers, financiers, and academics. Established in 1936, the Institute has Brandon Weil a presence in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific Art Director regions, with members in 80 countries. Sonia Richardson The extraordinary impact that ULI makes on land use Senior Associate, Brand decision making is based on its members sharing expertise on a variety of factors affecting the built Craig Chapman environment, including urbanization, demographic and Senior Director, Publishing Operations population changes, new economic drivers, technology advancements, and environmental concerns. Peer-to-peer learning is achieved through the knowledge shared by members at thousands of convenings each year that reinforce ULI’s position as a global authority on land use and real estate. In 2018 alone, more than 2,200 events were held in about 330 cities around the world. More information is available at uli.org. Follow ULI on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

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Public art installation, “The Universal Sphere,” inside 1800 Arch Street The Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech Campus

About the ULI Global Awards for Excellence

A guiding principle of the Urban Land Institute is to context; exhibit environmental sustainability, stewardship, recognize and reward the achievement of excellence in land and resiliency; and provide models, lessons, strategies, or use practice. ULI began the Awards for Excellence program techniques that other communities can replicate or adapt. The in 1979 to recognize truly superior development efforts in jury visits every finalist project before selecting the winners. the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Winning projects The ULI Global Awards for Excellence recognize a wide represent the highest standards of achievement in the variety of product types, including office, residential, development industry—standards that ULI members deem recreational, urban/mixed use, industrial/office park, worthy of attainment in their professional endeavors. Today commercial, retail, new community, rehabilitation, public, the development community widely recognizes the ULI and heritage projects, among others. Global Awards for Excellence program as one of its most prestigious awards. The awards have honored development projects from outside the United States since 1984. In 2012, the awards A jury of ULI members chooses finalists and winners. were renamed the ULI Global Awards for Excellence and Members of the jury are recognized leaders who represent began honoring projects from around the world in a single a broad geographic diversity and many areas of real estate competition rather than naming separate winners by region. expertise, including development, investment and finance, ULI regions and district councils also may host regional design, planning, engineering, public affairs, and or local Awards for Excellence in some parts of the world. professional services. Projects or programs that enter these regional or local These awards recognize the full development process, awards may also enter the ULI Global Awards for Excellence. not just architecture or design—although these elements Projects do not need to first enter regional or local awards play an important role. in order to enter the ULI Global Awards for Excellence. The applications for these award opportunities are distinct. The jury evaluates projects and programs on the extent to which they: achieve marketplace acceptance/financial success; Each winner receives a jewel-quality cube trophy, achieve a high standard of excellence in all areas—architecture, engraved with the jury’s official statement about the design, planning, construction, amenities, economics, and winning project. Further recognition of winners and management, etc.; demonstrate relevance to the contemporary finalists includes case studies in ULI publications, and future needs of the community in which they are located; as well as press releases and announcements in have a positive impact in their communities and/or immediate Urban Land magazine and on ULI’s website.

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1800 ARCH STREET PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES

Lobby interior Project Description Located in the heart of Center City in Philadelphia, 1800 Arch Street is a $1.5 billion, 60-story mixed-use tower that is the largest private development project in the history 2.75 billion 20,000+ of Pennsylvania. An expansive lobby serves as an indoor in economic activity temporary jobs public plaza, welcoming visitors with art installations, restaurants, a coffee bar, and outdoor seating. The lobby also provides access to a new, underground concourse, lined with shops and art, connecting commuters and visitors to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation building also features the country’s tallest hotel, whose Authority’s Suburban Station. The building is home to the lobby offers stunning views from the 60th floor. The 1800 Comcast Corporation’s new vertical urban campus, Comcast Arch Street project uses a chilled beam system to cool Technology Center, which takes up all of the tower’s office the interior and is one of the largest installations of such space. The tower’s facades are animated by panoramic glass a system in the United States. The building is aiming lifts and a series of 13 three-story sky gardens, which draw for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design a continuous strand of greenery through the building. The (LEED) Platinum certification for both Core and Shell and Commercial Interiors. The owner also voluntarily committed to achieving meaningful participation by minority-, women-, SITE SIZE 1.4 acres (0.57 ha) veteran-, and disabled-owned businesses in the economic ACRES (HECTARES) activity generated by the building. It was estimated that the construction phase of the project would create more Date Acquired June 2014 than 20,000 temporary jobs and generate $2.75 billion in PROJECT Date Started July 2014 economic activity within the state. It is estimated that the TIMELINE project will also produce $30.7 million in annual state tax Date Opened July 2018 revenues and $21.5 million in annual city tax revenues.

Buildings 1,845,909 ft2 (171,491 m2) Project Team 62 parking spaces, Streets/Surface Parking (structured parking) DEVELOPERS: Liberty Property Trust/Liberty Property LAND USES 41,400 ft2 (3,846 m2) 18th & Arch LLP; Comcast Corporation Open Space/Landscaping interior public space DESIGNERS: Foster and Partners; Total 1,845,909 ft2 (171,491 m2) Kendall/Heaton Associates

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Night view of lobby entry from 18th Street

Sectional perspective of lobby, public space, and below-ground concourse

Night exterior view from JFK and 17th Street Aerial view

Lobby interior Exterior from JFK and 17th Street

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$7.5 billion 20% of plan dedicated in economic activity to public space

CORNELL TECH CAMPUS NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES

Project Description The Cornell Tech Campus Framework Plan & Phase I Site Development represents a new model for higher education in the United States. Located on Roosevelt Island in New York View of the campus plaza, the heart of the Phase I campus City, the campus is designed around the idea that industry and be resilient and sustainable, with on-site energy generation academia should be intertwined instead of siloed. Along with and buildings built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental academic buildings, the development includes corporate co- Design (LEED), Passive House, and net zero energy standards. location, offices, a hotel, a residential tower, and conferencing To ensure creation of a holistic campus that could balance and assembly areas, with space remaining to accommodate the needs of a wide variety of stakeholders, the design team future requirements of the program. The plan—more than originated an innovative scorecard method with nine criteria 20 percent of which is dedicated to public space—is defined covering both practical and experiential factors. A New York by permeability: there is no fencing or enclosed quad. The City Economic Development Corporation analysis projected that Techwalk dictates its layout, which connects Main Street to the the campus will generate more than $7.5 billion in economic north with Four Freedoms Park to the south. Buildings line activity and spur $23 billion in overall economic activity in the the Techwalk, and ground-floor interiors host cafés, exhibition next 30 years. spaces, and lecture halls, activating the pedestrian pathways. The campus will cover 2 million square feet (186,000 sq m) when complete, hosting 2,000 graduate students and hundreds Project Team of faculty, researchers, and staff. The campus is designed to DEVELOPERS: Forest City Ratner Corporation; Hudson Companies; Related Companies; U3 SITE SIZE 12.4 acres (5 ha) Advisors; Cornell University; New York City ACRES (HECTARES) Economic Development Corporation Date Acquired December 2011 DESIGNERS: Skidmore Owings & Merrill, LLP; PROJECT James Corner Field Operations Date Started October 2011 TIMELINE CONSULTANTS: Karen Backus & Associates, Sirefman Date Opened September 2017 Ventures, Tishman Construction, AKF/ In-Posse, Robert Silman, Philip Habib Buildings 117,429 ft2 (10,909.5 m2) & Associates (PHA), Two Twelve, Fried Streets/Surface Parking None Frank, Jaros Baum & Bolles, DeSimone LAND USES Engineers, Cerami & Associates, Open Space/Landscaping 261,360 ft2 (24,281 m2) Pentagram, Gleeds, Langan Engineering, RDWI Consulting Engineers and Total 378,789 ft2 (35,191 m2) Scientists, Brandston Partnership

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At the gateway into the site, along Techwalk, people enter the campus.

The Cornell Tech campus’s Techwalk Before Cornell Tech—Goldwater Hospital

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EMPIRE STORES BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES © S9 Architecture / Imagen Subliminal Water Street

Project Description Empire Stores is in a formerly vacant 19th-century warehouse 7,000 ft2 on New York’s Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass (DUMBO) waterfront. The warehouse has been a landmark of Brooklyn Bridge Park on the New York waterfront for more than a century and has on its fifth-floor terrace become part of the urban fabric of the neighborhood. Empire Stores is a mixed-use adaptive use project in a landmarked and historic district and was designed to retain and incorporate many of the building’s notable architectural features, including accessible through the courtyard. In addition to its green roof, its large footprint, masonry facade, and schist structural walls. the building uses a closed-loop water source heat pump and The building used to act as a barrier between Water Street has achieved Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and the Brooklyn Bridge Park. In the renovation, part of the (LEED) Silver certification. The reanimated complex features masonry was cut away to create a pedestrian path from Water 370,000 square feet (34,300 sq m) of creative office space over Street through the building, into a new courtyard, and to the five floors, including a two-story contemporary addition on park. Empire Stores partnered with the Brooklyn Bridge Park to the roof. The building is 100 percent leased. Tenants include bring the park into the building through its 7,000-square-foot West Elm, which leased a third of the space, 70,277 square (650 sq m) fifth-floor terrace, which is open to the public and feet (6,529 sq m) of retail; the Brooklyn Historical Society, which has gallery space on the second floor; a beer garden; and several restaurants. These tenants, in addition to the public SITE SIZE 1.82 acres (0.74 ha) ACRES (HECTARES) space and park access, have made Empire Stores a creative and community hub at the epicenter of Brooklyn’s Tech Triangle. Date Acquired September 2013 PROJECT Date Started January 2014 Project Team TIMELINE Date Opened August 2016 DEVELOPERS: Midtown Equities; HK Organization; Rockwood Capital Buildings 440,575 ft2 (40,930.8 m2) DESIGNERS: Studio V Architecture and S9 Architecture; Streets/Surface Parking None Perkins Eastman

LAND USES 35,000 ft2 (3,251.6 m2) CONSULTANTS: Veracity Partners; Future Green Studio; Open Space/Landscaping (green roof) Robert Silman Associates; Mottola Rini Engineers; Spiezle Architectural Group; Total 79,650 ft2 (7,400.0 m2) Tillotson Design Associates.

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Interior courtyard facing north

Empire Stores within the context of its surroundings

Bridges Facade

Rooftop Interior view

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100+ 5,800 unique attractions new trees planted

GATHERING PLACE TULSA, OKLAHOMA, UNITED STATES

Project Description Gathering Place is a new park covering 66.5 acres (26.9 ha) ©Shane Bevel on Tulsa’s waterfront along the Arkansas River. It is the Affordable eating options, as well as comfortable seating, are essential to helping the park attract a range of audiences and ages. largest public park created with private funds, funded by $400 million from the George Kaiser Family Foundation and incorporating natural topographies with human-made through a public/private partnership with the city of Tulsa, ones. The design of the park maintained as many existing which provided $65 million for infrastructure. The park strives trees as possible while planting 5,800 new ones, along with to connect a segregated community, bringing together people eight acres (3.2 ha) of meadow, mimicking the native flora and of all ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds through a providing habitats for native species. In addition to cultivating variety of programming. A diverse community provided input native landscapes, geothermal wells heat and cool all throughout the design of Gathering Place, helping fulfill a buildings, all the park’s lighting is LED, and the park connects longstanding need for a place where everyone can feel to bike trails around the city. Within its first five months, the welcome to gather and interact. Gathering Place features more park surpassed its goal of serving 1 million visitors in its first than 100 unique attractions to keep visitors engaged and to year. This popularity even during the fall and winter months encourage return visits. The park incorporates the natural speaks to the strong sense of ownership that the residents landscape into its design, using the river as a central feature of Tulsa feel for this park. With the endowment set up by the George Kaiser Family Foundation, Gathering Place will be SITE SIZE 66.5 acres (26.9 ha) a place for all Tulsans to come together for generations. ACRES (HECTARES)

Date Acquired April 2008–November 2010 Project Team PROJECT Date Started September 2014 DEVELOPERS: George Kaiser Family Foundation; TIMELINE Tulsa Gathering Place LLC; Date Opened September 2018 River Parks Authority

Buildings 78,964 ft2 (7,336 m2) DESIGNERS: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates; Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects Streets/Surface Parking 662,112 ft2 (61,512 m2) LAND USES Open Space/Landscaping 2,147,508 ft2 (199,510 m2)

Total 2,896,740 ft2 (269,116 m2)

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The park ties together three previously disconnected parcels and uses topography to create distinctive spaces The play experience is joyfully multi-dimensional. within the whole.

Sometimes watching sports is just as much fun as playing, so generous Stacks of local stone define the space, shade the walkway, and provide an unforgettable moment within the park. seating has been provided along the edge of the courts.

The Boathouse is a landmark offering eating options and also a place to rent watercraft, allowing Trees salvaged from park construction have been visitors to enjoy Peggy’s Pond from a new perspective. repurposed as new playground elements.

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GUOCO TOWER

SINGAPORE © SOM © SOM The Wallich Residence apartments offer cabanas and an infinity pool with breathtaking views. Project Description Located in downtown Singapore’s historic Chinatown, Tanjong Pagar, Guoco Tower is the tallest tower in the city-state. It is 8 levels a mixed-use tower that incorporates office space with retail, host elevated gardens with native hospitality, residential, and park space. The tower serves as a connector between the historic Chinatown and the central species and conserved trees business district (CBD), with its taller towers closer to the CBD and the shorter hotel tower nearest the historic district. It has spearheaded the creation of the Tanjong Pagar business improvement district to promote the district as a place where still drawing in the millennial workers they were seeking to people want to live. The building sits on top of a transit station attract. One unique aspect of Guoco Tower is the City Room, and incorporates it into its design, with an underground a public outdoor retail and art space located under a giant pedestrian network that also hosts retail space. The retail canopy. The City Room is a versatile space that can be turned tenants were carefully selected to take existing local retailers into a massive yoga studio, concert venue, or any number into account so as not to cannibalize traditional stores while of event spaces. In addition to the City Room, eight different levels play host to elevated gardens, planted with native species and conserved trees. The canopy over the City Room is made SITE SIZE 3.70 acres (1.5 ha) ACRES (HECTARES) with building-integrated photovoltaics, which provide up to 2 percent of the development’s energy, filter light, and help cool Date Acquired February 2011 the space below. The tower is aiming for Leadership in Energy PROJECT and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification and Date Started June 2012 TIMELINE has been certified Green Mark Platinum. Guoco Tower was designed to put the public realm at the forefront, which is Date Opened October 2017 evident in the shape of the building, which was designed to 71,665 ft2 (6,630 m2) Buildings look like the Chinese characters for “entry” and “people” when (footprint) viewed from the east and west, respectively. Streets/Surface Parking 12,163 ft2 (1,130 m2) LAND USES 69,567 ft2 (6,463 m2) Open Space/Landscaping Project Team (footprint) DEVELOPER: TPC Commercial Pte Ltd Total 161,803 ft2 (15,032 m2) DESIGNER: Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP

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Six stories of food and beverage and retail offerings

The Wallich Residence apartments offer cabanas and an infinity pool with breathtaking views. Site plan

The 150,000-square-foot Urban Park © Guocoland (Singapore) Pte Ltd

YogaFest with 1,000 participants © Guocoland (Singapore) Pte Ltd

A fitness program provided in partnership with Virgin Active & HPB Through-block link

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HOFFMAN-MADISON WATERFRONT (THE WHARF PHASE I) WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES

Project Description The Hoffman-Madison Waterfront, more commonly known as the Wharf, occupies a mile-long (1.6 km) stretch along The Wharf fire pits the Washington Channel in Washington, D.C. The District of Columbia had become largely disconnected from its of constructed floating wetlands, and handles 100 percent waterfront in recent years, but the Wharf is changing that of stormwater on site, preventing further pollution of the by bringing restaurants, housing, and entertainment venues channel. The Wharf includes 10 acres (4 ha) of public to the neighborhood. The Wharf has created a sustainable, parks and spaces and is well connected to multiple forms mixed-use neighborhood that honors the city’s history. It has of transit. Year-round events and programming such as preserved the nation’s oldest operating open-air fish market, Petalpalooza and Pride on the Pier draw in visitors, and the aims to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Anthem, a 6,000-person concert and event venue, hosts Design (LEED) for Neighborhood Design Gold certification, many sold-out concerts. The Wharf is an example of the and exceeds many of D.C.’s Green Building Act requirements. dramatic transformation that public/private partnerships and The development includes 2,340 square feet (217 sq m) reconnecting to a city’s forgotten waterfront can produce.

SITE SIZE 74 acres (30 ha) Project Team ACRES (HECTARES) DEVELOPER: Hoffman-Madison Waterfront: Hoffman & Date Acquired March 2006 Associates, Madison Marquette, ER Bacon PROJECT Development, City Partners, Paramount Date Started March 2014 TIMELINE Development, Triden Development Date Opened October 2017 DESIGNERS: Perkins Eastman; Studio MB; Kohn Pedersen Fox; Fox Architects; Rockwell Buildings 14.8 acres (6 ha) Group; BBG-BBGM; Handel Architect; WDG; Cunningham Quill; SmithGroup Streets/Surface Parking 1.48 acres (0.6 ha) JJR; MTFA; SK&I; Landscape Architecture LAND USES 50 acres (20 ha) (includes Open Space/Landscaping Bureau; Lee & Associates; Nelson Byrd land and water Woltz; Michael Vergason Landscape Total 74 acres (30 ha) Architects; Parker Rodriguez; ZGF; Moffat & Nichol; RicheyWorks

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Site map

Nighttime view of the Wharf from the water

Aerial view of Transit Pier

The Wharf family event on Transit Pier Waterfront Park at the Wharf, which is dedicated to U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton

Tree lighting at the Wharf

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Redesign deeply embeds Hawaiian history and culture

INTERNATIONAL MARKET PLACE

HONOLULU, HAWAII, UNITED STATES © Mariko

Project Description International Market Place in Waikˉıkˉı has been a landmark for nearly 60 years. The reimagining of the original International Market Place has breathed new life into the beloved development. Today, it is home to shopping, dining, and entertainment, including Hawaii’s first Saks © Mariko Fifth Avenue. Centered around a century-old banyan tree, The project’s signature fire tower the new International Market Place was designed with the site’s history and the Hawaiian culture in mind. The design damage its complex root system. The cultural sensitivity team sought cultural guidance from local consultants, who extended to the completed project, as well, with educational suggested excavating the piles ahead of time, in order to and discovery panels placed around the Market Place assess and attend to any objects or remains found. Digital so that visitors can learn about the history of the Market mapping of the tree ensured that construction would not Place and of Hawai’i. Visitors can also do a self-guided tour via their smartphones using the 25 plaques placed around the site. Furthermore, the landowner, the Queen Emma Foundation, donates revenue from the site to the SITE SIZE 5.98 acres (2.4 ha) ACRES (HECTARES) nonprofit Queen’s Medical Center. The Market Place was designed with sustainability in mind, reducing energy and Date Acquired August 2013 water consumption and encouraging tenants to follow green PROJECT Date Started March 2014 building guidelines. TIMELINE Date Opened August 2016 Project Team 2 2 Buildings 566,907 ft (52,667 m ) DEVELOPER: Taubman Centers Inc.

Parking Structure 319,291 ft2 (29,663 m2) DESIGNERS: 505 Design; JPRA Architects; WCIT LAND USES Architects; HLB Lighting; Walters, Kimura, 2 2 Open Space/Landscape 33,812 ft (3,141 m ) Motoda Inc.; BKBC Architects

Total 886,198 ft2 (82,330 m2)

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Grand Lanai seating trellis Banyan court water feature and seating area

Kuhio entry, adjacent to Saks Fifth Avenue Puka 3/Rain Court, anchored by Saks Fifth Avenue

Grand Lanai view

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1 million+ 400+ new companies visitors attracted fostered since 2012

KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION COMMUNITY (KIC) SHANGHAI, CHINA © Shui On Land

Project Description The Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) is a

live/work/play/learn neighborhood in Shanghai’s Yangpu © Shui On Land district. Before KIC, the district was a dilapidated industrial Families enjoy the sunken plaza on weekends. district with a historic stadium. KIC turned the district into a thriving knowledge-based economy at the confluence or Chinese Green Building Design certification for all its of the tech industry, universities, residential space, and buildings, as well as achieved LEED Gold for Neighborhood retail businesses. KIC has been flourishing for years, Design. Innospace, an incubator program based at KIC, has attracting more than 1 million visitors and spurring growth fostered over 400 new companies since 2012, eight of which and investment in the entire district through innovative have gone on to be startups with valuations exceeding 100 long-term management and tenant curation. As part of its million RMB. The development has succeeded in meshing long-term growth strategy, KIC hosts events year-round for neighborhood, universities, and industry, since it has one of residents and visitors, including early childhood education China’s most popular retail corridors, several universities, events, lifestyle of health and sustainability events, and and over 50 knowledge-based multinational corporations entrepreneurship events. The development strived for as well as over 600 small businesses and startups. KIC’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) success has brought it global recognition as an example of a thriving mixed-use knowledge-based community, including being highlighted by a ULI case study in 2015. SITE SIZE 121 acres (49 ha) ACRES (HECTARES) Project Team Date Acquired March 2004 DEVELOPER: Shui On Land PROJECT Date Started November 2004 TIMELINE DESIGNERS: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; Palmer & Turner; Atkins; Charpentier Date Opened October 2006 (Phase I) Architecture Design; Terry Farrell & Partners; Buildings 497,323 ft2 (151,584 m2) Tongji Design Institute; BWSS; Gensler; Tianhua; Leigh & Orange; Hassell; 3XN; 2 2 Streets/Surface Parking 487,726 ft (148,659 m ) AECOM; EMBT LAND USES Open Space/Landscaping 441,444 ft2 (134,552 m2)

Total 1,598,681 ft2 (487,278 m2)

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Diverse architecture KIC Hub

Lively pedestrian-friendly street Night flea market at KIC village

University Avenue

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12.5 million 100+ cultural events visitors in 2018 each year

LINGNAN TIANDI (LNTD) LOT 1 FOSHAN, GUANGDONG, CHINA

Project Description Located in Foshan, 129-acre (52 ha), LNTD Lot 1 is the largest city-core historic preservation project in China. Project site map Lot 1 is a 13.8-acre (5.6 ha) project at the center of a larger 129-acre (52 ha) development that has revitalized the Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold in multiple historic Chancheng District. Historic preservation was a categories, along with other recognitions for energy priority in the redevelopment of this area. The developers efficiency and low carbon emissions. The district is now retained the twisting streets and alleyways, preserved eight one of the most popular tourist destinations in southern buildings on historic lists, and saved 40 others through China, attracting 12.5 million visitors in 2018. Part of what adaptive use. What has made the historic preservation of has made it such a popular attraction is the incorporation of this neighborhood so successful is that the neighborhood local culture into the everyday life of the project. The retail is not treated like a museum but perpetuates its history tenants have been carefully curated to reinvigorate Lingnan through new and creative uses. Modern technologies were culture by bringing back local businesses from overseas, incorporated into the historic site through measures such as and the neighborhood hosts over 100 cultural events each insulating preserved roofing tiles and collecting rainwater year. LNTD Lot 1 is financially successful in addition to for irrigation. The development has achieved Leadership in being popular, fetching rents 50 to 100 percent higher than the surrounding area, earning the highest retail revenue per square foot in the city. The development of LNTD Lot 1 SITE SIZE 13.8 acres (5.6 ha) ACRES (HECTARES) serves as a model for historic preservation and adaptive use in China and proves that investment and careful curation Date Acquired December 2007 can reinvigorate a dormant culture.

Date Started October 2008 PROJECT Project Team TIMELINE Date Opened November 2012 (Phase I) DEVELOPER: Shui On Land Date Completed December 2019 (projected) DESIGNERS: Ben Wood Studio Shanghai; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Buildings 101,230 ft2 (30,855 m2)

Streets/Surface Parking 61,614 ft2 (18,780 m2) LAND USES Open Space/Landscaping 21,073 ft2 (6,423 m2)

Total 183,917ft2 (56,058 m2)

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Aerial view

Alleyway restoration, before and after

Aerial view at night

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23% increase 56% decrease in pedestrian traffic in traffic collisions in the center city resulting in injury

MOSCOW STREET PROGRAM

MOSCOW, RUSSIA © Strelka KB

Project Description The Moscow Street Program reimagined more than 200 public spaces across Moscow between 2015 and 2017, ahead Krasnyye Vorota Square before renovation (above) and after (below) of the 2018 FIFA Men’s World Cup. The program, led by Strelka KB, the architectural consultancy branch of Moscow’s Strelka Institute, may be the largest infrastructure project in Russia since the Soviet era. The program transformed empty space, parking, and wide roads into safer, more walkable places by redesigning streets and public spaces to be pedestrian oriented. As a result, pedestrian traffic in the center city has increased by 23 percent, while traffic collisions resulting in injury have decreased by 56 percent, all while traffic moves about 30 percent faster. As part of the program, Strelka KB put together architectural competitions focusing first on young Russian talent before opening it up © Strelka KB to international entries. The redesigns reflected Moscow’s rich history. For example, construction uncovered a fragment of the 16th-century White City Wall, leading to the creation and included the voices of citizens in the design of their of a new outdoor amphitheater around the wall rather than community. During the transformation, more than 7,000 trees the parking garage that was planned for the site. Likewise, were planted, creating new green space that Moscow sorely the program restored historical infrastructure details such lacked. Strelka KB joined forces with DOM.RF, an integrated as bridge supports, light poles, and manhole covers. To housing development institution, and the Russian Ministry of determine what kind of space was needed and how it would be Construction to compile Moscow Street’s best practices into used, the program enlisted urban and digital anthropologists the Future Cities program, leading to the transformation of at least 223 public spaces in 40 cities around Russia.

SITE SIZE 817.9 acres (331 ha) ACRES (HECTARES) Project Team DEVELOPER: Department of Overhaul PROJECT Date Started 2015 of the City of Moscow TIMELINE Date Opened 2017 DESIGNER: Strelka KB; Djao-Rakitine; Snøhetta; West 8; Topotek 1; Martha Schwartz Partners, OKRA; 57.6 miles (92.8 km) Streets/Surface Parking Karres + Brands LAND USES of street reconstructed

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Green Zone on Kalashny Lane

One of the newest landmarks in Moscow’s city center, Khokhlovskaya Square Novy Arbat Street after renovation

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spurred over $900 million in investment on the peninsula and adjacent 21 acres

Project Description The Scioto Peninsula Cultural District has been a developmental black hole, only recently coming to fruition after seven failed planning attempts within the last century. recognition of veterans of all wars, both living and dead. The district spans 48.2 acres (19.5 ha) and comprises four The museum is currently free to all veterans and strives to distinct amenities: the Scioto Greenways, a satellite location be free to everybody in the coming years to continue to close of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in the civilian/veteran gap. Built over a parking garage, Dorrian Columbus’s Center of Science and Industry (COSI), the Green is a park that has brought a much-needed playground National Veterans Memorial and Museum, and Dorrian to downtown Columbus. The garage is built in the floodplain, Green. The greenways—1.5 miles (2.4 km) of pathways that and has been designed to resist flooding, even two stories connect surrounding neighborhoods to the downtown—were underground. The river is at its healthiest in a century, due made possible by the removal of a century-old dam, which to sustainability efforts that include stormwater management freed up 33 acres (13.3 ha) of land. The museum satellite and butterfly habitats. The project serves as an example brought world-class museum programming to a region that of what public/private partnerships can accomplish for previously lacked easy access to such amenities. The National areas beyond their boundaries. Even though all four of its Veterans Memorial and Museum addressed a lack of formal components are public amenities, the Cultural District has spurred over $900 million in investment on the peninsula and the adjacent 21 acres (8.5 ha). SITE SIZE 48.2 acres (19.5 ha) ACRES (HECTARES) Project Team Date Started November 2013 PROJECT DEVELOPERS: The Columbus Downtown TIMELINE Date Opened November 2015 Development Corporation (CDDC) and the Capitol South Community Buildings 272,000 ft2 (25,270 m2) Urban Redevelopment Corporation

Surface Parking 640 spaces DESIGNERS: MKSK; Jerome Scott Architects; LAND USES Allied Works Architecture; the Olin Studio; Open Space/Landscaping 1,829,520 ft2 (169,968 m2) Ralph Appelbaum Associates

Total 2,101,520 ft2 (195,238 m2)

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The $82 million, 50,000-square-foot (4,600 sq m) National Veterans Memorial and Museum celebrates the Seeming to rise organically from the ground, the architecture of the National Veterans service and honors the sacrifices of veterans, their families, and the fallen. Exhibits focus on the people—the Memorial and Museum symbolizes the spirit of strength and unity of our nation’s veterans service members and their families—from when they answered the call to service to life after the military. and has become an iconic landmark in the downtown Columbus skyline.

Residents and visitors can take to the Scioto River on a kayak, canoe, or The Scioto Greenways accomplished what other plans had struggled to achieve over the past paddle board from one of four launches added as part of the project. 100 years—a connected and healthy river system that is a community asset.

The first-ever satellite location of the American Museum of Natural History inside Columbus’s Center of Science Located on the western edge of downtown Columbus, and Industry (COSI) has dramatically increased COSI attendance since opening in November 2017. the Scioto Peninsula Cultural District consists for four distinct amenities created by public/private partnerships, working in concert to activate this new urban district.

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Site plan: The core-supported building opens more than 75 percent of the two-acre site as a landscaped public park and plaza, with pedestrian pathways overlooking the river. 150 NORTH RIVERSIDE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, UNITED STATES

Project Description Located in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood, 150 North Riverside is a tower situated at the confluence of the three forks of the Chicago River. Constructed on the riverfront and partially over active rail lines, the building’s footprint is uncommonly narrow. The marriage of three separate sites allowed for a 54-story tower to fit on what was originally a 25,000-square-foot (2,322 sq m) lot. The site includes 1.5 acres (0.6 ha) of landscaped public park and 360 feet (18.2 © James Florio Photography m) of riverwalk frontage, giving over an unprecedented 75 Park and lobby wall detail: The previously exposed railroad tracks are now percent of the two-acre (0.8 ha) lot to public space, without covered by a 1.5-acre park and plaza. A 90-foot-high glass-fin wall draws abundant natural light into the lobby. public funding assistance. The building cantilevers out dramatically from its narrow base and expansive lobby, manage both drift and acceleration, whereas previous TLSD striking a bold figure on the Chicago landscape. The tower installations were used only to manage acceleration. The uses a 12-tank tuned liquid-sloshing damper (TLSD) to lobby incorporates a 3,000-square-foot (279 sq m) digital art installation of 89 light-emitting diode (LED) blades featuring displays curated in partnership with local institutions and SITE SIZE 2 acres (0.8 ha) ACRES (HECTARES) universities. The building captures 90 percent of rainwater on site, used 15 percent recycled construction materials, diverted Date Acquired December 2011 99 percent of construction waste away from landfills, and PROJECT is certified Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Date Started July 2014 TIMELINE (LEED) Gold. Very little parking is provided, and there is easy Date Opened February 2017 access to multiple forms of public transportation, adding to the sustainability of the building. Because of its prime 2 2 Buildings 1,250,000 ft (116,129 m ) location and above-average amenities, 150 North Riverside has been able to attract impressive tenants, including the Streets/Surface Parking 60,000 ft2 (5,574 m2) LAND USES global headquarters of Hyatt Corporation, William Blair and Open Space/Landscaping 65,340 ft2 (6,070 m2) Company, and Navigant Consulting.

Total 87,120 ft2 (8,094 m2) Project Team DEVELOPER: Riverside Investment & Development DESIGNER: Goettsch Partners

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Site plan: The core-supported building opens more than 75 percent of the two-acre site as a landscaped public park and plaza, with pedestrian pathways overlooking the river.

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, UNITED STATES © Chad Mellon The west atrium is the main entrance to one of the building’s founding tenants, Church Health, the nation's largest, privately funded faith-based health clinic.

Project Description Crosstown Concourse is a vertical urban village that occupies a former Sears distribution center in Memphis. Originally built in 1927, the massive distribution center had been abandoned and fallen into disrepair when a local organization, Crosstown Arts, saw the site as a potential space not only for its group, but also for other community organizations. The tenants and residents of Crosstown Concourse epitomize the collective belief that all lives are improved through well-being, education, and creative pursuits, which is distilled in their motto, “Better together.” The tenants include a high school, a medical clinic catering to uninsured workers, artists in residence, a café offering business opportunities for refugees, a bakery that employs © McGinn Photography

the formerly homeless at a living wage, and many more. The striking 10-story central atrium also serves as a subtle backdrop for large No tenant occupies more than 10 percent of the space, and small gatherings. allowing Crosstown Concourse flexibility and resilience if any one tenant moves out. The renovation, in which tenant buildout occurred simultaneously with core and shell SITE SIZE 19.93 acres (8 ha) construction, has earned the project Leadership in Energy ACRES (HECTARES) and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum for historic Date Acquired 2007 adaptive use. The realization of Crosstown Concourse PROJECT seemed impossible, but in two years, stakeholders pulled Date Started 2009 TIMELINE together 32 separate sources of funding, and the project achieved full occupancy less than a year after opening. Its Date Opened August 2017 success is a testament to what is possible when traditional Buildings 297,377 ft2 (27,627 m2) development models are set aside in favor of direct community reinvestment and collaboration. Streets/Surface Parking 158,721 ft2 (14,745 m2) LAND USES Open Space/Landscaping 253,752 ft2 (23,574 m2) Project Team Total 1,737,914 ft2 (161,457 m2) DEVELOPER: Crosstown LLC DESIGNERS: Looney Ricks Kiss; DIALOG

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FRICK ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER © Mark Simpson Children at the Frick Environmental Center PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES © Ed Massery

© Alexander Denmarsh Project Description The Frick Environmental Center is the first and only municipally owned, free, living building open to the public. Located in Frick Park in Pittsburgh, the new Environmental Center replaced one that had burned down more than a decade earlier. The design process involved more than 100 community conversations with more than 1,000 individuals about what the public wanted out of the building. As a result of those meetings, the center now serves as a living Frick Environmental Center in winter classroom and laboratory for thousands of children each regionally sourced materials. The Environmental Center year and serves as an example of how nature and society incorporates the building’s sustainability features into its can coexist. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental community programming, which it provides in partnership Design (LEED) Platinum–certified building is a net-zero with local schools. The center hosts summer camps, story water and energy facility that uses reclaimed water, treats its hikes, nature play, field trips, and more to allow children own wastewater, uses a large photovoltaic array to produce from all over the city to interact with and learn about nature. more than its required electricity, and was constructed using Graduate and undergraduate students conduct research at the center, which also hosts many community events for adults. The center’s programming aims to include the voices SITE SIZE 4.19 acres (1.7 ha) ACRES (HECTARES) of all Pittsburgh residents. The From Slavery to Freedom Garden highlights a few of the voices of African Americans in Date Acquired 1919 environmentalism. The culturally themed programming has PROJECT engaged more than 400 people who were previously unaware Date Started 2014 TIMELINE of the center. The Frick Environmental Center has become a Date Opened September 2016 community gathering space for all of Pittsburgh’s residents in which to learn about nature and the environment. Buildings 6,923 ft2 (634 m2)

Streets/Surface Parking 24,864 ft2 (2,293 m2) Project Team LAND USES DEVELOPERS: Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy; Open Space/Landscaping 150,901 ft2 (14,019 m2) City of Pittsburgh

2 2 Total 182,688 ft (16,972 m ) DESIGNER: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

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H QUEEN’S

Aerial view

Project Description © H Queen’s H Queen’s is Hong Kong’s first “vertical art space.” The building sits in the Central district of Hong Kong, at the intersection of historic Pottinger Street and Queen’s Road. The building design reflects its intent to fill the need for gallery space. Because the site would house gallery space as well as restaurants, the spaces needed to be flexible. Six of the floors have covered terraces for alfresco dining options, and each floor features an operational curtain wall through which art can be hoisted via a gondola system. The building has many features designed specifically for its use as gallery space that also contribute to its energy efficiency and sustainability. The glass that makes up the facade of the building has a low-e coating and a translucent ceramic fritted pattern, which allows the windows to filter the light and minimize heat absorption while still allowing daylight to penetrate and offering an unrestricted view from the interior. The climate- control system is unique to each floor and the chiller plant strategy optimizes efficiency. The building uses a dry sprinkler Zero UV facade system to protect the art from damage in the event of a fire. The gondola system housed on the roof has a hoisting capacity of 2,755 pounds (1,250 kg) and can hoist art to upper-floor galleries SITE SIZE 0.16 acre (0.06 ha) that otherwise would be difficult to reach. H Queen’s integrates a ACRES (HECTARES) building information modeling system in novel ways to engage customers through QR codes and augmented reality. H Queen’s Date Acquired February 1988 PROJECT has experienced great commercial success, with 90 percent Date Started May 2013 of space occupied and commanding rents 30 to 40 percent TIMELINE higher than those at similar buildings in the district. Among the Date Opened February 2018 building’s tenants are established and respected international art 2 2 galleries, cementing Hong Kong’s place in the art world. Buildings 6,889 ft (640 m ) (footprint)

Streets/Surface Parking None Project Team LAND USES Open Space/Landscaping None DEVELOPER: Henderson Development Agency Limited Total 6,889 ft2 (640 m2) DESIGNER: CL3 Architects

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Sepia’s expansive roof terrace offers residents a variety of seating areas, INK BLOCK barbecue grills, lush landscaping, and breathtaking panoramas of the city.

Project Description Located on the former site of the Boston Herald building, Ink Block is a mixed-use development connecting Boston’s South End to South Boston. The same site, before it hosted the Herald, was a residential neighborhood called the New York Streets, which was razed under the banner of urban renewal. Prior to the development of Ink Block, the area had been a

dilapidated industrial zone, isolated from its surroundings. Anchoring Ink Block’s southeast corner at Traveler and Albany streets, Siena Now, Ink Block is a thriving mixed-use development with seven has established a new gateway to the South End from downtown and South Boston. To its north along Albany Street and I-93 is a new AC Hotel by buildings, designed to feel as if they were built organically over Marriott as well as the future site of 7INK. time. Each building has its own character and target audience, and the five residential buildings are all certified Leadership to South Boston and public transit. Ink Block was developed in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold. The last after members of the local community underwent a 30-month addition, 7INK, broke ground this summer and will formally planning process in which they reached consensus on how to introduce co-living to Boston. One of the most distinctive spur development in Boston’s South End while still honoring parts of the development is the eight-acre (3.2 ha) park the neighborhood’s past. Ink Block has certainly succeeded constructed partially under the highway overpasses adjacent in encouraging development: it is now surrounded by new to the site. This park provides bike and pedestrian connections developments. The project also sought to honor both the site’s history as a residential neighborhood and its history in the newspaper business by maintaining the scale of the project SITE SIZE 6.92 acres (2.8 ha) and choosing Ink Block as the name. The development has ACRES (HECTARES) successfully integrated affordable housing with its upscale market-rate housing and brought a much-needed grocery store Date Acquired June 2007 as well as park space to the area. Ink Block has transformed PROJECT Date Started April 2013 its neighborhood, reconnected Boston’s South End to South TIMELINE Boston, and provided amenities for its residents on a site that Date Opened February 2015 not many years ago was considered blighted.

Buildings 135,800 ft2 (12,616 m2) Project Team Streets/Surface Parking 101,800 ft2 (9,458 m2) LAND USES DEVELOPER: National Development Open Space/Landscaping 77,600 ft2 (7,209 m2) DESIGNERS: Elkus Manfredi Architects; Copley Wolff Total 301,300 ft2 (27,992 m2) Design Group; Landing Studio

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THE MARK

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES © Connie Zhou The lobby of the Mark is highly transparent and flooded with natural light.

© Connie Zhou Project Description The Mark is downtown Seattle’s skinniest high-rise, built on a quarter block and only 15,000 square feet (1,393 sq m) on the ground floor. The site was difficult to develop because it abuts both the historic Rainier Club and the country’s oldest Byzantine-style church. To solve this dilemma, a megabrace structure was used for the tower, which allows the core to be smaller, shifting the load to the exterior walls of the building. The developers purchased the air rights over the Rainier Club, and the megabrace structure enabled the tower to gently cantilever out over the historic structures by about 20 feet (6 m) before gently sloping back toward the center of the building. The Mark is built to withstand a 2,475-year, 9.0 earthquake, and the use of a megabrace system is novel for a tower built in a high-seismic region. After selling its air rights, the Rainier Club used the revenue of the sale Amid a historic building boom in the city, the Mark is distinguished by its for capital improvements to its 1904 landmark structure. expressed diagonal steel braces dividing the building’s planes. Developers also preserved the church, turning it into the premier event space in Seattle. The tower incorporates the church through allowing the church’s exterior wall to SITE SIZE 23 acres (9.3 ha) serve as one wall in the Mark’s lobby, as well as using the ACRES (HECTARES) sanctuary as event space for the hotel located in the tower. Date Acquired 2007 Rooftop space on the sanctuary also serves as a home for PROJECT four beehives, which provide honey for the hotel’s restaurant Date Started 2007 and contribute to the stability of the surrounding ecosystem. TIMELINE Tech company F5 has leased all of the Mark’s office space. Date Opened April 2018 The Mark shows that it is possible to both preserve the old Buildings 1 million ft2 (92,903 m2) and build the new in an integrated fashion. 291 spaces Streets/Surface Parking (structured parking) Project Team LAND USES Open Space/Landscaping None DEVELOPERS: Daniels Real Estate; Stockbridge Real Estate Total 1 million ft2 (92,903 m2) DESIGNERS: ZGF Architects; Phillippe Starck; Ron Wright & Associates

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PIER 17 AT THE SEAPORT DISTRICT NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES The Heineken Riverdeck

Project Description Located in New York City’s Historic Seaport District, Pier 17 is a one-of-a-kind mixed-use building designed to act as an extension of the city’s grid. A large pedestrian thoroughfare extends through the first two floors of the site, which are split into six buildings to form Pier Village. Large glass panel doors can be lowered to protect the inner space from the elements when necessary, while maintaining magnificent views of the waterfront. Pier 17 was designed to meet © Howard Hughes Corporation © Howard Hughes Corporation Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Pier 17 exterior standards and was built using marine-grade materials. The pier itself was rebuilt, instead of merely building on top of its rooftop performance and concert venue. The directional the old pier, to ensure that it will last long into the future. A sound design of the venue allows for an intimate outdoor programmable glass facade, the “Lightband,” wraps the third performance setting with high sound quality for concertgoers and fourth floors of Pier 17, turning the building itself into without disturbing nearby residents. The venue hosts events a work of art. The truly unique feature of Pier 17, though, is like free fitness classes, movie screenings, and a summer concert series, which drew 60,000 visitors last summer. Pier 17 also partners with local organizations and schools by SITE SIZE 8.6 acres (3.5 ha) hosting events like the New York Police Department’s National ACRES (HECTARES) Night Out and Taste of the Seaport. Part of the roof is open to Date Acquired 2011 the public, allowing everyone to experience its views. These PROJECT amenities have made Pier 17 a centralized gathering place for Date Started February 2015 TIMELINE the community. The development team worked extensively with the community and advocacy groups, as well as with the Date Opened April 2018 New York City and state governments to navigate community Buildings 212,000 ft2 (19,695 m2) interest as well as the regulations regarding historic districts.

Streets/Surface Parking 11,060 ft2 (1,027 m2) LAND USES Project Team 2 2 Open Space/Landscaping 150,000 ft (13,935 m ) DEVELOPER: Howard Hughes Corporation Total 373,060 ft2 (34,658 m2) DESIGNER: SHoP Architects

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RENAISSANCE DOWNTOWN LOFTS

Project Description © Ooms Inc. From the outside, Renaissance Downtown Lofts looks like most new apartment buildings in Denver; inside, it offers the city’s homeless population a chance at stability. The appearance of the building offers a sense of dignity to homeless individuals and seeks to mitigate the sense of isolation that often comes with homelessness. The lofts sit on a site that had been an abandoned one-story drive-up bank in Denver’s Arapahoe Square neighborhood. Now, thanks to Colorado’s Coalition for the Homeless, it is a six-story apartment building with social Renaissance Downtown Lofts provides housing and services to the homeless. services, including job programs, mental health services, and addiction treatment located on the first floor. There are 101 Project Team one- and two-bedroom apartments designed to provide housing DEVELOPERS: Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, and stability for homeless individuals and families. The building and subsidiaries Renaissance Housing also has several common spaces, such as a shared kitchen, a Development Corporation and Downtown community lounge, and a green roof and raised courtyard. The Lofts Housing Corporation lofts are less than a quarter mile (0.4 km) from two light-rail stations, allowing residents easy access to transit. The city DESIGNERS: Christopher Carvell Architects PC; FCI has estimated that Renaissance Downtown Lofts will help save Constructors; Prescient; Group14 Engineering $2.9 million per year by providing services that the homeless otherwise would not receive. US Bank donated the land, and SITE SIZE 0.49 acres (0.2 ha) construction was funded by a social impact bond program and ACRES (HECTARES) private investment for upfront costs. As part of the social impact Date Acquired June 2015 bond program, the city repays investors only if the residents stay PROJECT out of jail and detox; the city made its first payment in October Date Started September 2016 TIMELINE 2018. The site is oddly shaped, so to cut down on costs and aid in attaining sustainability goals, prefabricated Prescient Date Opened May 2018 light-gauge steel panels were used. The building exceeds the Buildings 21,377 ft2 (1,986 m2) criteria for Enterprise Green Communities. 8,500 ft2 (790 m2) Parking (structured parking) LAND USES Open Space/Landscaping 4,250 ft2 (395 m2)

Total 21,377 ft2 (1,986 m2)

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JACINTA STUART McCANN ACKERBERG Jury Chair Chief Executive Officer Global Design Adviser, Ackerberg AECOM Ackerberg is the owner and McCann has worked for chief executive officer of more than 35 years to Ackerberg. Before forming enhance the quality of cities that firm, he was general and communities around the partner, president, and chief globe. In the past 28 years operating officer of Birtcher while at AECOM she has held both practice and management Financial Services and was vice president for Heitman executive roles at regional and global levels. Originally from Financial Services Ltd. In addition to his work at Ackerberg, Sydney, where she worked on large-scale urban regeneration he created the nonprofit development corporation Catalyst projects that included the Sydney Olympics, McCann has Community Partners, of which he is chairman of the board. continued to work on complex urban development projects, Ackerberg is an active member of ULI, serving as a including Mission Bay in San Francisco, Nova Luz in São governing trustee on an international level and in a Paulo, Bonifacio Global City in Manila, and the Los Angeles leadership role in ULI Minnesota. He is an advisory board Waterfront. member for the College of Design at the University of McCann has served in various capacities with ULI, Minnesota and a member of the Real Estate Advisors for including the National Program Committee and the Global the University of Minnesota Foundation. In addition, he Awards for Excellence jury, and as a ULI Daniel Rose Fellow. is a director of the Minneapolis Parks Foundation and She is currently a member of the Recreation Development the Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Minneapolis. Council. McCann’s professional appointments include Ackerberg attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, president of the Landscape Architecture Foundation, the where he received a bachelor of science degree with San Francisco Bay Conservation Development Commission emphasis on economics and real estate. (BCDC) Design Review Board, and the University of New South Wales faculty of the Built Environment Advisory Board. McCann was honored in 2014 by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the 100 most influential business women in the Bay Area.

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AMY COBURN ANTONIO University Architect/ FIOL-SILVA Director of Planning Founding Principal Design & Construction SITIO architecture University of New Mexico + urbanism Coburn is the University Fiol-Silva is a nationally of New Mexico (UNM) recognized leader in university architect and planning and design, and director of Planning, the founding principal Design & Construction, of SITIO architecture a professional internal service unit dedicated to delivery of + urbanism. His integrated design work has garnered superior academic facilities. In this role, Coburn provides numerous awards and recognition, including a ULI Global broad leadership for the institution’s architectural and Award for Excellence for the SteelStacks Art and Cultural development activities. She is also director of design and Campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; an American Institute development of Lobo Development Corporation, a UNM of Architects (AIA) National Urban Design Award for the U.S. Regent-owned nonprofit corporation, where she supervises House of Representatives Office Buildings & South Capitol activities with partner American Campus Communities to Area Plan in Washington, D.C.; a cover feature in the U.S. provide high-density student housing at UNM. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) GreenSource magazine Over her 30-year career, Coburn has held positions with several for the Charlottesville Downtown Transit and Visitor Center; distinguished development and architecture organizations and a USGBC Project of the Year Award for Paseo Verde in across the country. As vice president of planning and design for Philadelphia, the nation’s first Platinum-certified project Forest City Enterprises, she developed Albuquerque’s Mesa del under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Sol’s residential builder program and wrote community public for Neighborhood Development program. realm expression for the mixed-use master-planned community. Fiol-Silva is a global governing trustee of ULI and a She also was vice president of product development for National Advisory Board and faculty member of the National Pulte Homes in Las Vegas, associate vice president for League of Cities Rose Center for Public Leadership. He development with Catullus Development in San Francisco, lectures widely on urban development, serves on industry and an architect with SOM San Francisco. She holds a juries, and appears in print and media. He has been chair bachelor of architecture from Syracuse University and a of ULI Philadelphia, president of AIA Philadelphia, and master of architecture from Harvard University. She has president of the Center for Architecture + Design. He was taught at several universities and is active in professional commissioner of the Delaware River Port Authority and the organizations such as Lambda Alpha International, the Philadelphia Historical Commission, and a board member Society for College and University Planning, and ULI, of the Central Philadelphia Development Corporation. where she is an incoming ULI New Mexico chairperson. He has a bachelor of architecture from Cornell University and a master of architecture in urban design from Harvard University, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Barcelona, Spain.

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MICHAEL GROVE BLAKE OLAFSON Principal Managing Partner Sasaki Associates Asia Capital Real Grove is the chair of Estate Pte Ltd landscape architecture, civil Olafson has spent the engineering, and ecology past 28 years in the real and sits on the board of estate industry in Asia and directors at Sasaki, a global is the founder, in 2012, design firm with offices and managing partner in Boston and Shanghai. of Asia Capital Real Leading the firm’s work in Asia, he offers unique insight Estate (ACRE), a private equity fund management business into the unprecedented transformation and urbanization of based in Singapore with over $1.2 billion in assets under the region. Grove is a fierce advocate for the vital role that management. ACRE, which specializes in rental multifamily landscape architects play in shaping contemporary cities. properties, primarily in the United States, with more than Informed by a rigorous inquiry of economic, ecological, and 10,000 apartment units, in 2018 returned to Asia with its first cultural influences, he believes that the role of the designer is investments in the Thai residential rental market. to make cities more livable, equitable, resilient, and just. Before founding ACRE, Olafson was a senior vice president Grove’s career spans a variety of project types and scales, at Ivanhoe Capital, a large single-family office based in including regional planning, new communities, urban Singapore responsible for private global investments of the districts, and waterfronts. He collaborates closely with clients family office. He also spent 2008 to 2010 at Arcapita, a large to generate planning and design strategies that are inclusive shariah-compliant investment firm, as head of real estate in of financial, cultural, and environmental perspectives. This Asia. Olafson spent 1999 to 2008 at Lehman Brothers in the integrated approach prioritizes creative solutions that balance real estate group in Singapore and Thailand, responsible for development needs with ecological and social imperatives. principal investments for the firm. He started his career in Grove is a graduate of Cornell University with a degree in Asia in 1992 with Ikoma, based in Tokyo. He has a master’s landscape architecture and a focus on planning and urban in real estate development from the University of Southern design. He is a member of the American Society of Landscape California, is a global trustee of ULI, and lives in Singapore Architects, the ULI Placemaking Council, and the board of with his family. the Landscape Architecture Foundation. His work has been recognized with numerous national and international awards, and he is a frequent lecturer at conferences and universities around the world.

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GAYLE STARR BECKY Managing Director ZIMMERMANN Prologis President Starr is a trusted leader/ Design Workshop adviser with deep Zimmermann is president knowledge and experience of Design Workshop, in debt structuring, an international firm compliance, public and providing urban design, private funds globally, and land planning, landscape negotiation of complex architecture, and strategic financing. She brings a law degree and decades of experience services. Design Workshop, founded in 1969, with eight initiating and closing financing through volatile market cycles, offices and 120 employees, has been involved with significant including the global financial crisis. She has developed, projects around the world. Zimmermann has devoted her managed, and leased industrial and retail assets facilitating an career to solving complex issues in the areas of community understanding of real estate operations. planning, market and economics, tourism planning, and Starr has created and maintained strong relationships with development strategy. She is recognized for her work in banking partners and closed over $38 billion of financings in leading communities, companies, and organizations in nine currencies with more than 70 lenders during her tenure strategic and business planning, market definition and at Prologis (formerly AMB). International experience includes strategy, development entitlements, land use regulations, securing financing in Mexico, Japan, Canada, China, and real estate economics, facilitation, and advisory services. throughout Europe. In mergers and acquisitions, she took a Zimmermann received her MBA from the University of leading role in analyzing, devising strategy, and executing the Colorado and undergraduate degrees in business and debt aspects of over $15 billion in activity. communications from Trinity University in San Antonio. Her current focus is to share her knowledge through She is a member of the Young Presidents Organization board and advisory positions in growing companies and (YPO Gold), ULI, and the American Planning Association. organizations. In addition, she is passionate about increasing She is vice chair of ULI’s new Travel Experience and Trends diversity and inclusion through her role as a global governing Council, and is on the board of directors for AAA Colorado trustee for ULI, a member of the executive committee of the and Weifield Group Contractors and formerly for the Front ULI Women’s Leadership Initiative, and an adviser to Prologis. Range Center for Neuro Diversity. Zimmermann annually teaches real estate marketing to real estate graduate students at the Universidad de Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala.

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