![]() ![]() Silberman Fund, which owned the School’s current facility on East 79th Street. Other features include a café, art exhibition space, and a second-floor patio.Ĭonstruction of the new building was made possible through a public/private partnership with CUNY, the Brodsky Organization, and the Lois and Samuel J. Approximately one-third of the SSW building will be occupied by CUNY’s new School of Public Health, which will also share the SSW’s library and other resources. ![]() The two buildings will be connected by an inner courtyard. The irregularly shaped urban site is further constrained by construction of a $30 million, 100-bed housing facility for CUNY graduate students that began this spring. Several adjacent 19th Century buildings also required extensive underpinning to ensure their structural integrity. Second-floor spaces such as the student lounges and a 2,450 sq ft, 160-seat lecture hall are also “open” to the outside, fostering a sense of connection between the students and the City.īruce Davis, a partner with project architect Cooper, Robertson & Partners says the steel frame provided the flexibility to arrange the mixed interior uses without need for large spans and trusses.Īfter excavating more than 20 feet below grade for the basement-level library stacks and labs, an extensive wellpoint dewatering network was installed to prepare the site for the poured concrete foundation. Located on Third Avenue between 118th and 119th Streets, the steel-framed SSW building stresses transparency with its extensive use of floor-to-ceiling glass mixed with brick cladding on the lower floors, and a mix of curtainwall and precast concrete panels on the upper levels. CUNY-Hunter College School of Social Work ![]()
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