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- EAST 10 STREET, MANHATTAN TOWNHOUSES
Multiple locations in Manhattan RESIDENTIAL EAST 10 STREET, MANHATTAN TOWNHOUSES PREVIOUS PROJECT NEXT PROJECT ARCHITECT Phil Toscano (architect of record) Beringer Architects (interior) PROJECT LOCATION Multiple locations in Manhattan PROJECT SIZE Each townhouse is about 5,500 SF PROJECT COST $5 million SCOPE Full MEP/FP design Full gut renovation of two landmarked townhouses near historic Stuyvesant Street in Manhattan in St. Mark’s historic district. According to Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), 106 and 110 are two of three identical houses were built in 1867 by an Irish-American builder, James Mulry, at an estimated cost of $6,000. The three buildings were erected on the lots that Mr. Mulry leased from Hamilton Fish- the 16th Governor of New York State and the Secretary of State under Ulysses Grant. The buildings were designed in a late version of the Italianate style by D. & J. Jardine Architects. The segmental-arched doorways have stone cornico-slabs supported on vertical console brackets which, in turn, are carried on paneled pilasters. They are four stories high, above a basement, and all retain their stoops. They are all three surmounted by individual bracketed cornices which are aligned at the same level. The stone basement wall is carried up to sill height at the first floor with recessed stone panels under each window. MOROZOV carried upgrades to power, water, sewer utility connections. Our engineers worked hand-in-hand with the interior architects to thoughtfully integrate central heating and cooling systems into the buildings.
- YWCA OF BROOKLYN
CULTURAL YWCA OF BROOKLYN PREVIOUS PROJECT NEXT PROJECT ARCHITECT PROJECT LOCATION 30 Third Avenue PROJECT SIZE 180,000 SF PROJECT COST SCOPE HVAC design, energy efficiency, CHP feasibility The Young Women’s Christian Association was founded in 1888. The goal of the organization was to provide a meeting place for young women who were employed in retail stores, as office workers and other occupations throughout Brooklyn. These young ladies could listen to lectures, concerts, enjoy the reading room, and receive Christian instruction, if so desired. It was the first major organization of its kind in Brooklyn to be entirely run by women. In 1928 the Y has moved to its current building at 30 Third Avenue. The 11-story building was designed by Frederick Lee Ackerman and Alexander B. Trowbridge. The building has always served as a multi-use facility, including 214 units of supportive, low-income housing for women, a theater, a pool, health and community services, etc. This was the first YWCA to integrate its residences and programs racially. Morozov engineers were tasked with minor HVAC upgrades as well as a feasibility analysis for a co-generation module.
- 621 WEST 55TH STREET
full MEP design and construction administration services COMMERCIAL 621 WEST 55TH STREET PREVIOUS PROJECT NEXT PROJECT ARCHITECT PROJECT LOCATION PROJECT SIZE PROJECT COST SCOPE full MEP design and construction administration services A 22,000 square foot ground up high rise commercial office building in New York city. This boutique building contains 8 full floor offices above a 3-level parking garage. 621 West 55th Street is being designed to meet US Passive House Institute standards for energy efficiency. Passive House standard emphasizes air-tight, continuously insulated building envelope without thermal bridges, high performance windows and balanced heat and moisture recovery ventilation. Passive House buildings are expected to consume 75-90% less energy than traditional buildings. The biggest challenge for MEP systems was to minimize the impact of the high rise MEP system requirements on an relatively small floor plate (2,400 SF). A fire protection tank, standpipe, generator, ventilation systems all eat up valuable floor area and the project becomes less financially viable. Morozov team worked closely with the architect to optimize MEP systems to achieve the largest possible usable area. The building is cooled and heated with a variable-refrigerant system. Packaged rooftop energy recovery ventilator filtered and conditioned fresh air directly into each office in a continuous ventilation cycle. MEP systems include a 150-kW emergency generator with a diesel tank, an underground suction tank for fire protection, and reversible air-flow parking garage exhaust system with post-fire smoke purge functionality.
- CITY POINT TOWER PHASE ONE
7 DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn NY MULTIFAMILY CITY POINT TOWER PHASE ONE PREVIOUS PROJECT NEXT PROJECT ARCHITECT SCLE PROJECT LOCATION 7 DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn NY PROJECT SIZE 270,000 SF PROJECT COST $ 110 million SCOPE Energy Code Progress Inspections City Point Tower 1 is one part of 1.8 million square foot development of new construction, including retail, residential, entertainment, and office space spurred by 2004 Downtown Brooklyn Plan. The City Point project sits on City-owned property at a highly visible location along Flatbush Avenue and serves as a gateway to the Downtown area. Bordered by Flatbush Avenue, Gold Street, and Dekalb Avenue. Tower 1 is a mixed-income 19-story 251-unit residential tower above a four floor retail podium. OWNER Albee Tower 1 Owners LLC (BFC)
- 230 EAST 18TH STREET, BROOKLYN
230 East 18th Street, Brooklyn, NY MULTIFAMILY 230 EAST 18TH STREET, BROOKLYN PREVIOUS PROJECT NEXT PROJECT ARCHITECT Aufgang PROJECT LOCATION 230 East 18th Street, Brooklyn, NY PROJECT SIZE 24,500 SF PROJECT COST Withheld SCOPE HVAC, sprinkler, plumbing and electrical power design and construction administration A new 26-unit luxury rental building in Prospect Park South neighborhood of Brooklyn. The project contains a total of 13 studios, 10 one-bedrooms, and a pair of two-bedroom units. The building does not use natural gas or any other fossil fuel for heating. The building is cooled and heated with a variable-refrigerant flow system in lieu of more conventional gas-fired boilers. Not relying on gas for heating approach is expected to save 150-200 metric tons of Carbon Dioxide emissions. In addition to efficient heating and cooling, the building’s fresh air is brought in via an energy-recovery ventilator (ERV). The ERV passively cools or heats the incoming fresh outdoor air by capturing energy of the indoor conditioned air.
- FASHION TOWER
COMMERCIAL FASHION TOWER PREVIOUS PROJECT NEXT PROJECT ARCHITECT GRT Architects PROJECT LOCATION 135 West 36th Street, New York, NY PROJECT SIZE PROJECT COST SCOPE GRT Architects recently completed the renovation and historic restoration of Fashion Tower, an Art Deco-era skyscraper in New York’s Garment District. The building was designed by Emery Roth, best known for his iconic pre-war residential towers including the San Remo and Beresford. Among the many buildings in what was once the epicenter of American clothing design and manufacturing, Fashion Tower is unique for its ornamental motifs referencing the apparel industry and for being occupied to this day by the garment trade. Motivated by the resurgence of the Fashion District and the building’s unique history, the current owner asked GRT Architects to restore the facade of the tower’s base while sensitively incorporating a contemporary lobby. Guided by Roth’s original drawings archived at Columbia University’s Avery Library, GRT Architects restored the exterior of Fashion Tower to its original splendor. Earlier renovations obscured a figured sandstone facade with layers of grey stucco and destroyed intricate detailing at the entry. Into a restored carved stone archway, GRT Architects added a minimal all-glass entry set back from the line of the masonry. True to Roth’s intentions, this portal is once again flanked by polychrome terracotta panels with peacock motifs— symbols of apparel, elegance and style. These peacocks rejoin surviving ornament that include winged putti holding shears and draping fabric, and women admiring their reflections and clutching spindles. A delicate façade cleaning revealed a richly veined sandstone cladding and forensic paint analysis was used to bring the appearance of cast iron spandrels and window frames back to the original. Inside, GRT Architects extended Roth’s stylized celebration of the fashion industry with a double-height lobby clad in pleated calacatta marble and bronze-tinted aluminium. The geometry of the lobby wall nods to folds in fabric while the scale and material palette play on the delicate balance between imposing and intimate that is a hallmark of New York Art Deco. Off-site CNC fabrication and on-site handcraft was used to realize a contemporary design in a classic material. Drawing upon the building’s history to prepare it for the next hundred years of service, the renovation reasserts the importance of fashion and style in a dynamic neighborhood.
- MARRIOTT COURTYARD HOTEL ON W 30TH STREET
NA HOSPITALITY MARRIOTT COURTYARD HOTEL ON W 30TH STREET PREVIOUS PROJECT NEXT PROJECT ARCHITECT Peter Poon Architects PROJECT LOCATION W 30th Street, NY, NY PROJECT SIZE 113,000 SF PROJECT COST NA SCOPE NA MOROZOV was engaged by another consultant to design efficient plumbing and sprinkler systems. The hotel developer challenged the design team to achieve LEED Gold certification. In order to achieve the Gold level, the building was provided with a combined heat and power plant consisting of two 50 kW, two gas-fired micro-turbines. CLIENT Rodkine Cardinal Consulting Engineers
- 52-09 31ST PLACE, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY
plumbing and fire protection systems HOSPITALITY 52-09 31ST PLACE, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY PREVIOUS PROJECT NEXT PROJECT ARCHITECT ARC ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN STUDIO, PLLC PROJECT LOCATION LONG ISLAND CITY, NY PROJECT SIZE 112,000 SF PROJECT COST NA SCOPE plumbing and fire protection systems MOROZOV has designed the plumbing and fire protection systems for this building.
- PARRISH ART MUSEUM
CULTURAL PARRISH ART MUSEUM PREVIOUS PROJECT NEXT PROJECT ARCHITECT Herzog De Meuron, Douglas Moyer PROJECT LOCATION 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, NY PROJECT SIZE 34,000 SF PROJECT COST $ 30 million SCOPE Full HVAC design (as design engineer at Buro Happold) “Inspired by the natural setting and artistic life of Long Island’s East End, the Parrish Art Museum illuminates the creative process and how art and artists transform our experiences and understanding of the world and how we live in it. The Museum fosters connections among individuals, art, and artists through care and interpretation of the collection, the presentation of exhibitions, publications, educational initiatives, programs, and artists-in-residence” Born in 1897 as the Art Museum at Southampton, it was established by a New York lawyer, Samuel Longstreth Parrish, to house his holdings of Italian Renaissance paintings and 19th-century plaster casts; both the building and the collection were given to the Village of Southampton after his death. In the 1950s a local philanthropist, Rebecca Bolling Littlejohn, chartered the museum as an independent entity, named it for Mr. Parrish, and endowed it with her own collection of American painting, rich in work by Impressionists like Chase and Childe Hassam, as well as local artists of the era, like Fairfield Porter and Larry Rivers. Once home to Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Roy Lichtenstein, among many others, the area has been an artists’ colony since the 19th century. Today’s residents, full time or seasonal, include Chuck Close, April Gornik, Eric Fischl, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, and Donald Sultan, as well as many more lesser-known names. In 2005 the Museum purchased fourteen acres in Water Mill, New York, and the Board of Trustees selected the internationally celebrated architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron to design a new and expanded building there. Ground was broken in July 2010, and the 34,400 square-foot building opened to the public November 10, 2012. Drawing inspiration from local barn houses, Herzog de Meuron envisioned a single-story structure — 94 feet wide and 634 feet long — with the building’s galleries arranged in two rows along a central corridor, designed for flexibility, with temporary walls so that the size of the rooms can be adjusted. The building is covered by two parallel pitched roofs — one for each row — with north-facing windows that take full advantage of the soft northern light. The building doubled the size of the existing facility with 12,000 square feet of flexible galleries, including the first galleries dedicated to permanent collection. The museum includes educational and multi-purpose spaces, café and kitchen. The design incorporates administrative offices and onsite space for storage and care of the permanent collection. To support the architect’s vision for a clean minimalist building, all mechanical equipment was tucked away in the cellar and crawl spaces. As part of design team at Buro Happold’s New York office, Mr. Morozov conceived a geothermal heating and cooling plant that took advantage of high water table below the site. Geothermal water was pumped from 6 standing column wells, circulated through reversible heat pump chillers and dumped into 6 discharge wells downstream. The reversible chillers use ground source water to generate 45-degree water in the summer and 85-degree water in the winter. For even better energy efficiency the heat pump chillers were paired with displacement ventilation. Unlike overhead air supply, displacement ventilation air cools or heats the space with moderately cool or warm air. Custom air-handlers also were located in the cellar spaces. Air distribution was limited to building’s perimeter with supply ducts running in the oversized crawl space.
- Cultural Projects
Our Projects Cultural PARRISH ART MUSEUM PS 122 COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER UNITED NATIONS PERMANENT MEMORIAL YWCA OF BROOKLYN MULTIFAMILY COMMERCIAL HEALTHCARE HOSPITALITY RESIDENTIAL LANDMARKS CULTURAL
- YWCA OF BROOKLYN
30 Third Avenue MULTIFAMILY YWCA OF BROOKLYN PREVIOUS PROJECT NEXT PROJECT ARCHITECT PROJECT LOCATION 30 Third Avenue PROJECT SIZE 180,000 SF PROJECT COST SCOPE HVAC design, energy efficiency, CHP feasibility The Young Women’s Christian Association was founded in 1888. The goal of the organization was to provide a meeting place for young women who were employed in retail stores, as office workers and other occupations throughout Brooklyn. These young ladies could listen to lectures, concerts, enjoy the reading room, and receive Christian instruction, if so desired. It was the first major organization of its kind in Brooklyn to be entirely run by women.
- 42 SHARON STREET, BROOKLYN
42 Sharon Street, Brooklyn RESIDENTIAL 42 SHARON STREET, BROOKLYN PREVIOUS PROJECT NEXT PROJECT ARCHITECT nC2 Architecture LLC PROJECT LOCATION 42 Sharon Street, Brooklyn PROJECT SIZE 3,600 SF PROJECT COST SCOPE full MEP/FP design and construction administration services A ground up construction of a single family home in Brooklyn. Morozov was retained as a project’s MEP engineer in part because the building’s complex interior geometry required a thoughtful approach that most small MEP firms lack. Morozov consulted the owner on high performance building strategies, such as passive heating and cooling, insulation and envelope air-tightness, intelligent lighting controls, highly efficient domestic water heating and continuous ventilation with energy recovery. With the exception of domestic water heating, the building does not use natural gas or any other fuel for heating, and is cooled and heated with a variable-refrigerant flow system. Highly insulated envelope, and fuel free heating are expected to save 15 metric tons of Carbon Dioxide emissions on an annual basis. Morozov efficiently and successfully secured utility connection approvals and assisted the client in resolving filing and approval issues.











