Located on the Astoria, Queens waterfront, 20 and 30 Halletts Point wins in the Sustainable Design category.

We are excited to share that 20 and 30 Halletts Point has won first place at this year’s AIA Queens Design Awards in the Sustainable Design category.

The design draws inspiration from the buildings' spectacular waterfront location on the East River. Clean lines and light colors are used to visually tie the buildings to the water, with white double-height frames that anchor the base and light silver glass above to pick up the colors of the river and sky. Above, the building crowns are rendered in a silver finish metal and lit at night, serving as beacons on the waterfront.

20 & 30 Halletts Point is LEED Platinum, making it one of only a handful of multifamily residential projects in the country to be awarded Platinum. Some of the most impactful sustainable approaches were:

1. A resiliency approach that included raising the ground plane and turning the shoreline into a public access walkway to prevent flooding.
2. Blackwater recycling: 30,000 gallons of wastewater are recycled onsite daily by this building. That includes storm water, condensate, and black water (showers, toilets, sinks, etc.). This reduces the water demand for the building by >55%.
3. Low Carbon Concrete: The project uses ground-glass pozzolans (GGP) in some of the concrete mixes for the building’s superstructure. GGP is sourced from recycled glass from bottles and other waste streams. Using GGP helped the team achieve critical credits for LCA documentation and embodied carbon reductions.
4. A high-performance thermally-broken curtain wall facade system.
5. An energy recovery unit that exhausts stale air and replaces it with a balanced amount of filtered fresh air.

Great work from the Handel project team of Gary Handel, Malay Shah, Greg Kamback, Changee Park, Soyae Baek, Noah Rosenberg, Birgitta Bjornsson, Valeria Flores, Richard Karsten, Alex Kim, and Meari Kim! Congratulations to our client The Durst Organization and to our many partners including UAG, Starr Whitehouse, Severud Associates, Langan Engineering, Jaros, Baum & Bolles, Socotec, and Atelier 10!