AIA JUSTICE FACILITY AWARD PRESENTED TO NYPD 40TH PRECINCT

At this year’s AIA Conference on Architecture & Design, the NYPD 40^th Precinct won the Justice Facility Award, which is given to projects that exemplify quality of form, functionality, and an exceptional architectural response to complex justice design issues. The 45,000-sq-ft 40^th Precinct, designed by BIG, is located in the South Bronx and features the first-ever community meeting room in a New York City police precinct. From the outside, the precinct resembles a stack of boxes, or ‘bricks’ that reference early NYC police stations, unified through a precast concrete façade that alternates between sandblasted and polished finishes.