BIG NYC Associate Dominyka Voelkle was a spotlight speaker at Facades+, the premier conference for high-performance building enclosures, hosted by The Architect’s Newspaper. Voelkle spoke at the NYC and Nashville events about the process for designing and building The Spiral as well as Google Gradient Canopy and CapitaSpring, and answered questions from the crowd. Located on West 34th Street between Hudson Boulevard and 10th Avenue, The Spiral neighbors the elevated High Line and Bella Abzug Park on Manhattan’s west side. The tower visually extends the landscape of the nearby High Line Park up and around The Spiral’s exterior, allowing access to green outdoor terraces from each of the building’s 66 stories. The Spiral is pursuing LEED Silver certification and was named the world’s Best Tall Building in its category by The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat at the organization’s annual conference last year. The Spiral is BIG’s first completed supertall and first completed commercial high-rise in New York.
