SOLAR ONE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER TOPS OUT IN NEW YORK CITY

Solar One – the nonprofit focused on sustainability and resiliency in urban environments – along with BIG, Gilbane Building Company, and the NYC Economic Development Corporation celebrated the topping out of the Solar One Environmental Education Center in Stuyvesant Cove Park on Manhattan’s east side. The BIG-designed home for environmental learning and innovation, designed in collaboration with Silman Structural Engineers and Cosentini Associates, will offer educational programming on New York’s ecology in a structure designed to withstand flooding events and provide life-saving recharging capabilities during power outages. Opening spring 2025, the center will also act as a gateway to the northernmost point of the East Side Coastal Resiliency waterfront redevelopment, designed by BIG with AKRF, ONE, and MNLA. The East Side Coastal Resiliency project will bring 2.5 miles of coastal resiliency and social infrastructure along the East River, reducing the risk of flooding during storm surge events while improving access to the waterfront, creating new public spaces, and enhancing natural areas.