New York City and the AIA New York Chapter on June 12 launched a design-development competition for an affordable, sustainable housing complex in the South Bronx. The 40,000-square-foot competition site is located at the southeast corner of East 156th Street and Brook Avenue. The steeply sloped, city-owned property has a retaining wall and an abandoned railroad track with 20,000 square feet of air rights.
The $4 million site will be sold to the winning team for a nominal fee for building low, middle, and moderate income housing. The competition is part of Mayor Bloomberg's 10-year plan to build 165,000 affordable housing units. Requests for proposals to the two-step competition, dubbed "The New Housing New York Legacy Project," are due July 24, 2006. Designs will be reviewed by a jury in January 2007 with a public display at the Center for Architecture in Greenwich Village. For more information contact the AIA New York Chapter at 212-683-0023.
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