Architect give financial district tour as part of AIA downtown conference.Marvin H. Meltzer, vice president of Meltzer/Mandl Architects and a prominent designer of multi-family buildings in Manhattan, will lead as many as 40 architects, planners and others on a walking tour of housing in New York's financial district. Conducting the tour with Mettzer will be Leon D. Marrano III, president of Marson Construction Co. "We'll have two hours to explore properties that are bringing new life to the financial district, which was historically a thriving thrive intr.v. thrived or throve , thrived or thriv·en , thriv·ing, thrives 1. To make steady progress; prosper. 2. residential neighborhood," said Meltzer. "At 50 Murray Murray, river, Australia Murray, principal river of Australia, 1,609 mi (2,589 km) long, rising in the Australian Alps, SE New South Wales, and flowing westward to form the New South Wales–Victoria boundary. St., we'll reveal the incredible challenges involved in combining and converting two very large, contemporary office buildings into 390 desirable and financially successful apartments. The building is very near to Ground Zero and was hit by pieces of aircraft on 9/11." Meltzer/Mandl Architects designed the conversion at 50 Murray St. Marson Construction Co. carried out the work. Their client, The Worldwide Group, developed the property. The tour is one element of "Learning from lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North ," a three-day national conference organized by the American Institute of Architects The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Organized in 1857, the Institute conducts various activities and programs to support the profession and enhance its public image, including periodically awarding the AIA New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Chapter and several committees of the national AIA AIA - Application Integration Architecture . The conference will explore how New York is rebuilding after 9/11. The speakers, attendees and tour leaders such as Meltzer are sure to have pointed opinions on what is being done right and what could be done better in the area. The September 17 tour will run from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. For more information visit www.aia.org or www.50murray.com. |
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