KSS Architects praised for smart growth in the Garden State.New Jersey Future, a statewide research and policy group, awarded KSS KSS Kearns-Sayre Syndrome KSS Komunistická Strana Slovenska (Slovak Communist Party, Slovakia) KSS Kelowna Secondary School (Kelowna, BC, Canada) KSS Kirby Super Star (SNES game) Architects the Smart Growth Award for their Community-University Partnership with New Jersey City University. The award was presented at the Newark Newark, cities, United States Newark. 1 City (1990 pop. 37,861), Alameda co., W Calif., on the east side of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1955. Club in Newark, NJ, on Tuesday, June 6, 2006. New Jersey Future's Smart Growth Awards honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. town officials, developers, contractors, architects, and corporate leaders who adopt smart growth values and design principles to their projects. KSS Architects was awarded the Smart Growth Award for its Community-University Partnership for New Jersey City University's Redevelopment Plan in Jersey City, NJ. Through the plan an abandoned industrial site will be transformed into new academia, housing, and retail space within walking distance of public transportation, allowing both the University and the community to reap the benefits of this new plan. "This award is a great honor for us," said KSS Partner Allan Kehrt. "As a firm we are greatly invested in the educational community and the neighborhoods in which they reside. We believe that efficient extends beyond just the architecture of the building." Michael Shatken, a partner at KSS, describes the future West Campus as, "An ideal place to live, work, learn, and visit. The West Campus will have great public streets extending the existing street network, green parks, hard plazas, and future paths to the new waterfront park Waterfront Park can refer to any of a number of parks on a river or other body of water, including:
KSS Architects has a long history of serving the educational marketplace on all levels. Recent projects include: Cornell Cornell named after New York State Veterinary College at Cornell University, NY, USA. Cornell alternative-month accelerated lambing system enables each ewe to lamb three times in every 2 years. University's School of Hotel Administration in Ithaca, NY; the design of the 129,000 s/f Center for Academic Success for Kean University Kean University (Pronounced KĀN or "cane") formerly Kean College of New Jersey, and previously Newark State Teachers College is a state university located in Union Township, Union County, New Jersey. in Union, NJ; and the design of Rutgers University's Department of Biomedical Engineering Biomedical engineering An interdisciplinary field in which the principles, laws, and techniques of engineering, physics, chemistry, and other physical sciences are applied to facilitate progress in medicine, biology, and other life sciences. in Piscataway, NJ. |
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