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A SKYLINE RESTORATION PUBLICATION
Kate Allen, President of Allen Architectural Metals, discusses how she and her team preserve, repair, or replicate historic metal and how they determine which course of action to take.
ISSUE #50 FALL 2024
By Michael Kramer
Midwest Territory Manager
Gladding, McBean
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Nov 7, 20242 min read
Preserving History with Passion
Kate Allen of Allen Architectural Metals Shares Expertise on Cast Metal Restoration On September 10, 2024, Skyline Restoration had the...
Aug 19, 20248 min read
Failing Façades: When To Repair, When To Reskin
Buildings are designed to last, but despite the best intentions, sometimes elements break down far more quickly than they should.
May 22, 20245 min read
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
By Mike Lopez, R.A., AIA, Director, Rimkus In a city as vast and densely populated as New York City, performing exterior work is likely...
Oct 25, 20234 min read
Restoring the Historic Roof at 110 E 42nd Street, New York
Preserving New York's Heritage One Tile at a Time - By Amy DeLuca Senior Project Manager/ Studio Lead, CANY The first time that I stepped...
Oct 25, 20235 min read
Build Safe | Live Safe Conference 2023
Key presentations are summarized here. One of the main Conference presentations, 2022 NYC Construction Code Sidewalk Shed Requirements &...
Feb 28, 20233 min read
Awards of Excellence in Historic Preservation
Skyline's restoration project at The Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, at 520 Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn, NY receives two prestigious...
Feb 28, 20238 min read
The Journey to Excellence
These awards recognize the quality, scale, and complexity of the carefully executed restoration — the result of a tremendous...
Jan 6, 20224 min read
Sweeping Updates to NYC Construction and Building Codes
City Council passes bill with over 600 major revisions that will improve the safety and well-being of all New Yorkers and ensure that NYC...
Sep 1, 20213 min read
Skyline Introduces Skyline Access
Industrial Rope Access Specialists This summer, Skyline Restoration launched Skyline Access to provide an added and enhanced service to...
Dec 28, 20203 min read
Restoring the past for the present and the future
At 74 Trinity Place, Skyline Restoration salvaged an early 20th century piece of history for generations to come It took six weeks to...
Jul 13, 20202 min read
FISP and the Climate Mobilization Act
As building owners strive to
comply with the FISP, they need
to keep in mind that the 2020
NYC Energy Conservation Code
(NYCECC), a wholly n
Jul 11, 20202 min read
A state-of-the-art hall opens at LGA’s terminal B
On June 13, Skanska USA joined Governor Andrew Cuomo and Rick Cotton, Executive Director, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, to...
Jul 8, 20203 min read
Restoration of the Bell Tower at NYU
The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU, named for the octogenarian monarch who ceded the throne to his son, features programming...
Jul 8, 20202 min read
Virtual presentation outlines key points on FISP - Cycle 9
On May 28, ICRI Metro-NY presented a virtual meeting on “Local Law 11/FISP- Navigating the Changes and What it Means for You,” postponed...
Jan 22, 20201 min read
FISP Cycle 9 Starts on February 21, 2020
Cycle 9 of the “Facade Inspection Safety Program” (FISP) starts on February 21, 2020, and runs through February 21, 2024. According to...
Jan 22, 20202 min read
Drones to the Rescue?
By Paul Millman, PE, RA SUPERSTRUCTURES ENGINEERS + ARCHITECTS In a recent Op-Ed, Queens city councilman, Paul Vallone and Carlo...
Jan 22, 20202 min read
Construction Resumes On Church At World Trade Center Site
Two years after a lack of funds halted construction of a marble-clad Greek Orthodox church at New York's World Trade Center site,...
Jan 22, 20201 min read
Local Law 97: The Centerpiece Of The Climate Mobilization Act
Local Law 97 of 2019 establishes strict limits for carbon emissions. It mandates steep emissions reductions measures throughout the...
Oct 14, 20191 min read
Thomas Heatherwick’s Pier 55 Sculptural Concrete Pots Near Completion In Chelsea
The large concrete pots that form the foundation of Thomas Heatherwick’s Pier 55 park over the Hudson River are close to completion. As...
Oct 14, 20191 min read
Restoration at Adee Tower in the Bronx
Adee Tower Apartments is a coop building located at 3000 Bronx Park East in the Bronx, in the area commonly known as Williams Bridge....
Oct 14, 20191 min read
Restoration Begins at New York State Pavilion’s Observation Towers
The New York State Pavilion’s observation towers at the former World’s Fair site in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park will finally be...
Oct 14, 20191 min read
Archtober 2019: New York City’s Architecture & Design Month Is On
Archtober, the annual month-long celebration of architecture and design in New York City that runs through the month of October, has...
Jul 25, 20191 min read
The First Historic District in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
On June 25th, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) designated the Bay Ridge Parkway – Doctors’ Row Historic...
Jul 25, 20192 min read
ENGINEER’S CORNER: What to Consider Before a Window Replacement Project
By Rebecca Reilly, Sullivan Engineering During the design phase of a window replacement project, building owners must consider many...
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