Our firm is honored to receive this year’s Outstanding Public Service Award, which recognizes an outstanding company who has contributed significantly to New York and its communities.

When Marriott Marquis was going up on Times Square in the 1980s, critics were calling Marriot crazy. Today, the hotel is among Marriot’s most profitable. Now, Marriot is betting on similar miracle near Penn Station. This time, they are not the only one doing so.

An expansion project in the Meatpacking District, an exoskeletal 5-story addition has each floor that is slightly smaller in area to the one below and rotated in plan. Gilsanz Murray Steficek developed an efficient and cost-effective scheme by working closely with Morris Adjmi Archtects.

David Rockwell, the Interior Design hall of Fame member, also a Tony Award-nominated set designer, believes that interiors should be theatrical. NeueHouse is the epitome of his philosophy.

One Jackson Square, a new residential building located on the north edge of Jackson Square Park, stands as a counterpart to the masonry architecture prevalent in the Greenwich Village Historic District. Gilsanz Murray Steficek served as the structural engineer of the project.

Jane’s Carousel dates back to 1922 when it was initially installed in Idora Park in Youngstown, Ohio. In the early 1980s, it was purchased for installation in Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park (now Brooklyn Bridge Park) in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn. After more than two decades of restoration, it now resides in a pavilion in the park.

Sierra Bonita is a 5 story mixed use affordable housing structure located in West Hollywood, CA. Unlike most affordable housings, Sierra Bonita successfully integrates affordability, sustainability, and style. Gilsanz Murray Steficek served as a structural engineer of the project.

510 Madison Avenue is a 30 story boutique office building in the Plaza District. Gilsanz Murray Steficek served as the structural engineer of the project, designing all the steel connections and providing special inspections, and as the façade consultants.

Frank Stella is an artist who will always be best remembered for his radical Black Painting (1958-60), which consists of symmetrical bands of black paint separated by narrow interstices of unpainted canvas. The style of his work has changed over times, but he always insists that his three-dimensional works are paintings, not sculptures.