On March 10, 2014 the Hotel at 218 West 35^th Street topped-out! The 38-story building is a concrete flat plate construction built on a mat foundation.

AIA New York 2014 Design Awards Announcement
http://www.aiany.org

At a recent AIANY conference about earthquakes and New York City, Ramon Gilsanz, founding partner of Gilsanz Murray Steficek LLP and Chair of the NYC DOB Structural Technical Committee responsible for the 2014 NYC Building Code revision, compared earthquakes to music to help explain the components of seismic design.

Ramon Gilsanz represented the Applied Technology Council at the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance in Cephalonia, Greece

Interior Design Magazine Announces 2013 Best of Year Finalists & Winners
http://boyawards.interiordesign.net/finalists/

Leopard Enclosure at the Staten Island Zoo includes a mesh roof supported by five shotcrete-covered steel “tree” columns and tied down to seven perimeter columns.  The mesh is tied down at the perimeter to the ground and to a low wall.

Our entry “Cloudy With a Chance of Tuna” wins the Best Use of Labels award at the 21st annual Canstruction NY competition. GMS is also celebrating 20 years of participation in the competition.

CAN on the Moon, our 2012 Canstruction NY entry, has been rebuilt for the lobby at 245 Park Avenue in New York for Arts Brooksfield.

Malibu Residence

A new two-story single-family residence constructed with architecturally exposed concrete shear walls and slabs, steel framing and steel and glass window walls.

McCann Erickson

GMS provided structural engineering services and special inspections for the architectural fit-out of approximately 185,000 rentable square feet over eight floors at 622 Third Avenue.  The project includes several stairs and floor openings to connect various floors including a four-story “art shaft”.