The four-story, 104,000 facility in Old Bridge includes 180 licensed long-term care beds, a 30-bed sub-acute wing, 30-bed dementia care unit, and two 60-bed floors of nursing care beds. Supplementing the long-term care beds is a full array of social and common activity spaces including library, coffee shop, multi-purpose theater, living and exercise rooms. McGraw Hill Construction indicates that this is the largest NY Metro Healthcare project to start construction between the periods of January and October in 2009.

This long-term care center is being designed as a LEED certified facility.

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We are pleased to announce that Irving Leong, AIA, has joined NK Architect’s Healthcare Design Group as a Senior Project Manager. Irving’s 33 years of specialized healthcare experience will enable NK to provide increased technical expertise and services to hospitals and medical centers in the region. This will help reinforce NK’s position as the largest healthcare design firm in New Jersey and one of the leading healthcare planning and design firms in the New York Metropolitan area.

Irving’s significant accomplishments include a new 200,000 sf Cancer Center addition for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, a 200,000 sf addition to Hackensack University Medical Center and a facility master plan and numerous renovation projects for St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton.

NK Architects, along with Langan Engineering, are hosting a ULI sponsored conference on ‘Urban Hospitals’. This first-of-its-kind half-day conference will bring sharp focus to the way urban hospitals become civic cornerstones and architectural symbols in the cities they support. Two panels featuring hospital administrators and planners, will reveal successful strategies outside and inside of New Jersey. The event will take place at The Great Room at the Beacon Condominiums in Jersey City on Thursday, November 12, 2009 beginning at 2.30. Register at uli.org by typing ‘urban hospital’ in the search box or call Michael Gorman at 973.539.5353

Buildings Magazine ‘Project Innovations’ awards celebrate operational excellence in buildings. 

Our design promotes innovation and interaction by organizing functions around a sunlit central core with blood processing on one side and labs on the other. Researchers and technicians share open work stations within the spine, creating opportunities for collaboration and interaction. The use of skylights, high sloped ceilings and continuous clerestories bring daylight deep into all occupied areas of the facility.

The Newark/Suburban section of the NJ AIA honored the design of the Community Day nursery with an Honorable Mention Award. The original design was NK’s first project and, 37 years later, we are working with CDN on expanding the facility.

Situated on a narrow urban lot sandwiched between 2 mid-rise residential buildings, the project includes the addition of three new classrooms, a new multi-purpose room, bringing the building up to current building and ADA codes and incorporating sustainable design principles.

Our solution was to re-locate the entry to the eastern portion of the site and construct a new 2-story addition and new parking area on the western side. This will allow the center to remain operational during construction, infuse the classrooms with natural light, create a green roof for new play areas.

The Newark/Suburban Chapter of the American Institute of Architects recognized Rutgers’ new Business School with a gold medal at its annual design day. The $83 million dollar adaptive re-use project converted 11 floors of a Newark Office building into a state-of-the-art facility and created a new identity for a business school that is transforming itself into a world leading institution. The project consolidates the educational and support functions currently contained in four buildings on the existing campus and further integrates the School’s campus into the downtown fabric. The project establishes a northern gateway to the University District, helps build a “bridge” between “town and gown”, and prominently demonstrates the University’s commitment to the surrounding neighborhood. Located in a historic district and adjacent to the Newark Public Library, the building strives to reestablish the vitality of the urban street wall previously eroded by the past development of the existing office tower.

Morristown-Beard School has completed an addition to its Middle School which will consolidate programs that are currently scattered around the campus.    The 13,400 square foot middle school addition will contain 16 classrooms, two art rooms and two new science rooms.  A  new 20,850 square foot, 630-seat auditorium includes band, dance and choral practice rooms, costume and instrument storage and dressing rooms.

The Ranney School ‘s new elementary school building completes the second phase of the school’s expansion program. Phase I included a new Upper/Middle school and a new cafeteria. The new elementary school serves grades 1-5 and includes a 450 seat multi-purpose performance space, art gallery, computer rooms and science labs. The classrooms have been arranged in grade appropriate neighborhoods and the entire project is infused with natural light. The architecture is in keeping with the design of the Upper School and is a modern interpretation of the surrounding area’s agrarian architecture.

The Delbarton School’s new South Fieldhouse will be used exclusively for baseball, soccer and JV lacrosse.  The 7,000 square foot building will house locker rooms, offices, public bathrooms, team meeting rooms, outdoor hitting and pitching cages and a new concession (’tuck’ shop).The project also includes a new grass baseball field and a new synthetic turf soccer/lacrosse field.

Kent Place School opened a new 56,000 square foot Upper School addition and completed alterations and additions to the existing Upper and Middle School Buildings.
The new two-story Upper School addition links the existing buildings, which are arranged around an outdoor garden courtyard. The new building includes academic classrooms, choral and instrumental music rooms, collaborative group and flex spaces, and dedicated grade-level lounges. New science labs provide spaces for both instructional activities and long-term independent research projects. At the heart of the new building is a commons area capable of accommodating the entire Upper School population. This will be a LEEDTM Silver certified building and will feature water and energy reduction measures including low flow fixtures and heat recovery wheels as well as low-voc paints and finishes, high recycled content and renewable materials, deep-space daylighting and on-site salvaged material. The new facility will support an integrated sustainable education program.

NK Architects is pleased to announce that the College of St. Elizabeth’s Annunciation Center project has won a Building of America Award and will be featured in the upcoming Real Estate & Construction Review-New York/Philadelphia Edition.

This new state-of-the-art fine and performing arts center contains a 560-seat auditorium, classrooms, flexible seminar/meeting space and the art and music departments. The Center is organized around a double-height lobby containing an art gallery.

This award is emblematic of projects that are among the most imaginative, unique, innovative and/or dynamic projects in the region.