New Blood

摘要

A highly competitive real estate market prompted a Manhattan blood center to make the improbable move of consolidating its research, processing, and distribution functions in a defunct warehouse in Queens. An inventive team of designers, builders, and consultants somehow made it work. Then again, they had little choice. "Where else were we going to find 75,000 square feet of contiguous space in New York City?" asks Paul Drago, principal with NK Architects, which joint ventured on the project with Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn Architects, also of New York City. "It would've been preferable," he says, "to tear the thing down. It was a marginal structure."