Tag Archive: historic preservation

RAND is proud to announce Project Architect Valerie Landriscina, RA has been named Professional Women in Construction 2021 20 Under 40 Outstanding Women in Construction award recipient! Professional Women in Construction (PWC) is a woman based non-profit organization, whose focus...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on small businesses has been devastating. To help small businesses get back on their feet, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) and National Trust for Historic Preservation have created recovery initiatives for...

RAND is proud to announce our exterior and roof repair project at Park Slope Jewish Center in Park Slope Historic District has won a 2018 Evelyn and Everett Ortner Park Slope Preservation Award. The award is given out by the Park Slope Civic Council for restoration projects and interventions that preserve and enhance Park Slope's historic character.

Over the years, various boards of directors at Parkside Assocation, located at 549 41st Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, resolved to replace the leaky roof of the 89-year-old building. But best intentions aside, they managed only temporary fixes and patchwork repairs....

Last Thursday night my RAND colleagues and I joined more than 500 people to celebrate the beauty and grandeur of historic restoration at the 25th annual Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards. We’re proud to say that a RAND project was...

Although I've been an architect for 27 years, and lived in New York City for 33, until recently I had largely overlooked one of the city's most famous buildings. Two weeks ago RAND's Historic Preservation team went on a private...

As an architectural student in Istanbul and Europe, I had the opportunity to study some inspiring buildings. I was reminded of those buildings when I was assigned as the project manager of an exterior repair program RAND recently completed at...

Recently my husband (and RAND Project Engineer) Samuel and I had the honor of attending the New York Landmarks Conservancy's 20th Living Landmarks Celebration—fittingly enough at a New York City Landmark. The New York Landmarks Conservancy is the preeminent organization...

On Tuesday night my RAND colleagues and I had the pleasure of celebrating two New Yorkers who have enriched the city’s historic preservation movement. The Historic Districts Council honored Hugh and Tiziana Hardy with its Landmarks Lion Award for the...