NEW YORK—With eco-friendly hotels in various stages of design and construction across the city, New York’s hotel scene is finally going “green”—and Manhattan-based Stonehill & Taylor is heavily involved. With no less than four LEED-certified hotel projects on the boards, the firm is working on a greater number of green hotels than any other in the city.
Stonehill & Taylor’s specialty is incorporating state-of-the-art technologies, materials, and techniques into its fashion-forward hotel designs. Stonehill & Taylor is at work on the following LEED-seeking or LEED-certified hospitality projects in New York:
• The NoMad Hotel (fall 2009);
• Crosby Street Hotel (fall 2009);
• The 94th Street Hotel (fall 2010); and
• Fifteenth Street Hotel (2011).
“It is gratifying for us to bring together two of our specialties—hotel design and eco-friendly architecture,” said Paul Taylor, president of Stonehill & Taylor. “What’s most exciting right now is this tremendous momentum—with so many projects on the go, we have an opportunity to help shape New York’s new hospitality landscape and, we hope, have some impact on its environment.”
Considering the ecology of each building as a whole, Stonehill & Taylor weighs every decision against its impact on its environment. Green techniques include: planting self-sustaining rooftops, which have enormous environmental benefits in addition to their aesthetic and social values; incorporating energy-saving mechanical systems; using locally-made materials/products made through sustainable processes; reclaiming building sites and materials; and implementing sophisticated recycling systems for water, waste, and energy. All of this is done at the highest end of the market from an aesthetics and amenities standpoint—all of the firm’s green hotels will receive four- or five-star ratings.
“These hotels are some of the most elegant we have designed,” says Michael Suomi, principal, Stonehill & Taylor. “We are not only meeting LEED standards but exceeding them, developing new systems—and sometimes even new products—to take hotel ratings to the next level in terms of eco-friendliness, style, comfort and service.”
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