史坦顿岛（Staten Island）在75年以上的第一家新法院大楼和该市的第一个绿色法院大楼正在自治市镇的圣乔治部分上升。
The $174 million project is transforming a four-acre surface parking lot and the former site of a 19th century Marine Hospital Quarantine Grounds into a civic center comprised of the courthouse, a public park memorializing the hospital’s former burial grounds and a 600-car parking garage.
The five-story, 182,000-sq-ft facility will house the New York State Supreme Court and the Richmond County Criminal courts, consolidating outdated court facilities now spread across four locations.
纽约州（DASNY）的宿舍管理局正在监督由纽约Ennead Architects设计的项目的建设，以获得LEED银牌认证。纽约Jacobs Engineering是该项目的建筑经理。
Program space includes 11 supreme court and three criminal court rooms, five hearing rooms, jury assembly and deliberation rooms, judges’ chambers and court offices.
为了最大程度地减少丢失停车场的影响，停车场已经完成，然后在法院开始工作之前就完成了。法院建设计划于2013年1月完成。
From 1799 to 1858 the site was home to the New York Marine Hospital, a quarantine hospital treating ill immigrants taken from ships entering NY Harbor. Neighbors of the hospital repeatedly appealed to the authorities to close the facility, complaining of terrible odors and residents falling ill. In 1858 citizens took matters into their own hands, burning the buildings to the ground after removing all the patients.
在2000年的环境审查中，发现了1843年的地图显示医院和两个墓地，一个在该物业的北端，该地点的历史揭示了。2006年进行的一项考古调查发现，该遗址北角的人类遗体。
A memorial park, constructed as part of the project, will cover the area cemetery. Skeletal remains removed during the archeological survey will be reinterred in the cemetery at the completion of construction.
可持续性功能
Ennead’s goal is to create an energy efficient courthouse that will become an architectural icon for the county, State and St. George.
The steel framed structure is designed with four “towers of justice” representing equality under the law. The towers serve as a contemporary interpretation of the iconic capitals of the early 20th-century Richmond County Courthouse situated two blocks to the northeast.
On the eastern side of the structure the copper clad towers sit behind a glass curtainwall that front the primary public corridors. The transparent glass allows sunlight to stream into the public areas, provides views of the City and harbor area and reveals the layout of the structure.
“Each one of the towers encapsulates the stacking of the courtrooms and at the top floor become the chambers for the judges,” explains Susie Rodriquez, Ennead partner. “The idea of the building’s massing is intended to reflect a sense of the judiciary for the 21st century, which is about a more transparent operation.”
Between the two northern towers a precast element in front of the glass houses the main elevator bank and the circulation that connects all the levels of the building. The building’s western fa�ade is a more opaque composition of precast, glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC), copper and aluminum panels.
