City staff are recommending that the council approve spending $75,000 to $100,000 to hire an architect to design conversion concepts for the roughly 24,000-square-foot downtown center on Park Avenue.
James Gamble Rogers III, an architect and a grandson of the designer, James Gamble Rogers, Yale '89, says that the 1915 Yale Club was also designed for conversion to a hotel.
Lindemon, Winckelmann, Deupree & Martin of Jersey City designed the conversion, which is to be completed next fall.
"This building was done in a minimal aesthetic to keep the industrial feel," said John Fifield of Fifield Piaker Elman Architects, who designed the conversion.
Architects designed the conversion to be earthquake-proof, but district officials did not consider it for a regular school because it nonetheless violates school construction and playground rules.
Richard Meier, who designed the conversion of Westbeth, is erecting two glass condominium buildings on Perry Street, one block to its south.
A novel gasification reactor was designed for conversion of grass straw to synthesis gas.
Quasi-spherical LuBO3 nanoparticles have been successfully synthesized by a designed hydrothermal conversion method.
Arpad Baksa, an architect who designed the conversion of the Hit Factory condominium building in Hell's Kitchen, is waiting to get $20,000 Valcucine kitchen cabinets from a buyer who asked the developer not to install them.
All materials displayed sufficiently high activity for a designed 96% conversion in the twin-bed SCR reactor system proposed.
