Address: 235 Bowery St
Client: New Museum
Architect: Cooper Robertson
Structural Engineer: Arup
CM: Sciame
Role: Design, Detail, Fabricate, delivery and install all Structural Steel
McLaren role: Connection Design, Const. Sequencing, Rigging Design, Column Pre-Loading Design, Ex. Building Analysis
Integral Steel designed, detailed, fabricated, delivered, and installed all structural steel for the New Museum’s landmark expansion at 231 Bowery, which added a second OMA-designed building adjacent to the original SANAA tower and nearly doubled the institution’s footprint to 120,000 SF. The project team included architect Cooper Robertson, structural engineer Arup, and construction manager Sciame.
The structural challenge at the heart of this project was integration: the new building had to connect to and load-share with the existing SANAA structure, requiring detailed analysis of the original building and a bespoke column pre-loading strategy to manage differential settlement and transfer forces safely. Integral Steel, working with specialist engineer McLaren, led connection design, construction sequencing, rigging design, and column pre-loading design alongside the full structural steel package, covering primary columns and long-span beams, secondary framing, bracing systems, stairs, and all miscellaneous steelwork throughout.
The result was 500 tonnes of structural steel delivered on programme with zero non-conformances, enabling follow-on trades to proceed without delay on one of New York’s most high-profile cultural projects in recent years.
