Art San Diego Oak Room and Oak Bar at the Plaza Hotel Abercrombie & Fitch Flagship Stores in New York, London, Milan, Paris, Copenhagen and Tokyo John Hay Library at Brown University Selected New York City Project Overviews Sunset Park Material Recovery Center In 2010, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg honored Selldorf's firm with a Public Design Commission Award for the design of the Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility a processing center for New York City's curbside metal, glass, and plastic recyclables. Michael Kimmelman reviewed the building in the New York Times: "Selldorf was, in retrospect, an inspired choice. The German-born Annabelle Selldorf runs the firm, which stresses crisp lines, elegant volumes and a clean, formal vocabulary in which nothing goes to waste." The Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility is also a winning site of Built by Women New York City, a competition launched by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation during the fall of 2014, to identify outstanding and diverse sites and spaces designed, engineered and built by women. The Sunset Park Material Recovery Center opened on the eleven-acre 29th Street Pier in the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in December 2013. The plant, built by Sims Municipal Recycling and the City of New York, “is the largest and most sophisticated plant for commingled (mix of metal, glass, and plastic) residential recyclables in North America.” Selldorf Architects created an expressive design for the complex by placing structural components of the pre-engineered buildings on their exterior. The complex's multi-building design near the mouth of the East River l is meant to optimize functionality while keeping aesthetics in mind. All aspects of the complex's design keep sustainability in mind. First, the location along the water, and 850 feet of dock space, mean the complex can transport commingled recyclables in and out of the center by barge rather than by truck, cutting the center's carbon footprint. With an understanding that the more environmentally friendly option (barge transport rather than truck) still has negative impacts on the location's aquatic environment, the Center installed fuzzy ropes alongside its mooring pier to support mussels, which purify water. Recycled materials were used throughout; as, site fill is a composite of materials taken from the Second Avenue subway, recycled steel comprises the buildings, and the complex's plazas are finished with recycled glass. The addition of New York City's first commercial wind turbine and a large solar array not