## Twin Parks, Bronx

UDC is developing housing throughout the Bronx, including: Twin Parks Northwest, Architect: Prentice & Chan, Ohlhausen. Twin Parks Southwest, Architect: Giovanni Pasanella. Twin Parks Northeast, Architect: Richard Meier and Associates. Twin Parks Southeast, Architect: James Stewart Polshek and Associates. Twin Parks Southeast Modular Housing Sites 6, 7, and 8, Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Father Mario Zicarelli, President, and other members of the Twin Parks Association, signed an agreement in October 1971 with four private developers and their apartment management company, under the auspices of UDC, for community participation in the Twin Parks development.

Zicarelli, President, Twin Parks Association; Rev. John Smucker, Pastor, Mennonite House of Friendship; Robert G. Hazen, General Manager, UDC; Jerome Belson, President, Apartment Development and Management, Inc.

Twin Parks Northwest, Site 4, occupies a narrow 54,342 sq. ft. site. The 19-story building contains 120 dwelling units with zero-to five bedrooms in duplexes and simplexes, using twenty different apartment layouts (plan, right). Fenestration expresses varied plan. Since the tower sits on an escarpment, the architects designed a pedestrian pass-through leading from the entrance of the building (photo, top right) through the ground floor and down the hill.

## FACTS AND FIGURES

Twin Parks Northwest, Site 4, Bronx, New York. Owner: Dic-Underhill First Realty Co. Architect: Prentice & Chan, Ohlhausen. Associate-in-Charge: Francis C. Wickham. Engineers: Robert Rosenwasser, PE (structural); Jack W. Barrett, PE (mechanical & electrical). Landscape Architect: R.T. Schnabelbach. Contractors: Kreisler, Borg, Florman Construction Co. (general); J.H. Kaim; Dierks Htg. Co.; Lipsky & Rosenthal (mechanical); Simpson Electric; A.I. Smith (electrical). Dic Concrete; Civetta Excavating; Lewis & Valentine, (other). Building Area: Site 4: 126,060 sq. ft.; Site 5-11: 246,388 sq. ft. Construction Cost: $11,183,369.00.

(For a listing of key products used in these buildings, see p. 80.)

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The UDC's Twin Parks Northwest
project in the Bronx; Prentice
and Chan, Ohlhausen, architects.

Two medium-rise apartment buildings
on separated sites. One site
allows a "C" shaped courtyard
scheme, the other is more restricted,
with ground level landscaping in
the rear. Now under construction.
Size: 315 units and a center for
pre-school children on 2.6 acres—
both sites included.

Cost: $12.4 million

Developer: Dick Underhill-Kreisler-
Borg Florman

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Cost: $4.2 million
Developer: Starre

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