St. Catherine of Siena Church, New York, NY

St. Catherine of Siena Church Facade

In the mid-nineties, the development air rights over the Church of St. Catherine of Siena, as well as the school and priory were sold to the adjacent Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital.  In the year 2000, construction began on a 540-foot tall, half-city-block-large new research facility.

Acheson Doyle Partners, working with the Church, collaborated with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the architects for Memorial Sloan-Kettering.

Acheson Doyle Partners designed a new rectory with offices, a parish hall and a Dominican priory for nine priests.  The church serves as the Catholic Chaplaincy to Memorial Sloan-Kettering and The New York Cornell/Presbyterian Hospital complex.

The office/reception/counseling complex is at ground level beside the church entry, with a landscaped garden.  The second level serves as a parish hall and contains the common spaces of the priory.  On the third level, the individual rooms of the residence are arranged overlooking the lower roof of the church and directly into the upper stained glass windows of the nave.

The facility is approximately 15,000 sf. Completion is projected for 2004.

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