The City of New York Department of General Services
for Department of Correction
Rose M. Singer Center, Rikers Island New York
The Rose M. Singer Center is an 800-bed women's institution. It provides minimum, medium, and maximum security housing for detainee and sentenced adolescents and adults.
The design of this facility features a central outdoor recreational courtyard surrounded by administrative areas, inmate program spaces and other support service functions. The housing units are located along two main corridors which extend at right angles from the common spaces.
The Department of Correction found that security, staffing, operational aspects, and construction costs of this design were highly efficient. The design concept was flexible enough to be used as a model for the George R. Vierno Center, also designed by Gonchor. Residential areas consist of several different types of housing units: punitive and administrative segregation, medium and maximum security, mental health observation and infirmary beds. Control stations are centrally located to allow supervision of all inmate areas within housing units.
Special features for women include a nursery for infants up to one year of age and multipurpose areas for rehabilitative programs which focus on culinary skills, restaurant management, hairdressing, and gardening
Services
Programming
Planning
Architecture
Interior Design
Construction Cost
$95,000,000
Square Footage
290,000
Completion Date
1988
