With its gleaming reflective surfaces and sleek, low-slung form, Emergency Medical Service Station 50 in Queens, New York, cuts a powerful figure within the surrounding enclave of modest single-family houses. Unlike the city’s other stations— utilitarian in nature and not notable for intrepid design—EMS 50 is in a class of its own. Planned over 10 years ago by New York’s Department of Design and Construction (DDC), the 14,000-square-foot facility was designed to house not just the standard team of emergency medical technicians and paramedics but also EMS’s district office. Thanks to this dual purpose, and a generous $22 million budget, EMS 50 would be the borough’s largest station and a showpiece of the DDC’s Design and Construction Excellence 2.0 program.
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