At the time of its construction in 1914, this factory building was the largest concrete framed structure in the world.  Used by the Sunshine Biscuit Factory it has gone through many adaptive reuses in recent decades, at one point serving as the International Design Center of New York.  Currently, the majority occupant is the LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York. Working with the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY), the City University of New York (CUNY) and the College, Fuller and D’Angelo’s charge on this project is to probe, study, investigate and make recommendations on the state of the building’s terra cotta façade and what the potential corrective actions might be.  Previous probes and studies have indicated steel anchorage deterioration and terra cotta body failures as evidenced by failure of the faces of some units as well as cracking and spalling.  Although repairs and patches have been made in though the years, the façade is approaching it’s centennial anniversary, considered to be the typical lifespan of terracotta façade units for buildings of this era.