10 Sullivan Street
Superstructure continues at Cary Tamarkin's 10 Sullivan on the boundary of the SoHo and Hudson Square neighborhoods. Occupying a triangular site, the 16-story, 19-unit development includes a tower at the tip with a rounded corner that softens the form and affords panoramic views to Lower Manhattan. Each of the units in the tower occupy a full floor, with the exception of the duplex penthouse on floors 12 and 13 and the four floor penthouse on floors 14 through 16 and the rooftop. Also included in the development are four, four-story townhouses to the north of the tower, construction on which has not reached above ground.
Southern prow from Sullivan Street.
Southern prow from Avenue of the Americas.
Southern prow from Avenue of the Americas.
West façade from SoHo Square park.
West façade from Avenue of the Americas.
Northwest corner from Avenue of the Americas.
Northwest corner from Avenue of the Americas.
Architects: Tamarkin Co. Architecture, Montroy Andersen DeMarco (MADGI); Developers: Property Markets Group (PMG), Madison Equities; Program: Residential; Location: SoHo, New York, NY; Completion: 2015.
400 West 113th Street - Enclave at the Cathedral
Concrete superstructure continues to rise at Handel Architects' rental towers next to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights. The project includes two 15-story towers adjacent to the north façade of the cathedral, with a gap between the two towers to allow for a view of the cathedral's north transept. When completed in 2016, the two towers will bring 428 residential rental units to the Morningside neighborhood and a revenue stream to the church from the rental of the land the towers sit on.
Concrete has reached the tenth floor on the east tower, while the longer west tower has only reached the sixth floor. The facades of the towers are composed of exposed concrete piers with a sloping front face that mimic the flying buttresses of the cathedral facade that lies beyond. The sloping concrete piers not only reference the cathedral but also generate a sense of movement along the façade. Window installation has also begun on the east tower, revealing a black framed unit.
Southwest corner of the cathedral with the west tower to the left.
Southwest corner of the site.
West elevation from Amsterdam Avenue.
Northwest corner of the west tower from Amsterdam Avenue.
Northwest corner of the west tower from West 113th Street.
North façade of the west tower from West 113th Street.
North façade of the west tower from West 113th Street.
Northeast corner of the west tower from West 113th Street.
View of the north transept in between the towers.
Northwest corner of the east tower from West 113th Street.
North façade of the east tower from West 113th Street.
East tower façade detail.
Windows on the east tower façade.
North façade of the east tower from West 113th Street.
Northeast corner of the east tower from West 113th Street.
Northeast corner of the east tower from Morningside Drive.
East façade of the east tower from Morningside Drive.
Looking west towards the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (left) and the site (right) from Morningside Park.
Architect: Handel Architects; Developers: The Brodsky Organization; Program: Residential; Location: Morningside Heights, New York, NY; Completion: 2016.
10 Bond
Installation of terracotta facade panels continues at Selldorf Architects' 10 Bond. The 7-story, 11-unit condo in the NoHo neighborhood has much of its signature terracotta facade installed, with only a few bays on the south and east facade left to receive panels. Selldorf's design for the panels includes concave elements on the vertical piers and scalloped horizontal panels at the spandrels below the windows. Due to their materiality and shaping, the panels evoke an artisanal quality that allows the building to fit in amongst the older neighborhood stock and the more recent high profile condos on Bond Street.
Also under construction on the same block, Morris Adjmi Architect's 372 Lafayette Street, a rental building that abuts the north party wall of 10 Bond. Façade installation has been ongoing for quite some time, with a few peeks of brick behind the construction scaffolding.
Southeast corner from Lafayette Street.
East facade from Lafayette Street.
Terracotta facade detail.
Terracotta facade detail.
East facade from Lafayette Street.
Northeast corner from Lafayette Street.
South facade from Bond Street.
South facade from Bond Street.
Southwest corner from Bond Street.
Northeast corner of 372 Lafayette Street.
Architects: Selldorf Architects; Developers: SK Development, Ironstate Developmentk and the Chetrit Group; Program: Residential, Retail; Location: NoHo, New York, NY; Completion: 2015.
626 First Avenue
Superstructure has reached above ground at SHoP Architects' rental towers on First Avenue, across from the Midtown terminal of the East River Ferry. Developed by JDS Development Group, also responsible for SHoP's supertall skyscraper at 111 West 57th Street, the project includes 800 rental units spread amongst two sloping towers of 41 and 49 stories. Connecting the two towers will be a sky bridge containing an indoor pool and lounge. Other amenities include a rooftop deck and infinity pool, fitness center, and spa. The two towers will be clad in glass curtain wall on the east and west facades, while the more solid north and south walls feature openings set amongst copper cladding. Also included in the project is a privately owned public park on the northeast corner of the site. The SCAPE designed park will feature an interactive fountain and limestone and granite paths within the 38,000 square feet of open space. Work on the foundations has been ongoing for much of last year but the taller tower at the northwest corner of the block has reached the third floor. The second tower has yet to reach ground level. Construction should be complete by early 2017.
P.S. 281 at the southwest corner of the site from First Avenue.
Northwest corner of the site from First Avenue.
Northeast corner of tower one from East 36th Street.
East facade of tower one.
Northeast corner of the site from FDR Drive.
Looking west to the site from the East River Ferry terminal at East 34th Street.
Looking west toward the site from the East River Esplanade.
Architects: SHoP Architects; Landscape Architects: SCAPE; Structural Engineers: WSP; Developer: JDS Development Group; Program: Residential, Retail; Location: Murray Hill, New York, NY; Completion: 2017.
551 West 21st Street
Since the previous update in December, significant progress has been made on window installation at Foster + Partners' residential tower near the High Line, 551 W 21. Windows have reached the 15th floor at the 19-story, 44-unit luxury condo tower. The windows feature a metal surround and are set within a facade of white cast-concrete panels. Construction is slated for completion in the fall of 2015.
North facade from 11th Avenue.
Northwest corner from 12th Avenue.
Northwest corner of the tower.
West facade from 12th Avenue.
West facade from 12th Avenue.
Southwest corner from 12th Avenue.
South facade from West 21st Street.
Looking north on 12th Avenue.
Looking north on 12th Avenue with IAC Headquarters (right) and 100 Eleventh Avenue (center).
Architects: Foster + Partners (Design), Beyer Blinder Belle (Executive); Developers: SR Capital; Program: Residential; Location: Chelsea, New York, NY; Completion: 2015.
7 Bryant Park
Installation of curtain wall is almost complete at Pei Cobb Freed's 7 Bryant Park, a 450-foot-tall, 30-story office building on the fringes of Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan. The tower joins other recent additions to the area, like COOKFOX's angular One Bryant Park. Overall, the tower's form is a simple rectangular extrusion with requisite zoning setback on the tenth floor and a conical subtraction at the northeast corner. This rather odd massing gestures faces the park and provides the building's signature element. The design of the curtain wall is a basic glass and linen finish stainless steel spandrel panel that gives the building a heavily striped appearance, bucking the recent trend of suppressing the solid spandrels in other new office buildings throughout the city. When completed later this year, the tower will bring 471,000 rentable square feet to the area, including 6,200 square feet of ground floor retail.
Northeast corner from Bryant Park.
Looking west from Bryant Park with One Bryant Park (far right) and 7 Bryant Park (far left).
Frozen fountain in Bryant Park.
Northeast corner from Sixth Avenue.
Detail of canopy and conical incision at the northeast corner.
North façade from West 40th Street.
Northwest corner from West 40th Street.
East façade from Sixth Avenue.
Southeast corner from Sixth Avenue.
Architects: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP; Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti; MEP Engineer: Jaros Baum & Bolles; Developer: Hines with Pacolet Milliken Enterprises; Program: Office, Retail; Location: Midtown, New York, NY; Completion:2015.
VIA 57 WEST at 625 West 57th Street
Though ceremonial topping out was celebrated last fall, BIG's tetrahedron on the far west side of Manhattan has finally received its peak. The mountainous building stands 450 feet tall and will eventually house 709 rental units on 32 floors. Installation of the exterior envelope is also underway, with curtain wall panels reaching the tenth floor on the north and east elevations, as well as the interior courtyard. Panels have also been installed on the lower levels of the sloping south facade. Completion looks set for late 2015 or early 2016.
Looking north on 12th Avenue.
Looking north from Riverside Park.
Southwest corner from the Hudson River Greenway.
Southwest corner from Hudson River Greenway.
West facade from Hudson River Greenway.
West facade from Hudson River Greenway.
Northwest corner from Hudson River Greenway.
Looking south from Hudson River Park.
Northeast corner.
Northwest corner from 12th Avenue.
South facade from West 57th Street.
Southeast corner.
Southeast corner detail.
North facade from West 62nd Street.
Architects: BIG (Design Architects), SLCE Architects (Architects of Record); Program: Residential, Retail; Location: Midtown West, New York, NY; Completion: 2015.
The Greenwich Lane
Topping out is imminent at The Greenwich Lane development, with superstructure reaching the final floor of 155 West Eleventh Street. The 17-story, 82-unit tower is the tallest of the five building and five townhouse development in Greenwich Village on the site of the former St. Vincent's Hospital. Four of the hospital's former buildings are currently being converted into condo units as part of the development. Since the last update in December, the five townhouses on West 11th Street have started to rise above the construction fence. The entire development should reach completion by 2016.
West facade of 155 West Eleventh Street.
Southwest corner of 155 West Eleventh Street from 7th Avenue.
West facade.
South facade.
West facade of 155 West Eleventh Street.
South facade of 145 West Eleventh Street.
The Townhouses on West Eleventh Street.
Northwest corner of 160 West Twelfth Street.
West facade of 160 West Twelfth Street.
Looking north along Greenwich Avenue.
Architects: FXFOWLE; Interiors: Thomas O'Brien; Developers: The Rudin Family with Global Holdings; Public Relations: M18; Program: Residential; Location: West Village, New York, NY; Completion: 2016.
Riverside Center
Progress continues at SLCE's 21 West End Avenue, the first tower of the 5-site megaproject, known as Riverside Center, on the far west side of Manhattan. Structure has surpassed the half way mark for the 43-story, 616-unit rental tower and curtain wall installation has begun on the smaller appendage off the main tower. The façade is composed of a fairly generic curtain wall system and tan opaque panels. Installation of the opaque cladding for the podium floors, future home to PS/IS 342M, has also begun. Offering Pre-K through 8th grade, the new public school will serve approximately 488 students in over 20 classrooms spread across four floors. Classes are expected to start by 2018.
Work has yet to reach above ground on the other four sites in the mega project. Next up should be One West End, a 41-story, 366-unit tower to the south of the first site under construction. This is the much debated "poor door" building with a separate entrance for its 118 affordable units. According to its teaser site, the building has been designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli, not Christian de Portzamparc, as has been reported elsewhere. Though it has lost the design direction of the Pritzker prize winner, it does appear to be an upgrade in aesthetics over its neighbor to the north.
The remaining three sites will be carried out by Goldstein Hill & West, thus completely eliminating Portzamparc from the actual execution of his master plan. With the completion of the final three towers, Riverside Center will contain 2,500 units.
Southwest corner of Riverside Center with 21 West End Avenue (center).
Southern boundary of Riverside Center with 21 West End Avenue (right) and One Riverside Park (left).
Southeast corner of 21 West End Avenue.
Curtain wall facade detail.
Curtain wall facade detail.
Southeast corner of Riverside Center with 21 West End Avenue (center) and One Riverside Park (left).
Southeast corner of Riverside Center from 11th Avenue.
Southeast corner of 21 West End Avenue.
North facade of 21 West End Avenue.
Detail of north facade.
Northwest corner of 21 West End Avenue.
Architects: SLCE Architects (21 West End Avenue), Dattner Architects (Pre-K through 8 School), Pelli Clarke Pelli (One West End), Goldstein, Hill & West Architects (Buildings One, Three, and Four); Program: Residential, School (Riverside Center Building 2); Location: Upper West Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2016.
252 East 57th Street
Superstructure has reached the seventh floor of SOM's 65-story tower, 252 East Fifty Seven, in the Midtown East neighborhood. The tower joins the already completed public schools PS 59 and the High School of Art & Design and a Whole Foods in an adjacent base completed in 2012. Originally designed by Roger Duffy of SOM as a signature angular tower that would have fit with the other wannabe icons sprouting up along 57th Street, the project later stalled before reemerging as a far more restrained, boxy tower. The new design has been revealed in mostly exterior renderings of the upper portion of the tower, showcasing curvy balconies and a concave slice through the center of the tower's facades. The condo portion of the tower starts on the 36th floor and contains 93 units. Rumors abound that 173 rental units will also be coming to the lower floors but no official announcements have been made at this time.
Northwest corner with earlier constructed public school and retail base (right).
Northwest corner with earlier constructed public school and retail base (right).
North facade from East 57th Street.
Northeast corner from 2nd Avenue.
East facade from 2nd Avenue.
Southeast corner from 2nd Avenue.
Looking south on 2nd Avenue.
Architects: SOM (Design Architect), SLCE (Architect of Record); Interior Architect: Daniel Romualdez; Engineer: WSP; Developers: World Wide Group and Rose Associates; Program: Residential; Location: Midtown East, New York, NY; Completion: 2016.
Construction scaffolding has come down, fully revealing Cary Tamarkin's 10 Sullivan tower in SoHo.