Construction Update: 277 Mott Street
Looking up at the east facade on Mott Street.
Facade installation is wrapping up at 277 Mott Street, a seven story retail building in the Nolita neighborhood of Manhattan from Karl Kopp. Designed by Toshiko Mori Architects, the structure is clad in alternating vertical piers of glass and CNC milled stone on the facade fronting Mott Street. The mostly transparent rear yard facade will showcase the monumental stair that serves as the primary vertical circulation, with views out to a garden.
Close-up of the CNC milled stone and glass facade on Mott Street.
Looking up at the east facade on Mott Street.
Architect: Toshiko Mori; Program: Retail; Location: Nolita, New York, NY; Completion: 2018.
Construction Update: 211 Schermerhorn
Looking up at the south facade from Schermerhorn Street.
Superstructure is rising at 211 Schermerhorn, a 14-story residential condo tower in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn from developers Oestreicher Properties, GPB Capital, and Hornig Capital Partners. Designed by Morris Adjmi Architects, the mid-block tower's superstructure has reached the half-way mark. Handmade European brick and industrial style windows will soon begin to clad the tower.
When completed, the tower will offer 48 one- to three-bedroom condominiums, many with private balconies.
Architect: Morris Adjmi Architects; Developer: Oestreicher Properties, GPB Capital, Hornig Capital Partners; Program: Residential; Location: Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2019.
Construction Tour: 15 and 50 Bridge Park Drive
South façade of 15 Bridge Park Drive (right) and 50 Bridge Park Drive (left).
Construction is ongoing at 15 and 50 Bridge Park Drive, a pair of towers by developers RAL Companies, Oliver's Realty Group, and Vanke US that anchor the southern boundary of Brooklyn Bridge Park. Designed by ODA New York, the towers have topped out at 28 (50 Bridge Park Drive) and 15 stories (15 Bridge Park Drive). Installation of the precast panel facade is wrapping up at 15 Bridge Park Drive, while the metal and glass curtain wall of 50 Bridge Park Drive has surpassed the two-thirds mark.
Southeast corner of 50 Bridge Park Drive.
When completed, 50 Bridge Park Drive, also known as Quay Tower, will offer 126 residences ranging in size from two to five bedrooms.
Close-up of the southeast corner of 50 Bridge Park Drive.
Southwest corner of 50 Bridge Park Drive.
Close-up of the west facade of 50 Bridge Park Drive.
Southwest corner of 50 Bridge Park Drive.
West façade of 15 Bridge Park Drive (far right) and 50 Bridge Park Drive (right) from Pier 6 at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Northwest corner of 50 Bridge Park Drive from Pier 5 of Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Close-up of the northwest corner of 50 Bridge Park Drive.
View northwest from the top floor of 50 Bridge Park Drive.
Looking down on Pier 6 from the top floor of 50 Bridge Park Drive.
View southwest towards Governors Island and the Statue of Liberty from the top floor of 50 Bridge Park Drive.
View east towards Downtown Brooklyn from the top floor of 50 Bridge Park Drive.
Curtain wall panels awaiting installation at 50 Bridge Park Drive.
View north from a mid tower residence at 50 Bridge Park Drive.
View northwest from a mid tower residence at 50 Bridge Park Drive.
View west from a mid tower residence at 50 Bridge Park Drive.
Architect: ODA New York; Developers: RAL Companies, Oliver's Realty Group, Vanke US; Program: Residential; Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2019.
Tour: 602 Surf Avenue - New York Aquarium
As of June 30, the New York Aquarium's new pavilion has opened at their Coney Island based museum. Built to house the new exhibit, “Ocean Wonder: Sharks!,” the pavilion fronts the Coney Island boardwalk. Design of the pavilion was led by a group comprising the Wildlife Conservation Society's in-house architect, Edelman Sultan Knox Wood Architects of New York, Doyle Partners of New York, and the Portico Group of Seattle. The pavilion's exterior design features precast concrete and a 1,100-foot “shimmer wall” made of tens of thousands of aluminum pieces.
Architects: Wildlife Conservation Society, Edelman Sultan Knox Wood Architects, Doyle Partners, and the Portico Group; Client: Wildlife Conservation Society; Program: Museum; Location: Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2018.
Construction Tour: 125 Greenwich
Northwest corner of the tower and the World Trade Center site from West Street.
Superstructure is rising at 125 Greenwich Street, the 88-story, 912-foot-tall luxury condominium tower in Lower Manhattan from Bizzi & Partners Development. Designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects, the tall, slender tower features an exposed structural concrete wall at the north and south facades, with floor-to-ceiling glass cladding the east and west facades. Curved glass panels clad the tower's four corners, allowing for panoramic views of Lower Manhattan, including the World Trade Center site. Currently, the tower's superstructure is nearing the half-way mark, while curtain wall installation is nearing the one-third mark.
Northwest corner of the tower from the 9/11 Memorial.
Northwest corner of the tower.
Close-up of the northwest corner with curtain wall installed.
West facade from Liberty Park.
West facade from Liberty Park.
Looking up at the west facade from Greenwich Street.
Close-up of the southeast corner of the tower.
Looking up at the southwest corner of the tower.
Close-up of the southeast corner of the tower.
Close-up of the southeast corner of the tower.
Framing out the slab of the 45th floor.
View of the World Trade Center site from the tower.
View north from the tower.
When completed, the tower will offer 273 units ranging from studios to three-bedroom condominium residences. Interiors are designed by March & White, the firm's first large-scale residential development in the United States. Residents will have access to 15,000-square-feet of lifestyle and wellness amenities in a residents-only, private club called The 88, located on the top three floors of the tower. Lifestyle amenities will include a resident lounge, a screening room, and a private dining room for a seated party of 10. Wellness amenities will include a 50' lap pool with poolside chaise lounges, men's and women's locker rooms, spa, relaxation lounge, and a fully equipped fitness center with 24-hour access.
Looking towards the World Trade Center site from the curtain wall installed on the 25th floor.
Looking towards the east from the curtain wall installed on the 25th floor.
Curtain wall panel awaiting installation at the northeast corner of the tower.
Window installed at the south concrete wall.
Close-up of the curtain wall and windows installed on the south facade.
Architect: Rafael Vinoly Architects; Interiors: March & White; Developer: Bizzi & Partners Development; Program: Residential Condo; Location: Lower Manhattan, New York, NY; Completion: 2019.
Construction Update: 150 Rivington
Southwest corner from Suffolk and Rivington Street.
Facade installation is nearing completion at Cogswell Lee Development's 150 Rivington, a residential condo building on the Lower East Side. The 7-story building replaces the former Streit’s Matzo Factory that opened on the site in 1925.
Designed by Gluck+, the building is clad in a skin of floor-to-ceiling glass and 265 custom cast panels. When completed, the building will offer 45 residential condo units.
Close-up of the glass and custom cast curtain wall panels on the west facade.
Architect: Gluck+; Developer: Cogswell Lee Development; Program: Residential Condo; Location: Lower East Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2019.
Construction Update: 40 10th Avenue
Northwest corner.
Facade installation is underway at Aurora Capital and William Gottlieb Real Estate's 40 Tenth Avenue, the 10-story, 140,000 square foot spec office building adjacent to the High Line at West 13th Street. Design of the tower is led by Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang and uses the firm's strategy of "solar carving" which, according to their website, "uses incident angles of the sun’s rays to sculpt a building’s form." The northwest and southeast corner of the rectangular tower massing will be carved away by this principle to produce a faceted façade and allow more sunlight to reach the adjacent green space of the High Line and the street.
Looking up at the west facade.
North facade from the High Line.
Southwest corner.
Southwest corner.
Southeast corner from Washington Street.
Architect: Studio Gang; Developer: Aurora Capital and William Gottlieb Real Estate; Program: Office, Retail; Location: Meatpacking District, New York, New York; Completion: March 2019.
Construction Update: Koch Center for Cancer Care
Facade installation is nearing completion at the Koch Center for Cancer Care, which will feature two science and medical facilities sharing a single site on the Upper East Side waterfront. Memorial Sloan Kettering will offer outpatient treatment programs with its 750,000-square-feet cancer care facility. CUNY-Hunter College will house academic science and nursing facilities in their 336,000-square-foot Science and Health Professions building.
The building massing breaks down what would be a dense extruded volume into a series of smaller, interconnected chunks. Voids in the overall massing allow for outdoor terraces.
The facade features terra cotta and glass panels of varying sizes that create a vertically oriented pattern. Vertical terra cotta fins of varying depths also contribute to the pattern while offering shade and mitigating the effects of solar heat gain and glare.
Architect: Ennead Architects with Perkins Eastman; Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti; MEP Engineer: Jaros Baum & Bolles; Curtainwall Consultant: Entek Engineering, LLC, Heintges & Associates; Client: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, CUNY-Hunter College; Program: Outpatient Cancer Care and Research; Location: Upper East Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2019.
Construction Update: 116 University Place
Northeast corner from East 13th Street and University Place.
Construction is wrapping up at Ranger Properties and KD Sagamore Capital's 116 University Place near Union Square. Designed by Morris Adjmi Architects, the 6-story residential condo building features a brick facade with large punch windows surrounded by stepped brick. Five full floor condo units will be located above a ground floor residential entry and commercial space.
Close-up of the east facade.
East facade from University Place.
Architect: Morris Adjmi Architects; Developer: Ranger Properties and KD Sagamore Capital; Program: Residential; Location: Union Square, New York, NY; Completion: 2018.
Construction Tour: 21 East 12th Street
Northeast corner from East 13th Street and University Place.
Façade installation is nearing completion at William Macklowe Company's 21 E 12, the 22-story residential condo tower in Greenwich Village. Designed by Selldorf Architects, the tower's façade features precast panels of light colored cast stone and punched casement windows. For the duplex penthouse units on the top two floors, the tower sets back and will be clad with a floor to ceiling glass curtain wall.
Close-up of the east facade.
Southeast corner from University Place and East 12th Street.
View south towards Lower Manhattan from the penthouse.
View southwest towards the West Village and Jersey City from the penthouse.
View northwest towards Hudson Yards from the penthouse.
View north towards Midtown from the penthouse.
View east from the penthouse.
Architect: Selldorf Architects (Design Architect), SLCE (Architect of Record); Developer: William Macklowe Company with Goldman Sachs; Program: Residential, Retail; Location: Greenwich Village, New York, NY; Completion: Late 2018.
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