Construction Update: 9 Dekalb
View of the Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank and 9 Dekalb from Bond Street.
Superstructure is nearing the half way mark at JDS Development Group’s residential supertall tower 9 DeKalb in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by SHoP Architects, the 73-story tower sits next to the landmarked Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank. Installation of the curtain wall has begun at the lower floors with panels of floor-to-ceiling glass, blackened metal, and bronze colored metal.
Northeast corner.
East facade from Flatbush Avenue.
Southeast corner from Flatbush Avenue.
Southeast corner from Flatbush Avenue.
Architect: SHoP Architects; Developer: JDS Development Group; Program: Residential; Location: Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2022.
Construction Update: 180 East 88th Street
Northeast corner from 3rd Avenue.
Construction is nearing completion at DDG’s residential condominium tower at 180 East 88th Street on the Upper East Side. Developed and designed by DDG, the 33-story tower features a facade of Kolumba brick from Petersen Tegl and concrete arches at the middle and the top of the tower. Inside, the tower offers 48 half and full floor condominiums.
Mid-tower arches.
Brick facade detail.
East facade of the tower from 3rd Avenue.
Residential entry from 3rd Avenue.
Looking up at the east facade.
Secondary residential entry from East 88th Street.
Looking up at the north facade.
North facade detail.
East facade of the tower crown.
Architect: DDG (Design Architect), HTO Architects (Executive Architect); Developer: DDG; Program: Residential Condominium; Location: Upper East Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2020.
Construction Update: 150 East 78th Street
Facade installation is ongoing at Midwood Investment & Development and EJS Group’s residential condo tower at 150 East 78th Street on the Upper East Side. Designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, the tower facade features brick and the firm’s signature classical details in cast stone. The tower will offer 25 condo residences with interiors designed by Robert Couturier.
Architect: Robert A.M. Stern Architects (Design Architect), Ismael Leyva Architects (Executive Architect); Interiors: Robert Couturier; Developer: Midwood Investment & Development, EJS Group; Program: Residential Condominium; Location: Upper East Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2021.
Construction Update: 550 Clinton
South facade from Vanderbilt Avenue.
Superstructure has surpassed the two thirds mark at Hope Street Capital’s residential tower 550 Clinton in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Designed by Morris Adjmi Architects, the tower features a torqued massing that frames views of the nearby Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew’s belfry, a landmark built in 1891. The tower will be clad in large floor-to-ceiling windows and scalloped precast concrete panels, whose design was inspired by the church’s columns.
Rendering courtesy of Morris Adjmi Architects.
Southwest corner from Atlantic Avenue.
Southwest corner from Atlantic Avenue.
Precast concrete and glass facade design sketch courtesy of Morris Adjmi Architects.
Close-up of the precast concrete panels going up on the south facade of the podium.
Close-up of the precast concrete panels.
Looking up at the southeast corner of the tower.
Southeast corner from Atlantic Avenue.
East facade from Clinton Avenue.
Architect: Morris Adjmi Architects; Developer: Hope Street Capital; Program: Residential, Retail; Location: Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2021.
Tour: One Clinton
East facade from Tillary Street.
Interior construction is nearing completion at One Clinton, Hudson Companies’ 36-story residential condo tower in Brooklyn Heights. Designed by Marvel Architects, the tower replaces the former Brooklyn Heights Library that previously occupied the triangular site. The library will get a new home in the base of the tower and join other retail tenants Brooklyn Roasting Company and a collection of Smorgasburg food vendors, along with a STEM research center.
Looking up at the east facade.
The tower facade features a gridded design and is clad in a limestone panel with bronze accents.
North corner from Cadman Plaza West.
Inside, the project offers 133 residential units ranging in size from two to five bedrooms. Residents will have access to amenities that include a sky lounge with outdoor terrace, fitness center, children’s indoor and outdoor playrooms, screening room, music rehearsal space, bicycle storage, and underground parking spaces for purchase.
Residential lobby lounge.
Residential lobby.
Mailroom.
Model Residence
Model Residence
Penthouse Residence
Amenity Lounge
Architect: Marvel Architects; Interiors: Studio DB; Landscape: DLANDstudio; Developer: Hudson Companies; Program: Residential, Retail; Location: Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2021.
Construction Tour: 58 Saint Marks Place
Northeast corner from 4th Avenue.
Superstructure has topped out at Avdoo & Partners Development’s 12-story residential condominium building at 58 Saint Marks Place in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Designed by INC Architecture and Design, the development’s facade will be clad in over 8,000 terra cotta panels and 338 windows. When completed, the project will offer 100 residences ranging in size from studios to 4 bedrooms, with 39 unique residence types. Open space will be included in about 80 percent of the residences. Residents will have access to 19,000 square feet of amenities across 4 levels, including a fitness center by The Wright Fit and a communal garden designed by Terrain.
East facade from 4th Avenue.
East facade from 4th Avenue.
Rooftop Views
View northwest towards Downtown Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan.
View northwest towards Downtown Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan.
View north towards Downtown Brooklyn.
View east towards Pacific Park and Prospect Heights.
Architect: INC Architecture and Design (Design Architect), Issac & Stern Architect (Architect of Record); Developer: Avdoo & Partners Development; Program: Residential Condo; Location: Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: Late 2021.
Construction Update: 251 West 91st Street - The Westly
Southeast corner from Broadway.
Superstructure is rising at Adam America Real Estate’s 19-story residential tower on the Upper West Side. Designed by ODA New York, the tower massing features a cantilever at level 8 on the north facade, extending out over an existing four story structure. When completed, the project will offer 57 units and amenities that include a lounge, teen lounge, fitness center, roof deck with outdoor pool, music practice room, children’s playroom, storage, bike room, central laundry room, and pet washing station.
East facade from Broadway.
Cantilever detail.
Northeast corner from Broadway.
Cantilever detail.
Architect: ODA New York; Developer: Adam America Real Estate; Program: Residential; Location: Upper West Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2021.
Construction Update: 101 West 14th Street
Southeast corner.
Curtain wall installation is nearing completion at Gemini Rosemont’s 13-story residential condo building at 101 West 14th Street in Greenwich Village. Designed by ODA New York, the condo building features the architect’s signature eroded massing that affords covered balconies and stepped terraces at the upper floors. When completed, the project will offer 44 residential condo units, 21 of which will be duplexes.
Looking up at the east facade.
Southeast corner from 6th Avenue.
South facade.
Southwest corner from West 14th Street.
East facade.
East facade.
Rooftop Views
View to the northwest towards Hudson Yards.
View to the north towards Midtown.
View to the east towards the West Village.
View to the south towards Lower Manhattan.
Architect: ODA New York; Developer: Gemini Rosemont; Program: Residential Condo, Retail; Location: Greenwich Village, New York, NY; Completion: Q2 2021.
Construction Update: 550 Washington Street - Google NYC - St. John's Terminal
Northwest corner.
Superstructure has topped out at Oxford Properties’ conversion of St. John’s Terminal, originally constructed in 1934, into the future offices of Google at Hudson Square on the west side of Manhattan. Led by COOKFOX Architects, the project reimagines the former terminus of the New York Central Railroad’s West Side viaduct into 1.3 million square feet of office space for Google. Nine new floors have been added atop the existing structure that stretched for two city blocks.
Northwest corner.
Northwest corner.
Aerial View of St. John’s Terminal.
Northwest corner from West Street.
West facade from West Street.
Southwest corner from West Street.
Northeast corner from Washington Street.
Northeast corner from Greenwich Street.
Architect: COOKFOX Architects, Adamson Associates, and Gensler; Developer: Oxford Properties Group; Program: Office; Location: Hudson Square, New York, NY; Completion: 2021.
Construction Update: Greenpoint Landing Block D
Southeast corner of Block D from West Street.
Greenpoint Landing’s fourth market rate site is Block D, a two tower development designed by OMA New York. The two towers will stand 30 and 40 stories tall and offer 745 residential rental units. Block D’s two tower massing is designed as a ziggurat and an inverse form. Precast concrete panels with 8 foot square windows will clad the towers and are currently being installed at the lower floors. Superstructure has surpassed the halfway mark.
Northeast corner of Block D.
North facade of Block D.
Architect: OMA New York with Beyer Blinder Belle; Landscape Architect: James Corner Field Operations; Developers: Brookfield Property Partners, Park Tower Group; Program: Residential, Retail, Park; Location: Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY.
