Construction Tour: 208 Delancey Street
Southwest corner from Delancey Street.
Construction is underway and sales have launched at New Empire’s residential condo building 208 Delancey on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Designed by ODA New York, the 12-story residential building features a L-shaped massing with rounded corners that afford curved glass interior corners or outdoor terraces for many units. The facade will be clad in ribbons of glass and beige brick that reference the existing buildings of the neighborhood. Residents will have access to a collection of amenities that include a residential lobby with adjacent resident lounge and courtyard, fitness center with an outdoor meditation terrace, and a rooftop terrace with an outdoor kitchen.
Southeast corner from Delancey Street.
Southeast corner.
Looking up at a curved corner of the structure under construction.
Sales Gallery
Residential units will feature a light-toned color palette throughout. Kitchens will offer white jazz marble countertops and backsplashes, soft white lacquer and oak cabinetry, and Miele appliances. Primary bathrooms will feature a custom walnut vanity, mirrors with integrated lighting, walk-in showers, and radiant heated Blue De Savoie marble flooring. Secondary bathrooms will feature a custom white oak vanity, soaking tub, and radiant heated Montpelier Gris marble flooring.
Model Residence - One Bedroom
Model Residence - Studio
Architect: ODA New York; Developer: New Empire; Program: Residential Condo; Location: Lower East Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2022.
Construction Update: Sunset Spectacular
Construction is wrapping up on the three dimensional billboard structure for Orange Barrel Media and the city of West Hollywood in Los Angeles. Designed by Tom Wiscombe Architecture, the structure combines an east and west facing digital billboard with cultural space at the center. The project is clad in recyclable aluminum and includes a solar array to power the billboards. A multi-use public plaza with permeable grounds materials will surround the structure.
Architect: Tom Wiscombe Architecture; Client: Orange Barrel Media and the City of West Hollywood; Program: Advertising, Cultural; Location: West Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA.
Construction Update: Google Charleston East and Bay View Campus
Charleston East Campus
Construction is nearing completion at Google’s Charleston East campus expansion next to the original Googleplex campus in Sunnyvale, California. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Thomas Heatherwick, the 645,000 square foot campus features a hangar like canopy that allows for flexibility in locating walls and floor below. According to BIG, their strategy for the building was to “create a replicable and scalable building typology that is also adaptable and inclusive” to Google’s other potential expansion sites nearby.
Close-up of the roof with stainless steel edge profile and pv shingle installation underway.
Smile-shaped clerestories of bird-safe glass bring direct, indirect, and diffused natural light into the building.
Bay View Campus
Along with the Charleston East Campus, BIG and Heatherwick have designed three similar structures at the Bay View Campus on the grounds of the NASA Ames Research Center. Like Charleston East, these structures feature the canopy structure clad in pv shingles and clerestory glass.
Close-up of the roof clad with PV shingles.
Architects: Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) with Thomas Heatherwick; Client: Alphabet; Program: Office; Location: Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County, CA; Completion: 2022.
Construction Update: 727 5th Avenue - Tiffany & Co. Flagship Expansion
Facade installation is underway at LVMH’s renovation and expansion of the Tiffany & Co. flagship retail building on Fifth Avenue in Midtown. Designed by Shohei Shigematsu of OMA’s New York office, the project includes a renovation of the 1940 Cross & Cross designed structure at 727 Fifth Avenue and a new three-story pavilion at the top that will include exhibition, event and clienteling space. The new structure will be clad in two types of glass: flat low-e glass at floors 8 and 9 and an undulating slumped glass facade at floor 10 that resembles a soft curtain.
Architect: OMA New York; Client: LVMH; Program: Office, Retail; Location: Midtown, New York, NY; Completion: Spring 2022.
Construction Tour: 110 Charlton Street - Greenwich West
Northwest corner from Greenwich Street.
Construction has wrapped up at Greenwich West, a 27-story residential condo tower at 110 Charlton Street in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Manhattan. The tower is designed by Françoise Raynaud of Loci Anima, and features a punch window and embossed brick facade by Wienerberger brickworks in Austria. Art Deco inspired rounded brick corners soften the tower massing’s edges and windows are accented with custom pewter glazed brick frames.
Northwest corner from Greenwich Street.
Looking up at the west facade from Greenwich Street..
Southwest corner from Greenwich Street.
Residential entry.
Looking up at the north facade at the residential entry.
Concierge desk.
Residential entry lobby.
Courtyard.
Residents lounge.
Fitness center.
Model Residence
The project offers 170 condo units ranging in size from studios to 3-bedrooms. Interiors are designed by Sébastien Segers and feature wide-plank European white oak floors, hand-plastered interior walls, deep window sills topped in honed Carrara marble, and engraved doors with specially designed hardware.
Kitchens feature Miele appliances and custom Molteni&C casework of walnut, metal lacquer, and fluted mirrors. Carrara marble tops the kitchen countertop and islands, which are fabricated with marine edging.
Master bathrooms feature Carrara marble wall tiling and vanity tops, engineered-rosewood vanities, and polished nickel fixtures.
Views
View south towards the Financial District from the rooftop terrace.
VView south towards the Financial District from the rooftop terrace.
View southeast towards SoHo from the rooftop terrace.
View north towards Chelsea and Hudson Yards from the rooftop terrace.
View southwest towards Jersey City from the rooftop terrace.
View south towards Jersey City from the top floor.
Architect: Loci Anima (Design Architect), AAI Architects (Architect of Record); Interior Designer: Sébastien Segers; Landscape Architect: Patrick Blanc; Developers: Strategic Capital, Cape Advisors, Forum Absolute Capital Partners; Program: Residential Condo; Location: Hudson Square, New York, NY; Completion: 2021.
Construction Update: NYPD 40th Precinct
East facade from St Ann’s Avenue.
Construction is ongoing at the new 40th Precinct Station for the NYPD in the Melrose neighborhood of the Bronx. Designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the massing features stacked boxes, each housing a different program element for the 43,500 square foot precinct. The facade is clad in sandblasted concrete and large rectangular windows at either end of the stacked volumes. Program includes a community meeting room at street level, exercise courtyard with training areas, and the first ever green roof for an NYPD station.
Northeast corner.
Northeast corner.
Southeast corner from East 149th Street.
Close-up of the southeast corner of the facade.
South facade from East 149th Street.
Architect: Bjarke Ingels Group; Client: NYC Department of Design and Construction; Location: Melrose, Bronx, NY; Completion: 2024.
Construction Update: 40 Bleecker Street
Northwest corner.
Construction has wrapped up at 40 Bleecker, Broad Street Development’s 12-story residential condo building in NoHo. Designed by Rawlings Architects, the building’s facade features nine stories of brick and punch windows that are grouped into vertical bands every two floors. The top three floors step back to create private outdoor terraces.
Residential entry.
Lobby lounge.
Lobby lounge.
Amenities
Residents have access to a range of amenities including a 58 foot swimming pool, fitness center with exercise room and stretching studio, courtyard garden designed by Hollander Design, and private parking below ground.
Exercise room.
Stretching studio.
Looking down on the courtyard from the rooftop terrace.
Courtyard garden.
Model Residence
Interiors for the residences are designed by Ryan Korban, an AD100 interior designer working on his first residential project.
Kitchens feature sculptural cantilevered and waterfall-style statuary marble islands, cerused oak cabinetry, French oak floors, fluted burnished nickel hardware, and Miele appliances.
Bathrooms feature a custom Korban marble vanity, honed Grigio Dove stone, cerused oak veneer paneling, chevron Calacatta tiling, and polished chrome fixtures.
Rooftop Views
View north towards Midtown.
View north towards Midtown.
View northwest towards Hudson Yards.
View southwest towards SoHo and Lower Manhattan.
Architect: Rawlings Architects; Interiors: Ryan Korban; Landscape Architect: Hollander Design; Developer: Broad Street Development; Program: Residential; Location: NoHo, New York, NY; Completion: 2021.
Construction Update: The Spiral - 66 Hudson Boulevard
Southwest corner from West 34th Street.
Facade installation is nearing completion at Tishman Speyer’s The Spiral, a 65-story office building at Hudson Yards in New York. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the tower massing features a stepped, continuous green pathway that spirals upward from ground floor entry to the top of the tower. The eroding spiral element affords outdoor terrace space at every floor of the tower.
Southwest corner of the tower
Looking up at the west facade.
Close-up of the northwest corner.
Northwest corner of The Spiral (left), 50 Hudson Yards (center), and 30 Hudson Yards (right).
West facade.
Architect: Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG); Developer: Tishman Speyer; Program: Office, Retail; Location: Hudson Yards, New York, NY; Completion: 2023.
Construction Update: The Wharf DC - Phase Two
Construction is ongoing at The Wharf’s phase two development at the Southwest Waterfront in Washington, DC. Developers Hoffman & Associates and Madison Marquette opened phase one in October 2016 with five buildings with residential, hotel, office, retail, and private event space. When completed in 2022, the second phase will offer 1.25 million square feet of mixed-use space in five additional buildings and two water buildings at the southern half of The Wharf.
Parcels 6 and 7
SHoP Architects is overseeing the design of Parcel 6 and 7’s 500,000 square feet of Class A office space and 33,000 square feet of retail space. The program is split among two buildings connected at the lower levels and clad in a glass curtain wall.
Parcel 6 and 7 facade detail.
North facade of Parcel 6.
Northeast corner of Parcel 6 from Maine Avenue SW.
East facade of Parcels 6 and 7 from Maine Avenue SW.
Water Building 1
Hollwich Kushner is overseeing the design of Water Building 1, a three-story hospitality structure built over a pier in the Potomac River. A steel ring truss of rectangular hollow sections and glass curtain wall clad the lower two floors of the concrete flat slab structure.
Parcel 8
ODA New York is leading the design on the mixed-use Parcel 8 building, which will offer 235 apartments and a 131-key hotel with 10,000 square feet of retail at the base.
Southwest facade of Parcel 8.
Northeast facade of Parcel 8 from Maine Avenue SW.
Southeast corner of Parcel 8 from Maine Avenue SW.
Parcel 9
Rafael Vinoly is leading the design of Parcel 9, which will offer 96 residential condo units and 18,000 square feet of retail.
East facade of Parcel 9 from Maine Avenue SW.
Northeast corner of Parcel 9 from Maine Avenue SW.
North facade of Parcel 9 from Maine Avenue SW.
Parcel 10
At the southern edge of the Wharf’s phase two, Morris Adjmi Architects is overseeing a five-story structure with 60,000 square feet of office space with 15,000 square feet of retail.
Southeast corner of Parcel 10 from Water Street SW.
Northeast corner of Parcel 10 from Water Street SW.
North facade of Parcel 10 from Water Street SW.
Phase two buildings.
Construction Tour: 662 Pacific Street
Southwest corner from Dean Street.
Facade installation is wrapping up at the Brodsky Organization’s 27-story residential rental tower at 662 Pacific Street in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The tower is part of the Pacific Park development and will offer 312 rental units and a 616-seat public middle school at the five-story base. Marvel Architects has led the design, which features a massing of stacked rectangular volumes clad in hand laid brick and large punch windows. A light tan brick clads the upper residential volumes, while a dark gray brick and larger windows clad the school volume below.
Looking up at the west facade from 6th Avenue.
North facade from 6th Avenue.
Looking up at the south facade from Dean Street.
Southeast corner from Dean Street.
East facade from Dean Street.
Residents will have access to a gym, residential lounges, an outdoor terrace, and a children’s playroom.
View northwest towards Downtown Brooklyn from the rooftop terrace.
View north towards 18 6th Avenue and Midtown from the rooftop terrace.
View north towards Midtown from the rooftop terrace.
View west towards the Statue of Liberty from the rooftop terrace.
View northeast towards Long Island City from the rooftop terrace.
Looking up at the south facade from the rooftop terrace.
View south towards Park Slope from a residential unit.
Architect: Marvel Architects; Developer: Brodsky Organization; Program: Residential Rental, Public School; Location: Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: Late 2021.