Tour: 45 East 22nd Street - Madison Square Park Tower
South façade from Park Avenue South.
Construction is wrapping up at Madison Square Park Tower, the 65-story, 777-foot residential condo tower from developer Bruce Eichner of The Continuum Company. Prolific New York architects Kohn Pedersen Fox are responsible for the design of the Flatiron District tower.
Southwest corner of the tower from the High Line.
Madison Square Park Tower (left) and One Madison (right) from Madison Square Park.
Looking up at the southwest corner of the tower from East 22nd Street.
Nestled mid block amongst the low-rise masonry and stone buildings typical of the neighborhood, the tower's five-story base will be clad in granite. The granite coursing and bronze detailing of the entry doors and canopy will tie into the neighborhood context and welcome the tower's residents and guests.
Looking up at the residential entry from East 22nd Street.
55th Floor Model Residence
From the 75-foot wide granite base, the glass tower rises towards its 777-foot apex, tapering outward on the western façade to a final width of 125 feet. The tower's floor-to-ceiling glass cladding offers panoramic views of New York and New Jersey. Eighty-three residences are offered in a variety of configurations from simplex, duplex, full-floor and penthouse homes. Interiors designed by Martin Brudnizki Design Studio take inspiration from the Art Deco and Modern precedents of the neighborhood.
The 4,651-square-foot, full-floor residential unit at the 55th floor will offer four bedrooms and four bathrooms. A living and dining room at the northwest corner and a master bedroom at the northeast corner will offer panoramic views of the Midtown skyline, including the prominently featured Empire State Building. A master bathroom at the southeast corner and a secondary bedroom at the southwest corner will offer similarly expansive views of the Lower Manhattan skyline. The kitchen features custom Molteni cabinetry and integrated appliances by Sub-Zero and Miele, with Waterworks fixtures and Nanz hardware.
Dining room and living room.
Living room views of the Midtown skyline.
Kitchen.
Master bedroom.
Master bathroom.
View of the Lower Manhattan skyline from the master bathroom.
Lower Manhattan skyline view.
Secondary bedroom.
Child's bedroom.
View of the East River waterfront.
Residents will have access to five floors of amenities in the granite-clad base, including a library, fitness center, children's playroom, living room, and billiard's room. The Upper Club at the 54th floor will offer an entertainment suite with catering and demonstration kitchens for all residents.
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF); Interior Architect: Martin Brudnizki Design Studio; Landscape Architect: Oehme van Sweden; Developer: The Continuum Company; Program: Residential; Location: Flatiron District, New York, NY; Completion: 2017.
325 Kent
SHoP Architects Williamsburg 2017
The Domino Sugar Refinery (left) and 325 Kent (right) from the East River.
The Domino Sugar site.
Residents are beginning to move in at 325 Kent, the first residential project of Two Trees' Domino Sugar development on the Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn. The master plan for the Domino Sugar site calls for 2,800 apartments spread over four new residential towers, the renovation and conversion of the refinery building into an office complex, and a waterfront park by High Line designers Field Operations.
Southwest corner from Kent Avenue.
SHoP Architects led the design for 325 Kent, which is composed of two 16-story towers connected by a podium and a bridge at the top three floors. Perforated copper panels clad the five-story podium, with similarly perforated zinc panels cladding the two towers and connecting bridge above.
Looking up at the west facade.
Residential lobby.
Model Residences
325 Kent will offer 522 residential rental units, including 104 units designated affordable for low income residents, ranging in size from studios to two-bedrooms. Apartments offer views of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the central courtyard that sits atop the roof of the podium. Along with the typical high end appliances, custom cabinetry, and hardwood floors, many of units feature private balconies looking onto the interior courtyard or private terraces created by the stepped massing of the east tower facades.
Two Bedroom
Living room.
Kitchen.
Master bedroom.
Bedroom.
One Bedroom
Living room.
Kitchen.
Bedroom.
Studio
Studio.
Studio
Amenities
Along with the 2,000 square foot courtyard on the fourth floor, 325 Kent also features resident lounges and a fitness center within the connecting bridge at the top of the building. At the roof deck of the bridge, residents will have access to BBQ grills, cabanas, and an outdoor dining area.
Residential lounge.
Manhattan skyline view from the residential lounge.
Garden facing facade of the south tower.
South facade.
Looking west.
Architect: SHoP Architects; Developer: Two Trees Management; Program: Residential; Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2017
Construction Update: FDNY Rescue Company 2 Training Facility
Looking west along Sterling Place.
Concrete superstructure has topped out at Studio Gang's FDNY Rescue Company 2 Training Facility in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. The three-story structure will serve as a facility for the FDNY to simulate various scenarios encountered when responding to emergency calls. Large voids cut horizontally through the central ground floor space and vertically to the sky to allow for simulating a multitude of real world scenarios. Large apertures cut into the concrete facades will be accented by red glazed terracotta panels. Sustainable features include a green roof, geothermal HVAC system, and solar water-heating system.
Close-up of the east façade.
East façade.
South façade from Sterling Place.
Architect: Studio Gang; Client: NYC Department of Design and Construction; Program: FDNY Training Facility; Location: Brownsville, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2018.
Construction Update: 122 Community Arts Center
West façade from First Avenue.
Construction is wrapping up at 122 Community Center, the renovation by Deborah Berke Partners of a former public school that now serves as the home of four arts and community service organizations. The building was completed in 1894 by C.B.J. Snyder and operated as a public school until 1976. Since 1977, the original school building has housed arts and community organizations which will remain in the newly upgraded structure. Those organizations include: AIDS Service Center NYC, Mabou Mines, Painting Space 122, and Performance Space 122.
West façade from First Avenue.
Along with upgrading the existing school building for code compliance and improvements to each of the organizations' space, a five-story addition at the northern boundary of the site will add more public function spaces and a unified circulation system for the building. A perforated, crimped metal panel clads the new addition, partially screening the large windows behind. The lightness of the metal panel serves as the perfect foil to the heaviness of the original brick structure, reflective by day and light transmitting by night. A long canopy clad in a similar metal mesh will extend from the addition out to the sidewalk, announcing the building's new entry to the community.
Looking up at the northwest corner of the new addition.
Close-up of the northwest corner of the new addition.
Looking up at the entrance canopy of the new addition.
Southwest corner of the former public school building.
Architect: Deborah Berke Partners; Client: NYC Department of Design and Construction; Program: Space for Arts and Community Service Organizations; Location: East Village, New York, NY; Completion: 2017.
Construction Update: 565 Broome Street
Southwest corner.
Concrete superstructure has surpassed the 16th floor at 565 Broome Street, a luxury residential development in SoHo from the Italian architecture firm Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Two 30-story towers will share a common podium and contain 115 apartments ranging in size from studios to four-bedrooms. The towers will feature a glass curtain wall with rounded corners, with the first units already installed on the north façade.
Southwest corner from Varick Street.
West façade from Freeman Plaza East.
Northwest corner from Varick Street.
Curtain wall unit installed at the north façade.
Close-up of the rounded corner of the curtain wall unit.
Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop; Developers: Bizzi & Partners Development, Aronov Development, Halpern Real Estate Ventures, Cindat Capital Management; Program: Residential; Location: SoHo, New York, NY; Completion: 2018.
Construction Update: Kew Gardens Hills Library
Northwest corner.
Construction is wrapping up at WORKac's Kew Gardens Hills Library in Queens, a replacement of an older library in the neighborhood. The one-story structure is clad in GFRC (Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete) panels cast in a curtain-like form of vertical folds. This solid surface pulls up at the northwest and southwest corners to allow for a glass façade that provides light and views for the open rooms for adults, teens, children and staff that line the perimeter. The customary book shelves occupy the center and east perimeter of the interior.
North façade.
Northwest corner.
Close-up of the GFRC façade panels.
Library entrance.
Library entrance.
West façade.
Looking up at the GFRC panels on the west façade.
West façade.
Close-up of the façade and green roof.
Southwest corner.
Architect: WORKac; Client: NYC DDC; Program: Library; Location: Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, NY; Completion: Fall 2017.
Tour: 153 Remsen Street
South façade from Remsen Street.
Construction is wrapping up at 153 Remsen, an 18-story residential rental tower in Brooklyn Heights from Quinlan Development Group and Lonicera Partners. Designed by S9 Architecture, the tower features an exterior of brick, metal, and glass that references the surrounding neighborhood building stock.
Residential lobby.
The building offers 60 rental units with floor-to-ceiling windows that feature views of the surrounding skyline. Other features include white oak floors in living space, gourmet kitchens, and four piece master baths with white marble floors, ash-gray double sink vanities and walk-in showers.
Living room.
Kitchen.
Close-up of the façade.
Close-up of the façade.
Residents will have access to amenities such as a fitness center, children's playroom, and a rooftop terrace with lounge furniture, barbeque grills and children's play area.
Rooftop terrace.
View northwest from the rooftop terrace towards Brooklyn Heights and Lower Manhattan.
View southeast from the rooftop terrace.
Architect: S9 Architecture; Developers: Quinlan Development Group and Lonicera Partners; Program: Residential Rental; Location: Brooklyn Heights, New York, NY; Completion: 2017.
Tour: 415 Red Hook Lane
South façade from Boerum Place.
Construction is wrapping up at 415 Red Hook Lane, a residential rental tower in Downtown Brooklyn from developers Quinlan Development Group and Lonicera Partners. Designed by Ennead Architects, the 21-story, 108-unit tower sits at the corner of Red Hook Lane and Livingston Street.
Close-up of the south facing window wall façade..
A window wall clads the south facing façade, with a more solid brick and punch window design for the other three elevations.
Looking up at the south façade from Livingston Street.
West façade from Boerum Place.
Close-up of the northwest façade.
Residents will have access to amenities that include a fitness room, lounge, rooftop terrace, residential and bike storage, and laundry facilities. The rooftop terrace features panoramic views of Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights.
The view north towards Downtown Brooklyn from the rooftop terrace.
The view of Boerum Place with the Midtown skyline beyond.
The view west towards Brooklyn Heights and the East River waterfront from the rooftop terrace.
Architect: Ennead Architects; Developers: Quinlan Development Group and Lonicera Partners; Program: Residential; Location: Downtown Brooklyn, New York, NY; Completion: 2017.
Construction Update: Columbia University Manhattanville Campus
Looking northeast towards the Center for the Arts (left), the Science Center (center), and the Academic Conference Center (right).
Construction has wrapped up on two of three buildings at Columbia University's new Manhattanville campus. When fully completed, the campus will occupy more than 17 acres in the Manhattanville neighborhood, a few blocks north of the main campus. Renzo Piano Building Workshop, led by Pritzker Prize winner Renzo Piano, has worked with SOM on the master plan for the campus and led design on the three phase one buildings currently underway.
Lenfest Center for the Arts
The newly completed Lenfest Center for the Arts, designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW), sits to the west of the Science Center and houses the Miriam and Ira Wallach Art Gallery along with performance spaces, a screening room, and offices in an eight-story structure. A unitized panel system of white metal and glass clads the exterior, a similar look to the firm's Whitney Museum at the High Line.
South facade of the Center for the Arts.
Lobby.
Elevator cab.
Art gallery.
Art gallery.
Art gallery ceiling.
Jerome L. Greene Science Center
The 9-story, 450,000 square-foot Science Center will bring together researchers from across the University including the Columbia University Medical Center, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. The ground floor will house the Center for Education and Outreach, a public education center focused on brain science that will serve the general public and K-12 schools.
Science Center facade close-up.
Southeast corner of the Science Center from Broadway.
Looking up at the east facade of the Science Center from Broadway.
Academic Conference Center
Facade installation is underway at the third RPBW building in Columbia University's master plan for the Manhattanville campus, the Academic Conference Center. Located south of the Science Center, it will house a 400-seat auditorium and state-of-the-art seminar and meeting rooms inside a five-story structure. The steel structure will be clad with precast concrete panels and glass.
South façade of the Academic Conference Center.
Southeast corner of the Academic Conference Center from Broadway.
East facade of the Academic Conference Center from Broadway.
Northeast corner of the Academic Conference Center from Broadway.
Close-up of the facade cladding of the Academic Conference Center at the northeast corner.
Precast concrete panels cladding the east facade of the Academic Conference Center.
Architects: Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Davis Brody Bond LLP (Science Center and Center for the Arts), RPBW with Dattner Architects (Academic Conference Center); Program: Education; Location: Manhattanville, New York, NY; Completion: 2017 (Science Center and Center for the Arts), 2018 (Academic Conference Center).
Construction Update: The Milstein Center
Southeast corner of The Milstein Center (left) and The Diana Center (right) from Broadway.
Façade installation is underway at Barnard College's new interdisciplinary education building, The Cheryl and Philip Milstein Teaching and Learning Center. Designed by SOM, The Milstein Center will contain 128,000-square-foot of faculty and student space, including a library, conference facilities, interdisciplinary workspace, and a home for the Athena Center for Leadership Studies and the Barnard Center for Research on Women. The building's massing incorporates a five-story stepped horizontal bar at the south end of the site, which will allow sunlight access for Lehman Lawn and offer rooftop outdoor spaces that extend the lawn into the building. A 12-story tower at the northern end will be similar in height to the adjacent Altschul Hall. A cantilevered space on the 10th floor of the tower echoes a similar cantilever of Weiss/Manfredi's The Diana Center located across the lawn.
Southeast corner of The Milstein Center (center) and The Diana Center (right) from Lehman Lawn.
The Milstein Center will be clad with glass and a muted copper-toned metal panel, which references the college's existing brick buildings and the Diana Center's fritted glass facade. Installation of the facade is nearing the half-way mark, revealing the mixture of flat and sloping metal panels that provide texture to the exterior wall.
Close-up of the tower façade at the southeast corner.
Close-up of the east façade.
East façade.
Looking up at the west façade from Claremont Avenue.
Close-up of the west façade.
Southwest corner from Claremont Avenue.
Architect: Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM); Client: Barnard College at Columbia University; Program: Interdisciplinary Education; Location: Morningside Heights, New York, NY; Completion: Fall 2018.
