Construction Tour: Waterline Square
Construction continues to progress at Waterline Square, the three-tower development on the Upper West Side from GID Development Group. The development's three sites are the last available of the original 5-tower Riverside Center masterplan. Each of the three towers are designed by a different high profile architecture firm and will offer rentals at the lower floors and condos starting on floor 20. Sales for the one-to-four-bedroom condo units are underway.
Tower One, located at the southwest corner, is designed by Richard Meier Architects. Tower Two, at the northwest corner, is designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. Tower Three, adjacent to nearly completed One West End tower, is designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects.
One Waterline Square (10 Riverside Boulevard)
Located at the corner of West 59th Street and 12th Avenue, the Richard Meier designed One Waterline Square stands 37-stories tall at the southwest corner of the development. Superstructure has topped out and curtain wall installation is well underway. Condo interiors will be designed by Champalimaud Design
Northeast corner of One Waterline Square.
Southeast corner of One Waterline Square from West 59th Street.
Two Waterline Square (30 Riverside Boulevard)
The largest of the three towers, Two Waterline Square occupies the entire northern half of the development and stands 38-stories tall. Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates is the architect for the tower with condo interiors by Yabu Pushelberg. Curtain wall installation is currently underway on the lower half of the tower.
Southwest corner of Two Waterline Square.
Southeast corner of Two Waterline Square.
Looking up at the southwest corner of Two Waterline Square.
Three Waterline Square (635 West 59th Street)
The third and final tower fronts onto West 59th Street and stands 34-stories tall. Rafael Vinoly Architects is responsible for the design with condo interiors by Groves & Co. Superstructure has topped out on the tower, with curtain wall installation to follow shortly.
Northwest corner of Three Waterline Square.
Looking up at the south facade of Three Waterline Square.
Southwest corner of Three Waterline Square.
All three towers will offer access to the Waterline Club, a combined 100,000 square feet of sports, leisure, and lifestyle amenities designed by the Rockwell Group. Amenities on offer will include an indoor tennis court, an indoor skate park, a 30-foot indoor rock climbing wall, a full basketball court, a three-lane lap pool, and studios for art, photography, recording. Also included in the development will be a three acre landscaped park designed by Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects at the center of the site.
Architects: Richard Meier & Partners Architects (Design Architect: One Waterline Square), Kohn Pedersen Fox (Design Architect: Two Waterline Square), Rafael Vinoly Architects (Design Architect: Three Waterline Square), Hill West Architects (Executive Architect); Interiors: Champalimaud Design (One Waterline Square), Yabu Pushelberg (Two Waterline Square), Groves & Co. (Three Waterline Square); Developer: GID Development Group; Program: Residential, Retail; Location: Upper West Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2018.
Construction Update: Essex Crossing
After mostly sitting vacant since 1967, a six acre area of the Lower East Side is transforming into a mixed use development with nine building sites. Now known as Essex Crossing, the $1 billion development will include residential, office, retail, cultural and community space. The mega development is overseen by a joint venture of L+M Development Partners, BFC Partners, and Taconic Investment Partners, and Goldman Sachs.
242 Broome Street
Included in the first phase of construction is the 14-story, 55-unit condo tower from SHoP Architects. The project is located on site 1 at the corner of Broome and Ludlow Street, anchoring the western edge of the development. Massing for the tower follows a typical podium and setback tower strategy, creating a sixth story outdoor terrace. The tower slopes inward at the southwest corner, opening up the terrace to more light and views.
Installation is wrapping up on the bronze-toned metal panel and glass curtain wall that clads the exterior. The design features faceted metal panels that frame the glass openings. At the podium, the metal panel spandrels covering the floor slabs create deep overhangs on the west facade as the form of the building torques at the southwest corner.
Looking up at the west facade of 242 Broome Street.
Southwest corner of 242 Broome Street.
Southeast corner of 242 Broome Street.
115 Delancey Street
Site 2 features a 24-story tower with a five-story podium that will house part of the Essex Street Market. Designed by Handel Architects, the mixed-use tower is the largest project in the 9-site mega development. Along with the market space and 195 rental units, half of which will fall under the affordable housing program, the tower will also house a 14-screen movie theater, an urban farm on the podium roof, and amenities for the residents. Currently, installation of the bronze-toned metal panels is wrapping up and the tower should open later this year.
Southeast corner of 115 Delancey Street.
Northeast corner of 115 Delancey Street.
East facade of 115 Delancey Street.
Southeast corner of the tower at 115 Delancey Street.
Southwest corner of 115 Delancey Street.
180 Broome Street.
Site 4, also designed by Handel Architects, will feature a 26-story mixed-use tower with 10,000 square feet of ground floor retail, 175,000 square feet of office space on floors two through five, and a tower with 263 rentals.
Looking down on the site of 180 Broome Street.
175 Delancey Street
At the eastern boundary of the mega project, site six features a 14-story, brick-and-punched window rental tower from Dattner Architects. All 99 units are set aside as affordable housing for seniors, and the podium will house a new NYU Langone medical center and a senior center operated by the Grand Street Settlement.
Southwest corner of 175 Delancey Street.
Close-up of the southwest corner of 175 Delancey Street.
Southwest corner of 175 Delancey Street from Clinton Street..
Northwest corner of 175 Delancey Street.
Close-up of the northwest corner of 175 Delancey Street.
Retail storefront at 175 Delancey Street.
North façade from Delancey Street.
Residential entry at 175 Delancey Street.
145 Clinton Street
Site five, recently renamed The Rollins, is a 15-story rental tower from Beyer Blinder Belle. The brick and metal panel clad building will house a Target and a public school, with a West 8 designed park located along the site's northern boundary.
Southeast corner from Grand Street.
South facade of 145 Clinton Street.
Southwest corner from Grand Street.
Northeast corner of 145 Clinton Street.
Looking down on the future park.
Looking down on the future amenity deck.
Developers: Delancey Street Associates (Taconic Investment Partners LLC, L+M Development Partners, BFC Partners, Goldman Sachs); Location: Essex Crossing, Lower East Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2018.
Construction Update: Columbia University Manhattanville Campus
Southeast corner of the University Forum from Broadway.
Construction continues 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.
University Forum and Academic Conference Center
Facade installation is wrapping up at the University Forum and Academic Conference Center, the third Renzo Piano designed building in Columbia University's master plan for the Manhattanville campus. Located south of the Jerome L. Greene 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 is clad with precast concrete panels and glass.
Precast concrete facade close-up.
Glass curtain wall facade close-up.
Northeast corner of the University Forum from Broadway.
Northeast corner of the University Forum.
Columbia Business School
Construction has started on the new home for the Columbia Business School, The Ronald O. Perelman Center for Business Innovation and the Henry R. Kravis Building located on a site to the north of the first phase buildings. The program includes two building by Diller Scofidio + Renfro with FXCollaborative and associate architects AARRIS ATEPA Architects, both looking onto a central open space designed by James Corner Field Operations.
Looking northeast towards the Business School (left), the Center for the Art (right), and the Science Center (far right).
Southwest corner of the Business School site.
Northwest corner of the Business School site.
Looking southeast towards the Business School (foreground), the Center for the Art (left), and the Science Center (far left).
Architects: Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Davis Brody Bond LLP (Science Center and Center for the Arts), RPBW with Dattner Architects (Academic Conference Center), Diller Scofidio + Renfro with FXCollaborative and AARRIS ATEPA Architects (Business School), SOM (Master Plan); Landscape Architect: James Corner Field Operations; Program: Education; Location: Manhattanville, New York, NY; Completion: 2017 (Science Center and Center for the Arts), 2018 (Academic Conference Center), 2021 (Business School).
Construction Update: The Eleventh
Southwest corner from 11th Avenue.
Superstructure continues to rise at HFZ Capital Group's The Eleventh, a mixed use development at 76 11th Avenue. Designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the development consists of two twisting towers atop an 85 foot podium adjacent to the High Line. The 34-story west tower will rise 400 feet and consist of residential units and supporting amenities, while the 25-story east tower will rise 300 feet and consist of a mixture of residential units on the upper floors and a Six Senses hotel on the lower floors. Currently, the west tower's superstructure has nearly reached the half-way mark, while the east tower has yet to start.
West facade from 11th Avenue.
Northwest corner from 11th Avenue.
Northeast corner of the site from the High Line.
Northeast corner of the site from the High Line.
Southeast corner of the site from the High Line.
Architect: Bjarke Ingels Group (Design Architect), Woods Bagot (Architect of Record); Developer: HFZ Capital Group; Program: Residential; Location: Chelsea, New York, NY; Completion: 2019.
Construction Update: 207 W 79
Southwest corner from West 79th Street.
Construction is wrapping up at 207 West 79th Street, a 13-story condo building on the Upper West Side by Anbau Enterprises. Designed by Morris Adjmi Architects, the facade features beige brick and terracotta accent panels with organic patterns. An Art Deco inspired cornice adorns the top of the building.
Close-up of the south facade.
The condo building will offer 19 units ranging in size from two to six bedrooms, occupying half to a full floor. Residents will have access to a collection of amenities including a fitness studio, bike and storage areas, and a playroom.
Southwest corner from Broadway.
Architect: Morris Adjmi Architects; Developer: ; Program: Residential; Location: Upper West Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2018.
Construction Update: 100 Franklin
East facades from Church Street.
Superstructure is close to topping out at 100 Franklin, the two building residential development on a triangular shaped lot in Tribeca. Developed and designed by DDG, the buildings will feature a red brick facade in keeping with the neighborhood's pallete of materials.
Northeast corner of the six-story building from 6th Avenue.
East facades from Church Street.
Southeast corner from 6th Avenue.
Architect/Developer: DDG; Program: Residential, Retail; Location: Tribeca, New York, NY; Completion: 2019.
Construction Update: 150 Rivington
Southwest corner from Suffolk and Rivington Street.
Facade installation is underway 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
Curtain wall at the west facade.
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.
Curtain wall installation at the west facade.
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: 10 Montieth
West façade from Bushwick Avenue.
Construction is ongoing at 10 Montieth, the nine-story residential complex from the Rabsky Group that will occupy a portion of the former Rheingold Brewery site in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood. The project is designed by ODA New York, architects of another large residential project under construction on an adjacent brewery parcel at 123 Melrose.
Southwest corner from Bushwick Avenue.
The project's massing is defined by its sloping roof that ramps up and down by several stories over the length of the full-block site. The sloped roof will accommodate a farm, lounge space, and running paths while allowing sunlight into the central courtyards. A bridge at the roof that will span across one of the interior courtyards has recently been installed.
A dynamic scattering of balconies and bay windows will lend a further sense of movement to the façade.
Northwest corner from Bushwick Avenue.
Northwest corner from Bushwick Avenue.
Entry canopy.
Bridge structure installed at the Montieth Street courtyard.
Bridge structure installed at the Montieth Street courtyard.
Close-up of the bridge structure.
Southeast corner from Stanwix Street.
Close-up of the south facade.
Architect: ODA New York; Developer: Rabsky Group; Program: Residential Rentals; Location: Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2018.
Construction Tour: The Greenpoint
Southeast corner from West Street.
After decades of industrial use, Brooklyn's Greenpoint waterfront is now undergoing a dramatic transformation into a residential neighborhood. One of the first projects under construction in this new neighborhood is The Greenpoint, a 40-story condo and rental tower located at West Street between India and Huron Streets. Developers of the project include Mack Real Estate Group and Palin Enterprises with Urban Development Partners. Installation of the glass and brick facade is nearing completion.
Looking up at the south facade of the tower.
Ismael Leyva Architects has designed the tower and adjacent five story building with connecting courtyard. The lower 27 floors contain the project's 287 rentals, with 95 condos located on floors 28 to 40. An additional 81 rentals will be located in the five-story low rise structure fronting West Street. Residents will have access to 30,000-square-feet of amenities, including the courtyard.
Southwest corner from the East River.
West elevation from the East River.
View south towards Brooklyn (left) and Lower Manhattan (right) from the rooftop.
View of the Lower Manhattan skyline from the rooftop.
View of the Lower Manhattan skyline from the rooftop.
View of the Midtown skyline from the rooftop.
View of Greenpoint and Long Island City from the rooftop.
Architect: Ismael Leyva Architects; Developers: Mack Real Estate Group and Palin Enterprises with Urban Development Partners; Program: Residential Condo and Rental; Location: Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2018.
Construction Tour: One Vanderbilt
Southwest corner from East 42nd Street.
Construction is underway at One Vanderbilt, SL Green's future supertall tower on a site adjacent to New York's Grand Central Terminal. Designed by KPF, the mixed use tower will rise 1,401 feet into the Midtown skyline. The steel superstructure has reached the 11th floor, with the framing already visible for the sloped glass atrium with angled cut that allows for a view of the cornice and southwest corner of Grand Central Terminal from the street.
Looking up at the south facade from East 42nd Street.
Southeast corner from East 42nd Street.
Eighth floor.
Looking east towards Grand Central Terminal and the Chrysler Building.
Mechanical floor.
Circulation core.
Architect: KPF; Developer: SL Green Realty Corporation; Program: Mixed Use, Office, Retail; Location: Midtown East, New York, NY; Completion: 2020.
