Construction Update: 58 Saint Marks Place
Facade installation is nearing completion 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 is 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.
Northeast corner from 4th Avenue.
East facade from 4th Avenue.
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: 2022.
Tour: 1 Boerum Place
Northwest corner from Boerum Place.
Construction is wrapping up at residential rental tower One Boerum Place in Downtown Brooklyn from developers Avery Hall Investments, Allegra Holding, and Aria Development Group. Designed by Avery Hall, the 22 story tower features a brick and punch window facade with private terraces and corner loggias.
Looking up at the west facade.
Southwest corner from Boerum Place.
Northeast corner from Fulton Street.
Close-up of the brick facade at the residential entry.
Residential Entry Lobby
Residential lobby featuring a work by Dustin Yellin.
A piece by artist Dustin Yellin, founder and director of Pioneer Works, greets the residents on their way to the elevator lobby and mail room.
A piece from Dustin Yellin’s Pyschogeographies series.
Model Residence
The tower offers 96 residential rental units ranging in size from one to four bedrooms. Design of the interiors is led by Gachot Studio and features 10 foot ceilings, wide plank White Oak flooring, and 8-foot-tall custom doors. Kitchens offer a custom Tambour wood radius culinary island, Tundra Grey countertops, and Waterworks fittings.
Primary bathrooms offer Bianco Dolomite marble flooring and accent walls, custom millwork vanities, and Waterworks fittings
Amenities
Entertainment lounge.
Residents have access to a collection of amenities that include a rooftop terrace, two-story fitness center, swimming pool, entertainment lounge, children’s playroom, parking garage, and storage room.
Fitness center.
Fitness center.
Swimming pool.
Children’s playroom.
Rooftop Views
Owner and Design Architect: Avery Hall; Co Developers: Allegra Holding, Aria Development Group; Interiors: Gachot Studios; Landscape: Brook Landscape; Program: Residential, Retail; Location: Borough Hall, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2022.
Construction Tour: 251 West 91st Street - The Westly
Southeast corner from Broadway.
Facade installation is ongoing at Adam America Real Estate and Northlink Capital’s 20-story residential tower The Westly on the Upper West Side. Designed by ODA New York, the tower massing features a series of cantilevers at 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.
Looking up at the east facade.
Northeast corner from Broadway.
Looking up at the south facade.
The underside of the cantilever.
Looking up at the cantilever at the north facade.
Lobby
Rooftop Views
View south towards the Upper West Side and Hudson Yards from the rooftop terrace.
View south towards the Upper West Side and Midtown from the rooftop terrace.
View southeast towards the Upper East Side from the rooftop terrace.
View north towards the Upper West Side and Morningside Heights from the rooftop terrace.
View west towards the Hudson River from the rooftop terrace.
Model Residence
Condo residences range in size from two- to five-bedrooms.
Kitchens feature cremo delicato marble slab countertops, mosaic marble backsplashes, Waterworks fixtures, marble-clad oven vents, custom walnut finish cabinets, and Gaggenau appliances.
Primary bathrooms feature honed marble slab walls, mosaic marble tiled floors, polished nickel Waterworks faucets, custom double vanity, and glass enclosed walk in showers.
Architect: ODA New York; Developer: Adam America Real Estate & Northlink Capital; Program: Residential; Location: Upper West Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2022.
Columbia University Business School
Diller Scofidio + Renfro / FXCollaborative · Morningside Heights · 2022
Southwest corner of Kravis Hall (left) and Geffen Hall (right).
A new home for the Columbia Business School has opened at the university’s Manhattanville campus in West Harlem. The Business School’s two new structures, the 8-story David Geffen Hall and 11-story Henry R. Kravis Hall, are located on a site to the north of the first phase buildings by Renzo Piano. Totaling approximately 492,00 square feet, the two new buildings double the school’s current square footage. Design on the two buildings is led by Diller Scofidio + Renfro with FXCollaborative and associate architects Aaris Design Architects.
Looking northeast towards the Manhattanville campus, including the Business School (left), the Lenfest Center for the Arts (right), and the Jerome L. Greene Science Center (far right).
James Corner Field Operations have designed a 40,000 square foot central open space which the two buildings bookend.
Northwest corner of Geffen Hall (center) and Kravis Hall (right).
Henry R. Kravis Hall
East facade of Kravis Hall at sunset.
Kravis Hall features two generous circulation stairs, located at the east and west facades, which link together alternating floors of faculty offices and teaching spaces. Known as The Network, these stairs link lounges, seminar spaces, open-breakout, tiered seating, carrels and informal hang-out spaces at the east facade. A faculty version of The Network is located along the west facade and offers views of the Hudson River. Both circulation stairs also act as vertical structure elements.
The exterior wall, fabricated by Intercom Facades and AZA US (Former AZA-INTERCOM Corporation) with W&W Glass, is designed to express the interweaving of student, faculty, and administrative program. Transparent glass encloses student floors, the Network circulation spaces, and ground floor program. Faculty floors are clad in GFRC (glass fiber reinforced concrete) slab covers and fritted glass that contrasts with the more transparent student spaces. The building’s structure uses “skip truss” steel framing on alternating faculty floors to achieve nearly column-free classrooms.
Exterior wall details courtesy of Intercom Facades and AZA US.
Southeast corner of Kravis Hall.
South facade of Kravis Hall.
Looking up at the south facade of Kravis Hall.
East facade of Kravis Hall.
East facade of Kravis Hall.
Southeast corner of Kravis Hall.
Looking up at the east facade of Kravis Hall.
Close-up of the northeast corner of Kravis Hall.
Close-up of the east facade of Kravis Hall.
At the ground floor, the Samberg Commons offers seating for 201 on tiered, undulating seating made of American oak. This space can be transformed to connect with a 199-person dining space on the second floor. The ground floor of Kravis Hall also offers retail space along the building’s 12th Avenue frontage.
Samberg Commons at the southeast corner of Kravis Hall.
West facade of Kravis Hall with ground floor retail frontage.
Southwest corner of Kravis Hall.
Southwest corner of Kravis Hall (left) and Geffen Hall (center).
West facade of Kravis Hall.
David Geffen Hall
Southwest corner of Geffen Hall.
Mirroring Kravis Hall, the eight-story Geffen Hall also features a perimeter circulation element at the west facade that connects alternating floors for administrative offices and teaching spaces. A skin of GFRC and fritted glass in a gradient from transparent to opaque clads the facade the fronts the commons and Kravis Hall. Along with MBA teaching spaces, Geffen Hall also houses the Executive MBA program. At the northwest corner of the ground floor, the Cooperman Commons 274-person auditorium space accommodates student and faculty gatherings. The Columbia-Harlem Small Business Development Center on the second floor offers support resources and services to local businesses and entrepreneurs.
West facade of Geffen Hall.
Southwest corner of Geffen Hall.
Northwest corner of Geffen Hall.
Northwest corner of Cooperman Commons.
Cooperman Commons and lobby.
Ground floor cafe at Geffen Hall.
Architects: Diller Scofidio + Renfro with FXCollaborative; Structural Engineer, Exterior Envelope and Facade Consultant: Arup; Mechanical Engineer: Buro Happold; Associate Architect: AARRIS ATEPA Architects (Dedicated Dining, Multi-Function Room); Sustainability/ LEED Consultant: FXCollaborative; Landscape Architect: James Corner Field Operations; Exterior Wall Fabricator: Intercom Facades and AZA US (Former AZA-INTERCOM Corporation) with W&W Glass; Program: Education; Location: Manhattanville, New York, NY; Completion: 2022.
Construction Update: 1 Eagle Street - Eagle + West
Southeast corner of Block D from West Street.
Exterior wall installation is wrapping up at Greenpoint Landing’s fourth market rate site at Block D, a two tower development by Brookfield Properties that will offer 745 residential rental units. Designed by Jason Long of OMA New York, the 30 and 40-story towers feature a massing that recalls a ziggurat and its inverse.
Southeast corner of Block D.
The form of the taller southwest tower features four inverted cantilever phases on the 14th, 21st, 28th, and 36th floor that extend the cantilever to a total of 50 feet from the base structure to the top floors. At each cantilevered phase, engineered steel truss platforms were installed to support and take the load of the cantilever during construction. Once the platforms are removed, the cantilevered slabs are supported by sloping columns designed to transfer the load back to the structure and hung columns reinforced with multi strand post tension to support the structure suspended from above, like a suspension bridge. The post tension multi strand reinforcing, protected by plastic sleeves, is pulled at the top of each column to bring them into tension to support the cantilever.
The top structure of the southwest tower.
Close-up of the precast facade panels on the south facade of both towers.
Precast concrete panels with 8 foot square windows clad the towers and feature angled planes that change orientation with each block of setbacks and cantilevers.
Close-up of the precast facade panels.
The two towers are linked by a bridge that contains a pool and fitness center with Manhattan skyline views.
Looking up at the north facades of Block D.
Northwest corner of Block D.
Architect: OMA New York with Beyer Blinder Belle; Structural Engineer: DeSimone Consulting Engineers; MEP and LEED: Cosentini Associates; Facade: Thornton Tomasetti; Waterfront Landscape Architect: James Corner Field Operations; Interior and Landscape Architect: Marmol Radziner; Concrete: Highbury Concrete; Developers: Brookfield Property Partners, Park Tower Group; Program: Residential, Retail, Park; Location: Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2022.
Construction Update: 4 Hudson Square - Disney NYC Headquarters
Northeast corner from Varick Street.
Facade installation is underway at The Walt Disney Company’s 22-story New York headquarters at 4 Hudson Square in Lower Manhattan. Designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM), the full block development features a massing with setbacks that afford terraces for employees and two towers. In total, the development will include 1.2 million gross square feet with floor plates up to 85,000 square feet.
Close-up of the terra-cotta and glass facade at the northeast corner.
In dialog with the neighborhood’s masonry and stone material palette, the development features a facade of double- and triple-columned green terracotta panels, large picture windows, and bronze toned metal accents.
Northeast corner from Vandam Street.
Northwest corner from Hudson Street.
West office lobby entrance.
Close-up of the facade at the west office lobby entrance.
Looking up at the west facade from Hudson Street.
Southwest corner from Hudson Street.
Architect: Skidmore Owings & Merrill; Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti; MEP Engineer: Jaros, Baum & Bolles; Facade Consultant: R.A. Heintges & Associates; Client: The Walt Disney Company; Program: Office, Retail; Location: Hudson Square, New York, NY; Completion: 2023.
Amant Foundation
SO-IL · East Williamsburg · 2022
Southeast corner of 315 Maujer Street.
Construction has wrapped up at Amant Foundation’s art campus in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Designed by Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg of SO-IL, the campus spreads across four structures connected by courtyards and thoroughfares.
315 Maujer Street
Clad in white bricks that rotate around the structure and a continuous band of aluminum louvers at the top, 315 Maujer Street houses gallery spaces and offices.
South facade of 315 Maujer Street.
East facade of 315 Maujer Street.
Close-up of the southwest corner of 315 Maujer Street.
932 Grand Street
An existing marble shop has been converted into 2,000 SF of gallery space and a cafe/bookstore with a new facade of scored clay brick and semi-open galvanized steel channels.
North facade of 932 Grand Street.
306 Maujer Street
Two textured concrete volumes at 306 Maujer Street house the studios and library for the artist residency program and Geza, the 1800 SF multifunction space dedicated to live events.
North facade of 306 Maujer Street.
Architect: SO-IL; Client: Amant Foundation; Program: Galleries, Bookstore, Cafe, Performance Space, Artist Studios; Location: East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: First Half 2021.
Construction Update: 450 Warren
Northwest corner from Bond Street.
At the corner of Warren and Bond Street in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill neighborhood, construction is nearing completion on an 18 unit condo building 450 Warren from Brooklyn-based developer Tankhouse. Led by partners Sam Alison-Mayne and Sebastian Mendez, the firm tapped Brooklyn based designers Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg of SO-IL to craft a building that promotes light, air, outdoor space, and privacy in a clustered massing.
Northwest corner.
Sustainability serves as a key design element of the project, influencing decisions from the outdoor spaces, exterior wall, and interiors. The exterior wall features a green-toned concrete block and large windows with operables that allow for natural ventilation. Along with private terraces, the project also features a central atrium and two courtyard gardens with native plants maintained by a passive irrigation system.
West facade from Bond Street.
Residents will also have access to amenities that include a coworking lounge, boutique gym, pet wash, bicycle storage, and onsite parking.
Close-up of the concrete block facade.
Southwest corner from Bond Street.
Southwest corner from Bond Street.
Southeast corner.
Design Architect: SO-IL; Architect of Record: Kane Architecture and Urban Design; Structural Engineer: Silman; MEPS Engineer: ABS Engineering; Landscape Design: Gowns Canal Conservancy and Brooklyn Grange; Developer: Tankhouse; Program: Residential Condo; Location: Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2022.
Construction Update: 212 West 93rd Street
North facade.
Construction is wrapping up at Landsea Homes and Leyton Properties’ boutique residential condo building 212 West 93rd Street on the Upper West Side. The 14-story, 20-unit condo building is the first ground-up development in Manhattan for Landsea Homes, a California-based homebuilding company. Along with the residential program, the building will be the new home for the Shaare Zedek synagogue at the first two floors and the lower level.
Looking up at the north facade from West 93rd Street.
Design of the development is led by ODA New York and features their signature deconstructed facade driven by each home’s influence on the structural form. The facade strategically erodes or expands outward to accommodate private outdoor space for most units.
Facade detail.
Northeast corner.
Amenities will include a landscaped rooftop terrace, fitness studio, children’s playroom, pet spa, private storage, and bike storage.
View south towards the Upper West Side and Hudson Yards from the rooftop terrace.
Fitness studio.
Interiors of the one-to-four bedroom units are designed by GRADE New York and feature wood-clad windows looking out onto the outdoor terraces created by the eroded massing. Kitchens feature custom-stained rift cut oak and Ghiaccio grey lacquer cabinets, high-honed Volakas marble countertop and backsplash, an island with matching marble countertop, Miele appliances, and Grohe faucet. Bathrooms feature Italian Lymra Limestone floors, countertops, and tub surrounds.
Architect: ODA New York; Interiors: GRADE New York; Developer: Landsea Homes and Leyton Properties; Program: Residential Condo; Location: Upper West Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2022.
Construction Update: 2420 Amsterdam Avenue - Radio Tower and Hotel
Southeast corner from Amsterdam Avenue.
Facade installation is nearing completion at Youngwoo and Associates’ 22-story mixed use development the Radio Tower and Hotel in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. Designed by Dutch architecture firm MVRDV, the 235,000 square foot project combines hotel and retail program at the base and an office tower above in an asymmetrical stack of boxes. This is the firm’s first major US project.
Each of the development’s program volumes are designed to reflect the scale of nearby buildings and feature a variety of window sizes that also draw on the variety of the surrounding context. Ceramic bricks clad the boxes, with a different color selected for each volume.
Looking up at the east facade from Amsterdam Avenue.
East facade from Amsterdam Avenue.
Northeast corner from the Washington Bridge.
Northeast corner from Amsterdam Avenue.
Northeast corner from Amsterdam Avenue.
Architect: MVRDV (Design Architect), Stonehill & Taylor Architects (Executive Architect); Interior Design: Workshop/APD; Structural Engineer: GACE Consulting Engineers; Building Systems: Cosentini Associates; Developer: YoungWoo & Associates; Program: Hotel, Offices, Cultural, Restaurant; Location: Washington Heights, New York, NY; Completion: 2022.
