The Standard Hotel - 848 Washington Street - by Polshek Partnership Architects

[philvia]

every time i see pictures of the high line, i get so excited for some reason lmao.. its a great project!

[ZippyTheChimp]

I think it looks great.

Fits the neighborhood.

[MidtownGuy]

[The Benniest]

I love this building! The windows have a really cool design.

Thanks for posting these pictures MidtownGuy.

[BrooklynLove]

agreed. this is a success story.

[ZippyTheChimp]

[The Benniest]

I'm amazed at that glass and the window design. It's great!

Thank you as well for the pictures Zippy.

[ablarc]

Corbu lives.

[Luca]

Re, the Corbusier comment, given the likely hipster / hollywood crowd, could they call it:

"Unite' de Rehabilitasion" ?

This may not mean much from a staunchly anti-'modernist' know-nothing like me but...

I don't dislike the windows, as far as they go, but I find the 'inflected' facade (Is it the facade? who can tell? ) a really clumsy handling of volumes/mass. Much, much prefer the 'old' unilever building.

What do you guys think about the big-ass concrete piers? A bit lithic, non?

[kz1000ps]

Saturday:

[MidtownGuy]

[NYC4Life]

Those columns remind me of the base at Citigroup Center.

[Fabrizio]

This is very me. Looks like Milan.

Or a hotel built especially for the crowds coming to the 1964 World's Fair.

[ablarc]

Late Brutalism.

[Citytect]

I can't tell from the photos. Is that white brick or painted concrete? Either way, I think the raw material looked better.