Reply With QuoteA ship's portholes are relentlessly and judiciously spaced --and never in a surface scored to look like (of all things!) masonry.
aaarrrrrrrr!!!
A ship's portholes are relentlessly and judiciously spaced --and never in a surface scored to look like (of all things!) masonry.
A bit more in this post.
That seaman's dorm looks rather spartan and uninviting, but very clean. Nice view, though.
Poor Ledner! All his New York stuff is getting trashed at the same time.
Landmarks if I ever saw one. Problem is, they're in the currently unpopular style that also resulted in 2 Columbus Circle's recladding.
Larger rendering of the "Dream Hotel" by Spine 3-D
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/spine3d/3400455650/]Spine 3D
That ^ looks fantastic.
Website for Gavin Associates has a Case Study with images of the windows in production, but the 'click to enlarge' feature for the photos doesn't work
Here's one little pic:
This new facade certainly will be better than the silly street-levle "stage set' facde that went up along West 17th in the 90's ...
Some pics of the building from the '60s HERE (pdf)On West 17th, a Little Bit More of West 17th
NY TIMES
August 11, 1996
A stark white building in Chelsea whose porthole-like window design was adopted by its former owners, a maritime union, to evoke links to the sea is being given a partial new face, a sort of 20-foot-high stage set designed to link it visually with its neighbors.
Finishing touches were being made last week to the new face of the building at 346 West 17th Street, now owned by Covenant House and used as a dormitory and classroom facility for its programs with adolescents. The design is that of a row of two-story buildings, each in a different color brickface applied to stucco, and including doors, window treatments, sills and cornices.
The only other times Tom Lukas, the project's crew leader from Garden State Brickface Century 21 Home Improvements, could recall doing similar jobs were for movie sets of Spike Lee's ''Malcolm X'' in St. Albans, Queens, and Woody Allen's ''Purple Rose of Cairo'' in Piermont, N.Y.
''It's an attempt to make the building welcoming and warmer,'' said James J. Harnett, executive vice president of Covenant House ...
Curbed
I'm sure it's great from the inside and the ground level will be better with windows, but I personally hate the new window placement on the facade. The regular spacing was so much more attractive.
Connection to its name is gone.
Swissotel?
Construction Watch: Dream Downtown Starts to Shine
October 26, 2009, by Pete
Round Dream holes above West 17th.
Has the nightmare for Vikram Chatwal, developer of the string of Dream Hotels, come to an end? Recently things have started to look brighter over at 346 West 17th Street in Chelsea/MePa North, where Chatwal's Dream Downtown Hotel has started to bubble up and shine. For a few months over the summer this one looked to be stalled and anything but a dream.
Now, from the High Line a few blocks to the west, the uppermost orbit of round windows newly-framed in stainless steel can be seen shimmering against the sky. But there's still no mention of this one on the Chatwal Hotel Collection website. Whether this a Chatwal chimera or something certain still remains to be seen.
Construction Watch: Round & Round at the Dream Downtown [Curbed]
http://curbed.com/archives/2009/10/2...s_to_shine.php
Too cheesy.Originally Posted by ZippyTheChimp
Meatpacking District Building's Swiss Cheese Makeover Complete
September 2, 2010, by Joey
The slow reveal of the facade makeover of the upcoming Dream Downtown Hotel is complete, and Holey Sant! Sant Singh Chatwal that is, who, along with his son, Vikram, is behind the conversion of this former homeless shelter to a luxury boutique hotel. The building, at 346 West 17th Street, used to have a more simple porthole pattern reminiscent of the nearby Maritime Hotel and the endangered O'Toole Building. All three were designed by architect Albert Ledner, who must have dressed as sailor by his mom when he was little. Writes our tipster, "Looks pretty awesome, especially with the sun setting over the west." The Wall Street Journal just profiled the Chatwals, and reported that the 316-room Dream will open in early 2011.
Survivor Stands on Verge of a Grand New Expansion [WSJ]
Dream Downtown Hotel coverage [Curbed]
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2010/0...plete.php#more
This came out pretty nice. The 16th Street facade is even better --bigger holes. Not too many good pics of this around though since its tucked on a side streets.
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http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com...own-dream.html
Friday, May 7, 2010
Downtown Dream
The Downtown Dream Hotel is getting skinned in quilted, robot-silver sheet metal.
http://jameswagner.com/2010/08/dream...own_hotel.html
Have they uncovered the entire 16th Street side?
I think so. I really can't remember. It was late, I was drunk so maybe I imagined it all.
But it was revealed enough to see how it differs from the 17th Street side.
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