Reply With QuoteIf the Tourraine has nice limestone, it could be a mini-1 CPW.
The architect is H. Thomas O'Hara (IA Interior website says, not surprisingly, that they specialize only in interiors). Odd choice as they seem to do mainly corporate interiors. But after a second look at this place, that's fitting.
The Schedule A shows 2 units on 2nd Floor, 3 units on 3rd-4th, 2 units on 5th-11th, 1 on each at 12th & 13th, and a duplex on 14th-15th.
The building plot measures 80' x 51' so floors will be max ~ 4,000 sf.
Toll Brothers website shows: Anticipated Opening: Spring 2011
If the Tourraine has nice limestone, it could be a mini-1 CPW.
Nice looking building: big windows, without resorting to floor-to-ceiling glass is a great feature for optimal views/light plus a sense of enclosure .Originally Posted by Tectonic
The classic elements on the facade are very pretty and will be a big selling point for fans of 'traditional' architecture.
This 'classic yet modern' approach has proven to be a winning formula, as with One CPW, and was a smart 'RE development strategy' by the Toll Brothers.
The use of 'interior architecture' specialists is another wise choice: as buyers are always more concerned with the quality of the apartment 'interiors' than they are with the 'curb appeal'.
So, that being said, if this new 'residential development' does not yet have it's own thread; no doubt someone will surely start one soon.
^ I feel like I just read a 'Zagat' review. Perhaps you can 'recommend' a 'nice' restaurant where 'entrees' aren't 'overly pricey'.
500 West 23rd Street.
I noticed recently that this 'new construction' condo building is nearing completion. In addition to the large multi-paned windows, the facade is made of cast-in-place concrete. There are subtle textured patterns on the concrete that must have come from the 'formwork' panels - this is something I have not seen done before on any other building.
This type of subtle pattern 'impression' in cast concrete is similar to the technique used sometimes by the architect I.M.Pei; he would have the wet concrete continually vibrated so much that 'wood-grain' bas relief patterns from the plywood forms would appear in the finished product.
Another interesting feature is that the entrance this building is only a few feet away from the glass enclosed elevator shaft that take people up to the highline.
http://ny.curbed.com/tags/500-west-23rd-street
113 Nassau Street, 28 Stories: http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/Wo...87&requestid=2
Is there a thread for this? Renderings?
None that I can find : a thread, photos, ect on this new building would be great.
Ok. Lofter?
Okie doke ...
Check the thread at 21 ANN STREET for my update.
Is this the site of a new 'manhattan residential development' by any chance: this building is now being completely demolished. Any news on the plans for this site?
I am referring to the 'brown boxy looking' building on the north/west corner
http://www.google.com/maps?q=corner ...=0CCoQ8wEoBTAA
Covered in White Brick, and Showing Their Age
By DIANE CARDWELL
Repairs to the exterior of 2 Fifth Avenue are part of a planned $31 million renovation there.
Over the decades, white brick buildings — those wedding-cake-shape stalwarts of postwar living — have fallen out of favor and in again among residents, architects and preservationists. Now some of them are falling apart.
Built in New York in the 1950s and ’60s, the buildings were part of the answer to the housing shortage touched off by returning veterans of World War II; the white glazed brick was supposed to make them look like beacons of clean, shiny modernism in the midst of the dirty city.
“Going back to the Woodstock era and the Age of Aquarius, an architect came up with this idea of a self-cleaning building where the rain would wash down this slick glazed brick and clean the facades,” said Howard L. Zimmerman, an architect with experience in restoring white brick.
In addition, the glazed bricks were supposed to keep the inner walls dry, repelling the moisture as it slid down the face.
But things have not quite worked out that way. Water inevitably seeped in — whether through the porous mortar joints between every brick or from behind — and became trapped, prevented by the glaze from quickly evaporating. Then, with the freeze-and-thaw cycles of winter, the water would expand, putting pressure on the glaze, causing cracks and overall deterioration.
“This was actually a ploy to make the buildings quote-unquote more waterproof, and it’s backfired big time,” said Jon Colatrella, the survey team leader at Rand Engineering and Architecture.
“Once that moisture gets trapped in between those two materials, essentially it freezes over time and it just starts to spall and pop and crack that front face right off.”
This pattern has plagued dozens of buildings in the city — some of them subject to landmark protection, like 900 Fifth Avenue, which replaced its facade about three years ago. And it threatens many more, like 2 Fifth Avenue, which has been struggling over a renovation now estimated at almost $31 million. That figure also includes other repairs and is resulting in an assessment of $125 per share, or $100,000 on average, from its shareholders.
“You probably have a dozen or so glazed-brick buildings that have been reskinned in the past 10 years,” meaning the bricks have been entirely replaced, said Mr. Zimmerman, who oversaw the restoration of the Pavilion, a behemoth on East 77th Street with its own ZIP code. “Over the next 10 years, I’m sure you’ll have another two dozen buildings because the older an original glazed-brick building gets from the 1960s, the older, more fatigued, more porous the building gets.”
At a certain point, after spending money on spot replacements and maintenance, he and other experts said, buildings are likely to decide simply to replace every brick with a more durable alternative. Mr. Colatrella estimated that such a job would run roughly $6 million to $8 million for a 20- to 25-story building.
There has been a recent appreciation for the white brick building — for example, the Landmarks Preservation Commission granted Manhattan House on East 66th Street, considered to be the standard-bearer of the form, individual landmark status in 2007. But mainly it has been seen as an architectural stepchild, associated with fast and cheap construction for the middle class rather than the elite, in a boxy, unadorned style.
Some see that status captured in the color of the brick itself; faced with maintenance issues, some buildings have even replaced their white bricks with red because of the perception among brokers that apartments in red brick buildings are more valuable. But Jonathan J. Miller, president of the appraisal firm Miller Samuel, said that while there was generally a 12 percent to 15 percent premium for prewar over postwar, there was no appreciable difference in value between the colors of brick, whether white, red, gray, pink, yellow or blue.
Others have chosen or been required to keep the color constant. At the Pavilion, which has needed only some of its bricks replaced, the owner, Glenwood, decided to use glazed brick to maintain the historic accuracy of its look, committing to constant vigilance over the condition of the millions of bricks there, Mr. Zimmerman said.
At 900 Fifth Avenue, where shareholders had wanted to use a gray or buff-colored brick, the landmarks commission insisted on white, but approved a brick that was flecked with black and slip coated, which mimics the smooth face of the original facade without dooming the building to more water damage.
At 2 Fifth Avenue, a repair project has just begun. Clay-face brick is to be used to fix troubles that surfaced in 2009 and resulted in the election of a new board. Most of the shareholders are able to pay their assessments upfront, said David Piscuskas and Phil Coltoff, members of the board; others have been given three years, while about 20 families are being given 10 years.
The high cost of the renovation — which Mr. Piscuskas and Mr. Coltoff said their group had brought down to $31 million from about $38 million — is due in part to the need to repair terraces and internal drains, replace roofs and add supports for the brick face at every floor, in addition to other upgrades. But replacing the facade, which generally involves destroying the original brick with small hand-held hammer drills, is not an insignificant part of the budget.
And even a small job can strain a building’s finances.
“Even if it’s, say, a $2.5 million job,” said Steven D. Sladkus, a real estate lawyer, “a good number of buildings just don’t have that cash lying around in a capital reserve fund to plunk down to reskin a building. If the time is up for a lot of these white brick buildings, there are going to be assessments galore.”
http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showth...l=1#post325089
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/ny...1&ref=nyregion
124 W 23 St.
16 stories
BKSK Architects
Not sure there's a separate thread for this, but here's that first building the city is putting up as in-fill on some public housing parking. It's at 25th and 9th ave.
Looks like affordable housing.
Then again many H. Thomas O' Hara designed luxury buildings look exactly the same.
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