Reply With QuoteI know the one on Lex was built for sure a few years ago -- I think 555 was also constructed.
Ok anyone has any idea about this 2 buildings I found at http://www.slcearch.com/... I never seen these renderings before. They might have been built already but I am not sure. They both look fine. Here are the renderings:
555 West 59th Street:
1500 Lexington Avenue:
I know the one on Lex was built for sure a few years ago -- I think 555 was also constructed.
1500 Lex by the way is an awful building architecturally. It looks really cheap and crappy.
I was really dissapointed. It was a chance to make something wonderful in a crappy section (architecturally) of the base of Harlem and this building just added to the area's architectural blight.
Answer me this -- what is residential architecture's fascination with dark red brick? It looks so revolting. Is it cheaper? Does it make the building seem somehow higher class? What is it? ...sorry, I'll end my rant....
Thanks for that link, SLCE finally got a website. I'll post that other project in your UWS thread.Originally Posted by krulltime
I was going to say that Lexington Avenue Building looks awfully familiar. I pass it nearly every-day; it’s at the intersection of 96th and Lexington. The building seems modern enough, but in its negative connotations, it’s very much like high-rises being built in smaller cities, it’s no wonder that its construction is on the fringes of Harlem and the Upper East Side. I get the feeling that it’s somewhat of an exclusive club for the frat boys, the old biddies, and the yuppy scum, as it unofficially marks the start of the Upper East Side. Residents here scutter to their seclusive entrances and need not acknowledge Harlem, which their building only geographically stands above.
Also the abandoned building facing Lexington Avenue Makes the entire approach all the more ominous.
In NY, this is considered luxury now...
New luxury condos at 744 Greenwich Street in West Village 03-JAN-06
cityrealty.com
Construction has started on a very handsome, six-story, red-brick residential condominium apartment at 744 Greenwich Street between Perry and West 11th Streets in the West Village.
The project has been designed by BM Design Group for Barry Leistner and Christian Pompa, whose other projects include the Eagle Warehouse condominiums at 532 West 22nd Street and the condominium apartment building at 144 West 18th Street.
Mr. Leistner is also the developer of an 8-story building with 3 condominium apartments designed by Daniel Goldner Architects and planned for 163 Charles Street adjacent to one of the Richard Meier towers fronting on West Street, but a zoning dispute has halted work on the project.
The building at 744 Greenwich Street will be entered through handsome gates into a garden at the north side of the building, which will have large multipaned windows.
Leonard Steinberg of Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate told CityRealty.Com today that the development will have a triplex “townhouse” unit, three full-floor apartments and a duplex penthouse. One of the full-floor units is priced at $3,625,000 and has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,301 square feet.
The building’s elevator opens into its 48-foot-long living/dining room that has a gas fireplace. The Bulthaup kitchen has Sub Zero, Miele, and Fisher & Paykel appliances with Carrara marble counties. The apartment’s master bedroom has a 23-foot-long balcony and a windowed, limestone bathroom with radiant heated floors and a towel warmer.
The project is expected to be completed in early 2007.
Looks like the public schools I attended.
I feel like this project has been mentioned somewhere before, but I couldn't find a thread. From http://cityrealty.com:
New condo tower planned for 402 East 67th Street 03-JAN-06
Alexico Management has begun excavation work on the southeast corner of First Avenue and 67th Street for a luxury condominium apartment tower of about 30 stories designed by Costas Kondylis.
The project has the addresses of 402 East 67th Street and 1238 First Avenue.
Izak Senbahar and Simon Elias are the principals of Alexico. Mr. Senbahar’s other projects have included 165 Charles Street, which was designed by Richard Meier, and the Grand Beekman at 400 East 51st Street, which was designed by Mr. Kondylis.
The large site is just to the north of the handsome St. John Nepomucine Roman Catholic Church on the avenue and it is also across the avenue from the large St. Catherine’s Park that occupies about half of the block between 66th and 67th Streets and First and Second Avenues. St. John Nepomucine Church was erected in 1925 and designed by John Van Pelt in what Elliot Willensky and Norval White described in their fine book, “The A.I.A. Guide to New York City, Fourth Edition” (Three Rivers Press, 2000), as “A wonderfully romantic paen to the Romanesque style for a Slavic…congregration.”
A recent rendering of the tower, shown at the right, indicated a 7-story base with a setback tower clad with blue-gray glass, but a spokesman for Alexico told CityRealty.com today that plans were still being studied and were preliminary and that he could not comment on how many apartments it might contain.
It is on the former site of the Bethany Memorial Church (Reformed in America) that was built in 1910 and designed by Nelson & Van Wagenen.
New luxury condos at 744 Greenwich Street in West Village 03-JAN-06
cityrealty.com
What was on this site beforehand?
^ a little similar....
East 53rd Street building to be converted to condos
03-JAN-06
The six-story commercial loft building at 307-311 East 53rd Street has been sold for $15,450,000 to a buyer who plans to convert it residential condominiums in about 7 years when existing leases expire.
Built in 1886, the handsome, red-brick, mid-block building, which is between Second and First Avenues,
According to Clinton Olsen of Massey Knakal Realty Services, the broker in the transaction, lease expirations for the current four commercial tenants are staggered over the next seven years and include world-renowned wine distributor Fred Wildman and the bar Metro 53.
The transaction, he said, occurred at a capitalization rate of 4.72% and a gross rent multiple of 15.15. The property sold for $491.44 per square foot.
The fifth floor is now vacant and will become the New York offices of Miramar Properties, the buyer, which is based in Philadelphia, Mr. Olsen told CityRealty.com today.
The seller was the Mittman family.
The building contains about 31,438 square feet.
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It's too bad Metro is getting kicked out but I am very grateful that the building isn't being torn down for another "luxury" condo.
It'll be great to preserve this building. Whatever helps keep some of Turtle Bay's fabric I'm all for.
Park Avenue Condominiums
No clue about its status or where it is.
Park Avenue Condominiums
New York City
BM Design Group
http://www.bmdga.com/Projects_Layout...idential_3.htm
More details on new condo project in the East Village
04-JAN-06
Robert Kaliner of Magnum Management told CityRealty.com today that an offering plan for its new project at 421 East 13th Street will probably be submitted to the New York State Attorney General’s office next month.
He said that the eight story building will have about 90 condominium apartments, a 24-hour concierge, a health club with pool and cabanas on the roof. The building will have many balconies with glass railings.
He said that Cetra/Ruddy is the architect for the development and that it should be ready for occupancy in about a year.
The midblock site is between First Avenue and Avenue A in the East Village.
The property was acquired for $19,763,000, or about $295 a square foot, and preliminary designs have demonstrated the feasibility of an 89,023 square foot structure that uses more than 20,000 square feet of development rights that Magnum also acquired.
“The East Village has seen a surge in demand for high-end residential property and condos alike,” said Massey Knakal partner James Nelson, who exclusively represented the seller, Time Equities Inc., with Broker Michael Soleimani.
Mr. Nelson told CityRealty.Com today that the project will be “as-of-right,” that is, within existing zoning and building regulations.
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Looks like it is somewhere on Park Avenue South -- perhaps in the low thirties or high twenties.No clue about its status or where it is.
Park Avenue Condominiums
New York City
BM Design Group
http://www.bmdga.com/Projects_Layout...idential_3.htm
LCOR plans 37-story condo tower in Flower District
05-JAN-06
LCOR is planning to build a 37-story residential condominium tower on the west side of the Avenue of the Americas between 24th and 25th Streets.
The site is now occupied by a parking lot that had been used by Con Edison and a low-rise structure that will be demolished.
The new tower will contain 199 apartments.
It has been designed by SCLE Architects.
David Sigman, senior vice president of LCOR, told CityRealty.Com today that the project will have about 16,000-square feet of ground-floor retail space. He said ground should be broken for the project in about 60 days and that it should be completed next year.
Mr. Sigman said the development is “as-of-right,” that is, within existing zoning and building regulations.
He said that its address will be 101 West 24th Street and that it will have a roof deck and catering and entertainment facilities for the residents as well as a basketball court.
The new tower will have a five-story base and many balconies. The north and south ends of the tower will be gently curved and faced with a gray-tinted glass.
LCOR, whose corporate office is located in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, has about $8 billion in developments completed, under construction or in pre-development and has developed more than 20,000 residential units and more than 16 million square feet of commercial space nationally.
The new project will join a phalanx of apartment towers that have recently transformed the city’s former Flower District along the avenue in the heart of Chelsea. There is excellent public transportation in this area, which is close to the Flatiron District and Madison Square Park.
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