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1997 |
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completed |
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new york, ny |
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multi-unit residential |
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Client: Gotham Organization
Project Team: SAA - Interior Architecture and Design; SLCE - Building Architect
Project Type: New Construction - Rental
This midtown residential building caters to the younger generation’s views on design. The new facade and canopy at street level signal an extension of the urban event into the volume of the building and its lobby space. The traditional motif of the exterior monumental stair was shifted exclusively to the semipublic domain of the main lobby. The gesture declares the modern urban character of the interior, in the spirit of Marcel Breuer’s position with regard to the public character of the Whitney Museum lobby. The project established a high design standard for this New York neighborhood at the time of its completion. The lobby stair formally “peels off” the artificial skin of the city, allows the lobby to become a new levitated urban ground at the raised elevator bank, and extends the idea of the city plane all the way into the health club and other related functions.
This award-winning project uses light, materials, and various architectonic elements to activate space through a compositional strategy of constantly and systematically disconnecting volume and planes from one another.
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