We promised to update you on Philip Johnson's last building, a posthumous condo project at 330 Spring Street at the western edge of SoHo that we first wrote about here. The 12-story 40 unit structure will be marketed as "The Urban Glass House," apparently a reference to Johnson's intention before he died to reinterpret his New Canaan Glass House for a Manhattan setting. Although it seemed stalled at one point, a new partnership stepped in to purchase the project from its original developer and construction is now well under way, with completion expected in spring 2006. The Sunshine Group has been chosen to market the condos. At the future web site for the project (theurbanglasshouse.com) a splash page place holder boldly declares 
"Modernist luxury has evolved." The page also seems to reveal a kind of speak-to-the-dead collaboration between the ghost of Mr. Johnson and the very-much-living Annabelle Selldorf. Whether the talented Ms. Selldorf has reworked any of Johnson's original scheme or was brought in only to plan the interiors is unknown. Click through after the jump to view the original rendering of the Urban Glass House as once planned by Philip Johnson and Alan Ritchie.
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Madison Square
If you could create a new residential enclave anywhere in the world you would put it in the center of Manhattan, with a newly polished park of mature trees and lush lawns, with one of the best dog runs in New York, a renovated children's playground, and of course you would ring it with landmark structures just begging to be turned into lofts. Oh, and one more thing: you would also have Danny Meyer open three restaurants there. Welcome to Madison Square. Over the next few years as many as 700 new condo units could be created here. Click the jump to see the details.
