Update: Lofts at 158 Madison
We wrote about the fate of Andy Warhol's 33rd Street Factory some time ago here. The former Con-Ed substation had sat vacant for at least 10 years. The three-sided T-shape of the lot seems to have puzzled developers until recently. Joseph Sitt and Andrew Heiberger are now transforming the idle site into 50 luxury lofts marketed as the Sundari Lofts & Tower. Ismael Leyva Architects has designed thin glass towers to fill in the site's three sides, using a zen garden with waterfall as a central axis point. Many units will have balconies or outdoor space, and a 58-foot lap pool will be among the amenities. What's interesting to us is how the property is being filled-in from three different directions: a sliver on Madison Avenue, a shorter loft building on 33rd Street, and another sliver on 32nd Street. You can rotate a sectional diagram of the project at the Sundari web site. Below the fold is a rendering of the garden and a diagram of the property-line orientation.
