In the wake of the public reception (friendly and otherwise) of their Astor Place "Sculpture for Living" condo at 445 Lafayette Street, Gwathmey Siegel have a number of noteworthy residential projects in the works around New York. At right is a rendering of their Gramercy/Union Square area condominium now going up at 240 Park Avenue South. The 17-story tower at the northwest corner of 19th Street is being developed by Yitzchak Tessler and will have 52 loft style apartments with 11-foot ceilings. Four penthouses will have 18-foot ceilings. The limestone clad apartment tower will have a curved corner for views down the avenue. Windows will be large multi-pane squares that echo the surrounding pre-war commercial buildings. After the jump, an update on more in the works from Gwathmey Siegel in SoHo, Chelsea, and lower Manhattan.
- For a vacant site at 400 Fifth Avenue in midtown Gwathmey Siegel is working on a design for a large hotel and residential condominium. A similar project for this site was once being designed by SOM, but the property has since changed hands. With a shortage of hotel rooms in Manhattan, this would be a welcome addition from a planning point of view. You can view images of the concept at the Gwathmey site linked below.
- A residential condominium at 311 West Broadway has been in the works for a long time now. This is currently a thru-block parking lot across the street from the SoHo Grand. The last we heard this project combined a condo structure on West Broadway with townhouses on Wooster. UPDATE: You can now see this project at this link.
- The controversial plan to replace the Superior Ink factory at West Street and Bethune in the far West Village also includes a tower (since scaled down) with townhouses. We recently walked by this site and have seen no activity yet. Is Related rethinking the market in the wake of slow sales at the Astor Place project? UPDATE: Related has now turned to Robert A.M. Stern to design this project.
- The firm is also working on another large hotel and residential condo tower for 123 Washington Street, a site south of Ground Zero in lower Manhattan.
- Finally, in our earlier post about the projects planned near the new High Line Park in West Chelsea, we noted that the owners of Chelsea Market were exploring adding a residential portion on the roof of that large complex. On the Gwathmey Siegel web site you can view a massing study and concept rendering of the project that reveals a striking wedge-shaped tower that rises out of the center of Chelsea Market supported by a dramatic steel base. The image also seems to indicate an addition planned for the commercial building just to the south that houses Phillips auction house and Milk Studios.
- Gwathmey Siegel web site (click New Projects to view images)
