'Skid Row' transformation.Instead of the bloodthirsty blood·thirst·y adj. 1. Eager to shed blood. 2. Characterized by great carnage. blood gangs of Five Points, competing architects are strutting their stuff on Skid Row skid row a run-down area frequented by alcoholics. [Am. Culture: Misc.] See : Alcoholism Skid Row district of down-and-outs and bums. [Am. Usage: Brewer Dictionary, 1008] See : Failure and creating a radical transformation of the once blighted Bowery on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Leading the pack is Meltzer/Mandl Architects, whose award-winning design for 57 Bond Street is turning heads as the Bowery is now being associated with modern architecture and million-dollar homes. The 27,560-s./f building, designed for developer Alchemy Properties, is a mid-rise, minimalist-style residential tower with two main setbacks. A low stone wall with round columns runs along the Bond Street front; its traditional material and human scale firmly fixing the project in the neighborhood's low- and mid-rise tradition. To bring the building into the 21st century, Marvin Meltzer designed a gently curving aluminum and glass facade for the upper floors. He chose Alucobond, a light composite material composite material or composite, any material made from at least two discrete substances, such as concrete. Many materials are produced as composites, such as the fiberglass-reinforced plastics used for automobile bodies and boat hulls, but the that consists of two aluminum cover sheets and a core made of plastic. This simple but versatile product is stable and flexible, is weather-resistant, unbreakable, shock-resistant and vibration absorbent absorbent /ab·sor·bent/ (-sor´bent) 1. able to take in, or suck up and incorporate. 2. a tissue structure involved in absorption. 3. a substance that absorbs or promotes absorption. . Meltzer's lobby interior features an arched wall with metal paneling in a luminous finish to match the building's exterior. To let in ample light, the ten loft residences were fitted with soaring 11-foot ceilings and large, 20-foot-long windows that overlook the Bowery to the South. Two residences have wood-burning fireplaces. For outdoor living, each loft has a balcony or terrace, and the two penthouse residences feature rooftop terraces. A wall of polished wood conceals the outdoor lighting in the 1,000-s/f common rooftop area. The six-story project also contains 7,800 s/f of street-front retail space. Other notable design projects soon to come to the Bowery include the New Museum of Contemporary Art This article is about New Museum of Contemporary Art. For other Museums named Museum of Contemporary Art, see Museum of Contemporary Art. The New Museum of Contemporary Art and a boutique hotel Boutique hotel is a term originating in North America to describe intimate, usually luxurious or quirky hotel environments. Boutique hotels differentiate themselves from larger chain/branded hotels and motels by providing personalized level accommodation and services / facilities. . The museum will be a boxy box·y adj. box·i·er, box·i·est Resembling a box, especially in simplicity or rectangularity. box  i·ness n. , minimalist, seven-story building by Kazuyo Sejima of Saana, a Tokyo-based architecture firm. The 97-room boutique hotel will have a rooftop swimming pool and cater to fashion designers and denizens of the art world.
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