Greenwich St. to have 22-story building.Manhattan's lower west side will soon have an unconventional, 22-unit apartment building designed by a Dutch architect. 497 Greenwich Street will have a 10,000 SF glass facade, but the design leaves room for an historical flourish. The building will be located right off of Spring Street, on Greenwich Street's western edge. Renderings of the building show an unusual mixture of steel and glass overhanging an existing six-floor building. A small crease crease (kres) a line or slight linear depression. flexion crease , palmar crease rising between the two structures juxtaposes the old and the new. In order to build this, developer Jonathan Carroll had to tweak To make minor adjustments in an electronic system or in a software program in order to improve performance. See calibrate. 1. tweak - To change slightly, usually in reference to a value. Also used synonymously with twiddle. the building code. It is Carroll's first project as a developer. "We had to make some compromises on the height of the building here. All along, however, we have been realistic about the neighborhood and its residents' concerns," said British-born Carroll, formerly a fixed income trader in London. The building will host residential and retail space, said Carroll. An art gallery may occupy some of this retail space. "We set out to integrate the old with the new here," said architect Winka Dubbeldam. The six-story warehouse was originally built in 1908. It will be completely redesigned to mirror the aesthetic of its new counterpart, said Dubbeldam. The 135-foot-tall facade of the building was crafted from a custom-made sheet of blue-green glass. This sheet folds in three directions. This folding curtain wall curtain wall Nonbearing wall of glass, metal, or masonry attached to a building's exterior structural frame. After World War II, low energy costs gave impetus to the concept of the tall building as a glass prism, an idea originally put forth by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies will satisfy the set-back criteria established by the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. zoning code. For the residents, these set back intervals will hold terraces looking west over the Hudson River Hudson River River, New York, U.S. Originating in the Adirondack Mountains and flowing for about 315 mi (507 km) to New York City, it was named for Henry Hudson, who explored it in 1609. Dutch settlement of the Hudson valley began in 1629. . "This building has the incredible thing that you overlook the river, and the fact that the street has this sort of serene quality didn't make it a necessity to build the facade as a barrier," said Dubbeldam. This building will be close to the site where a doomed Philip Johnson See Phillip Johnson for others with a similar name Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906– January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect. With his thick, round-framed glasses, Johnson was the most recognizable figure in American architecture for decades. designed condominium condominium In modern property law, individual ownership of one dwelling unit within a multidwelling building. Unit owners have undivided ownership interest in the land and those portions of the building shared in common. project. Neighborhood opposition shot down that project, backed by would-be developer Nino Vendome. |
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