Soffes wood architecture to design two bank branches. (Banking).Soffes Wood Architecture & Interiors has been commissioned to design two new branch offices for North Fork Bank North Fork Bank was an American bank headquartered in Melville, New York purchased by Capital One at the end of 2006 for $14.6 billion U.S. dollars. It was only the second bank bought by Capital One, and was the larger of two acquisitions comprising Capital One's 2005-06 expansion . The spaces are both in Soho. One is at 594 Broadway, just south of Houston Street, where the 1,650-SF space is being designed as a business branch. Memo The other, which is at 200 Lafayette St. at the corner of Broome Street and across from tiny Lt. Petrosino Park, will serve as a retail and business branch and is approximately 4,200 SF. Although the two sites are technically only five blocks apart, they are in distinctively different parts of Soho. With its large, national retailers and landmark shops like Dean & DeLuca and Canal Jeans, Broadway is a major tourist thoroughfare THOROUGHFARE. A street or way so open that one can go through and get out of it without returning. It differs from a cul de sac, (q.v.) which is open only at one end. 2. Whether a street which is not a thoroughfare is a highway, seems not fully settled. for shopping and strolling. The corner of Lafayette and Broome Streets, on the other hand, is a quieter yet trendy corner at which residents of nearby Chinatown, Nolita and Little Italy
Little Italy is a general name for an ethnic enclave populated primarily by Italians or people of Italian ancestry, usually in an urban neighborhood. mingle with curious tourists, and neighbors include new media, graphic, architectural and interior design offices, light manufacturing and small, high-style shops. North Fork's forward-looking approach to discovering new, underserved markets is evidenced by the choice of the Lafayette Street location. Consistent with North Fork North Fork, river, c.100 mi (160 km) long, rising in the Ozarks, S Mo., and flowing S, into N Ark., to the White River. Near its mouth is Norfolk Dam (completed 1944), which impounds Norfolk Lake and has a power plant. Bank's site-specific approach to design, Eliot Soffes and Jim Wood Jim Wood may refer to:
594 Broadway has been designated a landmark by federal, state and city agencies. Accordingly, Soffes Wood is working with the NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission to establish an appropriate identity for the bank at this location. At other North Fork branches, Soffes and Wood have successfully integrated photography and fine art into the interiors. Both new offices will open this year. Soffes Wood Architects and Interiors is a medium-sized Manhattan firm that has designed eight other North Fork branches. Its diverse client base includes banks, restaurants, retail, multi-family projects and high-end private residences. North Fork Bank, based in Melville, NY, is the sixth-largest bank in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and one of the fastest-growing banks in the country. |
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