Tower growing at Cooper Square.Now rising on one of the most prominent undeveloped sites in Manhattan is a 20-story luxury residential condominium building, designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects. Created for The Related Companies, it will occupy the long-vacant parking lot site at Astor Place and mark a major, historic gateway to lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North , Greenwich Village Greenwich Village (grĕn`ĭch), residential district of lower Manhattan, New York City, extending S from 14th St. to Houston St. and W from Washington Square to the Hudson River. and the East Village. The building's two-story base, which maintains the historic street facades of Layfayette Street, Astor Place and Cooper Place, will offer 13,000 s/f of retail and gallery space and provide the lobby for an 18-story luxury condominium tower. Conforming to zoning requirements, the base will offer a pedestrian street wall on three sides, giving definition to the large, open, triangular space The triangular space contains the scapular circumflex vessels.[1] It is bounded by the Teres minor superiorly, the Teres major inferiorly, and the long head of the Triceps laterally. it fronts. According to Gwathmey Siegel principal Charles Gwathmey, "the sculpted sculpt v. sculpt·ed, sculpt·ing, sculpts v.tr. 1. To sculpture (an object). 2. To shape, mold, or fashion especially with artistry or precision: tower will introduce a distinct object, in counterpoint to the surrounding masonry context." Ismael Leyva Architects is the executive architect for the project. The 140,000 s/f building, named Astor Place, will rise at the intersection of Fourth Avenue, Lafayette Street and Astor Place--a striking 21st century form among the 19th century landmark buildings which are its neighbors. Rather than have the tower abut To reach; to touch. To touch at the end; be contiguous; join at a border or boundary; terminate on; end at; border on; reach or touch with an end. The term abutting implies a closer proximity than the term adjacent. the buildings behind it, the architects have introduced a 4,500 s/f landscaped plaza, which reinforces the object quality of the tower and provides a visual link between Lafayette Street and Cooper Square. The tower is actually a vertical sequence of serpentine and rectilinear rec·ti·lin·e·ar adj. Moving in, consisting of, bounded by, or characterized by a straight line or lines: following a rectilinear path; rectilinear patterns in wallpaper. forms that rise out of one another. A glass curtain wall forms the skin of the curvilinear curvilinear a line appearing as a curve; nonlinear. curvilinear regression see curvilinear regression. portions, with the rectilinear portion clad with a grid of zinc and glass and the base composed of limestone and glass. Astor Place will offer 40 apartments, ranging in size from one- to three bedrooms, with the curved window wall offering panoramic views of Manhattan. The 4,500 s/f plaza, open to the public from Cooper Square, will accommodate public seating alongside a raised landscaped buffer, providing a visual separation from the residential tower entry on Lafayette Street. It will also provide a visual terminus to the Seventh Street view corridor and a spatial extension to Cooper Park. The project will enhance one of the significant open spaces in the Greenwich Village area. |
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