NEW YORK | MID/LOW RISES | General Developments Updates/Compilation

[Busy Bee]

Originally Posted by chris08876

Project: 600 West 58th Street





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http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/02/rev...-by-durst.html

Why the hell would they build so short in a location like this? I suppose a positive benefit to a shorter building though is being able to see the awesome back profile of the Pyramid.

[chris08876]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

Why the hell would they build so short in a location like this? I suppose a positive benefit to a shorter building though is being able to see the awesome back profile of the Pyramid.

Yeah its kinda a missed opportunity. I would say possibly risk, but given all of the success of projects surrounding it with respect to pre-sales, eh, they short sighted themselves.

[chris08876]

Rendering for project revealed: 1515 Bedford Avenue (Info in original post link)

Original Post: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=303

The 1926 Neo-Classical structure was torn down last fall to make way for a 10-story, 114-unit apartment building.

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http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2015...crown-heights/

[chris08876]

This one somehow slipped the radar. Its topped out.
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Project: 616 Bushwick Avenue

The new building rising at 616 Bushwick Avenue — technically, a “horizontal addition” — has topped out. There will be seven stories, according to permits. Meanwhile, next door at the former St. Mark’s Lutheran School and Evangelical Church at 626 and 628 Bushwick Avenue, respectively, which developer Cayuga Capital Management is preserving, there have been some small changes visible from the street.

The former school at 626 Bushwick Avenue still appears to be a shell without windows, but some feet in from the outside a brick wall is visible, so a build-out could be taking place inside. Next door at the church at No. 628, the netting has come down from the top part of the spire, but the scaffolding is still in place.

Current Site:


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http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2015...plex-tops-out/

[chris08876]

Project: 308 North 7th Street

While a representative from developer Adam America Real Estate cautioned that the rendering is “very preliminary” and that “the building will look much different,” the rendering obtained by YIMBY depicts a dark-colored building with what appear to be rust-colored – perhaps Corten steel – accents around a dark façade, with triangular balconies jutting out from the building’s face. Daniel Bernstein’s Kutnicki Bernstein Architects is the designer.

According to the building permit application, the 38 apartments will be spread across 42,000 square feet of residential space, for an average unit size of 1,100 square feet. The relatively large apartments combined with the lack of through-wall air conditioning units and the overall hot Williamsburg market suggest to us that the apartments will be condos, not rentals.

The land sale was finally recorded with the city in January, after the permit was filed – an increasingly common occurrence nowadays, with builders anticipating an agonizing year-plus wait time at the Department of Buildings for approvals. The collection of industrial and commercial buildings sold for $18.25 million. Based on the rendering, it appears that the Meeker Street buildings will be retained, with their air rights used on North 7th.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/02/fir...liamsburg.html

[chris08876]

Project: 177 Harrison Avenue (Almost finished, slight interior work occurring)



Current Site:

The scaffolding has come down at 177 Harrison Avenue to reveal a nearly complete religious school in the Broadway Triangle area. The building, which will house Bais Ruchel High School for girls, is considerably more elaborate than the simple cement block apartment buildings common in the area, with big arched windows and bands of trim accenting red brick. It departs significantly from the rendering, however, which can be seen after the jump.

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http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2015...-frontpage-top

[Busy Bee]

Fercockt

[chris08876]

Project: 327 East 9th Street

Work continues on the north side of Ninth Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue, where back in 2012 the Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) OK'd rooftop additions for four of the buildings on this block.

The buildings were previously owned by Icon Realty, who sold them to Kushner companies in the spring of 2013. Kushner paid $28.75 million deal for 329-335 E. Ninth Street (and 325 E. 10th St.).

Councilmember Rosie Mendez and the Greenwich Village Society of Historical Preservation, among others, spoke out against the additions on this block. The BSA didn't seem to mind.

While we're on this block, you can see how the new building is (slowly) coming along at next door 327 E. Ninth St., the site of a former residential parking lot. We first reported on this six-story, two-unit residential building back in August 2012.

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http://evgrieve.com/2015/02/east-9th...arting-to.html

[chris08876]

Project: 91 Pennsylvania Avenue

One of New York City’s most important architects, Richard Upjohn, Jr., designed the bank, which was built in 1889 and occupies a full block on Atlantic between Pennsyvlania and New Jersey avenues, smack in the middle of the soon-to-be-rezoned East New York business district. The property was a Building of the Day last year.

An application for a new-building permit filed last week calls for a seven-story building with 121,000 square feet of space, as well as 153 parking spots. It will house “ambulatory diagnostic or treatment health care facilities,” according to schedule A filings. Udo Maron of Array Architects is the architect of record.

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Building Height (ft.): 87
Building Stories: 7

What will be replaced:



Current Site:



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http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/Jo...r=01&restore=1
http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2015...ical-mid-rise/
Extra Material: http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2015...-frontpage-top

[pico44]

Sometimes I come to this thread and am exhilarated by all the great low rise stuff going up that I don't see elsewhere on this site, but usually it just depresses the hell out of me.



SO



MUCH



CRAP


Regardless, thank you so much Chris for all your work.

[chris08876]

Yeah Brooklyn and Queens tend to just churn out a lot of generic and odd stuff. But hey, can't have winners all the time. Like this new project for example:

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Project: 14 Olive Street

We found this very interesting rendering on the fence at 14 Olive Street in East Williamsburg that seems to show an old stable and factory building — but it actually appears to be a controversial homeless shelter that will be nine stories tall! (Apologies for the not-very-clear photo — the rendering was posted high up on the fence.)

In front is what looks like a circa-1900 Brooklyn stable building, with a commercial or factory building from the early 20th century or even earlier rising behind it. (We’d say the building in the back almost looks like an Jacobean country house!)

A sign above the quaint stable-style door says “Joseph & Son Restoration Inc.” Our first thought was that a salvage-architectural-design firm was putting up a new commercial building in its working style. Googling revealed Joseph & Son Restoration may be a smoke damage repair service.

The site is currently an empty lot, and the new-building permit is for a nine-story, 30-unit dormitory or hotel. The second floor will house a “community facility” described as an “ambulatory diagnostic and treatment health care facility” on the Schedule A.

We don’t see any specific mention of what might be the smoke restoration business. (The first floor will include a “warehouse,” parking for six cars, a lobby, trash compactor room and janitor’s closet.) We’re wondering, though, if it might employ some formerly homeless people living at the facility? The owner listed on the permit is Jozef Birnbach and the architect of record is Victor Filletti.

There is a Facebook page dedicated to “stopping the proposed huge nine-story homeless shelter at 14 Olive Street,” in its words. The page has not been updated since 2013. A petition from the group raises concerns about a nearby church and school, among other things.

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http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2015...table-factory/
Some NIMBY propaganda: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1Z...BURHFQQUE/edit

Reading the list of NIMBY propaganda is always funny. Seems like all construction causes this and is apocalyptic.

[chris08876]

Possible general development (Business Campus) to keep track of
in the future.

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City Seeks Developer for Seven-Acre Parcel Near JFK Airport

The city is looking for a developer to purchase a fee interest or a long-term lease and then redevelop a seven-acre parcel along the south side of Rockaway Boulevard near John F. Kennedy International Airport.

“This is an ideal location for businesses that benefit from the proximity to JFK International Airport,” according to the New York City Economic Development Corp.‘s recent request for expressions of interest, or RFEI.

The city-owned irregularly-shaped vacant lot is bound to the north by Rockaway Boulevard, to the south by Nassau Expressway and to the west by the Federal Aviation Administration office building, in Springfield Gardens, Queens. The area is home to one of the air cargo industry’s largest concentrations of customs brokers and freight forwarders, other airport-related industrial facilities, residences and retail uses.

The request indicates that the site could be ideal for a “modern campus plan with industrial and/or commercial programming… The project also provides a unique opportunity to define the JFK Industrial Business Zone and complement the airport’s growth.” There are height restrictions at the site.

The city acquired the land decades ago as part of proceedings related to the airport.

Submissions are due by May 4.

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http://commercialobserver.com/2015/0...r-jfk-airport/

[chris08876]

Project: 50 West 23rd Street (Modification)

Existing Structure:



What they plan to do:

Landscape architect James Corner of James Corner Field Operations, whose design turned an abandoned elevated train track on the Far West Side into a popular public park, is now hoping to provide a similar transformation—this time 11 stories above ground.

Two Trees Management Company hired the High Line‘s lead designer to create a new 10,600-square-foot rooftop garden and outdoor work space on the 11th floor of the 14-story building at 50 West 23rd Street between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas. It will be a place for meetings, parties, presentations and eating lunch, said Jed Walentas, a principal at Two Trees, when it opens in the third quarter of the year.

The developer will build out a 2,400-square-foot wooden deck surrounded by 3,005 square feet of gardens and 22 tree plantings, a spokesman for Two Trees said. Plans call for a beer garden setting with long picnic tables and trellis for shade. There will be two outdoor meeting areas with whiteboards where tenants can project presentations or use the space for ideation. A third area will have modular seating as well as a long conference table surrounded by glass panes. The garden will be outfitted with power outlets. There will be 270-degree panoramic views of Midtown and the Ladies Mile Historic District.

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http://commercialobserver.com/2015/0...t-23rd-street/

[PeterQM]

A proposed 12-story residential building near the mouth of Newtown Creek in Greenpoint may bring some avante-garde design to a neighborhood better known for its low-slung factories, unpretentious row-houses, hearty Polish community, and an immense wastewater treatment plant. Coming from the office of AB Architekten, led by Alexander Blakely, a 70,000-square-foot proposal at 19-29 Clay Street is envisioned to rise directly across from the long-promised Box Street Park, and it may be the first of a multitude of high-rises set to radically transform the neighborhood’s waterfront.

To read article

[chris08876]

A followup to post #599.

Original Post: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=599

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Architecture Review: Studio V’s 600 West 58th Street

For those of us who grew up in New York in the 1970s, few transformations of the city seem quite as amazing at the development of the Far West Side, especially around 57th Street and 12th Avenue. Once a dangerous and undiscovered country, it is now awash in new buildings.

Bjarke Ingels’ pyramid at 627 West 57th Street is surely the headline-grabber, but it’s only one of three neighboring developments by the Durst Organization. The other two are The Helena at 601 West 57th Street and the newly-announced 600 West 58th Street, which will rise directly east of the Ingels creation.

It would be hard to imagine two structures more essentially different than the Ingels building and 600 West 58th Street. The Ingels tetrahedron is almost a textbook example of deconstructivist architecture (although, when I stated this opinion within earshot of Mr. Ingels’, he vehemently rejected the label): its form is torqued, with what looks like a great big chunk gouged out of its center.

By contrast, 600 West 58th is discreetly well-behaved, strictly rectilinear and fastidiously symmetrical. According to the rendering, the 10-story building (with 65 apartments, of which 12 will be affordable) will consist of two contrasting sections, a bright, pale, curtain-walled four-story base and, resting on top of it, a nearly slab-like dark mass that is slightly cantilevered over the underlying building and whose windows are arrayed in bays.

These dark, slate-like passages will be enlivened by what look like thin, barely- discernible pinstripes across the surface. That the designers know what they are doing is suggested by the similarly conceived dark band that runs across the length of the entire building, just above the ground floor, which links the two halves of the development and provides a certain ballast to the pale base. It promises to be an elegant and attractive building.

600 West 58th is being designed by Jay Valgora’s Studio V Architecture. The firm’s other projects in the city include the Empire Stores in Dumbo and 155 Attorney Street, both for Midtown Equities’ Joseph Cayre, and the Astoria Cove megadevelopment.

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February 27, 2015
http://therealdeal.com/blog/2015/02/....9xSnowOL.dpuf

[chris08876]

Project: 1247 Atlantic Avenue

1) 10 Floors
2) Architect: AB Architekten


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http://www.abarchitekten.com/1247-atlantic-avenue

[chris08876]

Some nice rendering for 22 Clay Street.


http://www.abarchitekten.com/19-29-clay-street

Note: Thanks for the update peter. Just as a notice, if you can or anybody who posts just put a title such as the one with the smiley, and floor/ address info on every post. It helps to avoid duplicates because this allows the search feature to pick it up easily. Again, just to avoid duplicates and refer easily to a post even if its several pages back.

Example: NEW YORK | 22 Clay Street | FT | 12 FLOORS

[chris08876]

Project: 245 Manhattan Avenue

In the heart of the residential section of East Williamsburg, at 245 Manhattan Avenue, a new project is under construction, with work reaching the second floor of what will soon be a five-story apartment building.
It will have 10 units spread over 10,000 square feet of residential space, for what we are guessing will be condos. The developer is listed as East River Capital Partners.
The design, by Anthony Morea’s Mortar Architecture + Development – a firm that’s been quite busy in Williamsburg lately – is sleek, dark, and heavily gridded.

Per the architect:

The building façade is a carefully composed relationship of sustainably sourced – Japanese inspired Shou-Sugi Ban – charred wood cladding, a reclaimed cypress wood canopy, steel, and glass. The homes include a mix of two- and three-bedroom residences, duplex townhomes with private street-level parking and landscaped gardens, and detailed penthouses with innovative building systems, floor-to-ceiling glass windows, landscaped terraces and a rooftop lounge. In addition, residences feature direct elevator access, open kitchens and modern custom baths.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/03/rev...n-parkway.html

[chris08876]

Project: 542 West 153rd Street

A Bespoke reader sent in the above photo of the construction site at the huge lot on 153rd Street just east of Broadway which has already broken ground. Based on details we found on Curbed, this appears to be the location of an energy efficient passive building that has 40 units planned altogether. When all finishes up at 542 West 153rd Street, the new green construction will be a pioneer for not only Harlem but also for the entire island of Manhattan.

Current Site:


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http://harlembespoke.blogspot.com/20...ground-on.html

[chris08876]

Project: 275 West 140th Street

Construction has started on a lot at 140th and FDB recently and now the rendering of the new building has been posted on the plywood. Apparently this will be 54 units of affordable housing planned for the block just north of Strivers Row and a new supermarket will be the anchor tenant for the street level storefront. Bespoke readers have inquired on which market will move into the commercial space but those details have yet to be made public.

Current Site:


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http://harlembespoke.blogspot.com/20...-at-140th.html