Posted Jun 8, 2009, 10:24 PM
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Standard Hotel, Times Square TKTS Booth Among M.A.S.'s MASterwork Winners
By Joe Pompeo
Monday, June 8
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The Municipal Art Society today announced the winners of its 2009 MASterwork Awards, an annnual recognition of "excellence in architecture and urban design," giving Chelsea's Standard Hotel (next door neighbor of the High Line) the top honor of best new building.
BEST NEW BUILDING
The Standard Hotel
The completion of the distinctive Standard Hotel is a marvelous gesture to its equally iconic downstairs neighbor, the High Line — which after sparking the architectural renaissance of the Meatpacking District and West Chelsea — opens to the public this year. Propped upon concrete sculptural piers that raise the building 57 feet off the street, the Standard Hotel respects the gritty quality of the formerly industrial neighborhood and allows natural light to reach the High Line.
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