508 West 24th Street: Review and Ratings

Review of 508 West 24th Street by Carter Horsley

This 10-story, white apartment building at 508 West 24^th Street is right next to the High Line Elevated Park and is notable for its large façade clock and multi-pane industrial-style fenestration.

Cary Tamarkin is the developer and architect of the building, which has 15 condominium apartments.  His other projects include 397 West 12^th Street, 456 West 19^th Street and 47 East 91^st  Street and he has said that the High Line is “its own show,” adding that “it’s probably the densest display of starchitecture in the city.”

In a separate article, Mr. Tamarkin noted that his new building is surrounded by buildings with “dancing, jumping, folding walls” and that “made me want to make just the roughest toughest rock anchor for the High Line,”

Goldstein, Hill & West is the architect of record.

It was completed in 2014.

Bottom Line

Another artisanal work by developer/architect Cary Tamarkin, this time precisely celebrating the Bauhaus style immediately adjacent to the High Line to which it displays its large façade clock.

Description

The building’s façade has alternating bands of multi-paned windows and exposed architectural concrete (Beton Brut Concrete that the building’s website describes as “monumental and muscular, yet refined and elegant, concrete that is poured in place and left exposed, “revealing the process of its making – every detail, such as carefully composed joints, tie holes, window mullions, and imprints left by the formwork is a celebration of craftsmanship.”  The website has pictures of its use at The Pantheon the TWA Terminal at JRK by Eero Saarinen, the Carpenter Center by Le Corbusier and the Salk Institute by Louis Kahn.

The façade fronting on the High Line Elevated Park has a large, simple clock.

The lobby has cypress wood concrete and natural cleft slate.

The building has a large entrance marquee and the entrance is recessed and flanked by narrow fluting that is repeated between the windows on the second story.

Amenities

The building has an attended lobby, a full-time building superintendent, a fitness room, an intercom and video security system, a laundry room, a private storage room for each apartment, a bicycle room and a shared courtyard with a gas grill.

Apartments

Apartments have 10-foot-high ceilings, solid rift and quartered white oak floors.

Kitchens have Viking 6-burner gas ranges, Viking built-in microwave ovens, Sub-Zero refrigerators and wine refrigerators, Miele dishwashers, Blanco stainless steel sink with disposal, Vola polished chrome faucets and built-in water filtration systems.

Master bathrooms have Italian Calacatta Gold marble floors and walls and vanity countertops and Zuma soaking tubs.

More than half of the units have private outdoor space and all have washers and dryers. 

The penthouses have wood-burning fireplaces, terraces and 11- to 12-foot-high ceilings.

Penthouse A is a three-bedroom unit with an entry foyer off the passenger elevator that opens director into the 26-foot-long living/dining room with a fireplace that is adjacent to the 14-foot-long kitchen with a 15-foot-long breakfast space.  The master bedroom has a 150-square-foot terrace and the upper terrace level, accessed from the breakfast area, has 1,746 square feet of exterior space.

Penthouse South is a three-bedroom unit that has an entry foyer off the passenger elevator that opens into the middle of the 28-foot-long living/dining room with a fireplace that adjoins the open, 17-foot-wide kitchen and a staircase to the upper level with two bedrooms.  The living/dining room on the lower level has a 600-square-foot terrace and that level also has a bedroom.

Penthouse North is a three-bedroom unit with an entry foyer with a staircase to the three bedrooms on the upper level and to the 32-foot-long living/dining room with a fireplace on the lower level that is adjacent to the 11-foot-wide breakfast area next to the 14-foot-long open kitchen. The living/dining room and the breakfast area both open onto the L-shaped, 911-square-foot terrace and the master bedroom on the upper level has a 134-square-foot terrace.