290 Mulberry Street

290 Mulberry Street: CARTER'S REVIEW


SHoP Architects PC designed this 12-story residential condominium tower for 127 Madison Partners LLC, of which Trevor Stahelski and Kyle Ransford are partners, at 292 Mulberry Street, which is also known as 41 East Houston Street.

The building is known as 290 Mulberry Street and it is distinguished by its very unusual fa??ade that slightly undulates to make many of its rectangular windows rather deeply inset at their upper right corners.

The building, which is on the southeast corner at Houston Street, has very large corner windows that face the large gilded statue of Puck on the northeast corner of the Puck Building, which has another large gilded statue of Puck above its entrance on Lafayette Street. Puck was the top-hatted putti who was the namesake of a popular humor magazine.

The new building replaced the Houston Village Farm Deli, a three-story structure, and an adjacent lot to the east.

The developers of this building also completed in 2007 another residential condominium project at 127 Madison Avenue that involved the redevelopment of a masonry commercial building.

SHoP Architects was the architect for that project as well and it best known for The Porter House, a 10-story condominium development at 66 Ninth Avenue noted by its irregular fenestration and fa??ade illumination pattern that dominates the north end of the Meatpacking District and is one of the most interesting combinations of old and new architecture in the city.

Another major SHoP project in the city is the very attractive Rector Street Bridge over West Street at Battery Park City.

An article in the May 2001 edition of Metropolis magazine observed that "You might know that the firm's organizational chart essentially doubles as a family tree, given that SHoP was founded by twin brothers, the wife of one of them, and another married couple - all of whom met at Columbia University in the early 1990s....Like a few other partnerships made up of architects in their thirties, SHoP has a breezy collective title. An acronym cobbled together from the partners' last names, it combines the S in William and Christopher Sharples, 37-year-old identical twins, and Coren Sharples, 35, who is William's wife; the H in Kimberly Holden, 34; and the P in Gregg Pasquarelli, 35, Holden's husband. The SHoP name is also meant to suggest that despite the firm's command of technology it wants to maintain an explicit connection to tactile reality."

There is excellent public transportation and shopping in this neighborhood.

For an art installation in 2009, the windows in the building were lit with different colors.



BUILDING SUMMARY
FEATURES & AMENITIES
  • Concierge
  • Hi Rise
  • Post War
  • Health Club
  • Intercom
  • Elevator
PROS & CONS
PROS
  • Outstanding and very unusual facade treatment
  • Across from Puck statue on rear of Puck Building
  • Excellent public transportation
  • Convenient shopping
  • Large corner windows
  • Convenient to SoHo, NoHo and Little Italy

CONS
  • No sidewalk landscaping
  • No balconies
  • No garage


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