Anbau Enterprises has paid $18.5 million for a parking lot at 39-41 West 23rd Street and plans to erect a curved residential condominium tower at the site designed by Carlos Zapata for the site's former owner, Horizen Global, which is headed by Michael Yanko, according to an article in today's edition of The Wall Street Journal by Laura Kusisto.
Mr. Zapata is best known for his billowing design of the Cooper Square Hotel on the Bowery.
The building is in the 28-block Ladies' Mile Historic District and it received approval from the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission, which requested that the project reduce its height and restore and retain the facade of the existing low-rise building at 37 West 23rd Street.
The article said that Anbau plans to erect a 22-story, 38-unit condo and an item today at ny.curbed.com described the tower's shape as a "Pope's hat."
Horizen Globel originally planned a 71-unit 21-story condominium building abut subsequently changed its plans and planned a 170-unit hotel. Gruzen Sampton LLP was also involved in the project.
The flamboyant and bold design calls for a white-glass-clad narrow tower that not only slants to the north above its-low rise base on 23rd Street, but also cantilevers over its rear yard and also slightly over an adjoining low-rise residential building that is part of its zoning lot to the east at 37 West 23rd Street.
The "whittled" design is not simple and there are a variety of other facets, and a few notches, to its facades.
The site runs through to 24th Street where a three-and-a-half-story, single-family townhouse would be erected as part of the development.
The tower of the mid-block building would be quite narrow with only about 3,500 square feet on a floor. It would be a few stories higher than the tall buildings at either end of the block but its slanted design would provide more views of the Metropolitan Life clocktower building on Madison Avenue as seen from the Avenue of the Americas than a sheer tower, Mr. Zapata said.
The top of the low-rise base on 23rd Streets projects out about 22 inches to "look like a cornice," he said.
The Wall Street Journal article said that Anbau, which is headed by Stephen Glascock, wants to make small changes to he original design and that the landmarks commission approved the modifications June 14.
Anbau did the conversion of 110 Central Park south and started construction of a 16-story condominium at 124 West 23rd Street that has been delayed for two years due to the market, according to the article.
The building would replace a 96-car parking lot.
Horizen Global's other Manhattan projects include Hudson Blue at 423 West Street.
Mr. Zapata is best known for his billowing design of the Cooper Square Hotel on the Bowery.
The building is in the 28-block Ladies' Mile Historic District and it received approval from the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission, which requested that the project reduce its height and restore and retain the facade of the existing low-rise building at 37 West 23rd Street.
The article said that Anbau plans to erect a 22-story, 38-unit condo and an item today at ny.curbed.com described the tower's shape as a "Pope's hat."
Horizen Globel originally planned a 71-unit 21-story condominium building abut subsequently changed its plans and planned a 170-unit hotel. Gruzen Sampton LLP was also involved in the project.
The flamboyant and bold design calls for a white-glass-clad narrow tower that not only slants to the north above its-low rise base on 23rd Street, but also cantilevers over its rear yard and also slightly over an adjoining low-rise residential building that is part of its zoning lot to the east at 37 West 23rd Street.
The "whittled" design is not simple and there are a variety of other facets, and a few notches, to its facades.
The site runs through to 24th Street where a three-and-a-half-story, single-family townhouse would be erected as part of the development.
The tower of the mid-block building would be quite narrow with only about 3,500 square feet on a floor. It would be a few stories higher than the tall buildings at either end of the block but its slanted design would provide more views of the Metropolitan Life clocktower building on Madison Avenue as seen from the Avenue of the Americas than a sheer tower, Mr. Zapata said.
The top of the low-rise base on 23rd Streets projects out about 22 inches to "look like a cornice," he said.
The Wall Street Journal article said that Anbau, which is headed by Stephen Glascock, wants to make small changes to he original design and that the landmarks commission approved the modifications June 14.
Anbau did the conversion of 110 Central Park south and started construction of a 16-story condominium at 124 West 23rd Street that has been delayed for two years due to the market, according to the article.
The building would replace a 96-car parking lot.
Horizen Global's other Manhattan projects include Hudson Blue at 423 West Street.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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