The apartment building at 305 West 16th Street has sprouted three large metal flowers in a large decorative flower pot on its roof, according to articles yesterday and today at ny.curbed.com by Sara Polsky.
"The sculpture is called 'Perhaps,'' the article said, adding that "it recently made its way to 16th Street from the West Coast base of artist Rob Buchholz."
The article said that "developer and art enthusiast Harlan Berger saw Buchholz's work at the 2006 Burning Man Festival just when the building's skeleton was going up."
The building is also known as 131 Eighth Avenue.
"Because it's visible from the street at the Chelsea/MePa intersection," the article continued, "Berger says he thought the sculpture, which was designed by the artist to represent his family and is equipped with spotlights, had the potential to be 'ultimately iconic' for the neighborhood. Now, he also says he sees it as a symbol of the city coming out of the recession. To which we can only say: perhaps!"
"If the flowers seem oddly cheery for the Chelsea Death Star," as ny.curbed.com has whimsically taken to describing the dark gray, 7-story corner building just across the street from the full-block former headquarters of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, "well, the building's in a celebratory mood,' the article maintained.
"The offering plan might be approved as soon as today, Berger told us, and the project could go on the market as soon as two days from now. Model units should open up within the next two weeks. And given that the statue's installation was filmed, we might even -spoiler alert! - be seeing the building on Selling New York sometime soon. It all seems like a rapid transformation, but hey, so was Darth Vader's," the article said.
Designed by Robert Laudenschlager of SLCE Architects, the 80-foot-tall building has seven stories and 53 units. The project is being developed by Centaur Properties of which Henry Hay is a principal.
The new costruction pushed out the Chelsea Grill, a Cajun restaurant (can't remember the name) Suite 16 nightclub and a pizza place.
The building has a 138-foot frontage on Eighth Avenue and 96 feet on 16th Street.
Centaur Properties, entered a 99-year lease with Almavi Eighth Avenue LLC, of which Vincent J. Ponte is a principal, for 131 Eighth Avenue.
Centaur was the developer of residential condominium conversion of a commercial building at 76 Madison Avenue.
"The sculpture is called 'Perhaps,'' the article said, adding that "it recently made its way to 16th Street from the West Coast base of artist Rob Buchholz."
The article said that "developer and art enthusiast Harlan Berger saw Buchholz's work at the 2006 Burning Man Festival just when the building's skeleton was going up."
The building is also known as 131 Eighth Avenue.
"Because it's visible from the street at the Chelsea/MePa intersection," the article continued, "Berger says he thought the sculpture, which was designed by the artist to represent his family and is equipped with spotlights, had the potential to be 'ultimately iconic' for the neighborhood. Now, he also says he sees it as a symbol of the city coming out of the recession. To which we can only say: perhaps!"
"If the flowers seem oddly cheery for the Chelsea Death Star," as ny.curbed.com has whimsically taken to describing the dark gray, 7-story corner building just across the street from the full-block former headquarters of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, "well, the building's in a celebratory mood,' the article maintained.
"The offering plan might be approved as soon as today, Berger told us, and the project could go on the market as soon as two days from now. Model units should open up within the next two weeks. And given that the statue's installation was filmed, we might even -spoiler alert! - be seeing the building on Selling New York sometime soon. It all seems like a rapid transformation, but hey, so was Darth Vader's," the article said.
Designed by Robert Laudenschlager of SLCE Architects, the 80-foot-tall building has seven stories and 53 units. The project is being developed by Centaur Properties of which Henry Hay is a principal.
The new costruction pushed out the Chelsea Grill, a Cajun restaurant (can't remember the name) Suite 16 nightclub and a pizza place.
The building has a 138-foot frontage on Eighth Avenue and 96 feet on 16th Street.
Centaur Properties, entered a 99-year lease with Almavi Eighth Avenue LLC, of which Vincent J. Ponte is a principal, for 131 Eighth Avenue.
Centaur was the developer of residential condominium conversion of a commercial building at 76 Madison Avenue.
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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