The latest redesign of the planned 11-story residential building at 482 Greenwich Street on the north side of Canal Street has eliminated a sculpted panel that was a reference to Arman, the sculptor who died in 2005 and had a studio on the site since 1977, according to an item today at ny.curbed.com.

"Last week we showed a sharp and shiny plan for a site along the west end of Canal Street and credited it to Karl Fischer, but a tipster told us the design had been shelved in favor of something new," the article said, added that the new design "is a block of brick trimmed in metal, somewhat conforming with the old neighborhood" and "gone are the indentations and the sharp terrace atop the corner."

"The new Fischer scheme," the article continued, "shows big multi-paned windows across the entire facade and a cut-away at the corner, with canted balconies rising over the northwest intersection of Greenwich and Canal. Up top is a penthouse clad in metal, set back from the beefier base. The Schedule A filed at the Department of Buildings still shows 10 units and 11 stories, with 3 duplexes covering the top 6 floors. Down below will be a couple of studios, a community center & recreation room, with a wee bit of parking and some retail space facing the sidewalks."

The article said that "the whole re-designed package from the Magnum Real Estate Group is set for completion sometime in mid-2014."

Arman was born as Armand Fernandez in 1928 in Nice, France. In 1947, he met Yves Klein with whom he hitchhiked in Europe. In 1951, he taught at the Bushido Kai Judo School and then served as a medical orderly in the Indo-Chinese War.

Influenced by a Kurt Schwitters exhibition in 1954. he began working with stamp ink-pads, in part to critic Abstract Expressionism and in a few years was throwing ink objects at canvases. In 1958 he dropped the "d" in his name. and began to use many different materials. He had his first museum retrospectives in 1964 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.