A mixed-use complex on both sides of the High Line elevated park in West Chelsea has between 28th and 29th Streets has been planned by Lee Harris Pomeroy Architects and Gates Merkulova Architects.
The project calls for a residential tower of more than 20 stories on the east side of the High Line and a hotel tower of more than 12 stories on the west side of the High Line with commercial space beneath the High Line and in the base of both towers.
The High Line curves sharply to the west between 29th and 30th Streets and the planned towers would be slightly "bent" to align with its view corridors.
The residential tower would contain more than 70 condominium apartments and the hotel would have about 175 rooms, according to the websites of the architects.
The residential tower has a roof garden and corner living spaces and the hotel has a rooftop bar, a nightclub, a spa, a tea garden and a lap pool.
The project is planned for completed in Spring 2011.
The four-level commercial base will have two levels above street-level and two below and a through-block pedestrian shopping passage at ground level "defined by the riveted steel plate of the High Line structure and...flanked by skylights bringing natural light to the interior."
According to the Gates Merkulova website, "in the center of the site, at 28th Street, a grand straight-fun stair and an elevator encased in a glass cylinder link the commercial arcade with the park above" and "a spiral stair provides backup circulation, descending to the lowest commercial level below grade."
The project was written about at Curbed.com yesterday.
It is close to an even larger new project whose application by Avalon West Chelsea LLC was assignned to an examiner of the Department of Buildings June 5, a 27-story, 691-apartment complex with about 44,000 square feet of commercial space at 517 West 28th Street
The project calls for a residential tower of more than 20 stories on the east side of the High Line and a hotel tower of more than 12 stories on the west side of the High Line with commercial space beneath the High Line and in the base of both towers.
The High Line curves sharply to the west between 29th and 30th Streets and the planned towers would be slightly "bent" to align with its view corridors.
The residential tower would contain more than 70 condominium apartments and the hotel would have about 175 rooms, according to the websites of the architects.
The residential tower has a roof garden and corner living spaces and the hotel has a rooftop bar, a nightclub, a spa, a tea garden and a lap pool.
The project is planned for completed in Spring 2011.
The four-level commercial base will have two levels above street-level and two below and a through-block pedestrian shopping passage at ground level "defined by the riveted steel plate of the High Line structure and...flanked by skylights bringing natural light to the interior."
According to the Gates Merkulova website, "in the center of the site, at 28th Street, a grand straight-fun stair and an elevator encased in a glass cylinder link the commercial arcade with the park above" and "a spiral stair provides backup circulation, descending to the lowest commercial level below grade."
The project was written about at Curbed.com yesterday.
It is close to an even larger new project whose application by Avalon West Chelsea LLC was assignned to an examiner of the Department of Buildings June 5, a 27-story, 691-apartment complex with about 44,000 square feet of commercial space at 517 West 28th 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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