Construction is nearing completion at 115 Norfolk Street between Delancey and Rivington Streets, a 7-story building with 24 condominium apartments.
The building has been designed by Grzywinski Pons Architects, the same firm responsible for the nearby THOR (The Hotel in Rivington Street) at 107 Rivington Street, a green-glass, 20-story, mid-block tower that has a "womb-like" entrance and interiors that are both wild and elegant.
The building at 115 Norfolk Street is distinguished by an open-top atrium with angled walls and by the very elegant fenestration of its street facade that is notable for the slight non-vertical angles of its glass pines.
The building will have 16 one-bedroom apartments, 5 two-bedroom units and 3 three-bedroom penthouses. Ground floor apartments will have private rear yards and 13 of the apartments will have balconies or terraces. The building will have a roof garden with a lap pool and a garage.
It shares the block with two other notable recently completed buildings: "Blue" at 105 Norfolk Street, a 16-story building designed by Bernard Tschumi with angled dark blue-glass facades; and the "Switch" building at 109 Norfolk Street designed by Narchitects with a zig-zag pattern of angled floors.
The site was acquired in 2008 for $10 million by 115 Norfolk Realty LLC of which Nathan Vinbaytel is a principal from Yabba LLC of which Zeyad Aly is a principal.
Grzwinski Pons has also designed the Nolitan, a 61-room hotel on Elizabeth Street, that is nearing completion and is distinguished by its asymmetrical fenestration pattern.
The building has been designed by Grzywinski Pons Architects, the same firm responsible for the nearby THOR (The Hotel in Rivington Street) at 107 Rivington Street, a green-glass, 20-story, mid-block tower that has a "womb-like" entrance and interiors that are both wild and elegant.
The building at 115 Norfolk Street is distinguished by an open-top atrium with angled walls and by the very elegant fenestration of its street facade that is notable for the slight non-vertical angles of its glass pines.
The building will have 16 one-bedroom apartments, 5 two-bedroom units and 3 three-bedroom penthouses. Ground floor apartments will have private rear yards and 13 of the apartments will have balconies or terraces. The building will have a roof garden with a lap pool and a garage.
It shares the block with two other notable recently completed buildings: "Blue" at 105 Norfolk Street, a 16-story building designed by Bernard Tschumi with angled dark blue-glass facades; and the "Switch" building at 109 Norfolk Street designed by Narchitects with a zig-zag pattern of angled floors.
The site was acquired in 2008 for $10 million by 115 Norfolk Realty LLC of which Nathan Vinbaytel is a principal from Yabba LLC of which Zeyad Aly is a principal.
Grzwinski Pons has also designed the Nolitan, a 61-room hotel on Elizabeth Street, that is nearing completion and is distinguished by its asymmetrical fenestration pattern.
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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