The first project in New York City by acclaimed Mexican architect Enrique Norten is expected to begin construction in August in TriBeCa.
The development by Stan Perelman is at 1 York Street, which is bounded by St. John's Place, Laight Street and the Avenue of the Americas. It will add 6 setback stories to an existing 19th Century, 6-story commercial building and when completed in 2007 will contain 41 condominium apartments and a 47-car garage for residents' use.
The base of the building will be reclad but will retain much of its existing architectural style while the addition will be largely glass and slightly angled at its center where its facade will extend to the street.
Part of the east side of the existing building is windowless because the building was reduced in size when the Sixth Avenue subway was built in 1927.
The 122,000-sq. ft.-project will be about 150 feet high and have 6,000 sq. ft. of retail space and a 14,000-sq.-ft. community center that will probably be used by the Chinese American Planning Council that now is located in the existing building.
Community Board 1 recently recommended that the City Planning Commission approve the project's application for several permits.
Norten, whose firm, TEN Arquitectos, is based in Mexico City and has an office here, is the architect of two other projects now in planning that are likely to become quite sensational and extremely important: Harlem Park, a 380-ft.-high, mixed-use project with an undulating facade on 125th Street and Park Avenue, and a new Brooklyn Public Library for the Visual and Performing Arts.
Models, renderings and computer graphics of these three projects are now on view, through October 30, at the Museum of the City of New York on Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street.
The development by Stan Perelman is at 1 York Street, which is bounded by St. John's Place, Laight Street and the Avenue of the Americas. It will add 6 setback stories to an existing 19th Century, 6-story commercial building and when completed in 2007 will contain 41 condominium apartments and a 47-car garage for residents' use.
The base of the building will be reclad but will retain much of its existing architectural style while the addition will be largely glass and slightly angled at its center where its facade will extend to the street.
Part of the east side of the existing building is windowless because the building was reduced in size when the Sixth Avenue subway was built in 1927.
The 122,000-sq. ft.-project will be about 150 feet high and have 6,000 sq. ft. of retail space and a 14,000-sq.-ft. community center that will probably be used by the Chinese American Planning Council that now is located in the existing building.
Community Board 1 recently recommended that the City Planning Commission approve the project's application for several permits.
Norten, whose firm, TEN Arquitectos, is based in Mexico City and has an office here, is the architect of two other projects now in planning that are likely to become quite sensational and extremely important: Harlem Park, a 380-ft.-high, mixed-use project with an undulating facade on 125th Street and Park Avenue, and a new Brooklyn Public Library for the Visual and Performing Arts.
Models, renderings and computer graphics of these three projects are now on view, through October 30, at the Museum of the City of New York on Fifth Avenue at 103rd 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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