A small, 7-story, mid-block building under construction at 109 Norfolk Street on the Lower East Side promises to be one of the city?s most striking modern buildings.
Designed by nARCHITECTS, it is known as the ?Switch Building? because its floors switch back and forth with gentle angles creating a lively fa?ade and a new twist on bay windows.
The metal-clad, zig-zagging fa?ade has floor-to-ceiling windows and the six residential floors have three different fenestration patterns. The ground floor will have an art gallery that extends the full depth of the site with a skylit, double-height space at the rear.
The project is included in an exhibition that is on view at the Center for Architecture at 536 LaGuardia Place through July 9.
It is just to the south of the very pleasant red-brick Asian Americans for Equality Community Center at 111 Norfolk Street designed by Victor M. Morales that was completed last year and just to the north of the one-story Tonic nightclub at 107 Norfolk Street. The "Switch" building is across the street from another nice red-brick apartment building at 108-110 Norfolk Street and it is close to the excavation work underway at 103-5 Norfolk Street for a 16-story residential building with 32 units being developed by Hudson Opportunity Fund and On the Level Enterprises, Inc.
Gil Grinberg is the developer of the "Switch" building. The building, which is between Delancey and Rivington Streets, will have 9 condominium apartments.
Designed by nARCHITECTS, it is known as the ?Switch Building? because its floors switch back and forth with gentle angles creating a lively fa?ade and a new twist on bay windows.
The metal-clad, zig-zagging fa?ade has floor-to-ceiling windows and the six residential floors have three different fenestration patterns. The ground floor will have an art gallery that extends the full depth of the site with a skylit, double-height space at the rear.
The project is included in an exhibition that is on view at the Center for Architecture at 536 LaGuardia Place through July 9.
It is just to the south of the very pleasant red-brick Asian Americans for Equality Community Center at 111 Norfolk Street designed by Victor M. Morales that was completed last year and just to the north of the one-story Tonic nightclub at 107 Norfolk Street. The "Switch" building is across the street from another nice red-brick apartment building at 108-110 Norfolk Street and it is close to the excavation work underway at 103-5 Norfolk Street for a 16-story residential building with 32 units being developed by Hudson Opportunity Fund and On the Level Enterprises, Inc.
Gil Grinberg is the developer of the "Switch" building. The building, which is between Delancey and Rivington Streets, will have 9 condominium apartments.
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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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