Kaish & Taub Development Group Corporation has redesigned its planned, 21-story, residential condominium building at 160 East 22nd Street to build around and on top of a three-story building it was unable to purchase.

An early design by Kitnicki Bernstein called for 110 to 120 apartments in a light-colored building. Last fall, the design was changed to a blue-glass with slanting setbacks.

The new design changes the facade color to green and replaces with the slanting setbacks with stepped ones at the southeast and northwest corners of the tower.

The design wraps tightly around the smaller building at 274 Third Avenue but gives it some breathing room at the top. The new building occupies the southwest corner at Third Avenue and also has a 280 Third Avenue address.

The building will have a 24-hour concierge, a screening room, a "zen garden," some balconies, and private storage areas. Completion is anticipated at the end of next year.

The developer's website states that "Total buildable is now 120,000 square feet consisting of a 104,000 s.f. tower and a one-of-a-kind 'floating' deck over the stores on Third Avenue on which a pool and club house will be built."

"With offers of additional air rights and inclusionary housing certificates," the website continued, "we are studying the possibilities of bringing the total buildable to approximately 150,000 s.f."

Kutnicki Bernstein also designed 154 Attorney Street on the Lower East Side for Kaish & Taub.

Norman Kaish and Leonard Taub are the developers.

An article by C. J. Hughes in the January 20, 2008 edition of The New York Times said that the project, which is close to Gramercy Park, will now have 71 apartments ranging in size from 800 to 1,500 square feet and said that Mr. Taub expects to apartments to range in price from about $1.2 milllion to $2.25 million.