SHoP Architects PC has designed an 11-story residential condominium tower for 127 Madison Partners LLC, of which Trevor Stahelski and Kyle Ransford are partners, at 292 Mulberry Street, which is also known as 41 East Houston Street.
The building will be known as 290 Mulberry Street and it will be distinguished by its very unusual facade that slightly undulates to make many of its rectangular windows rather deeply inset at their upper right corners.
The building, which is on the southeast corner at Houston Street, has very large corner windows that face the large gilded statue of Puck on the northeast corner of the Puck Building, which has another large gilded statue of Puck above its entrance on Lafayette Street. Puck was the top-hatted putti who was the namesake of a popular humor magazine.
The new building will replace the now closed Houston Village Farm Deli, a three-story structure, and an adjacent lot to the east.
The developers of this building are also completing another residential condominium project at 127 Madison Avenue that involved the redevelopment of a masonry commercial building.
SHoP Architects is the architect for that project as well and it best known for The Porter House, a 10-story condominium development at 66 Ninth Avenue noted by its irregular fenestration and facade illumination pattern that dominates the north end of the Meatpacking District and is one of the most interesting combinations of old and new architecture in the city.
Another major SHoP project in the city is the very attractive Rector Street Bridge over West Street at Battery Park City.
An article in the May 2001 edition of Metropolis magazine observed that "You might know that the firm's organizational chart essentially doubles as a family tree, given that SHoP was founded by twin brothers, the wife of one of them, and another married couple - all of whom met at Columbia University in the early 1990s....Like a few other partnerships made up of architects in their thirties, SHoP has a breezy collective title. An acronym cobbled together from the partners' last names, it combines the S in William and Christopher Sharples, 37-year-old identical twins, and Coren Sharples, 35, who is William's wife; the H in Kimberly Holden, 34; and the P in Gregg Pasquarelli, 35, Holden's husband. The SHoP name is also meant to suggest that despite the firm's command of technology it wants to maintain an explicit connection to tactile reality."
The site is convenient to SoHo, NoHo, NoLiTa, Chinatown, and the Lower East Side. There is good public transportation and shopping at this location.
The building will be known as 290 Mulberry Street and it will be distinguished by its very unusual facade that slightly undulates to make many of its rectangular windows rather deeply inset at their upper right corners.
The building, which is on the southeast corner at Houston Street, has very large corner windows that face the large gilded statue of Puck on the northeast corner of the Puck Building, which has another large gilded statue of Puck above its entrance on Lafayette Street. Puck was the top-hatted putti who was the namesake of a popular humor magazine.
The new building will replace the now closed Houston Village Farm Deli, a three-story structure, and an adjacent lot to the east.
The developers of this building are also completing another residential condominium project at 127 Madison Avenue that involved the redevelopment of a masonry commercial building.
SHoP Architects is the architect for that project as well and it best known for The Porter House, a 10-story condominium development at 66 Ninth Avenue noted by its irregular fenestration and facade illumination pattern that dominates the north end of the Meatpacking District and is one of the most interesting combinations of old and new architecture in the city.
Another major SHoP project in the city is the very attractive Rector Street Bridge over West Street at Battery Park City.
An article in the May 2001 edition of Metropolis magazine observed that "You might know that the firm's organizational chart essentially doubles as a family tree, given that SHoP was founded by twin brothers, the wife of one of them, and another married couple - all of whom met at Columbia University in the early 1990s....Like a few other partnerships made up of architects in their thirties, SHoP has a breezy collective title. An acronym cobbled together from the partners' last names, it combines the S in William and Christopher Sharples, 37-year-old identical twins, and Coren Sharples, 35, who is William's wife; the H in Kimberly Holden, 34; and the P in Gregg Pasquarelli, 35, Holden's husband. The SHoP name is also meant to suggest that despite the firm's command of technology it wants to maintain an explicit connection to tactile reality."
The site is convenient to SoHo, NoHo, NoLiTa, Chinatown, and the Lower East Side. There is good public transportation and shopping at this location.
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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