New York’s Passive House movement is building steam, with new ventures routinely championing the air-tight standard. This year alone we covered 5 Upper Manhattan projects aiming for the German-born, energy-efficient certification. Now here’s one for downtown.
The Passive House-experts at Zakrzewski + Hyde Architects (ZH) have drawn up this 8-floor, 18,000 SF condo for 298 East 2nd Street in the East Village. According to its developers, Lee Properties Group, the building will be called Houston House and accomdate 6 full-floor units and a duplex townhouse.
The Passive House-experts at Zakrzewski + Hyde Architects (ZH) have drawn up this 8-floor, 18,000 SF condo for 298 East 2nd Street in the East Village. According to its developers, Lee Properties Group, the building will be called Houston House and accomdate 6 full-floor units and a duplex townhouse.
The developers purchased the 25-foot-wide property for $7.03M in 2015 and the single-story beer distribution warehouse has just been demolished. Though the building carries an East 2nd Street address, it will overlook Houston Street since a section of 2nd Street was de-mapped as part of the East Houston Street Pedestrian Project.
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Warehouse building previously at site (Photos via Corcoran)
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Typical interior (Lee Properties Group)
According to the project team, the superstructure will be built with cross-laminated timber (CLT) and will be the first Passive House-rated CLT structure in the city. The building will also be the city's first net-zero building of its kind. Earlier this year, SHoP Architects’ 475 West 18th Street was shelved. The 10-floor condo was vying to become the first high-rise in the city to use a modern mass-wood system. Let’s hope for better luck here.
Nest Seekers International’s “the Serhant Team” will be leading the sales and marketing and sales are expected to commence in 2018.
Rendering via Nest Seekers International
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