Carter's Review

The design by Deborah Berke & Partners Architects LLP for the 11-story residential condominium building at 48 Bond Street incorporates some windows that slant downwards and project outwards from the façade.

Dabon LLC, of which Donald Capoccia is a principal, is the developer and Mr. Capoccia kept three of the 17 apartments as a triplex penthouse for himself.

Deborah Berke designed the recently opened Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea next to the High Line and the 21C Museum Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky.

David Gross of GF55 was the executive architect and Romy Goldman of Gold Development was the development manager.

Bottom Line

A cool, modern building with a dark façade with few apartments on one of the city’s most spectacular streets.

Description

The building has a 7-story base with a dark granite façade and the upper floors are setback and have floor-to-ceiling windows. The building, which is on a cobblestone street, has a large swimming pool in the basement with a high, undulating ceiling.

The building has no sidewalk landscaping and no balconies.

Amenities

The building has an entrance marquee, a part-time concierge, a 60-foot-long salt-water swimming pool and a fitness center, but no roof deck and no doorman.

Apartments

There are only two apartments a floor and they have 10-foot-high ceilings.

Apartment 10B is a one-bedroom unit that has an entry foyer that leads to a 19-foot-long living room with an open 10-foot-long kitchen.

Apartment 8B is a two-bedroom unit that has a 24-foot-wide living/dining room with a small balcony and a pass-through 12-foot-long kitchen.

The ninth-floor apartment is a three-bedroom unit that has an entry foyer that leads to a very large living/dining room next to an enclosed large kitchen with a small balcony.  The foyer also leads to a large library that has an entrance as does the living/dining room to a very large terrace. 

The 5^th floor apartment is a four-bedroom unit that has a 37-foot-long living/dining room adjacent to a 16-foot-long pass-through kitchen and a 22-foot-long office.  One of the bedrooms has a 10-foot-long balcony.

History

The site at 48 Bond Street had been used as a parking lot and storage yard for Great Jones Lumber Yard.

A previous design by Marvin Meltzer for the site for the developer contained 29 apartments.

Location

It is a few feet to the east of 40 Bond Street, another new residential condominium project whose façade on Bond Street was notable for the curved green glass elements designed by Herzog & de Meuron for the developer, Ian Schrager.

The building is across the street from the handsome and curved residential condominium building at 57 Bond Street on the southwest corner at The Bowery that was recently completed.