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Category Archives: Meatpacking District
100 11th Ave: Vision Machine – by Jean Nouvel
It would be a fast turnaround for an ordinary building, but for the finest French starchitecture has to offer—quelle horreur! We might have guessed the lobby rocks threw things out of balance, but it turns out the boulders are just three of many horreurs plaguing the building’s buyers. Continue reading
HL23 – 515 West 23rd Street – Condo – Chelsea – by Neil Denari
The High Line has done as much for New York City horizontally as the Empire State Building has vertically. Arriving when millenniums meet, it may be the most important piece of income-generating, entertainment-oriented urban design since the boardwalk. Attracting over 40,000 visitors per weekend, it generates an estimated $2 billion in private investment. No public space has brought more people together in New York for positive reasons since the 1964 World’s Fair. Continue reading
Posted in Chelsea, Construction, High Line, Meatpacking District, Public Space
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STOP PRESS- Thursday night lecture on Hotel Design
Featuring Todd Schliemann of Ennead Architects on the Standard Hotel; Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz of BNO Design on the Mondrian Soho; and Scott Salvator on redesigning interiors at the Carlyle. Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Exhibitions, High Line, Hotel, Internationalist, Meatpacking District, Soho
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The Standard- Friends in high places
The latest creation from André Balazs is a New York branch of his modish Standard hotels. Rising from one of the city’s most sought-after sites, in the heart of the Meatpacking District, two glass-curtain slabs literally jump the tracks of the High Line, the old freight railroad that’s been transformed into a park on stilts. The design spans—and expands on—a century of modern architecture. Continue reading
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban buy apartment with ‘sky garage’
The skyline of Manhattan flickered through the windows as architect Annabelle Selldorf and I rode up in the auto elevator at Manhattan condominium 200 Eleventh Avenue. Continue reading