Construction Tour: ML House
Looking up at the west facade.
Construction is wrapping up at Skyline Developers’ ML House, a luxury rental tower at Bryant Park. Designed by Gene Kaufman Architect, the 25-story tower offers studios to two-bedroom rentals, many with views onto Bryant Park. Residents will have access to a fitness center, residents lounge, and outdoor terrace.
View south from an upper floor.
View southwest from an upper floor.
View northwest from the rooftop.
View north towards Bryant Park from the rooftop.
Architect: Gene Kaufman Architect; Developer: Skyline Developers; Program: Residential Rental; Location: Bryant Park, New York, NY; Completion: Late 2018.
16 West 40th Street - The Bryant
Northwest corner from Bryant Park.
Superstructure has topped out and window installation has reached approximately the half way mark at the Bryant, a 33-story mixed-use tower in Midtown from HFZ Capital Group. The tower is designed by David Chipperfield Architects in their signature modernist style that emphasizes a rationalist grid of windows and structure. Rather than rely on the exposed concrete structure, as seen in similar towers like 432 Park Avenue, the structural members are instead clad in precast concrete terrazzo panels. The windows, one of which has been installed on the north facade, are actually full-height sliding doors with a metal railing of vertical pickets.
Precast concrete terrazzo cladding at the north facade.
North facade detail.
West facade detail.
The tower will offer a mix of uses including a 230-key hotel on floors 2 through 15, 57 condominium apartments on floors 16 through 33, and ground floor retail and restaurant. Amenities in the tower include lobby lounge, fitness center, bike storage and hotel specific amenities.
Northwest corner from West 40th Street.
Looking up at the north facade from West 40th Street.
Facade detail with windows and railings.
Architect: David Chipperfield Architects; Developer: HFZ Capital Group; Program: Residential, Hotel, Retail; Location: Midtown, New York, NY; Completion: 2017.
16 West 40th Street - The Bryant
Facade installation continues at HFZ Capital Group's mixed-use tower at Bryant Park in Midtown.
Superstructure has surpass the 28th floor and facade panels continue to go up at the Bryant, a 33-story mixed-use tower in Midtown from HFZ Capital Group. The tower is designed by David Chipperfield Architects in their signature modernist style that emphasizes a rationalist grid of windows and structure. Rather than rely on the exposed concrete structure, as seen in similar towers like 432 Park Avenue, the structural members are instead clad in precast concrete terrazzo panels. The windows, one of which has been installed on the north facade, are actually full-height sliding doors with a metal railing of vertical pickets. KPF's 27 Wooster in SoHo has also employed this strategy with its sliding glass doors and perforated metal and glass railing.
Northwest corner from Bryant Park.
The tower will offer a mix of uses including a 230-key hotel on floors 2 through 15, 57 condominium apartments on floors 16 through 33, and ground floor retail and restaurant. Amenities in the tower include lobby lounge, fitness center, bike storage and hotel specific amenities.
Northwest corner from West 40th Street.
Looking up at the north facade from West 40th Street.
Facade detail with window.
North facade
Looking up at the northeast corner from West 40th Street.
Northeast corner.
Architect: David Chipperfield Architects; Developer: HFZ Capital Group; Program: Residential, Hotel, Retail; Location: Midtown, New York, NY; Completion: 2017.
16 West 40th Street - The Bryant
Installation of the precast concrete terrazzo facade panels is underway at HFZ Capital Group's 16 West 40th Street tower, designed by David Chipperfield Architects.
Facade panels have started to go up and superstructure continues to rise at the Bryant, a 33-story mixed-use tower in Midtown from HFZ Capital Group. The tower, whose structure has reached the fourteenth floor, is designed by David Chipperfield Architects in their signature modernist style that emphasizes a rationalist grid of windows and structure. Rather than rely on the exposed concrete structure, as seen in similar towers like 432 Park Avenue, the structural members are instead clad in precast concrete terrazzo panels. The windows, which have yet to be installed, are actually full-height sliding doors with a metal railing of vertical pickets. KPF's 27 Wooster in SoHo has also employed this strategy with its sliding glass doors and perforated metal and glass railing.
Looking east along West 40th Street.
The tower will offer a mix of uses including a 230-key hotel on floors 2 through 15, 57 condominium apartments on floors 16 through 33, and ground floor retail and restaurant. Amenities in the tower include lobby lounge, fitness center, bike storage and hotel specific amenities.
Looking up at the north facade.
Lower floors of the north facade.
Lower floors of the north facade.
Looking up at the north facade.
Panels installed on the ground floor of the north facade.
Panels installed on the ground floor of the north facade.
Closeup of the precast concrete terrazzo panel.
Looking west along West 40th Street.
Architect: David Chipperfield Architects; Developer: HFZ Capital Group; Program: Residential, Hotel, Retail; Location: Midtown, New York, NY; Completion: 2017.
16 West 40th Street - The Bryant
David Chipperfield's mixed use tower, the Bryant, begins to rise in Midtown.
Superstructure has started to rise at the Bryant, a 33-story mixed use tower in Midtown from HFZ Capital Group. The tower, whose structure has reached the seventh floor, is designed by David Chipperfield Architects in their signature modernist style that emphasizes a rationalist grid of windows and structure. Employing a strategy seen previously on KPF's 27 Wooster in SoHo, the windows are actually full-height sliding doors with a metal railing of vertical pickets. Rather than rely on the exposed concrete structure, as seen in similar towers like 432 Park Avenue, the structural members are instead clad in a precast concrete terrazzo panels.
The tower will offer a mix of uses including a 230-key hotel on floors 2 through 15, 57 condominium apartments on floors 16 through 33, and ground floor retail and restaurant. Amenities in the tower include lobby lounge, fitness center, bike storage and hotel specific amenities. Completion is slated for 2017.
Looking east along West 40th Street.
The north facade from West 40th Street.
The north facade from West 40th Street.
Looking west along West 40th Street.
Architect: David Chipperfield Architects; Developer: HFZ Capital Group; Program: Residential, Hotel, Retail; Location: Midtown, New York, NY; Completion: 2017.
7 Bryant Park
Installation of curtain wall is almost complete at Pei Cobb Freed's 7 Bryant Park, a 450-foot-tall, 30-story office building on the fringes of Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan. The tower joins other recent additions to the area, like COOKFOX's angular One Bryant Park. Overall, the tower's form is a simple rectangular extrusion with requisite zoning setback on the tenth floor and a conical subtraction at the northeast corner. This rather odd massing gestures faces the park and provides the building's signature element. The design of the curtain wall is a basic glass and linen finish stainless steel spandrel panel that gives the building a heavily striped appearance, bucking the recent trend of suppressing the solid spandrels in other new office buildings throughout the city. When completed later this year, the tower will bring 471,000 rentable square feet to the area, including 6,200 square feet of ground floor retail.
Northeast corner from Bryant Park.
Looking west from Bryant Park with One Bryant Park (far right) and 7 Bryant Park (far left).
Frozen fountain in Bryant Park.
Northeast corner from Sixth Avenue.
Detail of canopy and conical incision at the northeast corner.
North façade from West 40th Street.
Northwest corner from West 40th Street.
East façade from Sixth Avenue.
Southeast corner from Sixth Avenue.
Architects: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects LLP; Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti; MEP Engineer: Jaros Baum & Bolles; Developer: Hines with Pacolet Milliken Enterprises; Program: Office, Retail; Location: Midtown, New York, NY; Completion:2015.
7 Bryant Park
Architects: Pei Cobb Freed; Program: Office, Retail; Location: New York, NY; Completion: 2015.
Installation of curtain wall panels has begun on the second floor of the 30-story office tower at 7 Bryant Park. The panels consist of a low iron IGU (Insulated Glazing Unit) and a linen finish stainless steel spandrel panel that will give the building a strong horizontal banding appearance when finished.
The conical incisions at the corner facing Bryant Park are already apparent in the steel structure that has reached the 16th floor. This gesture culminates in the 48 foot diameter stainless steel clad entry canopy, the structure for which has already been installed on site.