601 Baltic
Grid Group · Boerum Hill · 2023
Construction has wrapped up at residential condo building 601 Baltic in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. Designed and developed by Grid Group, the 10-story building features a brick facade with oversize casement windows and metal fin accents. The development offers 21 condo residences ranging in size from two- to three-bedrooms, with many including private outdoor space. Residents will have access to an amenity package that includes a rooftop terrace, fitness studio, attended lobby, and private storage.
Model Residences
Rooftop Views
View to the northwest towards Downtown Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan.
View to the northeast towards Pacific Park.
Developer/Architect/Builder: Grid Group; Program: Residential Condo; Location: Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2023.
60 Front Street - Olympia Dumbo
Hill West · Dumbo · 2023
Construction has wrapped up at Fortis Property Group’s residential condo tower Olympia at 30 Front Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Designed by Hill West Architects, the 33-story tower’s massing resembles a sail and sits on a triangular shaped site. The tower is clad in large glass panels with horizontal and vertical metal panel accents. Private terraces at each floor cascade down the tower’s northwest corner, giving residents a panoramic view of the East River waterfront and Lower Manhattan.
Amenities
Residents will have access to 38,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor amenities on three floors. The ground floor program includes a porte cochere, triple height lobby, gardens and adjacent garden lounge. At the roof of the podium amenities include a indoor lap pool, outdoor pool and hot tub, dry sauna, steam room, tennis court, and shipwreck playground. The club level will offer a fitness center, spin studio, boxing gym, two-lane bowling alley, club lounge, and lighthouse playroom.
Model Residences
The development offers 76 condo units ranging in size from 1-to-5 bedrooms, many with panoramic views of the Brooklyn and Manhattan skyline. Interiors for the residences are designed by Workstead and feature kitchens with textured maple cabinetry, satin-finished stainless steel, and honed Fior di Bosco marble countertops and backsplashes. Many units feature full width terraces with panoramic views of the waterfront.
Architect: Hill West Architects; Interiors: Workstead; Landscape Architect: MPFP; Developer: Fortis Property Group; Program: Residential Condo; Location: Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2023.
Tour: 430 East 58th Street - Sutton Tower
Construction has wrapped up at 67-story residential condo tower Sutton Tower on the Upper East Side by Gamma Real Estate and JVP Management. Designed by Thomas Juul-Hansen, the 850-foot-tall tower features a slim rectangular massing with beveled corners. The tower is clad in a facade of Bavarian Limestone panels and floor-to-ceiling windows. As the tower rises, the solid panels decrease in width and the glass panels increase, giving the appearance of a lighter tower at the upper floors. Balconies are also present on the southern facade of the upper penthouse floors, offering panoramic views of Midtown and beyond. At the tower’s crown, a pale gold frieze of geometric facets evokes the city’s art deco past.
Residents will have access to four floors of amenities that include: a lounge, outdoor dining terrace, library, media room, private garden, fitness center with yoga and dance studios, spa, steam rooms, and a 50-foot-long swimming pool.
Penthouse Residential Unit
Residences feature wide-plank rift and quarter sawn solid oak floors in a custom stain.
Kitchens feature Italian-crafted cabinetry and honed Statuarietto marble at countertops, backsplash, islands, and insets.
Model Residence
Bathrooms feature floor-to-ceiling Bianco Dolomiti marble at the walls, double wash basins carved from a single block of Bianco Dolomiti marble, and custom-crafted Italian lacquer cabinetry. Cabinet pulls are custom designed and finished in polished chrome.
Architect: Thomas Juul-Hansen (Design Architect), SBJ Group (Executive Architect); Developer: Gamma Real Estate, JVP Management; Program: Residential Condo; Location: Sutton Place, New York, NY; Completion: 2023.
The Perelman Center
REX · Financial District · 2023
Southeast corner with 1 World Trade Center (left) and 7 World Trade Center (right) behind.
Construction has wrapped up at the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center. Designed by REX, the massing features a cube that is elevated and rotated above the complexity of program at and below grade. The cube is wrapped in a facade of translucent, veined marble laminated within insulated glass. The Perelman Center houses three auditoriums to produce and premiere original works of theater, dance, music, film, and opera.
East facade.
Architect: REX (Design Architect), Davis Brody Bond (Executive Architect); Client: Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center; Program: Performing Arts Center; Location: Financial District, New York, NY; Completion: 2023.
Construction Update: 77 Commercial Street - Tower 77
Facade installation is wrapping up at Clipper Equity’s Tower 77, a two-tower residential condo development at 77 Commercial Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Designed by CetraRuddy, the project massing features a 7-story podium with 30 and 40-story towers on a waterfront site adjacent to the future Box Street Park and Greenpoint Landing. The facade features a bronze toned metal panel grid with large inset windows throughout the podium and towers, topped by an all glass volume at the last five floors of the tower.
Architect: CetraRuddy; Developer: Clipper Equity; Program: Residential Condo, Retail; Location: Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2023.
1 West 60th Street - Anagram Columbus Circle
Southeast corner of the tower from Columbus Circle.
Facade installation is wrapping up at Global Holdings’ Anagram Columbus Circle, a 123-unit residential rental tower in Midtown. Designed by INC Architecture, the tower is clad in bands of hand-laid brick and 7-foot-tall glass with metal spandrel panels. The form of the tower features rounded corners at the Central Park facing northeast and southeast corners.
Close-up of the southeast corner of the tower facade.
Close-up of the south facade.
Residents will have access to 13,000-square-feet of indoor and outdoor amenities on three levels. An indoor and outdoor lounge will occupy the rooftop at level 27, with views of Central Park and the Billionaire’s Row skyline. On level 2 there will be a double-height resident’s Clubhouse overlooking Broadway and the Conservatory private garden, a Signature Bar also overlooking the garden, a conference room, and private phone booths for work at home. Level 1 will contain a resident’s lounge, the Turf virtual simulation space for golf and games, a Sound Lounge practice and performance room, a Star Lounge and Study space, the Game Den teen lounge, a Central Park Kit Room with park equipment, the Anagram Zoo children’s playroom, and the Fitness Lab.
View southeast towards Midtown from the rooftop terrace.
View north towards the Upper West Side from the rooftop terrace.
Model Residences
Rental residences range in size from studios to four-bedrooms and will offer condo quality finishes. Kitchens will feature custom Italian imported cabinetry, cloudburst Caesarstone countertops, Bosch appliances for studio to two-bedroom residences, Wolf appliances for three and four-bedroom residences, built-in refrigerated wine cabinets in select residences, and custom suspended lighting pendent. Bathrooms will feature terrazzo with radiant heated flooring and custom vanities with integrated illuminated medicine cabinetry.
Architect: INC Architecture (Design Architect); SLCE Architects (Architect of Record); Developer: Global Holdings; Program: Residential Rental; Location: Upper West Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2023
Construction Tour: 1295 Madison Avenue - The Wales
Southwest corner from Madison Avenue.
Construction scaffolding has come down at the renovation of the Wales, a 10-story landmarked Neo-Renaissance building on the Upper East Side. Originally built in 1899 by architect Louis Korn, the former hotel is now being converted into condo residences by developer Adellco with interiors by Cabinet Alberto Pinto. Along with restoring the cornices, quoins, and brickwork of the facade, the project has also added a new entablature from the original architect’s design. The project offers 21 residential units ranging in size from two- to four-bedrooms, along with a five-bedroom penthouse in a new structure at the roof.
Residential entrance lobby.
Fitness center.
Architect: FORM4 Design Studio; Interiors: Cabinet Alberto Pinto; Developer: Adellco; Program: Residential Condo; Location: Carnegie Hill, New York, NY; Completion: 2023.
Construction Update: 540 Hudson
West facade from Hudson Street.
Facade installation is wrapping up at Aurora Capital Associates and William Gottlieb Real Estate’s residential building at 540 Hudson Street in the West Village. Designed by Morris Adjmi Architects, the seven story building is clad in hand laid brick by Belden Tristate Building Materials and large punched casement windows with simulated divided lites. A three foot projecting brick cornice caps the exterior wall.
Southwest corner from Hudson Street and Charles Street.
Close-up of the southwest corner.
Close-up of the south facade.
Looking up at the west facade.
West facade from Hudson Street.
Architect: Morris Adjmi Architects; Developers: Aurora Capital Associates and William Gottlieb Real Estate; General Contractor: Titanium Construction Services; Program: Residential, Retail; Location: Greenwich Village, New York, NY; Completion: 2023.
Construction Update: PENN 2
Northeast corner of PENN2 in the fall of 2020, prior to the reclad.
Facade installation is ongoing at commercial tower PENN 2 at Two Penn Plaza in Midtown by developer Vornado Realty Trust. The 1968 tower is undergoing an extensive renovation by MdeAS Architects that includes a recladding of the exterior with an updated curtain wall. Along with floor-to-ceiling glass, the new facade will feature corner loggias at the northwest and southwest corners, an extended base towards 7th Avenue, and a triple height lobby. Other amenities for the tower will include a 280-person town hall, casual lounges, rooftop pavilion, outdoor green space, and over an acre of outdoor terraces.
Looking up at the east facade of PENN 2 from 7th Avenue.
East facade of PENN 2 from West 32nd Street.
Architect: MdeAS Architects; Developer: Vornado Realty Trust; Program: Commercial Office; Location: Penn District, Midtown, New York; Completion: 2023.
Construction Update: 141 Willoughby
East facade from Flatbush Avenue.
Facade installation is nearing completion at Savanna Real Estate’s office tower 141 Willoughby in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by Fogarty Finger, the tower’s facade features a curtain wall of floor-to-ceiling glass and bronze toned metal panel. The expression of the horizontal banding between glazing increases in height from the ground floor to the roof, ranging from one floor to five floors between the horizontal bands of bronze.
Looking up at the east facade.
Southeast corner from Flatbush Avenue.
Southeast corner from Flatbush Avenue.
Closeup of the east facade.
Architect: Fogarty Finger (Design Architect), SLCE (Executive Architect); Developer: Savanna Real Estate; Program: Office, Retail; Location: Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: Early 2023.
