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36 Journal Square Plaza - The Journal

Woods Bagot · Jersey City · 2025

Southwest corner from Sip Avenue.

Construction has wrapped up at Kushner’s two-tower residential rental development in the Journal Square neighborhood of Jersey City, New Jersey. Designed by Woods Bagot, the development sits adjacent to the Journal Square PATH station at its southern perimeter. Between the two towers the development offers 1,723 residential units ranging in size from studios to three-bedrooms.

Looking up at the west facade from Bergen Avenue.

The two 65-story towers and shared podium are clad in a blue glass curtain wall.

Residential entry.

Residential lobby.

Residential lobby.

Amenities

Residents have access to the Journal Club, a large assortment of amenities located at the base of the two towers. Amenities focused on heath and wellness include a fitness center, indoor basketball court, rock climbing wall, golf simulator, bowling lanes, yoga/barre studio, indoor pool and cold plunge, sauna and steam rooms, and outdoor pool and deck. On the entertainment and productivity side, there is a screening room, sports lounge, game room, party room, kids’ club, coworking lounge, library, and two rooftop terraces.

Model Residences

Architect: Woods Bagot; Interior Design: 11 Fifty Nine; Structural Engineer: WSP; Landscape Architect: OSD; General Contractor: AJD Construction; Developer: Kushner; Program: Residential Rental, Retail; Location: Journal Square, New Jersey; Completion: 2025.

 
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544 Carroll Street

Avery Hall · Gowanus · 2025

Northwest corner from 4th Avenue.

At the confluence of the Gowanus and Park Slope neighborhoods of Brooklyn stands a new residential rental tower, 544 Carol Street. Developed, designed, leased, and marketed by Avery Hall, the tower is part of the recent explosion in development surrounding the Gowanus Canal. The 17-story project is situated at the corner of 4th Avenue and Carroll Street, replacing a two-story commercial building.

Northwest corner from 4th Avenue.

The development offers 133 residences that range in size from one- to three-bedrooms and are sized between 650 and 2,500 square feet. At the upper end of unit size the development features some of the largest residences in the neighborhood. An additional 4-bedroom duplex spans approximately 2,500 square feet of indoor space and includes a private roof terrace and balcony. This unit recently leased for $25,000 per month, setting a record for the neighborhood.

East facade from 4th Avenue.

Looking up at the east facade from 4th Avenue.

Southeast corner from 4th Avenue.

Closeup of the facade at the northeast corner.

Closeup of the facade at the northeast corner.

Closeup of the east facade.

Amenity Spaces

Residential entry desk.

Residences have access to a range of amenities including a lobby with adjacent interior courtyard, ground floor resident study, fitness center with a dedicated Pilates studio, private dining room, resident lounge, communal rooftop with sunset terrace, “cave” play area for children, pet spa, bike storage, and on-site parking.

Residential entry lobby.

Residential entry lobby.

Residential entry lobby lounge.

Looking east towards the Gowanus neighborhood from the rooftop amenity space.

Fitness studio.

Fitness center.

Model Residences

Dining and living room.

Kitchen.

Bedroom.

Primary bathroom.

Architect/Developer: Avery Hall; Program: Residential Rental, Retail; Location: Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2026.

 
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200 East 75th Street

Beyer Blinder Belle · Upper East Side · 2025

Northwest corner from 3rd Avenue.

Construction has wrapped up at EJS Group’s 18-story residential tower at 200 East 75th Street on the Upper East Side. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle, the tower’s exterior features large windows, including some arched windows, set in a limestone and beige brick facade, with a light beige glazed terracotta that frames windows and accentuates the vertical piers.

Looking up at the west facade from East 75th Street.

Looking up at the west facade.

Residential entry at East 75th Street.

Residential entry.

Close-up of the north facade.

Facade detail of a window with glazed terra cotta frame.

The tower offers 35 condominium residences designed by Yellow House Architects, including five full-floor penthouses. Residences feature herringbone oak wood flooring throughout. Kitchens include Italian Statuario Extra honed-stone, along with Wolf and Sub Zero appliances. Highlights of the primary bathrooms include a freestanding soaking tub, steam shower, and custom millwork vanity with silver nickel hardware.

Rooftop Views

View to the southwest towards Midtown.

View to the west.

View to the west towards Central Park.

View to the northwest.

View to the northeast.

Amenities for residents will include a residential lobby with a mural by Dean Barger, an adjacent porte-cochere, fitness center, cinema, billiards room, music room with recording booth, children's & teen rooms, lounge, library, and catering kitchen with an adjacent private courtyard garden.

Architect: Beyer Blinder Belle; Interior Architect: Yellow House Architects; Developer: EJS Group; Program: Residential Condo; Location: Upper East Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2025.

 
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The Studio Museum in Harlem

Adjaye Associates · Harlem · 2025

North facade from West 125th Street.

Construction has wrapped up at the new 82,000 square foot home for The Studio Museum in Harlem on 125th Street. The museum, which has existed in a previous structure on the site since 1979, is dedicated to artists of African descent. Designed by Adjaye Associates with Cooper Robertson, the massing of the museum’s new 6-story structure features a stack of one and two-story volumes with large apertures that allow the public to glimpse the activity within. The exterior of the museum is clad in dark grey precast concrete and glass panels. Along with column free galleries, the building also includes an education center, theater, a studio for artists in residence, a cafe, and a rooftop terrace by Studio Zewde.

North facade.

Looking up at the north facade.

Facade detail.

Northwest corner from Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.

Close-up of the northwest corner.

Northwest corner from West 125th Street.

Looking up at the south facade from West 124th Street.

Looking up at the north facade from the main entry.

Entry lobby.

Looking down at the ground floor and The Stoop seating area.

Looking up at the dark grey, monolithic terrazzo stair.

Architects: Adjaye Associates (Design Architect), Cooper Robertson (Architect of Record); Construction Manager: Sciame Construction with McKissack & McKissack; Client: The Studio Museum in Harlem; Program: Museum; Location: Harlem, New York, NY; Completion: Fall 2025.

 
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349 West 51st Street - Linden Lane

Architecture Outfit · Hell’s Kitchen · 2025

Construction is nearing completion at Cadence Property Group’s residential condo building Linden Lane at 349 West 51st Street in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. Designed by Architecture Outfit, the 7-story through-block development features a custom blend of Norman-style Coppertone Velour brick and custom windows by AWM Windows along West 52nd Street facade. The courtyard facade introduces dark-toned Alfrex Rainscreen metal panels with large windows and private balconies.

When completed, the development will offer 32 residences ranging in size from one- to three-bedrooms. Layouts are varied and include duplex one-bedrooms, garden triplexes, and four penthouses with private terraces. A landscaped entryway and courtyard designed by LaGuardia Design Group will greet residents at the West 51st Street entry. Along with birch trees and seasonal plantings, a sculpture by artist Albert Dicruttalo will occupy this space.

Resident amenities will include a fitness center, yoga studio, meditation garden, co-working space, courtyard, and rooftop terrace with outdoor kitchenette, barbecue, lounge seating and dining areas.

Architect: Architecture Outfit; Landscape Architect: LaGuardia Design Group; Developer: Cadence Property Group; Program: Residential Condo; Location: Hell’s Kitchen, New York, NY; Completion: Late 2025.

 
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Public Plaza at One High Line

Diller Scofidio + Renfro / Field Operations · Chelsea · 2025

Construction has wrapped up at the new park adjacent to the High Line and the One High Line development. Designed by Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the public plaza features curvilinear concrete planters with wood slatted benches attached and freestanding. At the park’s northern boundary along 18th Street, there is a new staircase up to the High Line and a billboard that currently displays the artwork “Don’t ASK” by Allison Katz.

Architect: Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Landscape Architect: Field Operations; Program: Park; Location: High Line, New York, NY; Completion: 2025.

 
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270 Park Avenue

Foster + Partners · Midtown East · 2025

270 Park Avenue on the Midtown East skyline.

Construction has wrapped up at 270 Park Avenue, the headquarters of JPMorgan Chase in Midtown East. Designed by Foster + Partners, the supertall tower rises to 1,388 feet and offers 2.5 million square feet of office space for 15,000 employees. The form of the tower gradually steps back at the east and west facades and tapers on all four sides. At the ground floor, diagonal columns rise up to support the large trading room floors above.

East facade.

The tower’s 1.2 million square feet of facade features triple pane glass and insulated glass units that will help with thermal control of the building. Commercial bronze clads the twenty perimeter columns, while copper nickel alloy panels form the diamond shapes on the east and west facades. Level 17 will feature a walkable skylight with an eight feet tall wind screen. At the two-story base, sloping super columns and steel transfer girders transfer the gravity and lateral loads of the tower down to the ground

270 Park Avenue on the Midtown skyline.

Southwest corner of the tower.

Close-up of the west facade.

South facade from East 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue.

South facade from Vanderbilt Avenue.

Looking up at the south facade.

Southeast corner from Park Avenue.

Looking up at the west facade from Madison Avenue.

Looking up at the west facade from Madison Avenue.

Architects: Foster + Partners with Adamson Associates; Client: JPMorgan Chase; Structural Engineer: Severud Associates; Developer: Tishman Speyer; Program: Office; Location: Midtown East, New York, NY; Completion: 2025.

 
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Williamsburg Wharf

Brandon Haw Architecture · Williamsburg · 2025

Construction is wrapping up on the first three towers at Naftali Group’s Williamsburg Wharf residential development in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The five building development will occupy 3.75-acres with over 525 feet of waterfront. Landscape architecture firm SCAPE is leading the design of the green spaces, plazas, and promenade.

One Williamsburg Wharf, the first tower of the development’s first phase, is designed by Brandon Haw with Hill West Architects. The condominium tower offers residences ranging in size from studio to three-bedrooms, with six penthouse units at the tower crown. A second tower and connected podium offers residential rentals ranging in size from studio to two-bedrooms.

Looking up at the northwest corner of One Williamsburg Wharf.

Amenities for the residents include a private port cochere with double height motor and pedestrian entryways, private garden, library, co-working lounges with indoor and outdoor spaces, private dining room with kitchenette, private cinema, residents’ lounge, children’s playroom, outdoor terrace, bike storage, and pet grooming. Additionally, the Williamsburg Wharf Resort and Recreation Club will offer a multi-season rooftop, outdoor lounge with a 60-foot pool, seasonal ice skating rink, fitness facilities, yoga and flexible fitness area, lounges, and a basketball court.

Looking up at the northwest corner of One Williamsburg Wharf.

The towers feature custom curtain wall facades with a bronze-finished metal and low iron glass.

Southwest corner of One Williamsburg Wharf.

West facade of Three Williamsburg Wharf.

Port cochere entry portal at the east facade of Two Williamsburg Wharf.

Looking up at One and Three Williamsburg Wharf.

Looking towards the southeast corner of the rental tower from Kent Avenue.

Residential entry at One Williamsburg Wharf.

Residential lobby of One Williamsburg Wharf.

Residential lobby of One Williamsburg Wharf.

Residential lobby of One Williamsburg Wharf.

Looking down at the waterfront park and ferry terminal from One Williamsburg Wharf.

Looking down at the waterfront park and pool deck from One Williamsburg Wharf.

Looking down at the waterfront park from One Williamsburg Wharf.

Looking down at the waterfront park from One Williamsburg Wharf.

Looking up at the west facade of One Williamsburg Wharf.

West facade of Three Williamsburg Wharf.

Superstructure is nearing topping out on the last of the three towers that will be constructed in the first phase of the development. Curtain wall installation has surpassed the half-way mark of the tower, and features bronze-toned metal and glass panels.

Southwest corner of the rental tower.

West facade of the rental tower.

Southwest corner of the rental tower (left) and the west facade of Two Williamsburg Wharf (right).

West facade of the rental tower.

Architects: Brandon Haw, Hill West; Interiors: Ward + Gray, Studio Munge; Landscape Architecture: Scape; Developer: Naftali Group; Program: Residential Rentals and Condos, Retail; Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: Phase One in 2025.

 
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Solar One Environmental Education Center

BIG · Kips Bay · 2025

Construction is nearing completion on the Solar One Environmental Education Center at Stuyvesant Cove Park, part of the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project. Situated at the northern end of the park, the BIG designed two-story structure will house educational programming for Solar One, a leading sustainable energy non-profit. The building will house afterschool and summer camp programs, classroom space, presentation and lecture space, and a rentable hosting site for indoor community events, celebrations, workshops, and other opportunities. One major sustainable feature of the project will be the off-the-grid solar electricity generation from the rooftop 38kW solar array and battery storage.

East facade from the East River.

East facade of the Solar One Center and Stuyvesant Cove Park from the East River.

Southeast corner from the East River.

South facade from Stuyvesant Cove Park.

South and east facades from Stuyvesant Cove Park.

Close-up of the facade.

Architect: Bjarke Ingels Group; Program: Education; Location: Lower East Side, New York, NY; Completion: 2025.

 
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Wagner Park Pavilion

Thomas Phifer and Partners · Battery Park City · 2025

Construction is wrapping up at the Wagner Park Pavilion, part of the South Battery Park City Resiliency Project to construct a perimeter storm and flood protection system along the park’s boundary. In the wake of the millions in damages the park sustained from Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the Battery Park City Authority has undertaken a redesign of the park to help with future flooding. The level of the landscape and structures is raised from the previous park’s design, including the new Wagner Park Pavilion and Robert F. Wagner Park at the southern boundary. Designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners, the fully accessible pavilion will house a community room, restaurant, public restrooms, park storage, and a roof deck (opening later this fall) with views of the Hudson River and the Statue of Liberty. The project hopes to achieve ILFI Net-Zero Carbon Certification with sustainable features that will include geothermal heating and cooling, stormwater reclamation systems, LED lighting, and a highly insulated building envelope.

Facade fronting onto Battery Place.

Facade detail.

Facade detail.

Facade detail.

Facade detail.

Facade detail.

Facade detail.

West entry to the park and pavilion.

West facade of the pavilion.

South facade of the pavilion.

South facade of the pavilion from the stepped seating in the park.

South facade of the pavilion and the stepped seating from the park’s southern boundary.

South perimeter of the pavilion.

Architect: Thomas Phifer and Partners; Structural Engineer, Landscape Design, and Project Management: AECOM; MEP Engineering: Milhouse; Envelope: SGH; Program: Park Amenities; Location: Battery Park City, New York, NY; Completion: 2025.

 
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