Construction Update: 181 Mercer Street
Southeast corner from Houston Street.
Facade installation is ongoing at NYU’s 23-story mixed use building 181 Mercer at the northern edge of SoHo. Designed by KieranTimberlake and Davis Brody Bond, the full block structure features faculty and student housing, 58 classrooms, performing arts spaces including a 350-seat theater, a student commons space on the second floor, and athletic facilities at the base. Installation of the pleated glass curtain wall with glare reducing frit patterns is nearly finished at the podium and panels are going up on the towers.
Northeast corner.
Looking up at the south facade from Houston Street.
Southwest corner from Houston Street.
Close-up of the south podium facade.
Southwest corner from Houston Street.
Southwest corner from Houston Street.
West facade of 181 Mercer (right) and Picasso’s Bust of Sylvette (left) from NYU’s Silver Towers.
Architects: KieranTimberlake and Davis Brody Bond; Client: New York University (NYU); Program: Faculty and Student Housing, Classrooms, Performing Arts, Athletic Facility, and Commons; Location: SoHo, New York, NY; Completion: 2021.
Construction Update: 181 Mercer Street
Southeast corner from Houston Street.
Superstructure has topped out at NYU’s 23-story mixed use building 181 Mercer at the northern edge of SoHo. Designed by KieranTimberlake and Davis Brody Bond, the full block structure features faculty and student housing, 58 classrooms, performing arts spaces including a 350-seat theater, a student commons space on the second floor, and athletic facilities at the base. Installation of the pleated glass curtain wall with glare reducing frit patterns is underway at the podium on the southwest corner.
Looking up at the south facade from Houston Street.
Southwest corner from Houston Street.
Close-up of the south podium facade.
Close-up of the southwest podium facade.
Southwest corner from Houston Street.
Close-up of the west podium facade.
Southwest corner from Houston Street.
West facade of 181 Mercer (right) and Picasso’s Bust of Sylvette (left) from NYU’s Silver Towers.
Architects: KieranTimberlake and Davis Brody Bond; Client: New York University (NYU); Program: Faculty and Student Housing, Classrooms, Performing Arts, Athletic Facility, and Commons; Location: SoHo, New York, NY; Completion: 2021.
NYU Basic Sciences Building at 433 First Avenue
Construction Update:
Facade installation continues at NYU's Basic Sciences Building in Kips Bay, with most of the terracotta panels in place. The 170,000 square foot home of NYU's College of Nursing, the College of Dentistry, and the bio-engineering program should be completed later this year.
Looking east along East 26th Street.
The north facade on East 26th Street.
The north facade on East 26th Street.
The corner of East 26th Street and First Avenue.
Facade detail.
Facade detail.
The corner of East 26th Street and First Avenue.
Facade detail.
Facade detail.
Facade detail.
The east facade on First Avenue.
NYU Basic Sciences Building at 433 First Avenue
Architects: KPF and EYP; Program: Education; Location: New York, NY; Completion: 2014.
Work is progressing on the exterior building envelope at NYU's 170,000 square foot new building for the College of Nursing, the College of Dentistry, and the bio-engineering program. The majority of the facade consists of tan terracotta panels and large expanses of glass to accentuate the corners and the First Avenue elevation with smaller openings of varying widths that extend outward along the facade. Wood trims the large glass opening that are pushed inward along the lower volume of the building and the large corner of glass at the top floor.