83 Thompson Street
Selldorf Architects · SoHo · 2025
Northeast corner from Spring and Thompson Street.
Facade installation is wrapping up at CBSK Development and Planet Partners’ residential condo building 83 Thompson Street in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. Designed by Selldorf Architects, the seven-story building replaces a previous two-story structure designed by Louis A. Sheinart in 1921. The facade features orange/red sanded brick in a stacked bond, with mahogany wood-framed tilt/turn windows and terracotta accents. Chocolate-toned glazed terracotta lintels, jambs, and sills surround and accent the wood window frames. A combination of matte and glazed terracotta, in the same chocolate tone, clads the cornices of the roof and the storefront. On the northeast corner windows, cylindrical terracotta corner posts reference the cast iron detailing of the neighborhood. Matte terracotta also clads the setback volume of the penthouse on the seventh floor.
North facade from Spring Street.
Looking up at the north facade from Spring Street.
Northeast corner from Spring Street.
Close-up of the north facade.
Close-up of the north facade.
Close-up of the northeast corner.
Close-up of the northeast corner.
Close-up of the northeast corner.
Close-up of the north facade.
Architect and Interior Design: Selldorf Architects; Developers: CBSK Development and Planet Partners; Program: Residential Condo; Location: SoHo, New York, NY; Completion: 2025.
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: 150 Wooster
Looking south from Houston Street.
Construction has wrapped up at 150 Wooster, an 8-story residential building developed and designed by KUB Capital. The building replaces a 1-story retail structure and parking lot and required approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission due to its location in the historic SoHo neighborhood.
Close-up of the parapet at the northwest corner.
The Wooster Street facade features a pallet of materials inspired by the neighborhood. Indiana limestone framed punch windows are set in a field of handmade Petersen bricks from Denmark. The storefront and residential entry base, as well as the cornice, feature cast iron details.
Close-up of the top floor.
Close-up of the parapet at the northwest corner.
Close-up of the west facade.
The building offers five full floor residences and a duplex penthouse at the top two floors. Two retail spaces at 5,000 square feet each are located at the ground floor.
Looking up at the west facade.
Entry canopy.
Looking up at the west facade.
Close-up of the west facade.
Residential entry and retail at the ground floor.
Design Architect/Developer: KUB Capital; Architect of Record: HTO Architect; Landscape Architect: Future Green; Program: Residential, Retail; Location: SoHo, New York, NY; Completion: 2017.
325 West Broadway
Exterior work has wrapped up at DDG's XOCO 325, the nine-story, 21-unit residential condo and retail development at 325 West Broadway. The project is built on the site of a former chocolate factory, hence the name XOCO, the Catalan word for chocolate.
Construction scaffolding has been completely removed from the West Broadway elevation, fully revealing the wood and glass ground floor façade and the signature cast-aluminum screen above. Referencing the historic neighborhood's cast-iron facades, XOCO 325's screen floats above the future ground floor retail space and creates a space for vertical gardens in front of the glass window wall. The design of the screen evokes the imagery of bones or joints. Burlap was integrated into the formwork at the street facing side of the screen, providing a unique pattern for each unit. On the opposite, unit-facing side of the screen, an imprint of a worker's hand was CNC milled into the formwork to provide further texture.
Architect/Developer: DDG; Program: Residential, Retail; Location: SoHo, New York, NY; Completion: 2016.
10 Sullivan Street
Construction scaffolding has come down, fully revealing Cary Tamarkin's 10 Sullivan tower in SoHo.
Construction scaffolding has come down at 10 Sullivan, the 16-story tower from Property Markets Group and Madison Equities. Located on the boundary of the SoHo and emerging Hudson Square neighborhoods, the tower occupies a triangular shaped site at the intersection of Avenue of the Americas and Sullivan Street.
Looking north along the Avenue of the Americas.
The tower is designed by Cary Tamarkin of Tamarkin Co. and Montroy Anderson DeMarco with a nod to the industrial past of the neighborhood. Black and blonde Norman brick clad the exterior along with industrial style, divided light windows. Details such as corbelled brick piers provide texture and interest to the facade. Inside, the tower contains 19 residential units that each occupy a full floor, with the exception of the duplex penthouse on floors 12 and 13 and the four floor penthouse on floors 14 through 16 and the rooftop.
Looking north along the Avenue of the Americas.
Close-up of the west facade.
Looking up at the west facade.
Looking up at the west facade.
Northwest corner of the tower.
Also included in the development are four, four-story townhouses to the north of the tower. Scaffolding still shrouds these 4-bedroom units, which lags the progress of the tower.
Looking south along the Avenue of the Americas.
Looking south along the Avenue of the Americas.
Looking south along Sullivan Street.
Looking up at the east facade.
Architect: Tamarkin Co. and Montroy Andersen DeMarco (MADGI); Developer: Madison Equities & Property Markets Group (PMG); Program: Residential; Location: SoHo, New York, NY; Completion: 2016.
