335 E 27 - Carmel Place
New York's first micro units apartment building, Carmel Place, has started to reveal its monochromatic brick facade.
Installation of the brick facade is wrapping up at Monadnock Development's micro unit apartment building at 335 East 27th Street, also known as Carmel Place. The monochromatic facade is composed of grey brick in a gradient of four tones, from dark grey at the tallest northern bay to light grey of the shortest southern bay. Now that brick installation is complete, the scaffolding that has shrouded the project since the stacking completed has started to come down, revealing the facade.
Designed by nARCHITECTS, the project is the first micro units apartment building in New York and consists of 55 studio apartments for both market rate and affordable tenants. Each apartment is one module, offering 260 to 360 square feet of space. All modules were fabricated at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Completion of the project is slated for sometime this year.
East elevation from First Avenue.
East elevation from First Avenue.
Close-up of the east facade at the upper floors.
East elevation from First Avenue.
Southeast corner.
Close-up of the southeast facade at the upper floors.
Looking up at the south facade.
Southwest corner from Mount Carmel Place.
West elevation from Mount Carmel Place.
Northwest corner from Mount Carmel Place.
North elevation.
Architect: nARCHITECTS; Module Manufacturer: Capsys; Developer: Monadnock Development; Program: Residential; Location: Kips Bay, New York, NY; Completion: 2016.
335 E 27 - Carmel Place
Stacking has completed at Monadnock Development's micro unit apartment building at 335 East 27th Street, recently renamed Carmel Place. The last of the project's 66 modular units was lifted into place late last week. Designed by nARCHITECTS, the project is the first micro units apartment building in New York and consists of 55 studio apartments for both market rate and affordable tenants. Each apartment is one module, offering 260 to 360 square feet of space. All modules were fabricated at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Now that the unit stacking has completed, the exterior brick facade should soon begin installation. Completion of the project is slated for late 2015.
West elevation from Bellevue Park South.
Northwest corner from Mount Carmel Place.
Time sequence of unit stacking from the northwest corner.
Southwest corner from Mount Carmel Place.
Southeast corner.
East elevation from First Avenue.
East elevation.
Architect: nARCHITECTS; Module Manufacturer: Capsys; Developer: Monadnock Development; Program: Residential; Location: Kips Bay, New York, NY; Completion: Late Fall 2015.
335 E 27 - Carmel Place
Stacking has reached the fourth floor at Carmel Place, the 10-story micro units development from Monadnock Development in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan. Designed by nARCHITECTS, the project is the first micro units apartment building in New York and consists of 55 studio apartments for both market rate and affordable tenants. Each apartment is one module, all of which were fabricated at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Even by New York apartment standards these studios will be tiny, offering only 260 to 360 square feet of space. Due to current zoning laws that restrict apartments of less than 400 square feet, the project required former Mayor Bloomberg to waive those regulations. To mitigate the tight quarters, apartments have been designed with 9'-8" tall ceilings to increase natural light and amenities that provide for communal activities and storage have been spread throughout the building's 66 modules. Stacking should continue through June with full building completion expected by late fall.
Southwest corner from Mount Carmel Place.
Module on site preparing to be lifted for stacking.
Northwest corner from Mount Carmel Place.
Module on site awaiting its placement.
Detail of the modules on the west facade.
Southwest corner of the stacked tower.
Southeast corner of the stacked tower.
Architect: nARCHITECTS; Module Manufacturer: Capsys; Developer: Monadnock Development; Program: Residential; Location: Kips Bay, New York, NY; Completion: Late Fall 2015.
Atlantic Yards B2 Tower
There is steady progress at the site of the future world's tallest modular tower. According to ESD and Forest City Ratner, 246 modules out of approximately 960 have been delivered and installed to date. The 32 story tower is composed of three main volumes, each with their own unique facade articulation. The red and grey paneled volume along Flatbush Avenue has approximately reached its half way mark in height, while the second volume of light grey panels along Dean Street has seen the installation of 4 out of 18 floors of modules. The third volume of the tower will rise above the lower two. When completed, the 346,000 square foot tower will bring 363 rental apartments to the area, half of which will fall under the affordable housing program.
The west facade of the Barclays Center (left) and the B2 tower (right) on Flatbush Avenue.
Detail of the corner facade at Flatbush Avenue and the Barclays Center arena.
Detail of the Flatbush Avenue facade.
The corner of Flatbush Avenue and Dean Street.
The Dean Street facade.
Detail of the Dean Street facade.
Corner detail of the Dean Street facade.
The corner of the Dean Street facade.
Looking west along Dean Street.
Architects: SHoP Architects; Developers: Forest City Ratner; Program: Residential; Location: Atlantic Yards, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2015.
Atlantic Yards B2 Tower
Installation of prefab units has resumed onsite at the Atlantic Yards B2 tower, after a month long installation stoppage. Currently, unit installation has progressed to the eighth floor of the 32-story building. Projected completion of the tower has been recently pushed back to the latter half of 2015 as installation of prefab units has proceeded at a much slower pace than originally promised.
Looking east along Dean Street.
Looking north along Dean Street.
A Dean Street module lifted for installation.
Installation of a Dean Street module.
Looking west at the corner of Dean Street and 6th Avenue.
The seventh floor has introduced a new module type of light grey, perforated metal panel amongst the black metal panel modules below.
A new module type on the seventh floor facing 6th Avenue.
Module detail.
Looking south along 6th Avenue.
Module delivered to the site.
Preparing to lift a module for installation.
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Architects: SHoP Architects; Developers: Forest City Ratner; Program: Residential; Location: Atlantic Yards, Brooklyn, NY; Completion: 2015.
Atlantic Yards B2 Tower
Architects: SHoP Architects; Program: Residential; Location: New York, NY; Completion: 2014.
Modular units have now reached the fifth floor of SHoP Architects' first tower of the Atlantic Yards project. The pace appears to be about a floor every two weeks which would mean there are 13.5 remaining months in this 32 story tower. I suspect the pace will quicken as experience with installation grows. With the fifth floor you can start to read a color shift in the window unit frames from white to black on the southwest corner volume. According to the project renderings, the next floor will introduce a lighter toned third wall type to the tower on the northeastern side.