497 Greenwich Street New York City
1 Architect: Archi-tectonics—Winka Dubbeldam, principal in charge; Ana Sotrel, project leader; Michael Hundsnurscher, Nicola Bauman, Amy Farina, Deborah Kully, Stacey Mariash, Ty Tikari, Leo Yung, Beatrice Witzgall, Tanja Bitzer, project team Architect of record: David Hotson Architect Client: Take One—Jonathon Carroll Engineers: Buro Happold (structural); Gabor M. Szakal (mechanical) Consultants: Shen Milsom & Wilke (acoustical); Israel Berger (curtain wall) General contractor: York Hunter Size: 23 lofts plus retail on ground
floor, 77,000 square feet Cost: Withheld Completion date: October 2004 Sources Structural steel: Canatal Industries Steel erectors: Millennium Steel Concrete masonry: Anchor Concrete Curtain wall: UAD Group
WINKA DUBBELDAM SLIPS A CRYSTALLINE BUILDING INTO THE TIGHT URBAN FABRIC OF A LOWER WEST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD. By Clifford A. Pearson
Fold paper and you give it extra strength and, in the right hands, added beauty. Fold glass and you get an “inhabitable facade,” says Winka Dubbeldam of the 11-story loft building that her firm, Archi-tectonics, completed in October. Using bent glass and a fluid approach to geometry, Dubbeldam created a curtain wall with depth, a street front that envelopes space as much as it separates inside from out. Set on the western edge of SoHo, which had retained a gritty industrial demeanor until recently, the building at 497 Greenwich Street injects a rousing dose of 21st-century Modernism while engaging the past. The new structure rises alongside and then extends over its six-story, 19thcentury neighbor to the south, drawing the older brick building into an architectural tango. On the inside, the two buildings work as one, with all floors aligned and a common service core.
EIFS: Dryvit Systems Wood/aluminum windows: H-Windows Glazing: Floral Glass Glass-curtain-wall doors: Kawneer Kitchen cabinets and island:
Ricicla system by Valucine Kitchen contractor: New Industries
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Program While New York City developers have been riding a booming residential market over the past several years, almost all of the apartment towers they’ve built have been numbingly formulaic in terms of floor plans and exterior design. Jonathon Carroll, a London banker who had hired Dubbeldam to design a New York apartment for him in the late 1990s, looked at the situation and
saw an opportunity to do something different. Wary of a stock market that he correctly saw as overvalued, he decided in 1999 to invest his money in real estate instead. And rather than the cookie-cutter apartment towers rising all over Manhattan, he asked Dubbeldam to design spacious lofts in a building
that would generate some architectural excitement. By inserting a new building on the street and incorporating the empty six-story warehouse next door, the architect could create 23 living units and provide space on the ground floor for an art gallery or stores, as well
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Curved glass: Cricursa