Yorkville gets a New Tower Design
- May 16, 2018
- Posted by: Paul
- Category: General Construction, Green Building, House Renovation, Uncategorized
Deborah Berke Partners has designed a 29-unit condominium with brick and cast-stone cladding at 40 East End Avenue from the Yorkville area of Manhattan. CreditRendering from Binyan Studios
After Mitchell C. Hochberg, the president of the real estate firm Lightstone, wanted an architect to design a brand new tower only a couple of blocks from his house in the Yorkville area of Manhattan, he did not need to look much better.
While residing near to somebody’s architect is suitable, it was not the principal reason he picked her company, Deborah Berke Partners, to style Lightstone’s brand new 29-unit condominium in 40 East End Avenue. Instead, he had been impressed with Ms. Berke’s tastefully honest work and capability to bridge old and new.
“She has an unbelievable aesthetic regarding blending traditional with modern sophistication,” explained Mr. Hochberg.
Also, he assumed that Ms. Berke would discuss his desire to realize a construction that played fine with the region’s prewar and midcentury neighbors. He added “a flying saucer.”
The outcome is a 19-story masonry construction with a mixture of light gray and charcoal bricks, along with ribbed cast stone details separating large casement windows, so a lot of which open wide to glass Juliet balconies.
At street level, there’s a porte-cochere with white marble walls. Close to the surface, where the construction steps back in the road, the cladding modifications to cast stone and many of the units have private terraces with gardens made by Gunn Landscape Architecture.
Indoors, Deborah Berke Partners made an intimately scaled lobby which connects to a double-height parlor having a superbly Art Deco look, such as a chevron-patterned floor of white and black marble and a curly bronze-and-marble staircase. The stairs contribute to amenity spaces around the next level, including a library, game room, catering kitchen, and gym.
The finishes in person apartments are upscale nevertheless intentionally straightforward, with white oak herringbone-patterned flooring, white lacquer Pedini kitchen closets with stainless steel inserts and beveled metal trim, and white Arabescato Cervaiole marble from the kitchens and master baths.
Some rooms also have compact plaster crown molding, ” he noted, with a look which is “more Deco than classical”
Yorkville might not possess the same urban buzz as popular downtown areas like NoHo and SoHo. However, James Lansill, a senior managing director at Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group, which is handling sales and marketing for the construction, stated that is, in fact, one of the region’s most important attractions.
He expects that the building is going to be given a good deal of attention from individuals who reside in the area and, he said, “want to upgrade to a building with more amenities and services, contemporary construction systems and greater end finishes.”
The job is only one block from 20 East End Avenue, a new condo designed by the last dean of the Yale School of Architecture, Robert A.M. Stern.
Regarding Ms. Berke’s neighbors, “They’ve been very complimentary,” she explained. 1 neighbor quizzed her about the option of brick, she noticed, “And then another neighbor was interested in buying two units.”
