“We began with the concept, that all rental apartments in Manhattan originate in an apartment for rent’ advertisement in the Sunday paper. Expanding upon this we organized the building into a series of ‘newspaper sections’, Recognizing that all residents predilections fall somewhere between ‘ Page 6 ‘ and the sports pages. The layered composition of the facade reveals this expressive vocabulary; Dialectical concerns such as voyeurism vs.introspection and exposure vs.protection can be gleaned through the treatment or the skin. Primitive fears over security are assuaged through the rusticated treatment of the ground floor with a ‘bridge’, spanning the limenal space that divides city from residences” -Adam Kushner Partner/Architect. Adding atop an existing building proved to be a real test of our construction capabilities and opened up a new prosperous avenue of work for our young company at the time
Architect Kushner Studios
Contract Price $1,700,000.00
Program16.000 Sf building, ground floor restaurant, 16 rental units, penthouse duplex, roof, and sun deck.
WHAT
New Residential Construction / Vertical Enlargement / Gut Renovation.
WHERE
Murry Hill, New York City
WHEN
March 2001