497 Greenwich Street, Google Maps
Neighborhood: SoHo
Architect: Winka Dubbeldam, Archi-Tectonics
On the Lower West Side of Manhattan, a six-story warehouse is being renovated
to accompany a new glass-skin residential building of eleven stories. This
new building is a state-of-the-art luxury property, distinguished by its
glass façade - a ten thousand square-foot "curtain-wall." The once-abandoned
warehouse will be reinvigorated with living spaces and the addition of an
art gallery, gym and spa, screening room, wine cellar, and a duplex guest
apartment.
The integration of the existing brick building with the new steel and glass structure
will create a zone of mediation between the past and the present. A small crease
rising between the two structures, articulated with a set of cantilevered balconies,
juxtaposes and differentiates the old and the new, inserting an interactive space
into an otherwise neutral landscape. The crease as a system of inflections blurs
the distinction between the external and internal environments - marrying urban
experience with domestic privacy.
In the frontier beyond Varick, where the water meets the city, sits a charismatic little neighborhood. It is upon this trapezoidal region that three of downtown's major cultural districts converge. To the north, the West Village - home to sidewalk cafés and residential tranquility. To the east, SoHo - land of cast-iron resplendence, monument to style and commerce. To the south, TriBeCa - where finance and entrepreneurship have transformed a district of industry into a triangle of lofts.
Prices and floor plans
On all condominium sales in Manhattan - in our New York Condominiums section
Community
Discuss Greenwich Street Project at Wired New York Forum
Pictures of 497 Greenwich Street
Construction of 505 Greenwich Street nears completion, with 497 Greenwich to the right. 18 April 2004.
