It was only back in March when the excavation work started up at the empty lot on 306-308 West 116th Street but the reported 8-story construction has already gone up to six floors as of this week. The lower photo shows the land sale and development rendering for this location back in 2009 but there apparently was a more futuristic proposal a few years earlier for the site just around the corner from FDB. Check out the rendering after the jump.
An old image via Wired.com from 2006 shows the original design by the architects at Gryzwinski Pons which would have been "distinguished by a bright white façade of a concrete aggregate with titanium dioxide that is reputed to be self-cleaning." We are not sure what happened to this idea but the land went up for sale 3 years later with a totally different design proposal for the development. Read more about the modernist original in the Wired article:
LINK. At the end of the day, either sketches might have gone out the window so everyone will have to wait to see how this one finally turns out. For more details on the so-called Morningside development, check out our past post:
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I so prefer the third photo, it has a neo-classical look to it with the pillars and brick facade. Looks so much better than the 'futuristic' titanium whatever.
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