The plans for a 22-story condo tower on the corner of 110th Street and Manhattan Avenue have finally been revealed. There have been permits for a new construction posted up on the DOB site for the past year but a rendering of the project did not come about until recently when architects GF55 published the final design on their website. This open lot facing Morningside Park has been vacant for several years and will now be one of the largest new developments to start up in the past couple of years in South Harlem. Activity on the site has already started in the past month so expect the 88-unit building to finish up in January 2014:
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Rendering via the GF55 website
To quote my role model, Bill the Cat, "Ack!"
ReplyDeleteI was thinking "ugh", but "ack" is also good. It looks completely out of place.
ReplyDeleteCould be better, but looks 10x better than the existing stuff down the street at 110 and CPW/FDB... Those buildings are just souless.
ReplyDeleteIt's fringe Harlem anyway. Id' say it's more Morningside Heights than Harlem, in terms of the nabe.
ReplyDelete@Beating Upwind. Someone on this blog described those buildings as being of the Attica school of architecture. I concur but also thnk someone knew someone who had an uncle in the concrete business and could get them a really great deal
ReplyDeleteHideous, but it will certainly bring a lot of new residents to support businesses along the FDB corridor. And the views will certainly be wonderful for residents without creating a tower int he midst of Harlem. It's certainly less ugly than the beige concrete monoliths around FD circle.
ReplyDeleteThis building rendering is not that bad, it tries to pay homage to all that is surrounding it and for that I give them kudos. After all we have seen some monstrosities that don't even bother to try to fit in.
ReplyDeleteIt is tall, but I think it looks pretty good. Sort of serves as a bridge between the giant glass Avalon Tower to its west and those concrete towers to its east/south.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the above. I think it looks decent. It's not some amazing work of architecture, but I'm okay with that. Not sure what the people complaining about context want. If you have to complain, demand the concrete blocks next door get torn down.
ReplyDeleteFor me it makes a positive statement, when compared to the depressing concrete building next door and also by introducing more market rate individuals into Harlem, I would welcome this in central Harlem.
ReplyDeleteWhat's wrong with it? Much better than an empty lot!
ReplyDeleteI like it - it will be a positive and welcome addition! I live on the 17th floor of the "depressing concrete monoliths" from the "Attica school of architecture" - say what you will but I have the B/C line a mere ten feet from my front door and my unobstructed views of Central Park and the east side & midtown skyline are some of the best in the city. Like my mama always said "get beyond what you see on the outside - it's what comes from the inside that matters". But yes, sadly they were indicative of a brief, but brutal, period in architecturally history.
ReplyDeleteyes could be better, but could be far worse. and it is contextual when you realize its next to the very unatractive Towers on the Park.
ReplyDeleteBut G55 builds affordable....who is to say this is market rate?
Please no more so called affordable housing. the down turn has proven that un taxpayer subsidized housing becomes "affordable" when you build enough of it and the market is satisfied.
We have tons and tons of projects up here already. We need more working folk
Don't usually see balconies on projects.
ReplyDeleteGF55 Partners has done many projects in South Harlem - including 2280 FDB and SoHa118, etc. I'm just hoping it's constructed with quality materials and not done cheaply. It's too good of a location to have it wasted on cheap construction.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gf55.com/projects/mixed_use_urban.php?id=3a