Development Du Jour: 166 Perry Street

Thursday, June 28, 2007, by Joey

Location: btwn Washington St./West Side Highway in Richard Meier's Far West Village
Size: Eight stories and 24 units, including two penthouses with private lap pools
Prices: $2 million to $11.5 million
Architects: Asymptote Architecture
Developer: Perry Street Development Corporation
Sales & Marketing: Corcoran/Sunshine
Lowdown: Yesterday we received an email from our friends at Streeteasy that went a little something like this: "Corcoran has just posted one listing for the anticipated new development 166 Perry Street. It is odd they only put up one; they may have mistakenly made it available." Hardly a mistake. This was the ticking before the time bomb went off, because today our old friend 166 Perry is unveiled in the Times, Sun, Dezeen and probably a million more places. The first residential building by husband-and-wife avant-gardists Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture is heavy on the archibabble:

laser cut and patterned operable metal scrims, translucent glass floating walls, sculptural forms concealing kitchen functions, and other features deployed throughout open floor plans will provide optimal transparency, flexibility of use, and access to the atmosphere beyond the building.

There might be no need for those pesky, ugly kitchen functions, because since this is the same development team behind Richard Meier's glass towers, 166 Perry residents will have room service and "pantry stocking services" from Jean-George Vongerichten's Perry St. restaurant. How avant-garde! Reservations are already being taken.

· 166 Perry Street [Official Site]

Filed under Architecture, Manhattan: Greenwich Village, Real Estate Development, Real Estate For Sale, 166 Perry Street, Asymptote, Development Du Jour

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Comments (24 extant)

is this where they filmed the 'Scream' by Michael and Janet?

By Anonymous at June 28, 2007 9:28 AM

Give me a f*****g break. It looks like the Star Trek Enterprise with a skin condition. People buy this stuff?

By Anonymous at June 28, 2007 9:49 AM

Is Apple getting into Real Estate Development now?

The entrance looks like a MacPro Tower..maybe it can be nicknamed iCondo or iRip-Off...

By DW at June 28, 2007 9:51 AM

The interiors look like an amateurish version of what a design student would make for "futuristic" project.

By Mr. Frosty at June 28, 2007 10:11 AM

What an ugly piece of shit.

By dadude at June 28, 2007 10:16 AM

What no one will tell you is that wenge wood and other dark woods fade in the intense sunlight that floods in through all that glass.

By TK at June 28, 2007 10:30 AM

Rashid and Couture say the lobby was inspired by Richard Serra.

I didn't know Richard Serra had a vagina.

By Bitter Realist at June 28, 2007 10:34 AM

Have they ever seen anything by Richard Serra?

I agree. This POS looks like some sort of Apple design nightmare.

By cmiller at June 28, 2007 10:38 AM

more insults please, this is funny.

By Anonymous at June 28, 2007 10:41 AM

10.

It was going to Richard Serra, or whoever happened to be at MoMA that month.

By TK at June 28, 2007 10:41 AM

11.

They are a couple....of pretentious Douchebags.
(note the capital "D")

By Cranky at June 28, 2007 11:00 AM

12.

Captain, the Romulans in the condo across the street are refusing our hailing frequencies and arming their photon torpedoes.

By Lt Worf at June 28, 2007 11:25 AM

13.

Worf as your building manager I command you to get off curbed and go back to the front desk where you shall assist fellow tennants by beaming them up to their apartments.

By Jean Luc Picard at June 28, 2007 11:47 AM

14.

capt'n! I cahn't complete your request! WE DON'T HAVE THE POWER!

By Scotty at June 28, 2007 12:17 PM

15.

They don't mention the best part of all: A GREAT VIEW OF NEW JERSEY!!!!! WOOOO HOOOOOO. Nice maserati on the artist's rendering.

Still it's a great bet right? I mean, real estate in New York City will never go down! Especially when the idiots on wall street that have financed the real estate bubble with CDO's lose their shirts and no money is left over.

I can't wait for the real estate bloodbath that is in the rest of the country to hit new york city and watch these fuckers drown.

By westside at June 28, 2007 1:46 PM

16.

The Maserati (or whatever it is) is a tacky touch. They should have have just put a black town car there instead.

The exterior is fine, the interior is goofy. There is nothing "avant-garde" about this.

By The Cheese at June 28, 2007 3:14 PM

17.

When I looked at the single listing mentioned I noticed the following - the available unit is 2,448 square feet. Its monthly maintenance is about $5,700!! That seems AWFULLY high to me.

And in the spirit of others,

"Mr. Spock, the women on your planet are logical. That's the only planet in the galaxy that can make that claim." -- Kirk (from episode #68, production #57, Elaan of Troyius)

By anonymous at June 28, 2007 3:35 PM

18.

so they're opening another Alessi shop in the lobby? Oh wait, never mind.

By Anonymous at June 28, 2007 5:08 PM

19.

all this stuff is going to look horribly dated in, like, a week.

By Anonymous at June 28, 2007 5:11 PM

20.

Another fine example of how Corcoran has lost their fucking minds and don't know what the hell they're doing!

By Anonymous at June 28, 2007 10:42 PM

21.

Darren Sukenik = Sold

By Anonymous at June 28, 2007 11:16 PM

22.

you're a bunch of loosers, go get a p"ssy, it's better then writing in this shit

By blazed at July 10, 2007 9:18 AM

23.

Come on now, it's all about context! This building would be a fine building in, say, Lagos, Nigeria or 1970s Dallas. Unfortunately, tenants in those places would miss the great view of New Jersey. Sad.

By ROTFL at July 26, 2007 4:38 PM

24.

I look forward to riding my Light Cycle in the lobby!

By Tron at August 7, 2007 1:40 AM