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Back in the hazy days of July 2007, we toured the upper floors of the Woolworth Building, architect Cass Gilbert's downtown masterpiece that's graced the skyline since 1913. At the time, we promised pictures from two excursions outside the building—one, a trip to the 63rd floor observation deck in the crown of the building, closed to the public since the dawn of World War II; the second, a look at the broad, terra-cotta clad balcony on the 43rd floor. Both were, in their own way, astounding. We decided to wait to publish these pictures until our photogallery tool was ready to roll—and now that it is, what better day than a snowy, cold February Friday to journey 792 feet in the sky?
· Curbed Inside: The Woolworth Building's Makeover [Curbed]
· The Woolworth Building [Wikipedia]
When we toured the new New Museum on The Bowery this morning, we noticed numerous camera crews filming the art. But rather than follow their lead, Curbed Video Services turned its eye on the two parts of the building that SANAA, the architects, blessed with color: the elevators—and the basement bathrooms. Join us on an exploration into these colorful corners, with a brief interlude with craft services on the seventh floor.
· Curbed Inside: Hell Yes, New Museum Revealed! [Curbed]
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[Top, inside Jim Clark's apartment/gallery; bottom, roofdeck looking towards Erie Basin]
Born in the 1860s as the Red Hook Stores warehouse, the swarthy structure is perhaps now better known as the Fairway Building. Because, hey, it's got a Fairway! The building was restored by Red Hook's answer to David Walentas, Greg O'Connell, who coincidentally just drove by in his truck (hi, Greg!). But it was Jim Clark, the proprietor of Inuit art gallery Look North who was kind enough to let us check out his live/work space on the fourth floor of the building. Someone kindly alert Paige Rense, because this place has got it going on.
Curbed Inside visits the interior of a structure with an eye towards revealing the design and architecture. If you've got a project you'd like Curbed to consider for shooting, drop us a line.
Sequels have to be bigger and badder than their originals to be successful, and don't think the Rockrose Development Corporation doesn't know that. The company's EastCoast project—a group of rental and condo towers in the Queens West chunk of Long Island City—had its first building open about a year ago, and even though the original is 100% leased, the Rockrose gang still decided to step up their game in both design and amenities for Phase 2. The second rental building is a 31-story tower officially known as 4705 Center Boulevard but referred to by anybody who's anybody as East Coast 2, and it's set to open any minute now. In addition to being the building that will finally bring Queens West its long-awaited grocery store, East Coast 2 will also provide Rockroseians with a parking garage, gym, lap pool and various other good-time activities. East Coast 3, a condo building, is currently under construction just northwest of EC2. Seven East Coast buildings are planned in total.
Curbed Inside visits the interior of a structure with an eye towards revealing the design and architecture. If you've got a project you'd like Curbed to consider for shooting, drop us a line.
[Near the top of the Woolworth Building. Be very afraid.]
Cass Gilbert's legendary Woolworth Building, completed in 1913 at 233 Broadway, has somehow withstood the test of time—barely. Beset by cut-rate lobby renovations, bad terra-cotta patchings, and the economic need to squeeze as much rent as possible out of an aging office building, the old lady is showing her age. Which is why the news that the top 25 floors of the Woolworth Building would be made over into "the financial district's first office tower with a country club's exclusivity—and perhaps its extraordinary membership fees," as the NYT put it, exploded across our retinas with the glare of a thousand suns. A commercial country club for the hedge fund set? In the Woolworth Building? Really?
Well, yes, actually. Those were the words of Randy Gerner, a principal at GKV Architects, the firm overseeing the Woolworth's high-end makeover. How about coming over for an exclusive look at the work so far? he asked. Well hell yes, we replied, as soon as we realized we'd not only get to look at floors closed to the public for years, but even make it all the way to the wraparound rooftop cupola at the very top of the building's 62 habitable floors. And so we did.
Welcome to a new Curbed feature, Curbed Inside. Taking a page from our gastronomically inclined friends, Curbed Inside visits the interior of a space with an eye towards revealing the design and architecture. If you've got a project you'd like Curbed to consider for shooting, drop us a line.
Anyone who's flown JetBlue out of JFK's Terminal 6 lately is aware, the airline desperately needs more space. This was evident to JetBlue way back in 2003, when the carrier struck a 30-year lease with the Port Authority to build a new Terminal 5 ("T5," in the parlance), located directly behind architect Eero Saarinen's iconic TWA Terminal. Construction on the project, architected by Gensler and Associates and slated to open to the public in late 2008, has come far enough that a project insider slipped us a bunch of recent photographs. Above, a view of the main ticketing hall.
