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Hey, look here! It's a fresh new rendering of the Battery Maritime Building, the grand dame of the southern tip of Manhattan, freshened up with the proposed 140-room hotel atop it. And speaking of fresh, there's going to be that great, San Franciscoesque fresh food market in the building's Great Hall, right? Er, no. Per today's NYT, that plan is officially, once-and-for-all doneski, mostly because, uh, the hall isn't so great after all. ("It's physically not feasible," said a rep for Dermot Co., the developers. "It's radically inadequate in size.") So what will the great hall be used for? Among the contending ideas: cooking demonstrations; food boutiques; "small exhibitions or shows by local groups like the American Numismatic Society"; or "private events." We'll take odds on that last likelihood, please.
· Pondering Public Uses for a Hall Named Great [NYTimes]
· New Battery Maritime Design More Landmark Friendly? [Curbed]
· Battery Maritime Building Renovation Revealed! [Curbed]

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Last week, the latest design for a hotel addition to the landmark Battery Maritime Building was unveiled. It represented a slight design departure from the initial proposal, but it was still big, boxy and made of glass (see: top left). Over on the Wired New York boards, the gang is a little bummed about the prospect of plopping a glass box on top of a treasured landmark, but they're also resigned to the fact that it's probably going to happen. But how to improve on the Rogers Marvel Architects design? Well, one Wiredling has a pretty interesting idea: a curved glass design like that of London's Kew Gardens. One quick foray into PhotoShop later, and boom, a new-look new-look Battery Maritime Building is born (top right). Can it be that something slapped together in five minutes by an amateur looks better than one of them professional dealies? Eh, we'll leave that for the Landmarks Preservation Commission to decide.
· Thread: Battery Maritime Building [Wired New York]
· New Battery Maritime Design More Landmark Friendly? [Curbed]
· Hey Battery Maritime Bldg: LPC is Just Not That Into You [Curbed]

On the top left up there is the first proposal for a new-look Battery Maritime Building, a long-planned $110 million makeover that would include a gourmet food market, 135-room hotel and a rooftop restaurant in the landmark building down on the southern tip of Manhattan. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your love/hate relationship with glass), the Landmarks Preservation Commission wasn't feeling the Rogers Marvel Architects design, so it was sent back to the drawing board. Today, the Downtown Express reveals the second try. The rooftop addition has been pushed back nine feet from the waterfront, and four historic cupolas have been restored. Are these changes enough to push the plan through? Maybe. Community Board 1 approved the design despite serious concerns about the addition, and next it'll be on to the LPC for a vote. No hearing date is scheduled yet, so opponents have plenty of time to sharpen the pickaxes.
· Battery design adds historic tops; wins some support [Downtown Express]
· Hey Battery Maritime Bldg: LPC is Just Not That Into You [Curbed]
· Battery Maritime Building Renovation Revealed [Curbed]

It was too good to be true. The proposed hotel addition to the landmark Battery Maritime Building—a glassy mindfuck first revealed in this space on Monday—has been sent back to the drawing board by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the Downtown Express reports. The LPC didn't vote on the Rogers Marvel Architects proposal, instead asking for more elements of the building's original architecture to be incorporated into the design. Developer Peter Poulakakos shrugged it off like it was no big deal, saying, "No one expected this thing to be approved off the bat. We have an aggressive timeline; hopefully, we can have this project complete by 2010.” This is perhaps a very cunning strategy on Poulakakos' part: propose something that's 10,000 types of crazy, then your real proposal—which is perhaps only 5,000 types of crazy—will sail through undetected.
· Landmarks asks for changes to Battery’s hotel design [Downtown Express]
· Battery Maritime Building Renovation Revealed [Curbed]
· Battery Maritime Building: Gourmet Marketplace Confirmed! [Curbed]