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The Standard New York, New York, USA
Todd Schliemann of Polshek Partnership Architects
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This new 337-room hotel is located in Manhattan's Meatpacking District, a vibrant neighborhood just east of the Hudson River and west of Greenwich Village on the City's western edge. The eighteen-story, concrete and glass structure defines the identity of the Standard Hotel New York and engages its urban context through contrast. The building straddles the High Line, an abandoned section of a 75-year-old elevated railroad line, which passes over the buildings of the district and is currently being developed as a new linear public park.
photos © Nikolas Koenig/Hotels AB
Identity / Visibility: Two-story 19th- and 20th-century industrial buildings and manufacturing lofts constitute the Meatpacking District, which currently supports a range of uses from meatpacking to high-end retail and restaurants. The building is situated at the intersection of two urban geometries: the street grid and the High Line, which meanders north from Gansevoort Street to West 34th Street.
Sculptural piers, whose forms clearly separate the building from the orthogonal street grid, raise the building fifty-seven feet off the street, allowing the horizontally-scaled industrial landscape to pass beneath it and natural light to penetrate to the street. The two slabs are "hinged," angled to further emphasize the building's distinction from the city's grid and its levitation above the neighborhood. The low-scale environment affords the building unique visibility from all directions and unobstructed 360° views of the city from the building.
photos © Jeff Goldberg/ESTO
Materials / Transparency: The juxtaposition of the building's two materials - poured-in-place, board-formed concrete and glass - reflects the character of New York City: the gritty quality of the concrete contrasts with the refinement of the glass. The concrete grid provides a delicate frame for the exceedingly transparent water-white glass, the two materials unified in the continuous plane of the curtain wall. This exterior wall breaks with the traditional architecture of hotels, replacing opacity with transparency, privacy with openness and defining a new paradigm.
Program: 337 guest rooms; ground floor: bar, restaurant and extensive outdoor public plazas served by the hotel; third floor: divisible banquet space; seventeenth floor: health spa; eighteenth floor: two clubs; extensive roof deck.
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