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The West Residence Club / Concrete
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Textual content description offered by the architects. The West Residence Club is situated in Hell’s Kitchen, one among Manhattan’s most sprouting neighborhoods. The neighborhood is thought for its industrial character and its wealthy, colourful historical past, which mixed, create an unmistakable mystique. As we speak it gives diverse city structure from brick warehouses and low-rise showrooms to open parking heaps and authentic townhouses. Its distinctive mixture of residents, corporations, impartial outlets, and small eating places has made it right into a dynamic neighborhood.
The West Residence Club is supposed for explorers who wish to stay in a constructing that displays the unpolished historical past and character of the Hell’s Kitchen space. It introduces a brand new way of life; its condos – a mixture of studios, 1and 2+ bed room flats – are neatly designed from the within out to create the very best residential expertise, enhanced by intensive communal areas and outside areas. The base of the constructing gives a loft-type expertise, with a strong brick facade referring to each the warehouse character of the world in addition to the townhouses within the aspect streets. The tremendous gentle and ethereal flats on the highest flooring are designed to benefit from the views over Manhattan Skyline and the Hudson River.
The U-shaped constructing stretches from the corners of forty seventh Road and forty eighth Road alongside eleventh Avenue. The 7-story brick base of the constructing is an extension of the townhouse-like character of the 2 streets and connects to the brick warehouse structure of the avenues. The brick facades are fastidiously crafted in wealthy detailed patterns. Each the bricks and the patterns had been custom-designed and hand-made particularly for The West Residence Club in collaboration with upcycling firm StoneCycling. The brickwork mixed with giant industrial home windows creates street-oriented, typical NY loft-type studios and 1-bedroom flats on the decrease flooring.
Impressed by the social perform of New York-style stoops, the primary entrance of the constructing is shaped by a small entrance plaza that kinds a clean transition between the general public avenue and the personal constructing. The plaza has totally different seating services embedded in inexperienced that embody a central tree.
Greater up within the constructing, it’s all in regards to the cosmopolitan life that New York is legendary for, with views over New York’s iconic skyline and the sundown over the Hudson River. Glass containers that pop out and in of the constructing create distinctive views and orientations in every condominium and supply each unit with a big personal terrace. This ends in a light-weight, clear, and nearly cloud-like structure that displays the distinctive expertise every of the flats gives.
The facilities at 547 West forty seventh Road carry the residents collectively to type a thriving neighborhood generally known as The West Residence Club. It contains particular areas to work, a glass home within the yard, a double-height health club, a playroom for youths, and two in-house hotel-style visitor rooms that may be booked for guests. The Eighth-floor roof deck accommodates a rooftop discipline and pocket park together with a canine run, an out of doors kitchen, and an indoor communal kitchen and eating area. On the highest roof, an intensive pool deck is mixed with BBQ pits and communal seating areas below a picket pergola to benefit from the sundown and intensive views over the Hudson River and Midtown Manhattan Skyline.
All of those areas are created to boost consolation, facilitate functionalities for residents, and foster interplay between them. The design additionally concerned a particular give attention to devoted workspaces to facilitate working from dwelling, together with a full glass greenhouse within the backyard crammed with bookshelves, a fire and a big worktable, and two assembly/working rooms stacked with workplace provides and gear. Interplay between residents is additional fuelled by the communal kitchen – to be programmed with meals gatherings – additional fueled by a eating room and adjoining outside kitchen.
A serious focus of the constructing is the craftsmanship of the development and design; bespoke inside and exterior components create a classy environment by which each element issues. This features a 5-story {custom} mural, created by artist Rubin. This craftsmanship involves a fruits within the intricate brickwork of The West’s facade, the results of a collaboration between Concrete and StoneCycling, a Dutch agency dedicated to the sustainable manufacturing of upcycled bricks. The brick matrix itself is a proprietary mixture of recovered building particles blended with uncooked clay quarried in The Netherlands. Over 260.000 kg of waste has been up-cycled within the bricks used on this constructing. A complete of forty totally different brick sizes and styles had been required for the venture, and every bit was individually hand-brushed with a subtly reflective glass glaze earlier than being fired in a centuries-old manufacturing unit. The distinctive glass glaze creates a wide range of shades and glossiness in the course of the day, leading to a unique learn of the constructing each time one sees it.
This advanced course of is only one instance of the perfectionist method utilized to structure and the inside. All efforts are devoted to making a constructing that pays tribute to its location and creates a memorable and distinctive expertise for its residents.
