The planned new condominium building at 985 Park Avenue between 83rd and 84th Streets will mimic the landmark Gainsborough Studios apartment building at 222 Central Park South.
The Park Avenue project is a 15-story "sliver" building being developed by the Icon Group, which is headed by Michael Miller, Todd Cohen and Terrence Lowenberg. on the 25-foot-wide site of a three-story building occupied since 1986 by Portraits Inc.
Costas Kondylis is the architect.
Clad in limestone, its fenestration pattern is very similar to that of the Gainsborough where double-height living rooms overlook Central Park through huge windows. The Gainsborough was erected in 1908 and designed by C. W. Buckham.
The Park Avenue views of St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church across the avenue are very nice, albeit not as impressive as the Gainsborough's Central Park vistas, but they will not be from double-height living rooms. Although the windows give the appearance from the outside that there is one big double-height space behind them, there will actually be two floors.
French doors will open onto narrow balconies on the lower floors of each unit facing the avenue.
The Park Avenue project is a 15-story "sliver" building being developed by the Icon Group, which is headed by Michael Miller, Todd Cohen and Terrence Lowenberg. on the 25-foot-wide site of a three-story building occupied since 1986 by Portraits Inc.
Costas Kondylis is the architect.
Clad in limestone, its fenestration pattern is very similar to that of the Gainsborough where double-height living rooms overlook Central Park through huge windows. The Gainsborough was erected in 1908 and designed by C. W. Buckham.
The Park Avenue views of St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church across the avenue are very nice, albeit not as impressive as the Gainsborough's Central Park vistas, but they will not be from double-height living rooms. Although the windows give the appearance from the outside that there is one big double-height space behind them, there will actually be two floors.
French doors will open onto narrow balconies on the lower floors of each unit facing the avenue.
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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