A 11-story residential condominium building is under construction at 30 Orchard Street on the Lower East Side.
It will contain 12 apartments and has been designed by Ogawa/Depardon Architects, of which Kathryn Ogawa and Gilles Depardon are principals.
They designed the popular Bar 89 at 89 Mercer Street in SoHo that has a curved skylight and unisex bathrooms with glass doors that change from transparent to opaque when in use through the use of liquid crystal cores activated by low voltage circuits.
The Orchard Street building will have two duplex penthouse apartments and its ground and basement floors are commercial.
The form of the building is a bit unusual with a setback tower atop a base whose top floor is perpendicular to the rest of it.
The building is not far from Gus's Pickles and the attractive Liquor Bar further up the street and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum at 97 Orchard Street to the north and it is just to the north of the very attractive, red-brick PS 42 on Hester Street.
Orchard Street is the center of the Lower East Side's "fashion" district, whose most famous store is S. Beckstein Fabrics, which is on Orchard Street north of Delancey Street.
Nearby, another new project was completed recently in two sections at 50 Orchard Street.
It will contain 12 apartments and has been designed by Ogawa/Depardon Architects, of which Kathryn Ogawa and Gilles Depardon are principals.
They designed the popular Bar 89 at 89 Mercer Street in SoHo that has a curved skylight and unisex bathrooms with glass doors that change from transparent to opaque when in use through the use of liquid crystal cores activated by low voltage circuits.
The Orchard Street building will have two duplex penthouse apartments and its ground and basement floors are commercial.
The form of the building is a bit unusual with a setback tower atop a base whose top floor is perpendicular to the rest of it.
The building is not far from Gus's Pickles and the attractive Liquor Bar further up the street and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum at 97 Orchard Street to the north and it is just to the north of the very attractive, red-brick PS 42 on Hester Street.
Orchard Street is the center of the Lower East Side's "fashion" district, whose most famous store is S. Beckstein Fabrics, which is on Orchard Street north of Delancey Street.
Nearby, another new project was completed recently in two sections at 50 Orchard Street.
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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