L: Renderings courtesy of HMWhite for Studio Gang Architects
Studio Gang's Solar Carve Tower at 40 Tenth Avenue had a newsworthy start last year with the kickoff of construction and new renderings revealed. Now, the glassy, jewel-like office tower, which has been in the works since 2012, is officially on the rise and has new renderings of its outdoor spaces, courtesy of landscape architecture firm HMWhite. This is the second NYC venture to come out of the Studio Gang, headed by 2017 Marcus Prize recipient and AR's 2016 Architect of the Year Jeanne Gang. The first is a firehouse in Brooklyn that broke ground in 2016 and the third is an expansion of the American Museum of Natural History, for which construction should begin any day now.
Brownsville's Rescue Company 2 (Studio Gang Architects)
American Musuem of Natural History Expansion (Studio Gang Architects)
Solar Carve Tower construction will rise 12 stories when complete (Photo by CityRealty)
To recap, the project will rise 12 stories and be situated directly along the High Line between 13th and 14th Streets in the MeatPacking District. It's chiseled edges are part of the innovative design that will follow the sun throughout the year, "allowing it to pour around the “carves” that now create an hourglass of diamond-shaped facets as it turns inward from the middle" (NY Post).
In addition to blocking sun glare and heat gain, the design was formed around the idea that buildings can be formed around a public space without diminishing it. "We treated the High Line as public space to be protected by not blocking its sunlight," explained Jeanne Gang in an interview with ArchDaily in 2016. And while the High Line won't be completely in the dark, a shade study diagram (slideshow) details the obvious: Solar Carve's sky garden will receive the most sunlight whereas the park will receive roughly 4-6 hours of shade.
Per HMWhite's website, "Both the open piazza and sky garden offer a myriad of outdoor working and entertaining opportunities. Each terrace design provides space for quiet escape as well as lively social gathering."
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Hudson River views (Neoscape for Studio Gang Architects)
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Solar Carve will rise 12 stories and span 139,000 square feet with tenant amenities that include a 10,0000-square-foot planted rooftop and an 8,000-square-foot terrace at High Line height. The building is targeting LEED Silver and will have additional features like a backup generator, a bike room, and a locker room with showers.
Developers Aurora Capital and William Gottlieb Real Estate hired Bruce Mosler of Cushman & Wakefield to lease the boutique building. We should expect an opening in early 2019.
Office interiors (Neoscape for Studio Gang Architects)
Lobby (Neoscape for Studio Gang Architects)
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