Project Description
This boutique hotel consists of 141 hotel rooms, including a duplex penthouse and several 1-bedroom suites. Features include a two-story lobby/lounge, two separate bars, a restaurant with discrete entrance, 5,000 square feet of outdoor terraces including an outdoor pool, a tranquil spa, and 5,000 square feet of ground-floor retail.
It is located prominently in the evolving cultural and commercial landscape of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, this mixed-use building acts as both gateway to and destination point within the neighborhood. Although 110,000 square feet and 19 stories tall, the building engages the city at a scale consistent with the existing morphology. The retail and restaurant features step down to two stories on the narrow Orchard Street side, and the cantilevered hotel rooms and main thrust of the building are strongly established on the wide boulevard of Allen Street.
A clear palette of materials works through the building from exterior to interior: exposed concrete, black anodized aluminum, terracotta rainscreen, dark wood millwork, basalt stone, and glass.
Interior design was a collaborative effort with Jim Walrod.
19 stories / 110,000 sf
2008 completion
Thompson Hotels
Client
Rawlings architects pc
- Ed Rawlings, RA
- Steve Kilian, RA
- Donald Flagg, AIA, LEED AP
- John F. Adamek
- Matthew McClain, RA
- KC Cheung, RA
- Satoko Hoshino, RA
Jim Walrod
Interior Design
Silman
Structural Engineer
Laszlo Bodak
MEPF Engineer
VDA
Vertical Transport
Next Step Design
Food Service
Acoustic Dimensions
Acoustic Consultant
WJE
Envelope Consultant
Pav-Lak
Construction Manager
Published:
101 Cool Buildings
Best of NYC Architecture 1999-2009
October 2009
Curbed 38 Essential NYC Hotels
2012
Curbed 18 Essential NYC Hotels
2013