When New York design firm Studio Sofield was hired to reimagine the building’s interior, it had to address the problem of the building’s previous life as an office space, co-founder William Sofield said.<\/p>\n
Another big hurdle came with the building’s shape. How do you subdivide a triangle \u2013 just 1.8m (6ft) across at its narrowest point – into luxury apartments worthy of a multimillion-dollar price tag?<\/p>\n
But the triangle itself \u2013 along with its history, architectural ingenuity, and novelty \u2013 is exactly the point.<\/p>\n
“It wasn’t about changing anything that makes the building so special and beloved to New Yorkers,” Thomas Brodsky, partner at the Brodsky Organization, told the BBC.<\/p>\n
“The layouts and the proportions and views really came directly from the architecture rather than from how we generally would start planning a building from the ground up.”<\/p>\n
Originally designed to evoke a classic Greek column, the structure’s limestone, brick and terra-cotta exterior features ornamentation including lion heads, wreaths, eagles, and faces.<\/p>\n
Beyer Blinder Belle, lead developer on the building’s exterior, enlisted a speciality manufacturer in California to replicate and restore thousands of terra-cotta pieces from the facade, reinstalling each by hand.<\/p>\n
The building’s windows, totalling over 1,000, also needed to be replaced \u2013 dating back to the 1970s, they were too heavy, hard to open, and not energy efficient.<\/p>\n
The new ones are thick enough to block the bustling noise of surrounding streets, offering silence in units that’s uncharacteristic of New York City apartments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When New York design firm Studio Sofield was hired to reimagine the building’s interior, it had to address…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-711343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}