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    Nine-Story Building Will Replace 1920s Garages in Tribeca

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Tribeca, Manhattan

    15 Leonard Street

    Landmarks approved a revised proposal for the Leonard Street site despite community opposition. On July 17, 2012, Landmarks approved developer Steven Schnall’s revised proposal to replace two one-story garages at 15 Leonard Street in the Tribeca West Historic District with a residential building. The nine-story, 108-foot building would rise seven stories at the streetwall, with a set-back, two-story penthouse. In February 2008, Landmarks approved a different plan to replace the garages with a seven-story building, but the project stalled and the property was sold.

    At the proposal’s public hearing in May 2012, Wayne Turett, of Turett Collaborative Architects, presented Schnall’s plan. The building would have a 75-foot-wide, one-story base, with the 60-foot-wide upper floors aligned to the eastern lot line. This would create a 15-foot shaft to provide access to light and air to a neighboring building to the west as required by a property easement. The building’s front facade would be framed in painted metal and feature an asymmetrical, staggered pattern of translucent channel glass with loft sized windows. The penthouse would be clad in a lighter shade of painted metal. The building’s sidewalls would be clad in gray brick. Four garage entrances, made of a mixture of opaque and translucent glass panels, would be built at the ground level, with a central recessed pedestrian entrance in the middle. A steel-and-glass (read more…)

    Tags : demolition, Manhattan Community Board 1, Tribeca West Historic District, Turett Collaborative Architects
    Date:07/20/2012
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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    Six-story home approved for West Broadway

    Certificate of Appropriateness  •  Tribeca, Manhattan

     

    Rendering of Tribeca private residence at 230 West Broadway. Image courtesy of Turett Collaborative Architects.

    Existing two-story building to be demolished. Steven and Sherri Schnall, private owners of 230-234 West Broadway within the Tribeca West Historic District, were granted a permit to construct their 9,000- square-foot private residence. The plan, designed by Turett Collaborative Architects, requires the demolition of an existing two-story building at 230 West Broadway, which will be replaced by a six-story building with a blackened steel and glass facade featuring an aluminum and glass garage door, a steel and glass ground floor canopy, and single-pane, metal-clad windows on the upper floors. The new building will be integrated with a renovated two-story building, once home to No Moore Bar.

    Community Board 1 opposed the application by a vote of 29-1-2. The Board noted that, even though architect Wayne Turett had done considerable work in Tribeca and was respected for his sensitivity to the neighborhood, the design of the new building lacked context. The Board objected to the facade of both buildings, the bris-soleil canopy atop the north facade of the new building, and the railings on the roof. (read more…)

    Tags : 230-234 West Broadway, Manhattan Community Board 1, Sherri Schnall, Steven Schnall, Tribeca West Historic District, Turett Collaborative Architects
    Date:11/15/2006
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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