Program:
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Bedrooms:
3
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Baths:
3
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Features:
Writing Room, Open Loft Living, Dining & Kitchen
Materials:
Concrete Floors, Slate Bathroom Floors, Imperial Black Granite & Teak
Countertops, Maple & White Lacquer Cabinets, Hot Rolled Black Steel
Cladding, Slate Tile, Durock & OSB Walls
Furniture:
Bedroom; lounge chair by Paolo Deganello for Cassina, Kartell drum table, circa
1946 American bedside table, Kitchen/Living/Dining; box construction by Droog
Design through Moss, Nakashima sofa w/red wool blend, Ettore Sottsass Pre
Memphis Wiggle Table, Andrea Branzi’s stacked disk sculpture, Fred Silverman
Pendant Light, Lacquered cube furniture
Project
Description:
Designed
for a writer and a film editor, the Loft of Frank and Amy is a bare, wide-open
play space in New York City’s gritty Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. Located in a
former industrial building, the loft occupies an entire floor with full window
exposure and dynamic urban views on three sides. The design enhances this industrial context by posing new
construction as a single sculptural intervention within this existing space.
This intervention becomes a compressed box of utility (containing the kitchen,
mechanical and supportive spaces) that divides the public and private areas of
the loft. A primary feature of the
box is a series of huge sliding doors that can open the entire perimeter of the
loft, or conversely, can extend to the exterior walls to close off the
bedrooms.
Architects:
Joseph Tanney, Robert Luntz
Project
Architect: Daniel Piselli
Project
Team: Michael Anderson, Erin Vali
Contractor:
Chris Pavic, Continental Construction Co.
Photographer: © Paul Warchol