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Upper West Side Row House
Upper West Side Row House
Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
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Other Projects by Sherman Architects
Upper West Side Row House
Manhattan, New York, NY, United States
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2019
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
This Upper West Side row house had a sad back story. The last owner of the palatial limestone building had thrown out most of the original woodwork and chopped the house into four mean apartments. We salvaged the woodwork that remained and reinvented the rest.
Our new layout restored the rooms to their grand scale. The house is so tall, our new elevator had to be commercial grade. But it’s tucked seamlessly behind oak casework that matches the original.
We juxtaposed period rooms with modern compositions. In contrast to the heavy oak at the stair halls and common rooms, our kitchen is a light wash of cream-colored ash and white quartzite. At the new rear wall, we moved a copper bay window to an upper floor to allow the new giant steel windows to open three floors to the garden.
To shore up the rear neighbor’s failing retaining wall, we terraced the entire backyard. Tiers of board-formed concrete planting beds climb upwards to the rear lot line. Each tier holds a different landscape: a paved seating area at the base, next a cherry tree on a lawn, then a row of flowering shrubs, and finally climbing vines. From the top, a linear fountain cascades down to a reflecting pool.
PROJECT INFO
Location: Upper West Side, Manhattan
Size: 8,000 s.f.
Year Completed: 2019
General Contractor: Dynamic Reconstruction.
Structural Engineer: Angelos Georgopoulos
Expediter: J. Callahan Consulting
Photographer: Jason Schmidt
MEP Engineer: Fusion Systems Engineering
Our new layout restored the rooms to their grand scale. The house is so tall, our new elevator had to be commercial grade. But it’s tucked seamlessly behind oak casework that matches the original.
We juxtaposed period rooms with modern compositions. In contrast to the heavy oak at the stair halls and common rooms, our kitchen is a light wash of cream-colored ash and white quartzite. At the new rear wall, we moved a copper bay window to an upper floor to allow the new giant steel windows to open three floors to the garden.
To shore up the rear neighbor’s failing retaining wall, we terraced the entire backyard. Tiers of board-formed concrete planting beds climb upwards to the rear lot line. Each tier holds a different landscape: a paved seating area at the base, next a cherry tree on a lawn, then a row of flowering shrubs, and finally climbing vines. From the top, a linear fountain cascades down to a reflecting pool.
PROJECT INFO
Location: Upper West Side, Manhattan
Size: 8,000 s.f.
Year Completed: 2019
General Contractor: Dynamic Reconstruction.
Structural Engineer: Angelos Georgopoulos
Expediter: J. Callahan Consulting
Photographer: Jason Schmidt
MEP Engineer: Fusion Systems Engineering
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