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WATERLINE SQUARE A Blueprint One of the Upper ’s last parcels of undeveloped land, at the southern end of 20 EAST END AVENUE for Seduction Riverside Park, will soon be For those who love pre-war the location of sleek towers architecture but also want The world’s best architects designed by top firms: modern amenities, Robert A. turn their talents to Richard Meier & Partners, M. Stern’s original building NYC’s residential skyline Rafael Viñoly Architects and features a porte cochere with Kohn Pederson Fox Associ- UPPER a wall fountain and land- BY LAURA ITZKOWITZ ates. The dream-team scaped courtyard. Traditional project comprises 263 luxury details continue inside, residences, starting at with a dramatic spiral staircase, ig-name architects, around $2 million. billiards room and oak and record-breaking prices, marble throughout the units, sky-high towers with he- which start north of $4 million. licopter views and ame- 15 HUDSON YARDS nities worthy of a five- 520 ’s new neighbor- star hotel—it’s clear that 527 WEST 27TH STREET Inspired by the Sherry hood has something B sexy real es- Indoor-outdoor living defines 565 Netherland, Stern’s second for everyone, with shops, tate is booming. To be fair, for some time Jardim, Brazilian architect Renzo Piano is working on neighborhood tower features restaurants and a new critics have been asking if the Big Apple— Isay Weinfeld’s first New York his first residential New York a lobby clad in marble from performing arts center. But specifically Manhattan—is becoming a condo building, where units project in partnership with the quarries of Louis XII, only those with $3.8 million home for the super-rich since 2015, when start at $1.96 million. Floor- French interior design firm a vaulted salon, an indoor to spare can get keyless , on midtown’s West , to-ceiling glass and private RDAI and developers Bizzi & pool and gardens that access to a spot at this made headlines for closing a $100.5 mil- terraces combined with Partners. 565 Broome, where recall Gilded Age New 88-story address. Diller MIDTOWN WEST lion penthouse deal. Whether or not that’s natural materials like oak, units will start at $2.3 million, York. “Each apartment Scofidio + Renfro–designed the case, two things are certain: develop- timber and quartz invite the will be his most spectacular is a villa in the sky,” apartments come with prime ment of trophy towers borough-wide shows outside in, and a lush garden use of light yet, thanks to a Robert A. M. Stern access to amenities. no sign of slowing, and all the new con- between the two towers special system of curved Architects partner Paul DUJOUR.COM struction is changing both the face of creates a private Eden amid glass. “The building really is Whalen says of the units, 53 WEST Manhattan and its iconic skyline. Here, we the urban jungle. open and every corner which start at $18.2 million. Jean Nouvel and Thierry take a neighborhood-by-neighborhood of it breathes,” Piano says. Despont’s will rise look at the new buildings that stand to 514 WEST 24TH STREET CHELSEA 1,050 feet above MoMA. The DUJOUR.COM

make the biggest cosmetic impact. Roman and Williams’ Art 42 CROSBY STREET interiors of the residences, 53 Deco–inspired Fitzroy—with Annabelle Selldorf’s residen- which start at $3 million, are 52 14 residences starting at $5.5 tial project made headlines 625 WEST 57TH STREET works of art themselves, with SUMMER million—makes a sophisticat- for its million-dollar parking Danish starchitect Bjarke bespoke touches like custom

2017 ed statement with a green spots, which allow drivers to Ingels’ VIA—where rental glass cabinetry by Despont

It’s fitting that the first New terra-cotta façade and Italian roll right up to an elevator units go for $17.5 thousand and floor-to-ceiling windows 2017 York residence by the late copper-clad oak windows. that transports the car per month—boasts an with views. Zaha Hadid, master of Inside, reclaimed chevron- to the garage. The architect impossible-to-miss silhou- Purchase of an apartment SUMMER futuristic curvilinear architec- patterned wood floors, celebrates quintessential ette, rising like a gleaming includes a special MoMA ture, resembles a space-age custom millwork and copper SoHo style with open-space pyramid, that’s said to morph membership. bubble. This 11-story, High tubs are further nods to units—only three of which are depending on the viewer’s Line–adjacent address— Jazz Age style. still on the market—starting vantage point. A massive where the 39 residences start at $8.4 million. courtyard inspired by Copen- at $4.9 million, epitomizes hagen’s urban greenery the architect’s esteemed ofers peeks from the street. legacy of buildings that 70 VESTRY STREET stand out from the crowd. is already home to celebrities like Jay Z and Justin Timberlake, and the 152 ELIZABETH STREET 215 new project by Robert A. With his signature use of A collaboration between M. Stern—the man behind glass and poured concrete, Herzog & de Meuron and Ian the luxe 15 Central Park Japanese architect Tadao Schrager, this shiny building SOHO West—is rumored to have Ando created a minimalist houses Schrager’s PUBLIC drawn a new crop. Tom haven for his first New York Hotel and is topped with 11 Brady and Gisele Bündchen City residence. Michael residences—starting at $4 have reportedly purchased Gabellini’s interiors feature million—with interiors by a $32 million five-bedroom wide-plank Danish oak floors, designer John Pawson. “215 on the 12th floor of the TRIBECA Gaggenau appliances and Chrystie is both tough and building, which overlooks dehumidification systems refined,” Schrager says. “The the Hudson and is set for for art collectors. Units start ultimate expression of a 2018 debut. at $5.7 million. Uptown meets Downtown.”

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