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Robert AM Stern Architects Public Spaces Décor The Conservators: Residence Interiors: Robert A.M. Stern Architects Public Spaces Décor: Rafael de Cárdenas | Architecture at Large Courtyard & Garden: Hollander Design Landscape Architects Architect of Record: BP Architects Historic Preservation: Page Ayres Cowley Architects Historic Architect: Hiss & Weekes Developer: HFZ Capital Group “The Belnord is the grandest of New York’s 20th century, full-block courtyard apartment buildings. I have long admired it, and it’s an incredible privilege to play a part in its reinvention.” ROBERT A.M. STERN Robert A.M. Stern, Robert A.M. Stern Architects and Ziel Feldman, HFZ Capital Group 3 9 INTRODUCING THE BELNORD 13 A SENSE OF ARRIVAL 27 THE RESIDENCES 43 THE COURTYARD 47 A REMARKABLE NEIGHBORHOOD 59 THE CONSERVATORS The Belnord was conceived in 1908 as the largest and most luxurious apartment house in the world. 6 The Italian Renaissance–style palazzo, with a pair of magnificent, gated and guarded arched entryways, occupies a full city block. Pedigree and the thrill of the new. Grandeur and intimacy. The romance of the past blended seamlessly INTRODUCING with state-of-the-art innovation. Your own 22,000-square- THE BELNORD foot private park with the pulsing West Side all around it and immediate access to the myriad delights of the By Michael Gross city. The Belnord is your personal palazzo in the center of everything. MIDWAY BETWEEN Central Park and Riverside Park, at the cen- ter of the vibrant Upper West Side, The Belnord is a masterpiece reimagined. One of the greatest turn-of-the-century residences, The Belnord is a designated local and national landmark reborn as a contempo- rary icon reflecting the city’s most glorious epoch. A home that blends the inimitable quality and exuberance of the Gilded Age with the boundless, innovative spirit of life right now. In the words of HFZ Capital Group’s Chairman and Founder Ziel Feldman, “It’s the best of all possible worlds, a village in the city, with a spe- cial sense of place and pedigree.” 9 The Belnord was conceived in 1908 by H. Hobart Weekes, who had Luxury was The Belnord’s defining characteristic, inside and out. recently set out on his own after a dozen years with the renowned Its courtyard was lit by ornamental wrought-iron lampposts. A architectural firm, McKim, Mead & White. It would be Weekes’ working fountain at its center was made of Italian marble. Beneath masterpiece, immediately heralded as the largest and most luxuri- it, heating and ice-making plants were sunk in excavated bedrock ous apartment house in the world, described as “perfection itself” twenty feet deep. Hallways boasted mahogany newel posts and by New York’s leading real estate periodical, Record and Guide. handrails, gilding, oak trim, and marble tesserae mosaic floors. There is an Italian Renaissance–style palazzo with a pair of mag- “It is as if floors out of an old country mansion had been transport- nificent, gated and guarded arched entryways painted with sgraffi- ed and converted somehow into suites for this great building,” Re- to frescoes of seraphim and lit by hanging lanterns. It occupies an cord and Guide raved. entire city block bounded by West Eighty-sixth and Eighty-seventh Over its 110 years, The Belnord was always home to artists, intel- Streets, Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway. Its grand scale was lectuals, publishers, and aristocrats, as well as leading figures in echoed in details large and small. fields as diverse as finance and the opera, movies and film, litera- The Belnord’s base of rusticated, light gray Indiana limestone is ture and journalism, and local hospitality and international shipping. handsomely decorated with European-style terracotta panels, elab- orate design elements and a stunning assortment of extra-large windows, all with classic weighted sashes, including copper-clad bays in many apartments. The Belnord was built around a vast 22,000-square-foot landscaped open courtyard, its own verdant pri- vate park. Six separate lobbies tucked within that courtyard obviated the need for long, shared hallways and guaranteed discretion as well as con- venience for residents, allowing them to drive right to their doors. By use of the courtyard and expansive rotunda, sixteen elevators whisked families, their guests and belongings home. There were only, and still are, two to three apartments per landing, and both the outer and interior walls were so thick they ensured unprece- dented levels of privacy and calm. 10 A SENSE OF ARRIVAL “ELEGANCE IS RESTRAINT,” Yves Saint Laurent once said. The grandest of the grand Upper West Side apartment houses, palatial, beautifully proportioned, The Belnord is as clean, austere, ageless, and modern as its limestone sisters elsewhere in Manhattan. It retains its special distinction as a cosseting, private haven in the midst of its vibrant, lively Upper West Side neighborhood. Standing across West Eighty-sixth Street to admire its façade, one can easily imagine it was once a ducal palace. But its reinvention, while subtle and respectful, has also been well-considered, well-executed, and thorough for today's homeowner. Entering The Belnord is an experience in itself. Its historically reso- nant, gilded wrought-iron gates send a subtle signal that something special and rare lies within. Through those gates, just past the elegant, new guardhouse, residents and guests alike enter a vaulted porte cochère decorated with original frescoes and arabesques. Residents and visitors alike are greeted with grandeur and opulence the moment they approach The Belnord. Its elegant guardhouse and gated porte cochère are simultaneously imposing and welcoming. 15 The entryway, decorated with arabesques and sgraffito frescoes of seraphim, and lit by elegant hanging lanterns, 16 gives a first tantalizing hint of the wondrous private courtyard beyond. One of the most important aspects of the reinvention of The Belnord is the reconfiguration of the courtyard’s circular driveway. Originally designed for horses and carriages, it has been widened to allow two SUVs to easily pass each other, with clever, unobtrusive pull-offs that enable several residents at a time to park just steps from their canopied lobby doors for easy loading and unloading of passengers and belongings. A second vaulted passage onto Eighty-sixth Street is reserved for exiting vehicles. From your elevator lobby, regard a view unparalleled in New York, of a private oasis arrayed around the original fountain, with evergreen hedges, shade trees, flowers, and elegant seating. 19 The Belnord can be seen as a collection of six buildings, with its separate entrances for different lines of apartments, but the Eighty- sixth Street lobby plays a special role as the place where all visitors are greeted by a building concierge behind an elliptical bronze and mirrored desk, evoking the sort of welcome expected in the grandest European hotels. The 1908 lobby’s classical refinement has now been enhanced with elegant sconces, a hanging fixture, subtly recessed panels finished in high-gloss lacquer, and new, Nero Marquina marble flooring accented with Statuarietto White marble. Every detail is designed to serve as a frame to heighten appreciation of the building’s historic elements and brighten the transition from the street to the wonders within. This is classic style reinvented for modern urbanites. The Eighty-sixth Street lobby is enhanced with subtly recessed panels and Nero Marquina marble floors, accompanied by 20 Statuarietto White marble base molding, designed to accentuate the transition from the street to the wonders within. Now, begin the passage from your house into your home, through the circular ground-floor residence lobbies, one in each corner of the courtyard, or the Eighty-seventh Street lobby, another discrete residents-only entrance, complete with its own concierge. Sharp and clean, with gold-leaf accents, lacquered panels, back-lit pilas- ters, and Nero Marquina marble floors and trim, all these lobbies dramatize The Belnord’s signature blend of past and present. Pass into the dramatic elevator lobbies, then rise in one of the new, cerused-wood-paneled passenger elevators, with their marble floors and glass-and-bronze trims, up to your own pri- vate landing. Every detail, from the sightlines and framing of elevator lobbies to the restored staircases with wrought iron and mahogany trim, has been reconsidered and refined. 23 Typical landings have two—and no more than three—black-lacquered residence entrances, completing the cinematic three-stage progres- sion of the narrative of your arrival someplace truly unique, where history blends seamlessly with the boldly contemporary. This is the magic of the collaboration between Robert A.M. Stern, architec- ture’s leading post-modernist, and visionary, contemporary interior designer Rafael de Cárdenas. Their layering of the modern onto the historic is perfectly balanced. The white-crystalline-lacquered landings, with their irreplaceable classical marble-mosaic floors, are washed with natural light from windows offering alluring courtyard glimpses. Elevator landings blend past and present with their white lacquer surfaces and historical mosaic marble floors. 24 Strategically placed windows tempt the eye with natural light and glimpses of the outdoors. T H E RESIDENCES THE BELNORD’S ORIGINAL APARTMENT LAYOUTS—most floor-through, except in the dramatic corner residences—have been reinvented and opened up to allow easy appreciation of the building’s impressive breadth, scale, and volume. The visionary Robert A.M. Stern Architect’s acute understanding of classic layouts and contemporary interiors has allowed those original floor plans to be both simultaneously and completely rethought to meet the needs of the modern homeowner. At The Belnord, your domain seems to stretch to the limits of your imagination and beyond, with expansive views from room to room, to the outdoors, cityscape and sky. 29 The Belnord’s great rooms are designed to enhance and meet the many needs of modern lives.
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