Residential $ 1b project starts at Gowanus-as ‘Starchitect’ reveals vision for the 1,000 unit rental tower

Big is back – and better – in Gowanus.

Developers of 175 third St. St. Failed the many architectural firm in question by Bjarke Ingalls to design their planned tower, with 1,000 units, rent, and is nothing like the previous Big concept for the previous aby Rosen’s Sitner RFR Realty.

The new 175 third road from Charney and Tavros companies will stay 27 stories that enter over 1 million square meters.

The images on this site reveal the new vision of Ingalls for the first time, which the architect described as “accumulated blocks of cascading concrete volumes, discarding toward the canal waters”.

“We had our eyes on the site forever,” said company director Charney Sam Charney. “But someone else always owned it” until “the price finally went down [to $164 million] And we knew that was the time. “The purchase was closed in May.

When RFR provided, it was expected that Charney and Tawro would choose another architect. On the contrary, they liked the new concept of the best Ingalls from the proposals they demanded from a half -dozine “Starchitects”.

“We didn’t like the previous repetition,” Charney Check Check. “It was inefficient and difficult to build. There was a red brick design, that type of drowning [red brick] The structure of electricity arts next door. “

But the new concept of Ingalls “exploded us,” Charney said. Its text “Architectural Concrete” will look like it is lit by the rock ” – an homage to the industrial past of the area.

An supervised federal cleaning of the damaging two-million, harmful channel that began ten years ago prompted the city to resonate 82 blocks in the previous low-production area for residential use. The rush to create about 9,000 new rental apartments prompted a building boom.

Part of the once toxic canal, a marking line of erected comedies, as the picturesque circle center. The waterway now suggests a picturesque river as it moves slowly between each other.

Water walking in the water will eventually direct the length of the channel, with each developer responsible for the segment in front of their buildings. Those who Charney and Tavros are installing in their nevins and the third road fronts will landscapes from the field operations of the high line park.

The construction of 175 third signs will really begin when Nevins and Douglass road buildings are nearly one year from now.

The new 175 third road will have 1,000 rental units, of which 25% are “affordable” as required by mandatory zoning of the neighborhood involved. It will follow Charney and Tavros’ 224-Union of Channel Union, which opened in February and has already rented 60%; and Douglass Port at 251 Douglass St. and Nevins Landing in 310 and 340 Nevins St., both under construction.

Sam Charney praised the cost of developing 175 third road, including land acquisition, with about $ 1 billion. With 100,000 square meters of retail space, it will be the crown jewel of what Charney and Tavros call a “Campus Gowanus Warf” even though the buildings are not near one. Will boast a 30,000 -square -foot public park with 250 meters of channel channels; Sports facilities, a dog run, roof salon, bathroom pools and a three -acre yard, with landscape, plus 35,000 square meters of glorious interior.