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Robert A. M. Stern |
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15 Central Park West (60th Street and Central Park West). |
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2006-8 |
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Contemporary Neo-classical According to New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger, 15 CPW was designed to "echo" Central park West's many notable late Art Deco buildings. He describe the building in Vanity Fair as an "ingenious homage to the classic Candela-designed apartment buildings on Park and Fifth Avenues." He compares 15 CPW to the great apartment houses of the 1920's, 834 Fifth Avenue, 778 Park Avenue, 1040 Fifth Avenue and 740 Park Avenue. |
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It was built by developers Arthur and William Zeckendorf. 15 CPW is New York's most prestigious addresses. The location has been described as "the most expensive site in Manhattan", ($401 million in 2004) an entire, albeit smallish, city block on Central Park formerly occupied by the somewhat dilapidated Mayflower Hotel and a vacant lot. The Mayflower was a 1926 Neo-Renaissance building by Emery Roth. The building is divided into two sections, a 19-story tower on Central Park West known as "the house", and a 43-story tower on Broadway joined by a glass-enclosed lobby. It includes such amenities as a private driveway to screen residents from paparazzi, a 20 seat cinema and a 75-foot swimming pool. |
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Limestone Condo on Central Park Attracts Big Bucks,
Needs Magic James S. Russell - November 14, 2007 NYT Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- There is exactly one moment of idiosyncrasy in architect Robert A.M. Stern's two-towered, limestone-clad, megabucks condo nearing completion at 15 Central Park West in Manhattan. A stone trellis draws together a roofscape of asymmetric towers and a draping buttress. At 548 feet high, this silhouette is picturesque when seen from Central Park -- a welcome relief from the bland calculation that otherwise infuses this 886,000- square-foot behemoth. What was in play is that Manhattan rarity: a full city block on Central Park with views on all sides. It's a site that developers salivated over for three decades until a group including William and Arthur Zeckendorf ponied up an eye-popping $400 million in 2003. The brothers' company, Zeckendorf Development, poured another $400 million into the new building and realized record- shattering prices on the result. (Sales have topped $6,000 a square foot. Former Citigroup Inc. Chairman Sanford Weill paid $42.4 million for a penthouse.) All 201 units sold months ago. In real estate terms, the building is genius. Zeckendorf hired Stern, the financial upper crust's go-to guy for impeccable neo-Georgian country houses. There's no one who understands the architectural DNA of Manhattan better than Stern, who has produced five invaluable books on the city's architecture. He somehow also finds time to be dean of the Yale School of Architecture.  Luxe Market With Stern on board, it was clear that Zeckendorf was targeting a market for luxe tradition. I didn't expect an aesthetic breakthrough, but I hoped the lush budget -- and the site at the end of an extraordinary line of soaring towers -- would inspire Stern to an authoritative reimagining of Manhattan's prewar glory. The best thing about 15 Central Park West is the way he arranges the building bulk. One chunky 19-story structure, with some wedding-cake setbacks, is dubbed ``the house.'' It faces Central Park, emulating the Mayflower Hotel that long occupied the park frontage. A slim, 35-story rectangular tower rises behind, separated from the house by a 65-foot court that runs the full width of the block. A five-story base extends west of the tower to pick up the angled frontage of Broadway. Big as they are, neither of these structures looms overweeningly. The space between the two buildings ventilates the block (literally and visually), allowing an enriching play of light, shadow and views between the two.  Zoning Code Stern said in an interview that the massing was mostly dictated by the zoning code. He refined the requirements, making the tower slimmer than the house, for example, which opens up the narrow side streets and lets the tower rise more romantically. Passersby can glimpse the pylons and buttresses that give a Jazz Age grandeur to the private garden on the north side of the court. More of such detail was needed to relieve the flatness of the block's massive walls. The Central Park West side suffers the most, with just minor variations in window rhythm, a pencil- thin cornice and some tacked-on railings that offer the visual impact of hairpins. The tower is better, with a surface relieved by layering and a livelier mix of windows. The historic sources that Stern draws on are impeccable: a bit of Rockefeller Center, a dollop of decorator Dorothy Draper, a dab of Park Avenue, a wisp of Karl Friedrich Schinkel's romantic classicism. Yet the aesthetic devices are assembled mechanically. Even with such well-made details, the big picture somehow got lost. Stern called it ``a modern classical tower,'' which is an oxymoron, as he knows. Generous Rooms Inside, Stern has brought impressive discipline to sprawling layouts by associate architect SLCE. This condo is not for a buyer, Stern has dryly observed, who ``wants to sit in an arrangement of four Mies van der Rohe chairs on a rug floating like a raft on a sea of emptiness.'' So there are ``real rooms,'' generously sized and handsomely proportioned (10-foot ceilings help), with oak herringbone floors. They align in a civilized progression, and almost every apartment gets at least two exposures. These are qualities not to be taken for granted in New York, where velvet-draped Park Avenue parlors often feel dark and low-ceilinged, and fat columns obscure the views in glass-sheathed towers. Stern delivers high-end posh. Terrace-wrapped duplexes as large as 6,000 square feet (with internal elevators) crown the house. Penthouses in the tower (one is 11,000 square feet) have 14-foot ceilings and fireplaces. A 39th-floor living room opens to three drop-dead views. Attending to such niceties is so rare in Manhattan that it's no wonder buyers are willing to pay top dollar. Yet one reason Manhattan's skyline is so magical is that there was a time when architects remixed the standard ingredients to capture the city's unstoppable energy in steel and stone. (The 1931 Century Apartments next door, built of humble materials and defaced by insensitive window replacements, has twice the pizzazz.) For all the dollars and attention, 15 Central Park West lacks the courage of its nostalgic convictions. (James S. Russell is Bloomberg's U.S. architecture critic. The opinions expressed are his own.) Source- http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=arx4JcGZuZO4&refer=home |
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15 CPW unit asking more than twice its 2008 sale
price goes into contract Yerim Sow, the Senegalese telecom mogul who paid $10.3 million for his 2,671-square-foot condo at ultra-luxe 15 Central Park West in 2008, re-listed the apartment, 36C, for a stunning $21 million a year-and-a-half later. But the 104 percent price hike apparently wasn't too much of a stretch, because Sow's apartment has just gone into contract, according to Streeteasy.com. While the contract price was unclear (listing agent Linda Schlang of the Corcoran Group declined to comment), the three-bedroom spread never saw a price chop off its original $21 million asking price. Sow, who owns Teylium Telecom, a West African GSM mobile holding company, was not immediately reachable for comment. -- Sarabeth Sanders Source- http://therealdeal.com/newyork/articles/15-central-park-west-unit-owned-by-yerim-sow-of-senegal-asking-more-than-twice-its-2008-sale-price-goes-into-contract June 23, 2010 |
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A-Rod joins Sting, Denzel Washington, other rich and famous at 15
Central Park West BY Owen Moritz DAILY NEWS Sunday, February 28th 2010 It's where New Money hangs with Big Money. When Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez moved to 15 Central Park West, he joined an A-list of bankable stars and star bankers who have settled at one of Manhattan's hottest addresses. The imposing limestone at Central Park West and W. 61st St. also serves as a pied a terre for Denzel Washington, Bob Costas, Sting, Norman Lear, Goldman Sachs honcho Lloyd Blankfein, former Citigroup boss Sandy Weill and a handful of Asian tycoons. Rodriguez was beaten to a three-bedroom, 35th-floor apartment renting for $40,000 per month - so he slid into a two-bedroom $30,000 unit next door. His reps had the temerity to ask for a discount, but landlord Leroy Schecter turned them down. "We just said, 'No, there is no negotiating,'" Schecter's agent, Emily Beare, told the New York Observer about the deal. "And they said, 'Fine.'" Even with the economy in the tank, owners can play hardball at 15 CPW, designed by the eminent Robert A.M. Stern. Built between 2006 and 2008, it has 201 units ranging from one to eight bedrooms and is a throwback to New York's great pre-war buildings. A 19-story section known as "the house" sits in front, while behind is a 43-story tower. A glass-enclosed lobby links the two. Selling points include supersized rooms, a 75-foot lap pool, lavish wine cellar, Hollywood-style screening room, private dining room and a private driveway that keeps out the paparazzi. Then there's the big three: location, location, location. That's something New Yorkers appreciate. Two-time Oscar winner Washington, originally from Mount Vernon and Fordham, has a $12 million condo. Sportscaster Costas, the pride of Commack, L.I., paid $11 million for a pad on the eighth floor. Norman Lear, the sitcom genius who created "All in the Family," has a $10 million condo that only Archie Bunker would call "a house of ill refute." Even though 15 CPW is only two years old, units are being flipped like gourmet pancakes. Roberta Campbell, ex-wife of Intuit chairman William Campbell, reportedly paid $17.5 million cash for an 11th-floor condo. And when Israeli-born entrepreneur Beny Alagem sold his three-bedroom to YouTube investor Stuart Peterson, he made a quick $4 million profit. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/real_estate/2010/02/28/2010-02-28_chock_full_of_the_rich__famous_new_bldg_on_central_park_west_is_hot.html#ixzz0t5aFPgkN ------------------------ 15 Central Park West is a luxury apartment building erected in 2006-8 by Robert A.M. Stern located at 60th Street and Central Park West. It was built by developers Arthur and William Zeckendorf. 15 CPW is New York's most prestigious addresses. The location has been described as "the most expensive site in Manhattan", ($401 million in 2004) an entire, albeit smallish, city block on Central Park formerly occupied by the somewhat dilapidated Mayflower Hotel and a vacant lot. The Mayflower was a 1926 Neo-Renaissance building by Emery Roth. The building is divided into two sections, a 19-story tower on Central Park West known as "the house", and a 43-story tower on Broadway joined by a glass-enclosed lobby. It includes such amenities as a private driveway to screen residents from paparazzi, a 20 seat cinema and a 75-foot swimming pool. According to New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger, 15 CPW was designed to "echo" Central park West's many notable late Art Deco buildings. He describe the building in Vanity Fair as an "ingenious homage to the classic Candela-designed apartment buildings on Park and Fifth Avenues." He compares 15 CPW to the great apartment houses of the 1920's, 834 Fifth Avenue, 778 Park Avenue, 1040 Fifth Avenue and 740 Park Avenue. Celebrity residents include Sting, Norman Lear, Denzel Washington, Madonna, Bob Costas, Goldman Sachs executive Lloyd Blankfein, former Citigroup executive Sandy Weill , venture capitalist Jim Laffey and professional Dominican baseball player Alex Rodriguez. |
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