The new Standard Hotel in the meatpacking district is the first of a string of projects linked to the development of the High Line, a park being built on a segment of abandoned elevated rail tracks.
Photo: Matthew Weinstein for The New York Times
The towering structure, designed by Polshek Partnership, is supported on huge concrete pillars, while a ground-floor restaurant and garden cafe are tucked underneath the High Line’s hefty steel frame.
Photo: Matthew Weinstein for The New York Times
A view of the lobby. “It would be easy to dismiss the new Standard Hotel in the meatpacking district as a final shout-out to the age of excess. . . . That would be a mistake. The boutique hotel is serious architecture,” writes The Times’s Nicolai Ouroussoff.
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The building bends slightly near the center, giving it a more streamlined appearance in the skyline and orienting the rooms toward the most spectacular views. To the southwest the facade is angled toward a sweeping view across the Hudson River to the Statue of Liberty.
Photo: Nikolas Koenig
An elevator bank. “With the Standard Hotel, Polshek Partnership joins a handful of other midlevel firms that are beginning to find the right balance between innovation and restraint,” writes Mr. Ouroussoff.
Photo: Nikolas Koenig
The Standard, he writes, “is the kind of straightforward, thoughtfully conceived building that is all too rare in the city today.”
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Source from: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/04/08/arts/design/20080409-polshek-slideshow_index.html
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