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A lawn and water feature will be the central focus of the plaza. Rendering by Edmund Hollander Design, photographed by Tribeca Trib
Rendering of the 111 Murray Street tower, planned to contain 157 apartments. Rendering by Kohn Pedersen Fox, photographed by Tribeca Trib
The entrance to 111 Murray Street. Because the building and plaza must be an additional six feet above the flood plane, steps to the lobby and into the plaza are required. Rendering by Kohn Pedersen Fox, photographed by Tribeca Trib
By CARL GLASSMAN
Posted Jun. 11, 2015
Architects behind the design of a nearly 800-foot-tall residential tower planned for Tribeca, and the public plaza next to it, gave what was called a “sneak peak” at renderings (slide show above) of the project to Community Board 1 on Wednesday.
The building, 111 Murray Street, will rise at Murray and West Streets, in a lot previously occupied by St. John's University. Demolition of the college building is nearly complete and foundation work for the tower is set to begin next month, said Alex Adams, who is in charge of the project for developer Fisher Brothers.
Rendering shows stair access to the building and ramp up to the plaza. Rendering: Edmund Hollander Design, photographed by Tribeca Trib
The 10,600- square-foot public plaza allows the developers, which includes the Witkoff Group, to gain 20 percent more floor area for their building. The plaza’s design, described by Geoffrey Valentino of Hollander Design Landscape Architects, calls for a central, oval-shaped lawn encircled by a walkway that branches into two sloping paths, one leading to the sidewalk, the other to the tower lobby. A water feature, four feet high and no more than a foot deep, will run along the west side of the lawn, Valentino said.
An array of plants, trees and shrubs in the plaza “helps you bring everything down to human scale on a site that’s surrounded by buildings,” Valentino noted. A sculpture, not yet selected, will occupy a space on the plaza’s eastern side, accompanied by movable seating.
“We tried to create as many different spaces for the broad range of different users who will use the site,” Valentino said.
On the east side of the plaza will be a 60-foot high building that the developers are calling a “pedestal,” with retail on the ground floor. To the west is the residential building, twice the height of Tribeca’s Independence Plaza towers and only slightly shorter than what will be the neighborhood’s tallest building, now under construction at 56 Leonard St.
Franz Prinsloo, of the architecture firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox, said the unusually large site, purchased from St. John’s for $223 million, allows the developers to construct a building that is not the “usual square box.”
“The floor plate grows as it becomes taller and then slice it at the top to create this very singular sculpture,” Prinsloo said. “A modern sculpture that we think, in the context of all the large buildings that have happened down here, is very elegant in modern form.”
According to Adams, of the Witkoff Group, the plaza will be completed last because the site is needed as a staging area for equipment. The building is expected to open in 2018.
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