Avant Chelsea, New York, New York
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| Avant Chelsea | |
| Designer | 1100 Architect, PC, New York, New York, USA |
| Location | New York, New York, USA |
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| Context | Urban |
| Builder | Hunter Roberts Construction Group |
| Street Address | 245 West 19th St., New York, NY 10011 Walk Score |
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The Avant Chelsea, a twelve-story residential condominium, occupies a tight and challenging site in Chelsea. The design maximizes the allowable building size within New York City zoning guidelines through an unconventional array of setbacks that add bedrooms and exterior terraces to the uppermost four stories. The design of the 40,000-square foot building balances the demands of a limited construction budget through an artful proportioning of a standard window-wall system, and the deployment of an indigo-hued rain screen made of 12mm thick fibrous cement panels. The panels create a visual code that corresponds to the asymmetrical disposition of major and minor columns in the building’s structure. The exterior color, which varies from bright white to dark blue, provides a distinctive identity to a building type ubiquitous in the New York City landscape.
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