Real Estate Deal Watch: NY landlord does the honorable thing
Durst goes ahead with handshake deal to lease half a floor at BofA tower despite late-arriving offer for the full floor from another company; it was “greatly appreciated.”
Date 2011-04-26
Author Theresa Agovino
Condos Break Glass to Try Classic Style
The owners of a 1925 building on upper Fifth Avenue are finishing a gut renovation while preserving the brick and limestone facade, the latest example of a developer trying to attract wealthy buyers with the allure of early 20th-century architecture.
Date 2011-04-23
Author Craig Karmin
Pyramid Tower To Rise On Manhattan's West Side
It’s now an empty lot, but big plans are in the works to turn a stretch of West 57th Street into an eye-popping, ultra modern tower. "The design of the building is really quite interesting. It is a 600 and some odd unit residential rental in the shape of a pyramid with a sloping roof," explains Durst Fetner Residential C.E.O. Hal Fetner.
Date 2011-02-17
Author Jill Urban
Durst Opens New Era with BIG Apartment Pyramid
Back when we first got a glimpse of Dutch architect Bjarke Ingel's new apartment project for Durst Fetner, it immediately became the most exciting new project in at least a generation. Though seen only in comic-book form and as a fleeting still from a flythrough video (see below), the building at 57th Street and the Hudson River became an immediate sensation.
Date 2011-02-08
Author Matt Chaban
Pyramid Scheme: Bjarke Ingels reinvents the New York apartment building
Architects mature slowly; prodigies are rare. Yet at an age when most of his peers are still sitting in cubicles, laboring over light fixtures and door handles, Bjarke Ingels, a photogenic 36-year-old Dane with offices on two continents and projects on three, is about to revamp one of New York’s basic units: the apartment building.
Date 2011-02-06
Author Justin Davidson