Residential Lobby

The residential lobby is bookended by a honed brown travertine feature wall and a slatted wooden wall. Between the two, walls of striated porcelain tile echo the variegation in the travertine in a more muted fashion. A broad corridor leads from the lobby to the elevators; one side of it is lined with a matching iteration of the wood slatted wall, but this one is punctuated by a broad horizontal cut that features a wide white swath of the residents’ mailboxes.

Hotel Lobby

The hotel lobby opens onto Queens Plaza South and Dutch Kills Green at one end, and overlooks 29th Street at its other end. Bringing daylight through the space was an important driver of the design. The front of the lobby is dominated by a large glass mural featuring a stylized map of New York City and its environs. A pair of oblong reception desks that are clad in white marble are placed in front, and opposite them is a long and angular grey granite fountain that provides a seating area for guests.

As the lobby continues in it rotates in its orientation around a central hinge as it changes from being orientated parallel from the park-side façade to the 29th street façade. This central hinge point is expressed with a wall sculpture that features a series of illuminated metal blades that fan out in an array that follows the change in the building’s plan geometry.

At the rear of the lobby, a large marble bar reintroduces the orthogonal geometry and materiality of the reception desks, with a bank of large windows behind them. This larger gathering space is subdivided into a number of smaller seating areas through the use of suspended wood and metal screens that feature the same stylized map motif, this time rendered as large, architecturally scaled lanterns.

Residents' Lounge

At the 30th floor a residents’ lounge ties the interiors to the exterior of the building by featuring exposed concrete walls that wrap around two of the walls of a double height space. The opposite wall features a large built-in wet bar and cabinets that are all clad in a warm walnut veneer, the floor is white oak and the ceiling is white plaster, the east and west façades of the room are extensively glazed and capture the Manhattan skyline to one side and Sunnyside yards to the other. Cantilevered off the concrete wall are a series of walnut bookshelves and cabinets.

Residential Units

Within the residential units a clean and modern palette of wide-plank white oak floors and white lacquer cabinets tranquilly dominate the space. They are complemented by floor-to -ceiling glass and powder coated white mullions.