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520 West 20th Street
The view of New York City from this floating glass-and-steel aerie on the city’s West Side couldn’t be more majestic. In the near-distance reigns the Empire State Building and the fabled NYC skyline. Closer in, the growing architectural wonderland of Chelsea. Below, the strolling paradis… Read More
The seemingly suspended new three-story steel addition is poised above an old 60,000-square-foot, four-story brick warehouse. The family-owned building is being reimagined as an 85,000-square-foot, seven-story mixed-use center, ideal for a corporate tenant.
Welcome to 520 West 20th Street, the latest architectural pearl on a string of them along the High Line from Morris Adjmi Architects. The firm’s portfolio of adaptive reuse projects reveals a sensitive hand at fusing historic integrity with contemporary design and materials. 520… Read More
The upper tier features floor-to-ceiling glass panels. As obvious as that transparency seems, it didn’t come without a knotty complication: The extreme proximity to neighboring buildings mandated two-hour-rated firewalls on the building’s flanks. Spanning the new addition with an 11-foot… Read More
Safti First was brought to the Architect's attention by the project's chief glazing contractor. Safti-First, North America’s only vertically integrated, single-source manufacturer of fire-resistive glass, framing, and entrances for over 35 years.
Having a maximum clear view area of 7,980 square inches with a maximum clear view height or width of 133 inches, SuperLite II-XLB 120 has the largest tested and listed sizes of any fire-resistive glazing product available today. The inclusion of low-iron glass in the fire-resistive glazing units als… Read More
