New plans suggest changes to upcoming Zaha Hadid-designed Manhattan tower

2019-06-17T13:59:00-04:00

The final New York City building to be designed by the late architect Zaha Hadid may be changing course, according to plans filed with the city’s Department of Buildings. The structure at 220 11th Avenue, developed by Moinian Group, was first announced back in 2016, just months after Hadid’s untimely death at the age of 65.

Revised permit filings indicate a change from the originally proposed eleven-story mixed-use building to a nine-story commercial structure in West Chelsea.

New York YIMBY reports that STUDIOS Architecture is listed as the architect of record.

Quadratic super-plaza Foundry Square near completion

2013-09-03T15:32:00-04:00

The Foundry Square, a four-part mixed-use complex in San Francisco's South of Market (SoMa) district, is currently in its final phase with the construction of Foundry III, which developer Tishman Speyer purchased in 2012. The target LEED Gold building will have 265,000 square feet of office space and 10,000 square feet for retail. Foundry III will be San Francisco's first new ground-up office building since pre-recession in 2007.

STUDIOS Architecture and SWA Group began designing the quadratic complex for the City of San Francisco/Wilson Equity Office over a decade ago--with the buildings numbered out of sequence as they were constructed one by one. The client's goal for the complex was to create an "active people-place" while providing ample office and retail space. Current tenants in the square include Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, BlackRock Inc., and Gymboree headquarters.

As its name states, each 10-story low-rise structure of the 1.25 million sq.foot complex o...

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New plans suggest changes to upcoming Zaha Hadid-designed Manhattan tower

Quadratic super-plaza Foundry Square near completion