Clinton Park Mixed Use Development

New York, USA

Architects: TEN Arquitectos/ Enrique Norten

Any: 2006

Located at the western edge of Midtown Manhattan, the Clinton Park mixed-use development will occupy more than half of a city block with 1.3 million square feet of commercial and residential programs.

The building fills a void in the urban fabric by integrating multiple commercial uses at the base and providing needed housing in the 27 floors above. The base building will include a 50,000 square-foot auto showroom fronting 11th Avenue with 250,000 square feet of service floors below grade, a 30,000 square-foot horse stable for the NYPD Mounted Police, a 7,500 square-foot neighborhood market, a 30,000 square-foot health club, and 200 parking spaces.

The residential form sitting atop this plinth creates over 900 apartment units, including 20 percent inclusionary housing.

Securing light and air for a great majority of apartment units, the double loaded corridor shifts diagonally across the site in a unique orientation to the Manhattan grid, reducing the building's mass adjacent to the neighboring buildings.

Each floor steps up from the one below, allowing for unobstructed views to the park and Hudson River and providing private roof terraces with green roofs on every floor.