516-530 West 25 Street is a three-building warehouse type commercial property.  516 and 520 West 25 Street, joined as part of a previous renovation, are late 19th Century buildings built as warehouse space.  A one-story addition at 520 was added in the 1970’s on what was once open loading/unloading spaces.  Our design envisioned a bold reuse of the building for a mix of gallery space and offices and an urban garden space on the roof of the one-story addition.

The height of the one-story addition blocked the second-floor windows making the floor useless as office space.  Our proposal was to remove this second floor and create a museum-quality gallery on the first floor with 20’ ceilings and mezzanine office space in the southeast corner.  We also proposed to recapture some of the lost second floor space by enlarging the building with an expansion of the footprint on the third and fourth floors.  Floors 3 and 4 are new office spaces with all new floors, partitions, HVAC, electrical and finishes.   A large freight elevator was replaced with a new passenger elevator and a new lobby was designed and installed in 520.  The entrances of both buildings are marked with new, cantilevered, steel and glass rigid canopies.

The entire façade was of 520 was removed, rearranged and rendered with charcoal metallic bricks and matching colored stucco.  All new casement windows were provided as well as a new storefront at street level for the new gallery tenant – Petzel Gallery.

530 West 25 Street is a vintage 1920’s seven story plus penthouse warehouse loft building that has been repurposed as pre-built office space.  The 7,000 square foot floors have been gutted back to the bricks and joists and new floors, walls, lighting, HVAC, electrical and data distribution has been installed. The floors have been pre-built with conference and meeting rooms as well as private offices with interiors marked by clean finishes, glass partitions, exposed brick, wood floors, exposed spiral ducts and open floor plans. New window openings were punched in the east facing façade to allow for views down to the new roof garden on the 520 first floor roof and across to the High Line, our mid-block neighbor.