Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: 200 Eleventh Avenue

Collection: 
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title: 
200 Eleventh Avenue
Alternate Title: 
200 11th Avenue
Image View: 
Looking up at tower, 11th Avenue facade (16 stories rising above the 3 story plinth)
Creator: 
Selldorf Architects (American architectural firm, founded 1988)
Location: 
site: New York, New York, United States
Location Note: 
200 11th Avenue; West Chelsea, corner of 11th Avenue and 24th Street
GPS: 
+40.749158-74.006387
Date: 
2010 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
American
Style Period: 
Twenty-first century
Work Type 1: 
skyscraper
Work Type 2: 
condominium (built work)
Work Type 3: 
apartment house
Classification: 
architecture
Material: 
steel; glass; terracotta cladding
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Measurements: 
61,000 ft2 (area, total)
Description: 
The 19-story building consists of a 16-story tower supported by a 3-story plinth. The plinth connects the building to its context in several important ways: by reflecting the neighborhood?s primarily low-rise scale; by maintaining the street wall along both 24th Street and 11th Avenue; and through a material palette (terracotta cladding and blackened steel window frames) that matches the masonry façades and industrial details of the older surrounding buildings. There are 16 duplex condominiums: a car elevator runs along the east side of the building, allowing residents to park directly outside their front doors (leading the building to be dubbed an En-Suite-Sky-Garage). Annabelle Selldorf FAIA is a German-born architect and founding principal of Selldorf Architects, a New York City-based firm. (Source: Selldorf Architects [website]; http://www.selldorf.com)
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Eight
Identifier: 
1A1-SELA-THEA-A16
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.