Construction is nearing completion on 113 West 24th Street, a 39-story Marriott hotel located in the Midtown, Manhattan district of Chelsea. Designed by Stonehill & Taylor Architects and developed by Lam Generation, the 420-foot-tall reinforced concrete tower was last reported to yield 360 guest rooms, each averaging around 380 square feet apiece. Flintlock Construction Services, LLC is the general contractor for the project, which is located between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.
113 West 24th Street. Photo by Michael Young
113 West 24th Street. Photo by Michael Young
113 West 24th Street. Photo by Michael Young
113 West 24th Street. Photo by Michael Young
Since our last update in late January, work on the curtain wall has been steadily proceeding. The black rectangular metal panels framing the edges of the main southern elevation now surround the sleek floor-to-ceiling windows. We can see the protective blue film for the glass all peeled off and curtains for each hotel room installed. The blank eastern and western sides are also finished with the dark envelope.
The biggest change has been the construction of the main entrance along West 24th Street. Above and behind the sidewalk scaffolding is a repetitive series of white rectangular frames that leads up to the main building itself. This new assembly didn’t exist yet back in the winter months, while the space between the columns around the mechanical floors and tall lobby were still covered with temporary makeshift walls. Now a large wall of clear glass goes in front of the high ceilings. From afar the height and color of the structure blend well with the other adjacent residential skyscrapers and hotels.
113 West 24th Street. Photo by Michael Young
113 West 24th Street. Photo by Michael Young
113 West 24th Street. Photo by Michael Young
113 West 24th Street. Photo by Michael Young
113 West 24th Street. Photo by Michael Young
113 West 24th Street. Photo by Michael Young
113 West 24th Street will span about 136,700 square feet, with ten rooms per floor beginning on the fourth floor and going up to the 41st floor. At the very top will be a rooftop bar.
The completion date for 113 West 24th Street has been delayed and a finalized date has not been announced. YIMBY predicts sometime by the end of the year or early 2022 as a possible time frame.
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I hope Lam Generation spends a couple hundred bucks to paint the nasty exposed walls of the adjacent properties.
I was thinking the same thing, paint the exposed sides of the two neighboring buildings in a creamy beige color to match existing facades.
Also the building on the left should remove the bricks from the covered windows?
LET THE SUN SHINE IN!🤗
They won’t and the city won’t ask them to. Thats just the tip of the iceberg of everything that’s wrong with the DOB’s R10 tower sky-plane zoning.
Sorry I’m late, I fell in love with someone. For these details and design by itself, I fell in love on its facade. That’s blend with the neighborhood: Thanks to Michael Young.
la la la la la….whatever does he say……………….
I don’t really care for this design. At least it has some nice glass and an interesting roof section. But, it still is very dull, especially since it doesn’t have any setbacks. To me, it’s a Kaufman design with some depressing lipstick.
another out of context glass box for a hotel that will struggle to fill its rooms and forever be a scar on the neighborhood
so sad to see these disgusting glass boxes being put up and destroying neighborhoods
this^^^^^
For all of you who like me are eager to point out the detriment and insanity of the setback tower scourge that is mutilating the West 20s, 30s and 40s I would encourage you to just read the DOB language for the R10 zones. The city basically gives 3 options for building form under this zoning, 2 of which dont really work for budget hotel developers. This essentially forces hotel developers to take the worst option available which is a column of a tower intentionally set back from the street, essentially shredding the streetwall and forbidding a base of any sensible height even if it meets the pre-existing height of older neighbors, preserves the streetwall and maintains a semblance of appropriate urban design. A tallented architect could navigate the guidelines and make peripheral improvements but even they are locked into an absolutely thoughtless massing requirement under this tower sky-plane R10 zoning. Go read it for yourself.
NFA
You finally hit the nail on the head and pointed out how these cheap ass developers and their cheap ass hotels are destroying this city .
You wrote -The city basically gives 3 options for building form under this zoning, 2 of which dont really work for” budget hotel developers”
This says it all!
BUDGET HOTEL DEVELOPERS are too cheap to do anything but build crap even though they have 2 other options available to them.
I’ve been watching this go up and scratching my head for months. Zoning allows these hotels a minimum 20′ deep rear yard. This hotel is perfectly aligned back to back with a similarly sized new hotel on 25th Street. Though the space between the two should be 20′ + 20′ = 40′, when the canyon goes 40 stories high x 50′(?) wide, it sure looks far narrower when viewed from Sixth Avenue. It is so tight that I can’t see for sure, but I believe both hotels have at least some windows on their rear facades. Maybe they’ll have niche appeal for peeping toms.