Construction is complete on Le Meridien Hotel, a 21-story mixed-use tower at 292 Fifth Avenue in NoMad. Designed by Gene Kaufman Architect and developed by the McSam Hotel Group, which purchased the property for $42.4 million in March 2017, the structure yields 187 hotel rooms and an unspecified number of residential units on the upper levels. The development is located between West 30th and West 31st Streets.
Much of the building’s exterior was finished at the time of our last update exactly one year ago, with some work still ongoing on the ground floor facing Fifth Avenue. Since then, the sidewalk scaffolding has been fully dismantled, revealing the ground-floor frontage.
292 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
292 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
292 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
292 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
292 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
292 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
292 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
292 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
Below are photographs taken from this past winter with workers installing wiring and light fixtures.
292 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
292 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
292 Fifth Avenue. Photo by Michael Young
YIMBY last reported that hotel rooms will occupy the second through 16th stories. A select number of residences will be located on floors 17 through 21. The property will also contain private meeting rooms, an outdoor terrace perched on the 17th-floor setback, a ground-floor restaurant, and bicycle storage space. The terrace will provide striking views of the nearby Empire State Building and a nice vantage point looking up and down Fifth Avenue.
292 Fifth Avenue should open for operation sometime soon, perhaps in the next few months.
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Unexpectedly good.
GKA/Chang collaboration that isn’t terrible. Does not compute.
Keeps street line….why doesn’t he always?
Blame the city. Even bad architects aren’t breaking the building code by designing horrible streetwall killing setbacks — they are following it.
So they do know how to design and build a beautiful building, which means they are knowingly building trash in other parts of the city. Disturbing.
That’s the million dollar question.
Why don’t these two worst offenders build everything like this instead of the crap they put up all over the city?
They are purposefully destroying our beloved city
I can’t believe a brand like Le Meridien would move into a building built by the two cheapest, most offensive forces in NYC architecture. Gross. We need better zoning laws that actually mean something. There’s no way I’m suggesting this hotel to my clients!
What’s with the big exhaust(?) pipe sticking out of front of the building at the top?
The glass area at the top is kind of awkward-looking. Other than that, though, this is a better than average Gene Kaufman design.
Not the usual toilet clogging spew from Gene Kauffman, though the clumsy, not to say cheesy, sides and attic treatment confirm that he is indeed the architect.