Exterior work is nearing completion on the Marymount School of New York‘s ten-story expansion at 115 East 97th Street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by COOKFOX Architects, the structure will yield flexible learning spaces, state-of-the-art STEAM classrooms, athletic facilities, a library, theater, music room, alumnae parlor, dining room and terrace with an edible garden, and a “FabLab.” Triton Construction is the general contractor and Terrain-NYC Landscape Architecture is the landscape designer for the property, which is located between Lexington and Park Avenues and is aiming for LEED certification.
Recent photos show the finished look of the main southern elevation and its façade of glazed terracotta panels, which pays homage to the bay window detailing in its existing complex along Fifth Avenue. The grid of operable windows is surrounded by dark rigid spandrels, and the structure culminates in a flat parapet that will be finished with a rooftop garden. The eastern and western profiles are largely blank, enclosed in a pattern of rectangular panels.
115 East 97th Street. Photo by Michael Young
115 East 97th Street. Photo by Michael Young
115 East 97th Street. Photo by Michael Young
115 East 97th Street. Photo by Michael Young
115 East 97th Street. Photo by Michael Young
The building massing features a deep setback at the fourth floor, which will give way to a landscaped terrace.
115 East 97th Street. Photo by Michael Young
115 East 97th Street. Photo by Michael Young
115 East 97th Street. Photo by Michael Young
115 East 97th Street. Photo by Michael Young
115 East 97th Street. Photo by Michael Young
115 East 97th Street. Photo by Michael Young
115 East 97th Street. Photo by Michael Young
115 East 97th Street. Photo by Michael Young
The rear northern elevation along East 98th Street is still covered in scaffolding and netting as exterior work continues. The mechanical extension and a portion of the eastern face have yet to receive their paneling.
115 East 97th Street. Photo by Michael Young
115 East 97th Street. Photo by Michael Young
115 East 97th Street. Photo by Michael Young
The building will also feature an entrance gallery and a garden courtyard in the foyer. The nearest subway is the local 6 train at the corner of East 96th Street and Lexington Avenue. The current home of The Marymount School of New York is located at the corner of East 84th Street and Fifth Avenue.
115 East 97th Street is anticipated to be finished in 2024, as noted on the construction board.
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Is the school moving to this location when completed?
The school now occupies the Parochial school across the street. It will move into their new facility upon completion. The school will still retain its signature property on 5th Avenue across from the Met.
Damn that’s hot.
The terracotta panels is a nice choice.
Really well done, all the way around.
I’m surprised nobody’s come up with a more elegant/discrete solution for the exhausts or intakes that sometimes take the form of those giant cylindrical protrusions.
Especially considering the fins of the grey terracotta literally look like exhaust vents themselves. They should have incorporated the vents behind a false set of terracotta fins.
I mean, I love the design overall but those cylinders are so strange.
What a beauty.