Lantern House
{{short description|Residential building in Manhattan, New York}}
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Lantern House is a residential development in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City. Thomas Heatherwick designed the building, and Related Companies developed it.
History and development
Related paid $205 million for the site in 2014.{{cite news |last1=Baird-Remba |first1=Rebecca |title=Permits Filed: 501 West 18th Street, Chelsea |url=https://newyorkyimby.com/2016/09/permits-filed-501-west-18th-street-chelsea.html |access-date=February 4, 2021 |work=New York YIMBY |date=September 30, 2016}} The earliest permits for work on the site were filed in 2016. Massings for the project were revealed in 2017.{{cite news |last1=Nelson |first1=Andrew |title=Massing Diagram Up for Related Companies' 511 West 18th Street and 500 West 19th Street, West Chelsea |url=https://newyorkyimby.com/2017/11/massing-diagram-up-for-related-companies-511-west-18th-street-and-500-west-19th-street-west-chelsea.html |access-date=February 4, 2021 |work=New York YIMBY |date=November 14, 2017}} Designs for the structures were first published by the press in early 2018.{{cite news |last1=Hylton |first1=Ondel |title=Thomas Heatherwick Designs Bubble-Wrapped Condos to Saddle Up Next to the High Line |url=https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/market-insight/features/future-nyc/thomas-heatherwick-designs-bubble-wrapped-condos-saddle-up-next-high-line/15223 |access-date=February 4, 2021 |work=City Realty |date=January 9, 2018 |language=en}} Reporting has connected Lantern House to another Related development at 555 West 22nd Street, designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, referring to them jointly as "Hudson Residences".{{cite news |last1=Hilburg |first1=Jonathan |title=A first look at Thomas Heatherwick's bulging High Line towers |url=https://www.archpaper.com/2018/01/thomas-heatherwicks-high-line-towers-revealed/ |access-date=February 4, 2021 |work=The Architect’s Newspaper |date=January 10, 2018}}
As of early 2021, the building was nearing completion.{{cite news |last1=Young |first1=Michael |title=Construction Wraps Up on Thomas Heatherwick's Lantern House at 515 West 18th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan |url=https://newyorkyimby.com/2021/01/construction-wraps-up-on-thomas-heatherwicks-lantern-house-at-515-west-18th-street-in-chelsea-manhattan.html |access-date=February 4, 2021 |work=New York YIMBY |date=January 21, 2021}} It was completed in September 2021.{{cite news |last1=Waddoups |first1=Ryan |title=Heatherwick Studio's Lantern House Is Complete |url=https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/lantern-house-thomas-heatherwick/ |access-date=March 31, 2022 |work=SURFACE |date=September 22, 2021}}
Design
The building's windows inspired the name of the development, as they evoke the shape of a lantern,{{cite news |last1=Clarke |first1=Katherine |title=How Thomas Heatherwick Became the Poster Boy for Manhattan's West Side Renaissance |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-thomas-heatherwick-became-the-poster-boy-for-manhattans-west-side-renaissance-11581612030 |access-date=February 4, 2021 |work=Wall Street Journal |date=February 13, 2020}} though they have also been unfavorably compared to pickle and beer barrels. Heatherwick was inspired in part by bay windows he has seen in Victorian homes.{{cite news |last1=McKeough |first1=Tim |title=The High Line's Latest Starchitect Project (Published 2020) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/realestate/the-high-lines-latest-starchitect-project.html |access-date=February 4, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=January 24, 2020}} Heatherwick also drew inspiration from industrial warehouses located in Manhattan and elsewhere in New York, from which he derived the building's brick façade.
The High Line park bisects the two structures that form the building, though a lobby joins them at street level. March & White designed the building's interiors.
=Architectural reception=
Eva Hagberg, writing for Curbed criticized the building as "one idea about a window, repeated", further calling the bay windows a "gimmick gone too far".{{cite news |last1=Hagberg |first1=Eva |title=Thomas Heatherwick's High Line Condos Are Just One Idea About Windows, Repeated |url=https://www.curbed.com/2021/10/lantern-house-thomas-heatherwick-high-line-review.html |access-date=October 27, 2021 |work=Curbed |date=October 26, 2021 |language=en-us}} In another Curbed article about new buildings near the High Line and their design, an anonymous architect was quoted, referring to the building as "a disaster" and "the nail in the coffin" for the architectural character of the area.{{cite news |last1=Velsey |first1=Kim |title=Architects Agree: The Buildings Around the High Line Are Terrible |url=https://www.curbed.com/2021/12/high-line-bad-architecture-starchitects.html |access-date=December 7, 2021 |work=Curbed |date=December 6, 2021 |language=en-us}} Another anonymous architect gave Heatherwick some praise for the design's apparent nod to the nearby industrial buildings that date to before the High Line's conversion from railroad to park.
Usage
The building is residential, with 181 condominium units.
The building also contains an Italian restaurant, Cucina Alba.{{cite news |last1=Fabricant |first1=Florence |title=Cucina Alba Opens, Serving Italian at the Edge of the High Line |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/dining/nyc-restaurant-news.html |access-date=April 30, 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=August 16, 2022}} The restaurant opened in 2022.
References
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{{The Related Companies}}
{{Chelsea, Manhattan}}
Category:Residential buildings in Manhattan