Description

Condos for sale in New York. Just north of Madison Square Park, at 127 Madison Avenue, sits a jewel box of a building. Designed by acclaimed SHoP Architects. The condominium project explores boundaries and design, materiality and history. The architecture—which re-configures seven existing floors and adds five new ones—incorporates old-world tactility and progressive technology to create a simultaneous moment of calm and movement.

Description : SHoP Architects retained the existing seven-story building's frame in order to foster a sense of continuity between the technologically-savvy forward-thinking architecture the firm is recognized for, and the more traditional detail, craftsmanship, and historic context of the standing structure.



The connection doesn't stop there; the architects inserted angled and cantilevered steel window boxes into the front of each of the floor-through apartments. The boxes pop from the street, and communicate from the inside, where a two-foot-deep ledge offers room to sit, look out, and engage the street. This vocabulary is continued in the steel and glass addition above, which highlights views to the Empire State Building, while the front façade incorporates a materiality and woven angularity that creates a concord between old and new, brick and steel, street and home.



The relationship between old and new develops in the upper five-story structure, to thrilling architectural effect. It houses two luxury duplexes, one with a terrace that fronts to Madison Avenue, and one with a roof deck that spans the entire building, overlooking the neighborhood. A series of angled skylights brings natural light into the back of the apartments and continues the spatial play of the front windows.