If the renderings are any guide, the Peter Poon-designed building rising at 136 West 42nd street will be aesthetically superior to the eighteen other hotels listed on the architect’s website. Commentators here and elsewhere seem…
Glass is just about complete at 1717 Broadway, which is now the tallest all-hotel building in the Western Hemisphere, at 753 feet. Designed by Nobutaka Ashihara, the building will contain two Marriott-brand hotels; a Courtyard,…
99 Washington Street has stood naked for months but the wait is finally over, and cladding has begun to rise. Rather than the blue zebra stripes pictured in renderings, the tower is being covered in…
Demolition is now complete at 38 West 36th Street, which will soon host yet another hotel by Peter Poon. Permits filed with the Department of Buildings indicate the building will rise 22 floors and 229 feet, meaning…
The shroud has come off Peter Poon’s new Marriott Courtyard Inn at 307 West 37th Street, and the final product is dismal – the building does meet the street wall appropriately, but the design of the…
