Comprising one seven-storey auction block adjoined to another that is twelve storeys high, the Dream Downtown Hotel occupies a renovate early annex of the National Maritime Union of America .
Overlapping layers of punch metal clad the smaller of the two blocks, where the circular openings create juliet balconies for the guest rooms behind.
Porthole windows besides feature on the grandiloquent freeze, which has a slanted outside of stainless steel steel tiles .
The architects split the build up into two during the renovation, when they removed the middle sections from four floors to create a screen pool terrace at the center .
The hotel building besides contains two restaurants, a gymnasium, an event space and shops .
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photography is by Bruce Damonte, apart from where otherwise stated .
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Dream Downtown Hotel is a 184,000 SF boutique hotel in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. The 12-story construct includes 316 guestrooms, two restaurants, rooftop and VIP lounges, outdoor pond and pool bar, a gymnasium, event outer space, and grind floor retail .
Dream sits on a though-block locate, fronting both 16th and 17th Streets, and is adjacent to the Maritime Hotel, which sits adjacent to the west. In 1964, the National Maritime Union of America commissioned New Orleans-based architect Albert Ledner to design a newly headquarters for the Union, on Seventh Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets .
Two years late, he designed an annex for the headquarters on the web site where Dream presently sits. A few years by and by, Mr. Ledner designed a flank wing for the annex, which would finally be converted to the Maritime Hotel .
In the 1970s, the Union collapsed and the buildings were sold and used for diverse purposes in the years that followed. In 2006, Handel Architects was engaged to convert the main annex into the Dream Downtown Hotel .
The otherness of Ledner ‘s 1966 purpose for the National Maritime Annex was critical to preserve. Along the seventeenth Street exposure, the slop façade was clad in stainless steel steel tiles, which were placed in a running bond blueprint like the original mosaic tiles of Ledner ‘s Union build .
New porthole windows were added, one of the lapp proportion as the original and one half the size, loosening the rigid grid of the previous design, while creating a newfangled façade of control chaos and vitality .
The tiles reflect the sky, sunlight, and moon, and when the light hits the façade perfectly, the stainless steel steel disintegrates and the circular windows appear to float like bubbles .
The orthogonal panels fold at the corners, continuing the gradient and generating a contrasting effect to the window traffic pattern of the north façade .
The 16th Street side of the build, previously a lacuna façade when the build served as an annex, was given new life sentence. The skin is constructed of two perforated stainless steel steel layers, its top sheet of holes a rejoinder of the seventeenth Street punched-window design and the inner plane a regular perforation convention.
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The outer rain screen door is punctured with porthole-shaped Juliet balconies for the guestrooms and peels up at the ground level to form the hotel canopy and reveal the hotel entrance .
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The original through block build offered limited possibilities for natural sparkle .
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Four floors were removed from the plaza of the building, which created a new pool terrace and beach along with new windows and balconies for guestrooms .
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The glass bed pool allows guests in the anteroom glimpses through the water to the outside ( and vice versa ) connecting the spaces in an ethereal way .
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Light wells framed in teak between the lobby, pool and lower floor levels allow the quad to flow .
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Two hundred pass blown glass earth float through the lobby and congregate over The Marble Lane restaurant filling the space with a charming light cloud .
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Fixtures and furnishings were customs designed for the public spaces and guestrooms to complement the outside invention and to continue the illimitable feel of quad throughout the guest have .
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Handel Architects served as both architect and inside interior designer for the project .
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