Loft of Frank and Amy in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City by Resolution: 4 Architecture

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Designed for a writer and a film editor, the Loft of Frank and Amy is a bare, wide-open play space in New York City’s gritty Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. Located in a former industrial building, the loft occupies an entire floor with full window exposure and dynamic urban views on three sides. The design enhances this industrial context by posing new construction as a single sculptural intervention within this existing space.

kitchen (Image Courtesy Paul Warchol)

• Architects: Resolution: 4 Architecture
• Project: Loft of Frank and Amy
• Location: Hell’s Kitchen, New York
• Completion Date: 2000
• Size: 4,800 sf
• Construction Cost: $275,000
• Bedrooms: 3
• Baths: 3
• Features: Writing Room, Open Loft Living, Dining & Kitchen
• Software used: FormZ & Vectorworks

Bathroom (Image Courtesy Paul Warchol)

• Architects: Joseph Tanney, Robert Luntz
• Project Architect: Daniel Piselli
• Project Team: Michael Anderson, Erin Vali
• Contractor: Chris Pavic, Continental Construction Co.
• Photographer: © Paul Warchol
• Materials: Concrete Floors, Slate Bathroom Floors, Imperial Black Granite & Teak Countertops, Maple & White Lacquer Cabinets, Hot Rolled Black Steel Cladding, Slate Tile, Durock & OSB Walls
• Furniture: Bedroom; lounge chair by Paolo Deganello for Cassina, Kartell drum table, circa 1946 American bedside table, Kitchen/Living/Dining; box construction by Droog Design through Moss, Nakashima sofa w/red wool blend, Ettore Sottsass Pre Memphis Wiggle Table, Andrea Branzi’s stacked disk sculpture, Fred Silverman Pendant Light, Lacquered cube furniture

Bathroom-Bedroom (Image Courtesy Paul Warchol)

This intervention becomes a compressed box of utility (containing the kitchen, mechanical and supportive spaces) that divides the public and private areas of the loft. A primary feature of the box is a series of huge sliding doors that can open the entire perimeter of the loft, or conversely, can extend to the exterior walls to close off the bedrooms.

Bedroom (Image Courtesy Paul Warchol)

Builtins (Image Courtesy Paul Warchol)

Dining (Image Courtesy Paul Warchol)

Dining (Image Courtesy Paul Warchol)

kitchen (Image Courtesy Paul Warchol)

Utility box (Image Courtesy Paul Warchol)

Tags: Hell's Kitchen, New York City

Categories: FormZ, House, Vectorworks

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