Monday, March 9, 2015

324 E. 4th St. getting the 2 building look (but just 1 rooftop terrace)


[EVG photo from February 2014]

324 E. Fourth St. between Avenue C and Avenue D has been gutted ahead of a three-level extension.



And now we've seen all sorts of building add-ons around the neighborhood/city… often the extra floors actually blend into the existing building … not here, though …



It looks like someone dropped another 3-level home on top of what is being called Aisling House Altes Houses.

Anyway. According to New York Yimby, who first revealed the building's new look, the 11 residences will "be spread over nearly 9,000 square feet of space ... with a full-floor duplex penthouse on top and two apartments per floor above the ground level."

And here is what Mortar Architecture + Development has to say about it on the firm's website:

A renewal project for a building on East 4th Street in Alphabet City, Aisling House combines the restoration of a 100 year old brick townhouse and a refined three story addition. The eleven unit building is created using led lighting, locally sourced materials including zero voc paints and lighting by Apparatus. The building lobby and each kitchen is finished with reclaimed wood from the original townhouse, walnut cabinetry and Calcutta Gold Marble countertops. The rooftop lounge will include a green roof, and the rooftop terrace is finished with a custom cypress wood trellis.

As for that 100-year-old statement, NY Yimby writes, "Its Greek Revival features mark it as well over 150 years old."

And as previously reported, Hanksy hosted sorta secret art shows here back in December 2013 and January 2014 when the building with the colorful façade was abandoned.



Wonder if Mortar kept any of this locally sourced material for the gut-renovated building…

Previously on EV Grieve:
2 new floors, gut renovation in store for empty tenement that last housed a Hanksy art show

At Hanksy's 'Surplus Candy' art show in an abandoned East Village tenement

Gut renovations underway at 324 E. 4th St., most recently the makeshift gallery for Hanksy and Co.

The unique façade of 324 E. 4th St. is gone

5 comments:

Gojira said...

Aisling House?!? What the frack? How about Abomination House, because that's what the ugly piece of shit dropped on top of what was still a graceful little townhouse, zero voc paints and lighting by Apparatus be damned, is?!? Aisling House - just twee pretentious crap.

Anonymous said...

Jeez, I hope my londlord doesn't name my building! Sounds like that falls under capitol improvements...
I'll stick to a place with just a number.

blue glass said...

does every new or "improved" development include a roof? is that because there are so few bars for folks to get drunk at, that we need to give-up our last bit of sanity to drunk rooftop parties?
my only hope is that the parapet wall will be short and the lemmings might follow each other off the roof.

Anonymous said...

I don't know how they are calling this a restoration (or bothering with the two building look) - they completely removed the original building exteriors. Not just the mural or details of the facade - the entire streetside/gardenside WALLS were demolished, and they are building it anew to LOOK like it is an old Georgian townhouse with something plopped on top. All they left in place were portions of a couple of floors. I'd just go ahead and call this a new building.

Anonymous said...

@ Anonymous March 9, 2015 at 11:11 AM is correct--not sure why the designers maintain the conceit that there is an old townhouse being squashed by an overly large rooftop addition. It could be designed as a unified facade and look a lot better that the proposal. But not better than what they destroyed.