1000 Canal St

Description: New construction of a ten-story hotel with ground floor commercial space. 

ARC Recommendations: 

5/18/21: The ARC noted that while the recessed balconies work on the Roosevelt Way façade, they are less successful on the Canal St. side. The massing on Canal St. results in the appearance of two separate tall, narrow buildings. There should be more cohesion between the two sides. The ARC also expressed concerns that the building overpowers the adjacent existing buildings on Canal St., which are all low-rise. They suggested exploring a massing strategy that has a lower portion on Canal St. that steps back to the taller mass, rather than using a single height throughout. The ARC requested to see more of the context in the perspective views. While the current perspectives provide an idea of the overall scale of the adjacent buildings, it is difficult to see how the new building relates to other compositional elements on those buildings, such as balconies and galleries, floor heights, bay spacing, and opening proportions.

4/20/21: The ARC noted that dividing the building into two different contrasting materials cut the building in half instead of following the presented “tripartite” design concept, which gives the design odd proportions. It also doesn’t have a strong cap element. The primary Canal St. elevation should be more differentiated from the side elevation. They also suggested that the number of balconies may be excessive, particularly as other buildings in the context of the same height typically don’t have upper floor balconies. There is an opportunity to group the balconies on the Roosevelt Way elevation to make them more of a design feature. The gallery is very low for the height of the building; it would work better if it were two stories. Overall, the ARC found that the design is confused and trying to combine too many different architectural styles, and they agreed that further study is needed. There are both modern and historicist elements included, and the design needs to move more definitively in one direction or the other.

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