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View over Central Park Apartment in Manhattan
Contemporary Real Estate Interior in NYC, USA – design by Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados
Apr 30, 2019
View over Central Park
Design: Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados
Location: Manhattan, New York, USA

With its privileged View over Central Park, in New York City, this apartment occupies one storey of a building designed by James Carpenter, one of the first to be built with a metal structure during the period of emergence of vertical multi-family residences at the onset of the 20th century.

After serving for years as a hotel, the building has recently undergone a retrofit and came to be occupied anew by apartments. The slab of about 500 square meters was divided into three units, the smallest having no park view. The project is signed by Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados from Brazil.
The project unified the three apartments on the 21st floor, which on the original drawing was intended for the machines and gauges. Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados chose to eliminate the dry-wall partitions, leaving only the central core with an elevator, its emergency staircases and a need to rearrange the entire space.

The new program was organized into four areas interrelated via a T-shapped circulation area which accompanies the built mass. Three of them are in the front volume: a wing of sleeping quarters (we...