High-Rise Projects

High-Rise Projects

• New Old Money: Hartz Mountain Industries Purchases Chicago High-Rise

  With a mission to triple their portfolio size over the next year or two—both by acquisition and development—Hartz Mountain Industries president and COO Emmanuel Stern sat down with Multifamily Executive to talk about moving into the apartment sector.

   

• Berkeley Voters OK Idea of Tall Buildings

   

• MFE Awards 2010: Project of the Year: High-Rise

  Avalon Towers Bellevue, Bellevue, Wash.

   

• Landmarks: The San Remo, New York

  Emory Roth's San Remo in Central Park West resonates grandeur and elegance.

   

• Chicago Multifamily Tower Wins Skyscraper of the Year Award

  Courtesy of a groundbreaking façade designed by architect Jeanne Gang of Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects, the 81-story Aqua in Chicago has largely overcome the wind issue in the windiest of cities, just one of the reasons judges in the Emporis Skyscraper Award bestowed top honors last month to...

   

• High-Rise Condos Head to the Auction Block

  It’s official: High-rise condo buildings have joined the auction craze. While auctions to move single-family and low-rise condo communities have dominated the headlines since the housing market tanked, developers are now turning to auctions to help boost high-rise sales.

   

• MFE 2009 Awards, High-Rise

  Fifteen Twenty-One Second Avenue wins 2009 MFE award for High-Rise project of the year.

   

• Facelift: BellTell Lofts Renovation

  The timing couldn’t have been better for New York City-based development company Clipper Equity, which was in the market for a condo conversion project in Brooklyn. The NY Telephone Building immediately caught their eye.

   

• Io Piazza

  Shirlington Village in Arlington, Va., is undergoing a transformation, shifting from rows of parking spaces to higher-density development.

   

• Landmarks: Price Tower

  “The Price Tower, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, was decades ahead of its time. Wright's unique façade treatment and massing at the Price Tower respond to the different functions within, while controlling daylighting on each of the compass exposures.