Lantern House

515 West 18th Street | also 501 West 18th Street, 137 10th Avenue, 521 West 18th Street | Chelsea | built 2020

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  1. 2014

    Related Companies buys the site for $205 million

    Related Companies pays $205 million for the Chelsea site that becomes Lantern House. Reports link it with a second Related project at 555 West 22nd Street, which they call Hudson Residences. The first permits are filed in 2016, and the project's massing is revealed in 2017.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 2015

    Related Companies commissions Heatherwick Studio to design a residence beside the High Line

    Heatherwick Studio says Related Companies commissioned it in 2015 for a new residence in Chelsea, beside the High Line at West 18th Street. The studio wanted to avoid the glass apartment blocks rising along the park and instead make a residence reminiscent of the area's older buildings and designed for permanence. The project was completed in 2021.

    Source: heatherwick.com

  3. 2016

    The first permits for work on the site are filed, and the massings are revealed in 2017

    Work on the site moved forward in 2016, when the first permits were filed. Massings for the project that became Lantern House were revealed the next year, in 2017.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 2018

    Early designs for Thomas Heatherwick's lantern-windowed tower are published

    Press coverage in early 2018 first shows Thomas Heatherwick's design for Lantern House, whose windows evoke the shape of a lantern. He drew on bay windows seen in Victorian homes and on industrial warehouses in New York, which also inspired the brick facade. The High Line passes between the development's two structures, which a street-level lobby joins.

    Source: Wikipedia

  5. 2021

    Stacked bay windows and a shared lobby join the two towers on either side of the High Line

    Because the High Line cuts the site in two, the design gives the two towers a shared entrance: a lobby slung between east and west and pierced by the old railway's steel columns. Heatherwick Studio adapted the bay window of late Victorian and Edwardian buildings into a double-height, stacked version held between brick piers, with no corner columns. At street level, bay windows wrap the corner to form small shops that can be divided.

    Source: heatherwick.com

  6. 2021

    September

    Lantern House opens with 181 condominium units

    Lantern House, the Thomas Heatherwick design at 515 West 18th Street, is completed in September 2021 with 181 condominium units and interiors by March & White. Curbed's critic called the repeated windows a gimmick, while another architect saw a nod to the nearby industrial buildings.

    Source: Wikipedia

  7. 2022

    The Italian restaurant Cucina Alba opens at Lantern House

    The Italian restaurant Cucina Alba opens in Lantern House in 2022, the year after the building's completion. The Heatherwick-designed tower stands at 515 West 18th Street in Chelsea.

    Source: Wikipedia

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