The Standard, High Line Hotel (New York City, New York)

 hotel, Modern (architecture)

233-foot, 19-story modernist hotel completed in 2009 for Gaw Capital. Designed by Polshek Partnership Architects (partner-in-charge, Todd Schliemann) with interiors by Roman and Williams, it is uniquely engineered the straddle the High Line elevated linear park. The hotel's lobby and 1st floor sit 57 feet above street level, atop five giant concrete supports. On the east side of the structure a single, sloped concrete pier, along which a tantalizing set of fire stairs runs, supports the building by the hotel entrance. The main mass of the building is split into two hinged slabs at a slight angle from one another.

Concrete, brick and aluminum cladding frame the glass curtain wall. The hotel has 337 guest rooms, and a rooftop bar called Le Bain. The street level of the Standard is an expansive outdoor plaza where guests of the hotel as well as the general public can sit and enjoy food from the Standard’s restaurant, The Standard Grill, or beer from The Standard Biergarten. The outdoor plaza is situated partly underneath the High Line, so the preexisting railroad tracks lie overhead. The facade of the 1-story restaurant, which sits adjoining one of the massive concrete legs, is composed of reclaimed brick, very similar to the style of brick found in most other areas in the neighborhood. It also has a large metal canopy similar to so many of the historic building in the surrounding meatpacking district.

This hotel was developed as an NYC extension of the Andre Balazs' hip hotel chain. This is the first of the chain to be built from the ground up; the others were redeveloped properties in Hollywood, downtown Los Angeles, Miami Beach, and New York's East Village.

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www.romanandwilliams.com/the-standard-highline