Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video)

<br/><p>The distinctive 4 level penthouse apartment is situated atop of one of New York City’s earliest steel skyscrapers built in 1896.</p><br/><p>It was entirely re-developed by NYC-primarily based studio David Hotson Architect, in collaboration with interior design studio Ghislaine Viñas Interior Style.</p><br/><p><span id="more-78228"></span>The penthouse characteristics an remarkable polished steel slide that spans from the attic to the entrance floor!</p><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="450" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="1200" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse_.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="800" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse__.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="1395" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse___.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="1067" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse____.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="1200" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse_____.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="1200" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse______.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="1066" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse_______.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="912" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse________.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="533" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse_________.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="1147" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse__________.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="533" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse___________.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="997" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse____________.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="601" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse_____________.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="449" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse______________.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="636" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse_______________.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="450" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse________________.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="1200" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse_________________.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="1200" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse__________________.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="1106" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse___________________.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="1059" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse____________________.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="533" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse_____________________.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="533" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse______________________.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="533" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse_______________________.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><img alt="skyhouse Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " height="1067" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/skyhouse________________________.jpg" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="800" /><br/><p>Skyhouse by David Hotson Architect</p><br/><p><em>“skyhouse is a residence in the sky, a residential penthouse situated at the summit of 1 of the earliest surviving skyscrapers in New York City.</em></p><br/><p><em>The 4 story penthouse structure, which had never been utilised as a residence, was made in 1896 as an archetypal hip-roofed home type situated twenty-one stories above the street.  In the intervening decades this penthouse has been progressively surrounded by the astonishing vertical cityscape of Reduce Manhattan. From the private elevator vestibule, lit by a skylight which frames the apex of the adjacent skyscraper sixty stories above, the ramped entrance hall passes by means of the facetted shaft of the stairwell.</em></p><br/><p><em>The original riveted steel structure –among the extremely earliest steel frames utilized in skyscraper construction in New York City- threads by means of the stairwell, slipping previous the seamless glass bridge to attain the glass floor of the attic 4 stories above the entrance level.</em></p><br/><p><em>In the major living space the original steel frame was reconfigured to permit the space to ascend to the underside of the hipped penthouse roof 4 stories above.  The 50-foot-tall living space tapers upward past a mid-level balcony suspended in the steel framework, to an inclined glass wall which encloses 1 finish of the at the attic level –and gives a vertiginous view down to the primary level 4 stories below.</em></p><br/><p><em>At the other finish of the attic, a circular hole cut into a similar outward sloping glass partition offers the entrance to the slide.  The mirror polished tubular stainless steel slide provides for a fast descent –sweeping more than a bedroom, out by way of a window, and over the stair, just before coiling down by way of the library ceiling to arrive at the flared rectangular exit opposite the penthouse entrance.</em></p><br/><p><em>All of the spaces of this residence exploit its scenario above the Manhattan cityscape with vistas channeled through all 4 levels of the penthouse structure at a range of scale to capture framed views of iconic structures in the surrounding 3-dimensional cityscape. Whilst the accurate nature of these spaces can only be revealed to a visitor encountering them in the skilled present, the pictures re-presented right here offer a glimpse of the experience of this residence in the sky above the city of New York.”</em></p><br/><p>Photos by: Eric Laignel</p><br/><img alt="p Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " border="" height="1" src="http://www.decoradvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p___________________________________________________________.gif" title="Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video) interior design 2 " width="1" />

Skyhouse By David Hotson Architect (Video)

The distinctive 4 level penthouse apartment is situated atop of one of New York City’s earliest steel skyscrapers built in 1896. It was enti...

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