Whalen says that the base features Gothic stonework and that the building’s detailing becomes more abstract and less three-dimensional as it rises toward the sky. Contrasting bricks and cast stone play into the design. Their brick structure has a gray hue and features setbacks throughout that help break down its scale. We have a new life and are completely revitalized.” Fred Davie, senior strategic advisor to the seminary’s president “We wanted to stay true to the building’s history but obviously make it relevant to today,” he said. The Union Theological Seminary campus was built in 1908 in a Gothic Revival style, and Paul Whalen, a partner at RAMSA who designed Claremont Hall with partner Sarge Gardiner, says that the two envisioned a building that blended with this original aesthetic. To stay afloat, the Union Theological Seminary has invited a new luxury condo tower to its historic campus. In June 2020, the two parties closed a $60 million deal for the sale of the air rights and the project broke ground that July. “We tapped Lendlease for help, and the idea for Claremont was born,” said Davie. By 2017, those unresolved maintenance issues had gotten significantly worse, but the school still hadn’t figured out a way to monetize their lucrative air rights. In the process of exploring their options, school officials realized that they had access to 300,000 square feet of air rights above its campus worth millions.
“We had lots of issues with our plumbing, façade and heating.” “We needed funding to maintain ourselves and keep going,” he said. RAMSA echoed the campus’s Gothic Revival architecture while adding modern elements. The seeds of the project were planted in the 1980s, according to Fred Davie, the senior strategic advisor to the seminary’s president, when the school was trying to find money to pay for its upkeep. When it opens, it will include amenities like a 48-foot indoor swimming pool, a gym, a walnut-paneled library, residents’ lounge with a terrace, a children’s playroom and a “creative maker’s room.”īut getting here took efforts of Biblical proportion. The project topped out last October and is slated for completion in 2023. The developer is Lendlease, famed for its work on the Sydney Opera House and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, in partnership with L+M Development Partners and Daiwa House Texas. CetraRuddy, another high-profile designer, is creating the public areas including the lobby. Stern Architects (RAMSA), which is handling both the façade and interiors of the tower’s residences. Binyan StudiosĪdding pedigree to the project is the office of limestone-obsessed architect to the superrich Robert A.M. The new tower, dubbed Claremont Hall, will be one of Morningside Heights’ ritziest new abodes - and one of its tallest at 41 stories. In fact, the building is being constructed at the northern end of the school’s massive courtyard that fronts Claremont Avenue. But it’s the developer’s collaboration with the Union Theological Seminary - a theological graduate school founded in 1836, the oldest independent seminary in the United States - that makes it stand out.
Who says you need to store up all your treasures in heaven?Īll that in itself would make Claremont Hall one of the most significant towers ever to come to the neighborhood on the northwest corner of Manhattan anchored by low-rise Columbia University. The tower’s 165 residences will occupy floors 10 through 41, with a mix of one- to four-bedrooms, priced from $1 million to $6.5 million.Īdditionally, three penthouses will top the project, and pricing for those units has not yet been released. This month, sales launch at Claremont Hall, a 354,000-square-foot, 41-story, 460-foot-tall mixed-use development, which will primarily house luxury condos (pre-sales are already underway). Teen pleads guilty to fatally stabbing Barnard College student Tessa MajorsĬolumbia murder suspect tied to upstart ‘open warfare’ gangĪ project 40 years in the making is finally coming to fruition within a one-of-a-kind development site in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights. German tourist stabbed near Columbia University is ‘healing well’ back home Teen killer sentenced in stabbing death of Barnard student Tessa Majors
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