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9 Ninth Avenue

New York, NY, USA
Architect
BKSK Architects
Executive Architect
Wormser and Associates

9 Ninth Avenue is an adaptive reuse project in New York’s Meatpacking District involving a brick masonry facade that was formerly inhabited by a classic New York restaurant. The interiors were removed and rebuilt for the building to be repositioned as the New York flagship location for a prominent furniture and design company.
Front worked with the Design Team, Owner, Contractor and Engineer of Record to design, detail and provide preliminary analysis of the facade. It consists of a fully captured curtain wall rising above the historic masonry and glazed onto two-story, steel tee mullions with a cantilevered steel and custom slumped glass Art Screen that penetrates the curtain wall and is supported by the curtain wall steel tee mullions. Front also helped to design, detail and provide preliminary analysis for the canopy above the sidewalk, which consists of a corrugated metal and custom slumped corrugated glass canopy with internal guttering supported by steel sections and tie-rods that penetrate back through the existing brick and are supported by the primary building steel. Front also recommended testing procedures and protocols for the custom slumped glass to ensure viability and safety.

Otero Fuentes / Front
Otero Fuentes / Front
Otero Fuentes / Front

9 Ninth Avenue is an adaptive reuse project in New York’s Meatpacking District involving a brick masonry facade that was formerly inhabited by a classic New York restaurant. The interiors were removed and rebuilt for the building to be repositioned as the New York flagship location for a prominent furniture and design company.
Front worked with the Design Team, Owner, Contractor and Engineer of Record to design, detail and provide preliminary analysis of the facade. It consists of a fully captured curtain wall rising above the historic masonry and glazed onto two-story, steel tee mullions with a cantilevered steel and custom slumped glass Art Screen that penetrates the curtain wall and is supported by the curtain wall steel tee mullions. Front also helped to design, detail and provide preliminary analysis for the canopy above the sidewalk, which consists of a corrugated metal and custom slumped corrugated glass canopy with internal guttering supported by steel sections and tie-rods that penetrate back through the existing brick and are supported by the primary building steel. Front also recommended testing procedures and protocols for the custom slumped glass to ensure viability and safety.

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