
About Atelier, 635 West 42nd Street
Looking a bit like a finely tooled, large, rectangular key with alternating notches to open some great vault in the sky, this sleek and svelte slab tower is the best looking of the Far West 42nd Street residential projects.
It has a cool plan that its architect, Costas Kondylis, maintains "recalls the bow of a great ship interpreted all in glass with wrap-around balconies and expansive views," adding that his design was inspired by the oceanliners that used to dock nearby along the Hudson River in the 40s.
The slab tower has all glass fa?ades at its corners and the north and south fa?ades have four 2-story-high protruding fa?ade elements at the corners of the building that extend about two-thirds of the way across the fa?ades in alternating fashion. The effect is very striking, bold and high-tech. It's almost as if the building were showing off its abs.
The building has 478 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments that initially ranged in price from about $500,000 to $2,000,000 and changed in September 2006 to $800,000 to $1,475,000. The building opened in 2007.
The Atelier has a 12,000-square-foot fitness center, a sky-lit indoor pool, a sun deck, a Sky Lounge with billiards room, catering kitchen and sun deck, full basketball and volleyball courts, a 100-car garage and 15,700-square feet of ground-floor retail space.
It also has a concierge, a landscaped recreation terrace, cross-town shuttle service, and Bosch washers and dryers in each apartment.
Kitchens have white gloss cabinets with under-cabinet task lighting, white quartz kitchen countertops, Sub-Zero glass-door refrigerators, and stainless steel Bosch appliances. Master bathrooms will have polished Bianco Verde marble floors and wall detailed with polished Panda white marble walls and tub surrounds, Hansgrohe chrome faucet and fixtures and fully-recessed storage cabinets.
View full profile, photos, map and apartments for sale & rent at Atelier, 635 West 42nd Street