Clockwise from top left: Andrew Bernheimer, 245 Tenth and Jared Della Valle

One half of the Brooklyn-based architect team behind notable projects that include 245 10th Avenue, Della Valle Bernheimer, has stepped down, Cured reported. Jared Della Valle, principal, resigned to focus entirely on Alloy LLC, a real estate development firm he co-founded in 2006. The firm will endure under the name Bernheimer Architecture. Della Valle Bernheimer was founded in 1996, and counts 23 Beekman Place, 459 West 18th Street and the affordable housing project at Glenmore Gardens among its other New York City accomplishments…. [more]

An unsuspecting pedestrian might well believe, as he walked down 18th
Street between 9th and 10th avenues, that 459 and 447 West 18th Street
is comprised of one building. To the west this composite reads as a
sturdy affair of masonry and metal cladding and to the east, a stunning
glass curtain wall in various shades of blue. On closer
inspection, however, it becomes clear that these are two entirely
different developments. Surely the recently completed buildings are
jarringly divergent from a stylistic perspective, but that very
incongruity is so much a part of contemporary taste that it looks, in
the present instance, like a daring post-modern conceit. more

459 West 18th Street (left) and Chelsea Modern

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