From the June issue: Kenmare Street, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, is becoming one of the most architecturally interesting corridors in the five boroughs. Its first significant development dates back to 2006, when the developer Andre Balazs’ curvy glass condo One Kenmare Square debuted. Since then, the short street that is Kenmare has become a magnet for trendy restaurants and boutiques.
And today, Tadao Ando, a Pritzker Prize winner, has 152 Elizabeth Street nearing completion at a corner on the stretch. To these heterogeneous structures will soon be added a very different sort of building: 75 Kenmare, a cream-colored seven-story structure conceived in almost classical early modernism.