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Bold, stylish, and inspired, Atlas New York (1-2),  recognizes that style is part of life-how and where one chooses to live it.  This 374 unit luxury residential tower features a lobby-lounge concept that combines and etherial quality through the use of illumination and a fusion of style, texture, water and color. 212-402-5300 atlasny.com.

The Foundry (2-3), a 222-unit, high-end rental apartment building that opened in 2001 at 505 West 54th Street, features a cavernous water-wall lobby and an interior Zen-like garden, as well as a fitness center and on-site parking. 212.757.0100 www.foundrynyc.com.
The 375-unit residential rental building, New Gotham (4-5), located at 520 West 43rd Street and completed in 1998, repositioned the Far West Side of Manhattan as the “next neighborhood.”  Its award-winning, geometrically designed lobby by Stephen Alton, has been recognized in design publications, including Interior Design.  Its expansive fitness center features an indoor basketball court.  212-563-4155  www.newgotham.com)

Other Gotham residential rental projects include Key West at 750 Columbus Avenue 212.316.1000  keywestrentals@aol.com and the Westmont (6) at 730 Columbus Avenue.

Gotham is also an active participant in the rebirth of the “new” Harlem. Gotham recently co-developed and constructed Harlem USA (7), one of the country’s pioneering urban entertainment/retail complexes on 125th Street. The project boasts Magic Johnson Theaters, a Disney Store, Old Navy, HMV Records, Modell’s Sporting Goods, Chase Manhattan Bank and New York Sports Club.  Most recently, Gotham completed Hamilton Place, a 70-unit co-op on West 145th Street.
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Gotham Style

The Gotham Organization is spearheading a new wave of high-design lobbies in residential New York apartment buildings.

The lobby of Atlas New York evokes the feeling of “lobby as lounge."  It articulates a clean and ethereal quality through the use of illuminating elements and the fusion of themes indicative of style, texture and color. 

The New Gotham lobby (8+9) is infused with “anti-classical” elements, such as pear wood and limestone juxtaposed with concrete and steel.

“The lobby furnishings are spare and stylish, creating a chic lounge area for the building’s young, fashionable tenants.  With all this style it comes as no surprise that all of the building’s 375 units were rented within six months.”  Interior Design, October 1999

To design The Foundry lobby (10, 11), Picket commissioned award-winning architect Joel Sanders, whose work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Smooth molded terrazzo is juxtaposed with a rough-hewn concrete water wall to engage elements normally considered opposites. The lobby exemplifies my ongoing pursuit of ergotectonic design, which blends the hard space-defining surfaces favored by architects with the soft humanly scaled furniture, fabrics and finishes typically employed by interior designers. 

“A Gotam lobby is an extension of a person’s apartment and a statement about their lifestyle,” said David Picket, president.  “It’s about balance and harmony.”

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Gotham Organization
David Picket, president

David Picket, president of the fourth-generation Gotham Organization has broadened the focus of the 90-year old development and construction company by bringing high design, culture and change to Manhattan living.  “We create environments that are as much about design, entertainment and culture as they are about shelter”, said David.

To accomplish this, he has commissioned award-winning architects, such as Joel Sanders and Stephen Alton, to design the lobbies and common areas of Gotham ’s luxury rental properties.  The results have been published in Interior Design Magazine, Architectural Record, WWD and Zink. 

David is also bringing cultural and social events to all Gotham City residents which have included sky terrace film screenings, sushi tastings, cooking classes, concerts, and art exhibits.

Neighborhood outreach is an integral part of each Gotham development.  The Foundry is a donor to the legendary Ensemble Studio Theatre, which has churned out such notable artists as Lieb Streiber and Calista Flockhart, and Atlas New York was also the sponsor of a Parson’s School of Design ‘Atlas’ chair competition.