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'Ground Zero Mosque' Developer Beefs Up Jean Nouvel Condos
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Hana R. Alberts
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Once-controversial Soho Properties chief Sharif El-Gamal just announced that he has tapped a minimalist Italian designer, Piero Lissoni, to design the apartment interiors and amenity spaces at his new condo building, set to rise at 45 Park Place between Church and West Broadway.
The building, which is going to be 39 stories tall (or 665 feet) and contain 46 condos, already has an all-star design team in place, with starchitect Jean Nouvel tapped, along with Michel Abboud's SOMA Architects. Early renderings showed a many-headed glass tower, but the final design is yet to be unveiled. Next door, at 51 Park Place—once the planned site of El-Gamal's controversial "Ground Zero mosque"—there will be an Islamic cultural center and museum.
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