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NEW YORK | 48 Second Avenue | FT | 11 FLOORS
Project: 48 Second Avenue
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Church-to-condo conversions, an increasingly common phenomenon that repurposes shuttered houses of worship into housing for the affluent, conjures mental images of Gothic-styled foyer entryways, hipped nave living room lofts, and pointed-arch bedroom windows, whether in Cobble Hill, Williamsburg, or Bushwick. However, an unusually-styled,shuttered church at 48 Second Avenue is about to transform into an equally-unusual apartment building. Architecture firm JBA Collective not only incorporates key elements of the original structure into the base of the new high-rise, but also draws inspiration from its mid-century Brutalist aesthetic to carve a funky, Neo-Brutalist tower that will delightfully jazz up the East Village skyline.
The original church rose at the site in 1832. Known as the Second Avenue Presbyterian Church, the edifice was a masterpiece of Greek Revival architecture designed by a partnership of Alexander Jackson Davis, known for landmarks such as the 1842 Federal Hall on Wall Street, and architects J. H. Dakin and James Gallier. The church faced the avenue with a classical column portico and pediment gable, and graced the skyline with a telescoping, domed bell tower. The structure, known as the Church of the Nativity since 1842, outlived the Lower East Side’s postwar wave of demolitions and construction of towers-in-a-park crisis, yet perished on the eve of the city’s fiscal crisis, meeting the wrecking ball in 1970.
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