Building: Avant Chelsea

Located in the heart of Chelsea, on 19th Street between 7th and 8th , AVANT offers brand new “state-of-the-smart” condominiums with distinctive architectural design by award-winning 1100 Architect. With just 12-stories and 19 apartments, including four extraordinary full floor penthouses, every residence features dramatic floor-to-ceiling windows, caramelized, edge-cut bamboo flooring, natural wood-finished entry doors, full-height solid core interior doors, spacious master bedrooms with walk-in closets and master baths with oversized, seamless glass showers. Building amenities include our private, landscaped AVANT Garden with a grill and a water wall, fitness center, dedicated private storage rooms for each apt, bike storage, attended lobby and full time super.

The Avant Chelsea, a 40,000-square-foot, twelve-story residential condominium, occupies a tight and challenging site in New York City. The design maximizes the building size allowed within zoning regulations through an unconventional array of setbacks that add bedrooms and exterior terraces to the uppermost four stories. Artful proportioning of a standard window wall system on the street facade balances the scale of the user with that of the building at large. The windows are framed in anodized aluminum and surrounded by a ribbon of aluminum panels in nine different shades of indigo. Along the southeast facade the ribbon unfolds into a screen of 2,500 fibrous cement panels that range from white to dark blue. The exterior color scheme provides a distinctive identity to a building type ubiquitous in the New York City landscape.

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