UPDATE: The photos have been removed at the behest of the architect, who cited the client’s desire for privacy. (The images, however, can still be seen on The Cool Hunter, and the architect’s site, so do go check them out.)

I’ve long wondered who had popped the huge windows into the south side of 270 Broadway (the big office conversion at the southwest corner of Chambers), and thanks to The Cool Hunter, now we know. Well, sort of: We don’t know the clients’ names, but the architect was Steven Harris, whose office is just down the street. “The family showed up, literally, at the doorstep of the celebrated architect and asked if he’d like to work on their home.” Obviously, he said yes: The project had “freedom from budget constraints.” So much so, in fact, that during the renovation, the clients—who have three teenagers—”bought a couple of other apartments in the same building for temporary residence—and had them renovated before move-in, too. Those two apartments are now for sale.”

Jealous yet?

The astoundingly beautiful 8,000-square-foot apartment is on the 27th and 28th floors, with “self-contained guest quarters,”  a “glass-and-teak-beam rooftop pavilion that functions as a recreation room” (with gym, natch). The most dramatic space appears to be the living room, which has an 18-foot-high window: “The room gained its height by necessity because adding the rooftop pavilion took the condominium conversion over its allowable floor area ratio. The team solved this problem by cutting off part of the lower-level ceiling, thus creating the double-height living area.”

And the stairs are wrapped in leather.

Read more of Tuija Seipell’s text here. Many of these are rather large, so for Pete’s sake, click on them.

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