The Stonehill & Taylor-designed Crosby Street Hotel is set for its grand opening on September 29. We wrote about the project here at gbNYC nearly two years ago when details were slim and renderings unavailable; you can check out a few interior and exterior shots in our image gallery to the left. As you'll recall, UK-based Firmdale Hotels, well-known for a portfolio of high end hotel properties in London that includes the five star Haymarket and Charlotte Street Hotels, is developing the eight-story, 86-room property- at 79 Crosby Street in SoHo in what was a parking lot between Prince and Spring Streets. Stonehill & Taylor Associates (which supervised the condominium conversion of the Plaza Hotel in Midtown) are architects for the project in collaboration with Firmdale co-founder Kit Kemp, who will design the hotel’s interiors as she has for each of its properties in London. Green design features include efficient HVAC systems, locally-sourced building materials, wall-to-ceiling windows, and a roof garden. The project team also included LEED consultants Viridian and MEP engineers Flack + Kurtz.
