On an exhaust-choked block next to the Port Authority bus station, three new cookie-cutter hotels are stacked together like cereal boxes in a configuration that hotel bloggers have started calling a "tri-pack".
The clock's fate depends on the configuration of a hotel being planned by Ian Schrager Hotels for an adjacent lot.
The hotel combines the three-pointed star configuration of Mies's 1921 ground plan with the biomorphic contours of his 1922 scheme.
Not only were American hotels an original architectural configuration, but they also gave rise to the apartment building, "truly pathbreaking in its arrangement of domestic space".
The hotel will actually be split into two buildings, a configuration that will help reduce the impression of bulk.
Land use includes private and council housing of various styles and configurations, office and retail space, a college, a hotel, public space and community facilities.
Rockwell is designing a hotel that will take advantage of the site and the configuration of the existing industrial building, which has oversize windows and high ceilings.
The Manhattan hotel, built on the Commodore's 1919 frame, has 138 different room configurations, according to Yvette Edwards, the director for sales and marketing.
A survey was conducted to assess why some accessible hotel rooms are not disabled-friendly and it was discovered that many of the accessible room configurations lack the consideration of ergonomics and anthropometry of guests and hence, inaccessible environments.
Not only must the design be pleasing for guests and efficient for the staff but the floor configuration, which comprises up to two dozen rooms, must also fit into the hotel's construction budget.
