BY AARON ZULPO
AARON ZULPO
Emerging Brooklyn-based artist Aaron Zulpo has been the subject of solo exhibitions since 2012, and his work was currently selected as the Pérez Art Museum Pick for Pulse Miami Beach. Zulpo creates colorful, multi-patterned image spaces in which characters’ very different narratives unfold on either side of the barrier. Over several months in early 2018, he applied his signatureaesthetic to Greenwich West, depicting life in the forthcoming residential tower with five commissioned oil paintings.
DEVELOPMENT TEAM
Strategic Capital
Strategic Capital is a premier global investment and development company equipped with breadth of expertise includes all areas of real estate development. Agile responsiveness to market, unprecedented access to capital markets and proficient execution has ensured our success in acquiring, financing, developing, marketing, and managing the sophisticated development projects. Strategic Capital has a demonstrated record of developing and redeveloping preeminent condominium and multifamily real estate properties in New York City region. Our portfolio continues to expand throughout New York and other premier market across the east coast of the United States. Strategic Capital is owned by China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), one of the world’s largest investment and construction groups and a Fortune Global 500 public company, through its US subsidiary, China Construction America (CCA), which was established in 1985.
Cape Advisors
Founded in 1995, Cape Advisors is a real estate development, investment and management company based in New York City. In its nearly 25 years, the firm has developed over $2 billion in residential, hotel, retail and commercial office projects. In addition, Cape has created, developed and operated restaurants, bars, and retail venues. Cape Advisors is recognized for its design-driven approach to development coupled with its focus on creating contextually relevant projects of the highest caliber.
Forum Absolute Capital Partners
Forum Absolute Capital Partners (“FACP”) is a privately owned, opportunistic real estate investment platform with a strong focus on the development and/or re-development of residential and commercial properties in New York City. FACP invests alongside qualified, best-in-class developers and participates in the development of the strategic and creative vision for the projects. Since its inception in 2012, FACP has invested approximately $400 million of equity in eight development projects in New York City.
Design Architect
Loci Anima is a Paris-based studio specializing in architecture, design, and city planning, founded in 2002 by Françoise Raynaud after nearly two decades working alongside legendary French architect Jean Nouvel. Today, Raynaud leads a team of 25 professionals in pursuit of post-industrial animism—her philosophy in which urban buildings foster meaningful connections between humans and the natural environment. Loci Anima has won numerous international competitions and critical acclaim for its vision. Since 2014, it has operated a New York office overseen by partner Jonathan Thornhill.
Interior Designer
Paris-based architect Sébastien Segers is highly regarded for melding design disciplines with an encyclopedic range of cultural references. The polymath began his career in 1996 as an assistant to Marc Newson while still a student at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville, and he later continued to work for Newson, as well as architect Jean Nouvel, before opening his eponymous studio in 2003. Today Segers is in high demand as a partner on special projects to luminaries such as Jasper Morrison, Daniel Buren, and Newson. Segers has individually completed architecture and interior projects for discerning residential clients and global luxury brands that include Giorgio Armani and Azzedine Alaïa. Sculptural geometry, intuitive space utilization, and unparalleled craftsmanship characterize every one of his compositions.
Landscape Architect
Internationally celebrated as a designer and inventor, Paris-based botanist Patrick Blanc is best known as the creator of the green wall. Over his vaunted career, Blanc has completed approximately 300 of these no-soil vertical gardens, which include the world’s largest such installation near Paris as well as the tallest green wall for the Jean Nouvel–designed One Central Park residential tower in Sydney. Blanc’s earliest influence dates to age nine, when he encountered orchids at an international plant exhibition; he began experimenting with hydroponics shortly thereafter. The Wall Street Journal has exclaimed that “Patrick Blanc has turned that whole notion [of gardening] on its side, literally.”
AAI Architects
AAI Architects, P.C. is an established architectural practice based in New York, New York. The firm offers a full range of architectural, planning, interior and urban design services to a wide range of building types and clients. Since the 1980s, together with our affiliate, Adamson Associates Architects, our firm (Adamson) has served as the Architect of Record on an extensive list of New York projects, imparting our design, project management skills and technical expertise to some of the City’s most prestigious developments beginning with the World Financial Center in Battery Park and continuing to the present day with the MoMA Residential Tower, Hudson Yards revitalization, and the World Trade Center redevelopment.
Corcoran Sunshine
Marketing Group
With over 30 years of experience in marketing and collective sales of $50 billion, Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group is the recognized industry leader in the researching, planning, design, marketing, and sales of luxury residential development both in the United States and across the globe. Bringing together the best and brightest minds in the business, and bolstered by incomparable market knowledge and innovative strategic vision, Corcoran Sunshine has consistently been ranked the top marketing and sales organization in the industry.
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