Why was the 12-year-old Standard Hotel literally falling apart? CarolineSpivack reports
Photo: Busà Photography/Getty Images Over the past year, anyone visiting the High Line would have to pass under a stretch of scaffolding that surrounded the Standard Hotel. Nothing out of the ordinary for a New York building. Probably a renovation, one might think for the briefest moment before proceeding with their day.
The day after the incident, Gaw Capital hired Forst Consulting and Architecture to assess the façade, which is covered with such panels. The company should have delivered a full engineering report last spring, but it wasn’t handed to the city until October, Curbed has learned.
The problem lies in the rivets that attach the skin to the building, which was designed by Ennead Architects and opened to much fanfare in 2009. Some rivets were driven into too-large holes; others weren’t driven deep enough; some panels also didn’t have enough of them. The piece that flew off last winter was likely installed without an expansion gap, so the panel couldn’t move as it should with the heat and cold.
The slow-moving repair project is another setback for the Standard, which, like many hotels during the pandemic, is on the brink. Last May, Gaw stopped paying its mortgage on the hotel, and it owes at least $187 million to bondholders. It seems that even after the hotel’s face-lift is complete, it will probably take a lot more for it to fully bounce back.
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